Wustrau village church
The village church Wustrau is a Grade II listed church building in Wustrau, a suburb of the municipality of Fehrbellin belonging hamlet Wustrau-Altfriesack in Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg .
Building history
The village church of Wustrau was probably built in the 13th century as a late Gothic field stone building with a hall-shaped nave . As a result, it was initially only slightly changed until it burned down in 1631 together with the adjacent rectory and some other outbuildings. It was then rebuilt, but it was again destroyed by fire in 1638.
In 1694 the original church tower was destroyed by a lightning strike. The same thing happened again in 1756. In 1781 the church was finally expanded with the current tower. In the same year the church also received a bell . In addition, the church was baroque in the 18th century according to the wishes of Frederick the Great .
In 1883 the church was extended to include a neo-Romanesque choir niche and the vestibule on the north side. The bronze bell was replaced by an iron bell in 1923. Between 1987 and 1991 for an extensive restoration of the building on the occasion of the last couple of Counts von Zieten-Schwerin . In 1993 the tower was repaired, in 1996 and 1997 the church received a new roof. The bell has been operated electrically since 2005. In 2010 and 2011 the church was renovated again.
The parish of Wustrau belongs to the overall parish of Protzen-Wustrau-Radensleben , which also includes the parishes of Protzen - Walchow - Stöffin , Langen - Buskow , Karwe - Gnewikow , Nietwerder , Lichtenberg and Radensleben . She belongs to the church district Wittstock-Ruppin in the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
Furnishing
The church has three galleries , which are supported by Tuscan wooden columns. It also has a pulpit altar that dates from the 15th century. The baptismal font dates from 1886. It is also worth mentioning a sculpture based on a design by the Berlin history painter Bernhard Rode , which Theodor Fontane found on his walks through the Mark Brandenburg because of the uninspired nature of the composition - an urn flanked by two goddesses with a relief image of the general - thought about it with very humorous words. [3]
Several memorial plaques for the victims of the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 and the residents of the village who died in the First and Second World Wars were placed inside the church.
Graves in the churchyard
The graves of General Hans Joachim von Zieten , District Administrator Friedrich von Zieten and other representatives of the von Zieten family from the Havelland aristocracy are located in the cemetery of the village church . The grave of Friedrich von Zieten, the last representative of this family, built under a linden tree several hundred years old, is covered by a huge boulder . In 2003, the grave slabs for Hans Joachim von Zieten and his first wife were placed in the church to protect them from the weather.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sights: Dorfkirche zu Wustrau on the side of the village, accessed on September 18, 2017
- ↑ a b Dorfkirche Wustrau in the organ directory , accessed on September 18, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 12 ° 51 ′ 47.5 ″ E