Village church Wernsdorf (Königs Wusterhausen)
The Protestant village church of Wernsdorf is an early classical hall church from the years 1801 to 1803 in Wernsdorf , a district of the city of Königs Wusterhausen in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Landstrasse 301 leads into the village as a village road coming from the west. There it runs in an S-shape in a southerly direction and leads east out of the village. At the lower apex, Jovestrasse branches off to the west. The church stands northwest of this junction on a slightly elevated plot that is not fenced .
history
The building was built between 1801 and 1803 in collaboration between the master mason Culberg and the carpenter Reinhardt from Storkow (Mark) at the endeavors of the Royal Upper Building Department . The church patronage at that time lay with the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Between 1890 and 1900, master carpenter A. Franz from Zeuthen built a west gallery and Hermann Teschner an organ .
During the GDR era, after 1960, a winter church was built below the northern gallery . In 1963 the Sauer company restored the organ. No further maintenance measures took place, so that the structure gradually fell into disrepair. After the fall of the Wall , the Kirchbauverein Wernsdorf was founded in 1998 with the aim of renovating the building. In 2002, work began on renovating the tower. The steel bell from 1922 was replaced by a lighter and smaller bronze bell . From 2002 to 2005 the roof, the building envelope and the interior were renovated. In 2006 the organ was restored.
Building description
The building was essentially made of bricks , which were then plastered . The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east side there are two narrow and tall rectangular windows. Two of these windows can also be found in the western and eastern areas of the nave on the north side of the nave . In the center is a small, high rectangular gate, which is framed by a simple plaster structure. Above the gate is a small and square window. The south side was designed with three windows. In the center there is also an economical plaster structure that protrudes from the building. This style element was also used on the west side. There is a rectangular gate and a small, square window above it. At the transition to the roof is a circumferential haunch . It turns into a cornice on the west side . Above is another, square window and a small, rectangular panel. In the square church tower there is a high rectangular window on the west side and a small transverse window on the east side. There is a rectangular sound arcade on the north and south sides . The tower ends with a pyramid roof with a tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The church furnishings come from the construction time. Inside is a horseshoe gallery with an organ on it. The floor is laid out with square ceramic plates. The building has a flat plaster ceiling in the interior. A 13-part altarpiece with the title Dona nobis pacem has been hanging on the eastern wall of the choir since 2008 . It goes back to a design that Erwin Hahs created in 1955.
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Information board on the west portal, April 2020.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.4 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 49.9" E