Wulkow village church (Neuhardenberg)
The Protestant village church Wulkow is a late Gothic stone church in Wulkow , a district of the Neuhardenberg community 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 main road runs through the town in a north-south direction. In the historic center of the village, to the west of this connecting axis, is Wulkow Castle, to the east of it on a hill, the village church. The area is fenced in with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The exact date of construction of the sacred building is not known. The Dehio manual only speaks of a late Gothic building, i.e. H. the period from 1350 to around 1520/1530. A member of the Wulkower Church development association assumes that the building was built in the 14th century. This corresponds to the documentary first mention of the place in the year 1361. 1874 made the church the West Tower building. At the same time the windows were redesigned in a “ baroque ” style; the interior was richly painted. There was also a new pulpit and a west gallery . Towards the end of the Second World War , the church was badly damaged and could not be repaired until 1952. The north wall of the nave was restored, the east gable was rebuilt and the roof re-covered. In the mid-1950s, the church received two new cast iron bells . In the mid-1980s, craftsmen discovered that the barrel vault was infested with dry rot. The formwork was then removed. Due to the fall of the Wall , however, work came to a standstill and the church could not be used without a ceiling. The Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg provided initial start-up funding of DM 5,000 . As a result, a local support group was founded, which has been looking after the building since then. After a contribution in a television program of the ORB , numerous donations in kind and money could be used to renew the roof and the barrel vault. The interior was newly plastered and the windows renewed. The new church consecration could be celebrated on Reformation Day 1999. In the years that followed, artisans restored the painting; Craftsmen repaired the organ . The parish agreed to make the building more accessible to the public. Therefore, in spring 2002, for example, a theatrical performance of a work by Jean Anouilh took place. In September 2014, a functional tower clock could finally be installed again,
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones , which were processed uncut and not layered. For repair work, however, the craftsmen predominantly used reddish brick . The structure has a surrounding 80 cm high base made of field stones that protrudes slightly. In between there is also a surrounding cornice made of masonry stone, and above it the further structure. The choir is straight, not drawn in, and has a rectangular floor plan. On the eastern side of the choir there are two ogival doors, each of which can be reached via a staircase with four steps. The walls in the southern area are simply made of brick, while the portal to the north has been stepped up twice. In the middle is a raised, also pointed arch-shaped window with a triple stepped wall. Its keystone touches the gable above , which was built from light-colored brick after damage in World War II. It has no opening. The corners of the choir are emphasized by brick pilaster strips . The northern choir wall is dominated by a large and also ogival window, which is located on the western side of the building. It takes on forms of tracery . To the left of it are two small openings, one above the other, of which the upper one is blocked with field and wall stones. There are two similar openings on the south side of the choir, followed by two large windows. The one to the west was set significantly lower at an earlier time and could have merged into a priest's gate.
To the west is the nave that takes up the full width of the choir. There are two large windows on the north side. The one to the east hides a large gate that must have been on the building at an earlier time. But the window to the west must also have been located further east at an earlier time. On the south side there are two also two windows. The east cuts the remains of a clogged window on the left, of which the reveal has been preserved up to about the height of the keystone. The remaining area is covered with field stones; the spaces in between were filled with brick remnants. The window to the west sits on top of a window that was originally set much lower and covers its reveal. Since repair work can also be seen in the base, a community gate could have been located here at an earlier time . To the west are two pillars at the corners of the nave, each decorated with a pinnacle .
The west tower has a square floor plan. Its lower storey was built from poorly hewn fieldstones, whereby the builders made sure that only small gaps were created. The corners are emphasized by reddish bricks, as is the pointed arched portal on the west side. At the transition to the middle tower floor is a brick frieze that opens downwards . The craftsmen also use this material for tower floors. It has two arched sound arcades on the west side and one on the north and south side . Above it is a richly decorated essay with a tower clock on the west side and a panel each on the north and south sides. The gable is decorated with another frieze. Above it is a transverse gable roof with an acroterion each and an octagonal tower dome with a weather vane .
Furnishing
The altar and the pulpit are comparatively simple and kept in a green-blue shade; from which the cassettes stand out in an ocher-colored frame. The organ gallery was painted in a similarly simple way, albeit in a greener shade.
The apse is painted in an ocher tone. The vault stands out from this with a blue-black, tendril-shaped painting that seems to span the room like a tent. The lower area is designed as a lambris and held in red-gold-black tones, in which crosses are incorporated. In the nave, panels were painted on the lower wall areas, above a band of acanthus , which also spans the western triumphal arch .
On the south wall of the church hangs a plaque commemorating those who died in the First World War. The organ was built by the Sauer company in 1974.
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
- The village church of Wulkow near Neuhardenberg (Märkisch-Oderland) , website of the support group Old Church Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on November 12, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wulkower Förderverein proud of 20 years , article by Josephin Hartwig, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on November 12, 2017.
- ^ Church Wulkow / Neuhardenberg , website of the architects Stuhlemmer, accessed on November 12, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 51 ″ E