Woltersdorf village church (Nuthe-Urstromtal)
The Protestant village church Woltersdorf is a neo-Gothic hall church in Woltersdorf , a district of the municipality Nuthe-Urstromtal in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The district road 7216 leads as Berliner Chaussee coming from the northeast in a southwest direction through the place. It spans an area around the historic village green at the height of the Hugweg, which leads to the north . There the church stands on a property that is not fenced in .
history
The place was owned by the Zinna monastery for many centuries . It is therefore likely that the Cistercians erected a sacred building in this place as well , but nothing has been known about its existence. In the 20th century, Woltersdorf was parish off to Luckenwalde . The believers attended the service in the local church of St. Johannis .
The establishment of its own church failed for a long time because of the necessary financial resources. In 1909 , however, the Berlin cigar manufacturer Otto Boenicke donated the funds for a new building. He grew up in Woltersdorf; his parents owned a paper mill there for a period of time . He commissioned the Berlin builder Friedrich Metzing with the planning. Metzing based his planning on the Andreas Church in Berlin-Wannsee and calculated construction costs of around 70,000 Reichsmarks . The foundation stone was laid on March 22, 1911, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated by the parish on June 16, 1911. The church consecration took place on November 16, 1911. Here, craftsmen put a plaque on the east wall of the nave that indicated the donor. This was stolen by strangers in the 1960s and only replaced on June 15, 2003. In 2006 the parish renovated the roof of the ship and the spire.
Building description
The structure was essentially made of reddish brick on a base made of field stones . These were carved comparatively carefully and processed in three layers to form a circumferential base. The choir is strongly drawn in and has a five-eighth ending . The east end is, however, much wider than the two sides facing northeast and southeast. Metzig had three large arched windows built to the east, which were let into a deep field. They extend almost the entire height of the choir. At the top of the field is a frieze that opens downwards . A sacristy is added to the north side of the choir . It can be entered through a door from the north. There are two small arched windows to the east. A wide buttress on the northeast corner provides additional stability. There are no windows on the south side of the choir. There is another frieze at the transition to the gable roof, which is hipped to the east .
This is followed by the nave to the west. It is 19 meters long and 12 meters wide. On the southern side of the east wall there is a rectangular metal plaque that refers to the donor: “God the Lord for glory / This church was donated / in memory of his ancestors / deceased parents, siblings / and children / by Otto Boenicke born. August 14, 1848 / in the paper mill ”. The north wall of the nave is characterized by three large fields that were created by recesses in the masonry. Between each field there is a single stepped buttress. In the fields there are two large arched windows in the west and in the middle. In the east there is only a window; here the sacristy overlaps the building. On the south side of the nave there are three identically designed fields with two arched windows each. The ship also has a simple gable roof, which is also tumbled down to the east.
The rectangular church tower adjoins to the west . In the western area on its front it has no portal, but three small arched windows that are optically coupled to one another via a circular arch arranged above. Access is from the north. There is a gate that is protected by a small roof. Next to it, on the north side of the west wall of the nave, there is a recess with a saying from the Gospel according to Matthew : “Come to me, all of you are laborious / and laden.” 11.28 EU . Above is a small arched window. It is complemented by two more windows on the west facade of the tower. On the south side there is another extension that takes up the width of both the ship and the tower. There is another gate on the west side. There are two arched windows on the south side. In the approximately 24 m high tower there is another arched window on the south side just below the roof ridge of the ship. Above it follows the bell storey . It is optically separated from the rest of the building by a surrounding cornice , where it also tapers slightly. The octagonal attachment has two coupled, pressed-segment arched sound arcades on the north, south and west sides ; above each a tower clock. On the east side there are two small, rectangular openings. Above it follows the spire , which ends with a tower ball .
Furnishing
The church furnishings come from the same time the church was built. The three windows in the chancel are also donations from Boenicke, Metzing, the family of the paper mill owner Schlüter and the head of the office and Kötter Ruhland. They show alpha and omega in the upper area and a dove of peace in the middle and the names of the donors in the lower area in an aedicule modeled glass painting.
The parish has set up a winter church below the west gallery . Above it stands an organ that was built by the Dinse brothers in 1911. During the First World War , the parish had to hand over the pipes as part of a metal donation by the German people . The instrument could only be restored in 2015 by the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau . The disposition is as follows:
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There are three bells hanging in the tower: the smallest is from 1934, the two larger bells were cast in 1965 and are a foundation of the partner community Düsseldorf-Benrath in North Rhine-Westphalia .
To the north of the building, a memorial commemorates those who died in the First World War.
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 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the Evangelical Church Community Woltersdorf-Jänickendorf , accessed on January 13, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Woltersdorf district , website of the Nuthe-Urstromtal community, accessed on January 13, 2019.
- ^ Organ: Nuthe-Urstromtal / Woltersdorf - Dorfkirche , website organ directory by Andreas Schmidt, accessed on January 13, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 52.4 ″ N , 13 ° 12 ′ 19.4 ″ E