Wesendahl village church
The Protestant village church Wesendahl is a late Romanesque field stone church in Wesendahl , a district of the town of Altlandsberg in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The village road leading from the north-west Coming V-shape on the historic village green to. At the apex, the church stands north of the street on a piece of land that is fenced in by unhewn and non-layered field stones .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1300 as Wesendale . The exact date of construction of the sacred building is not known, but in Charles IV's land book from 1375 four hooves were named for the pastor. Matthias Friske assumes that the building was built in the 13th century. The Dehio manual remains fuzzy and speaks only of a late Romanesque building, while the community states on an information board that the church was built in the second half of the 13th century. Not much is known about the further history of the structure. It has been handed down that the place belonged to the von Krummensee family in 1416 , hence also the church patronage . Friedrich II handed it over to the Berlin Cathedral Chapter in 1469 . From there it came to the von Krummensee in 1482; in 1542 to Ebel von Krummensee. From an administrative point of view, Wesendahl has been administered from Strausberg since 1459 . In the Thirty Years' War which was apse destroyed. In the years 1736 and 1883 remodeling and renovation work was carried out, most recently by enlarging the ogival windows. The structure survived the Second World War largely undamaged. In 1946, however, the mayor ordered the roofs of the nave and tower to be covered so that the roof tiles could be used for repair work on other buildings. This caused the building to deteriorate and the church was in ruins in the late 1940s . The parish used the choir as a makeshift church. Only long after the fall of the Wall was the building rebuilt and restored between 2001 and 2010 with the support of a development association. In 2005 the roof of the nave was renewed. Donors financed the windows. The church furnishings were renewed, as well as the spire and the roof. Only the bell storey dates from the 19th century.
Building description
The building was essentially built from field stones , which were cut in the choir in a cuboid shape and layered in layers. On the east side of the choir, the transition to the former apse is plastered . Above this, repair work made of uncut and not layered field stones and rock fragments can be seen. The same building structure can also be found in the gable . There is a cross-shaped opening in the middle below the roof ridge . It is conceivable that this component was boarded up or plastered at an earlier point in time. On the north and south walls of the choir there are two ogival windows, the reveal of which is framed with reddish brick. On the north wall at the transition to the nave is a priest's gate . The choir is 7.8 m long and 9.3 m wide.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan measuring 14.6 m × 11.6 m. The stones here are also square and largely layered. Smaller stones are occasionally installed at the transition to the eaves . Above it is a toothed frieze made of reddish brick. Over the entire width of the facade, there are four large pointed arch windows on the north and south sides . In the middle on the north side there is an arched gate, probably the former community gate. There is a closed gate on the south side. The choir and nave are covered with a simple gable roof made of beaver tail .
The west tower is transversely rectangular and takes up the full width of the nave. It is 6 m long. In the middle of the west side is a large, pointed arch-shaped, triple stepped portal made of reddish brick. Above it is a large, walled-in circular panel from the 19th century. On the north and south side there are two pointed arch windows arranged one above the other. Significant repair work can be seen in the masonry above the second window. Above it is a surrounding cornice , which is followed by the bell storey . It was built from reddish bricks in the 19th century. On the west and east side there are three, on the north and south side a rectangular panel , each with a pointed arch- shaped sound arcade . On it sits a bent hipped roof with a spire , tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The original church furnishings are no longer available. From the year 1542 one example chalice handed down from the year 1600, the corresponding paten , two brass chandeliers, a chasuble of damask and a missal . A stipes and a wall painting, which were reported in 1925, are also missing . After 1947 two paintings were lost, including one from 1568, which Hans von Krummensee showed with his wife Marie von Borgsdorf.
The parish acquired 100 armchairs from the bankruptcy estate of the Palace of the Republic , which have since served as pews.
The nave originally had a flat ceiling; the choir has a dome-like ribbed vault. The round arched triumphal arch is profiled with fighters . Two thirds of the barrel vault in the tower has been preserved.
A bell from the second half of the 13th century hangs in the tower. It has a diameter of 77 cm and the inscription: "LVCAS * MARCVS * IohANES * MAtheVS". Since it is comparatively small for a structure of this size, Matthias Friske suspects that it is the remainder of a more extensive peal.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment , Lukas, Berlin 2001 (churches in rural areas, vol. 1), ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board for the Wesendahl village church , set up southeast of the building, March 2018.
- ↑ The village church of Wesendahl (district of Märkisch-Oderland) , website of the support group for old churches Berlin-Brandenburg, originally published in the Märkische online newspaper on September 25, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 46.4 ″ E