Evangelical Church (Bad Saarow)
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The Evangelical Church is a sacred building from 1922 in Bad Saarow in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling married his fiancée Anny Ondra in the church on July 22, 1933 .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bad Saarow developed from a country house colony into an up-and-coming health resort. The lawyer and politician Georg Michaelis , who was Reich Chancellor and Prussian Prime Minister for three and a half months from July 14 to October 31, 1917 , also lived there. He persistently campaigned for the construction of a church in the village, as the parish in Bad Saarow had previously been looked after by the parish in Reichenwalde . Due to the inflation , however, the building was comparatively small. The architect Emil Kopp , who had already built several buildings in Bad Saarow, was commissioned with the execution . The consecration took place on October 29, 1922. The first pastor in Bad Saarow was Michaelis' son-in-law, Herrmann Schlingensiepen. In 1929 he moved into the rectory on Kastanienstraße, which was later renamed Kirchstraße. This created the area for Bad Saarow, to which Pieskow and Petersdorf were added.
architecture
The church is in the middle of a square on Kirchstrasse. The hall church has a rectangular floor plan and was built in the neo- baroque style. It is provided with a light-colored plaster . There are six windows on the north and south walls of the nave . They are complemented by three narrow windows on the choir wall showing Christian symbols, including the four evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . The unusual order - from right to left - is striking. Access is through an arched portal on the west side. Above a cornice is a slightly curved, also plastered gable, in which five narrow windows are let in in a row. There is another opening above the centrally mounted window. The covered with red roof tiles, gable roof is topped by a slate-roofed, black roof skylights are suspended in the two bells.
Furnishing
The altar , the pulpit and the fifth are from the construction period and are simply designed. The bronze cross was created by the artist Paul Gnekow in 2008. A bronze candlestick angel hangs in the north-west corner of the church. It is a copy of the wooden Lübeck chandelier angel that was lost in World War II . An organ from the Schuke company from Potsdam stands on a small gallery . The instrument has a manual .
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Pastor i. R. Herbert Naumann: Interesting facts about the church in Bad Saarow , flyer, no date, display in the church in September 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julia Haak: Wedding in the village church . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 7, 2005, accessed on October 2, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 34.8 " N , 14 ° 3 ′ 16.4" E