Wittbrietzen village church
The Protestant village church Wittbrietzen is a late Romanesque stone church in Wittbrietzen , a district of the town of Beelitz in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Wittbrietzener Dorfstraße leads in a north-south direction through the village. To the west of this street the building stands on an area that is fenced in .
history
The sacred building was built in 1226 and 1250 from the apse , choir and nave . Presumably in the 15th century the west tower with a hipped roof was added. This is indicated by Gothic shaped stones in the upper tower windows. There was also a bell with the inscription "1481" at an earlier time. The church patronage held from about 1450 to 1523 that of Schlieben . In 1525, the Reformation was introduced under the leadership of Pastor Petrus Zepernick . From 1524 to 1681 the place was under the rule of those von Flanß . They sold it to Prussia in 1681 . Around 1700 craftsmen enlarged numerous “ baroque ” windows . From 1705 a drawing has been passed down that shows the church tower now with a small spire. This was also the year in which the pastor Andreas Neumann in 1731 to pastoral worked. After Wittbrietzen had become Prussian, Friedrich II had a total of 16 new farmers settle in the area around the former manor in 1763 . The number of inhabitants doubled and meant that there was a considerable lack of space in the church for many decades. The church , therefore, decided in 1847 to a major reconstruction. Part of the tower space was incorporated into the nave and provided with a gallery . Numerous believers were now able to reach the new seating via an additional staircase on the south side. Craftsmen closed the existing gates and built a new portal on the west side of the tower. The new church consecration took place in the presence of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . In 1861 a sacristy was added. Wilhelm Remler built an organ in 1880 that is still there in the 21st century. By 1910, parts of the spire had become dilapidated and collapsed. The parish decided to rebuild, which was based on the design language from 1847. In 1923 the church received three new bells. In 1962 the building was restored and the roof was re-covered. In 2004 the spire, which had become dilapidated in 1995, had to be renovated again. The parish was supported by a newly founded association.
Building description
The apse was built from uncut field stones , which were layered in the lower area. It is semicircular and indented. To the north, east and south there is a pressed, segment-arched window with plastered windows . In between, considerable repair work can be seen, which presumably originated from the enlargement of the windows. This is followed by a circumferential, profiled cornice and a likewise circumferential blind arcade from the 19th century with a half-conical roof that is covered with beaver tail . This is followed by the also drafted choir. It has a rectangular floor plan and was also built from field stones. With the exception of the corner stones at the transition to the apse, they are neither carved nor layered. On the south side there are two windows in the west in the upper area. Below is a sacristy , which was built from reddish brick with a rectangular floor plan. There is one window on the eastern side and two segment-arched windows on the southern side. On the north side there are also two windows in the upper area. Below is a priest's gate covered with reddish brick . The lower area is lightly layered, the lines run above it. The corner stones are also carved here. The gable of the choir is also made of field stones.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the northern side there are three large, pressed-segment-arched windows with light-colored plastered windows, which are partially broken through by field stones. They are supplemented to the west by a significantly smaller, raised window that is likely to date from the construction period. Underneath there is an added portal and to the west of it a gate. At the transition to the roof ridge , repair work can be seen from some layers of red brick. What is striking is a gable with another window, which was built between the second and third window made of red brick and protrudes into the roof. There is also such a window on the south side, including four windows of the same size, which are distributed over the facade. Under the third window there is a blocked church gate. At the transition to the sacristy there are two epitaphs that are reminiscent of the pastors Neumann.
The west tower is transversely rectangular and drawn in. The north side is closed in the lower area. The polygonal tower made of reddish brick, which was built on the south side during the renovation in the 19th century, is striking in order to facilitate access to the galleries for the growing parish. The main entrance, however, is from the west through a large, arched and double stepped portal made of reddish brick, which is decorated by two pillars attached to the side and a pointed gable. Above that, on the middle floor, is a segment-arch-shaped window that is framed with reddish brick. This is followed by the bell storey with a large sound arcade on the north, west and south side as well as two smaller sound arcades on the east side. The tower tower was built from brick after the collapse. It is decorated with numerous pinnacles and has two small windows in the lower area on the north and south sides with a centrally located tower clock above. Above it rises an octagonal roof turret with a roof covered with slate and a cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings are all from 1847. In the tower there are two figure tombstones, which remember H. von Flans, who died in 1580, and his wife, who died in 1607. Another gravestone dates from around 1600 and shows a knight kneeling in front of a crucifix . Two epitaphs on the outer wall commemorate the Neumann couple, who died in 1717 and 1731 respectively. The organ was made by Wilhelm Remler in 1880.
A memorial to the north of the building commemorates those who died in the First and Second World Wars .
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Place name and chronicle , website Crossing Media Stefan Müller, Wittbrietzen, accessed on March 20, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board : The Wittbrietzen village church. Installed on the north wall of the nave, March 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 43.2 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 24.3 ″ E