Village church Zützen (Golßen)

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Village church Zützen from the southeast (2020)

The village church Zützen is the church building in the village of Zützen in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg . The building belongs to the parish of Zützen in the parish of Dahme-Berste-Land and is part of the Lower Lusatia parish in the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . It is registered as an architectural monument under the official name of the village church and churchyard with churchyard wall, tombs, Kleist's family grave and war memorial .

location

The federal highway 96 leads from the north in a south-easterly direction through the place. It separates the historic village green , which is located in a west-east direction. The church stands to the west of the main road on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones .

history

The village church of Zützen was built in the 15th century. It is a simple field stone building and did not initially have a tower after it was built. The plastered west tower was completed in 1769 and 1770, while the nave was renewed and a box was added on the northeast side under the church patronage of von Kleist ; the latter was demolished again in 1906. The southern step portal comes from the construction time. The wall of the east gable is curved in the Baroque style . It probably dates from the third quarter of the 18th century.

The interior has a flat beamed ceiling with a central girder , the organ gallery is on the west wall . Between 1996 and 2004 the village church was renovated again.

Around the church there is the churchyard , which is surrounded by a field stone wall with a brick cover. On the east side next to the federal road 96 , the churchyard is accessible through a massive pointed arched entrance portal.

In the 19th century the parish of Zützen already belonged to the superintendent of Luckau, from which the parish of Luckau was later formed. From 1922 to 1953 the church district belonged to the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and then to the Evangelical Church of the Union . On March 1, 1998, the Luckau parish merged with the Lübben-Calau parish to form the new Lübben parish , and since 2003 the parish of Zützen has been part of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. In 2010 the parish of Lübben merged with the parish of Finsterwalde to form today's parish of Niederlausitz . The villages of Gersdorf and Sagritz are parish after Zützen.

Building description

The building was essentially made of field stones that were processed uncut and not in layers. Reddish bricks were also increasingly used for repair work . The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the south side are two large, segment-arched windows. Their shape is emphasized again by plastered bottles with a keystone . At the northeast corner is a small, pressed-segment arched gate. The gable is plastered and divided into two parts. In the lower area there are two small arched windows. Above this is a cornice , followed by an upright medallion that was designed as a cover .

The nave has a rectangular floor plan. In the eastern area is a small, rectangular extension that can be entered from the east. On the north side there are two clogged, pressed segment arched windows. Another, clogged window is on the west side, including a small gate. The extension is optically integrated into the gable roof of the ship with a towing roof . This is followed by a further, pressed segment arch-shaped window in the western and eastern areas of the rest of the facade. On the south side there are a total of four arched windows, also with accentuated bezels and keystones. Between the third and fourth yoke is a five-fold stepped, pointed arch-shaped community portal, which is likely to date from the construction period.

The square church tower rests on a base made of uncut field stones, but is otherwise plastered. There is an arched cover on each of the three accessible sides . A small, barred window is worked into it on the north side, while it is shaped into a recess on the west side. From the south side there is access via a small staircase. Above a wide cornice , the tower merges into an octagonal tower, the corners of which are plastered with ashlar . There are more panels in the middle, and another cornice above. In the bell floor there is a rectangular sound arcade on four sides , followed by a tower clock on the west and east side. The tower ends with a curved hood and a tower ball with a weather vane and star.

Furnishing

View into the nave (2020)
Kleist's hereditary burial place

The village church in Zützen received a rich early baroque interior in 1710. The altarpiece was created by Christian Zimmermann from Luckau during this time . The three-storey structure shows paintings of the Last Supper , the crucifixion of Jesus , the ascension and the resurrection. The pulpit was restored in 1998. The sandstone baptism from 1809 was carried out by the family v. Kleist , who at that time owned the manor over the village of Zützen.

From around 1770 there was an organ in the church . Today's prospectus was created in 1913 by the organ building workshop Alexander Schuke . In 1996 and 1997 it was completely refurbished.

On the south wall of the church there is an elaborate grave monument for the Prussian officer and nobleman Karl Wilhelm von Kleist and his wife Eva. On the north wall there is another grave monument for Georg Erdmann Gottlob von Langen. An urn from 1776/1780 stands on a circular base in front of the west tower. It is dedicated to Caroline Augustine, Anna Sopha and Carl Friedrich Steuerlin. On the north-west corner is the von Kleist's hereditary burial from 1900/1940. They are supplemented by further epitaphs on the tower walls. To the left of the south portal is a three-part epitaph that recalls E. Maximiliane Greiffenhagen, who died in 1820, her brother-in-law, the preacher Christian Friedrich Zehe, who also died in 1820, and his wife Sophie Dorotha, who died in 1812. To the right of the portal, a cast-iron grave cross from 1835/1836 commemorates Emilie Louise Auguste Zehe. Next to the tower are four other granite graves for the von Kleist family.

To the east of the church is a war memorial for soldiers from the parish of Zützen who died in the war; it was set up in the 1920s.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Zützen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments: Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1231f.
  2. ↑ Zützen village church. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, accessed on May 31, 2020.
  3. ^ Parish Dahme-Berste-Land. Church district Niederlausitz, accessed on May 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Zützen village church (Dahme-Spreewald). In: musikschulen-oeffnen-Kirchen.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '0.2 "  N , 13 ° 38' 35.8"  E