Peace Church Wildau
The Evangelical Peace Church Wildau is a south-facing church in Wildau , a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish district Neukölln of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The mountain road leading from the north-west coming over in a southeasterly direction from the historic center. To the south, a few meters higher, is Kirchstrasse . There the building stands south of the street on a plot of land that is not fenced in .
history
The place was mentioned for the first time in the land book of Charles IV , but it was only with the settlement of the mechanical engineering company Berliner Maschinenbau -Actien-Gesellschaft (BMAG), formerly Louis Schwartzkopff , in 1897 that it gained importance as an industrial location . 1900 founded an evangelical church that its own sacred wish. According to a draft of the Royal Commissioner of City Planning Georg Büttner therefore developed in the years 1908-1911 baroque inspired design in native style . It served as a church for the BMAG factory settlement. The building was restored for the first time between 1972 and 1986. In 1996 there was a risk of collapse after a sponge was found.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from bricks , which were then plastered . Individual style elements are executed in reddish bricks. The choir is strongly drawn in and semicircular. In the base area there are six circumferential panels made of masonry, above three arched windows with chamfered reveals , followed by a conical roof with a beaver tail .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. The southern side is largely closed; only on its north side is a small arched window, followed by a buttress with two steps . There are two small, high rectangular openings in the gable . The western side of the nave is dominated by several groups of windows. In the lower area there are two groups, each with three coupled, small arched windows. In the upper area they are supplemented by three window groups, which consist of two groups with five tall rectangular windows each. They are complemented by two more windows in the south of the facade. Below right is a semicircular extension, half of which is decorated with reddish brick. There are three small arched windows there. It is used as a baptistery. On the east side, Büttner used a different structure. The base is decorated with bricks; in it arched panels. Above are four large arched windows, each in two pairs, which extend over almost the entire facade. In the southern area there is a sacristy , which can be entered from the north and east via a door each. There is one rectangular window on the north side and three on the east side. The extension is decorated with a plastered tail gable in which an ox-eye sits in the middle .
The north tower is square and slightly drawn in opposite the ship. Access is via a large, rectangular portal on the west side of the tower. Above it is a round arch portal with four ornamented pilasters and a relief of Christ blessing in the tympanum under an archivolt . Above is a lavishly colored, stair-like gable, accompanied by two rectangular windows. In the middle floor of the tower there is another, upright rectangular opening, followed by three openings above, arranged in pairs. On each side of the bell storey there are two arched sound arcades , above each a tower clock. The component ends with a spire and cross.
Furnishing
The originally existing altar and the pulpit were replaced by modern furnishings in the 1960s after being infected with woodworms. However, the stalls are from the construction time. The hall is painted and provided with a wooden ceiling decorated with geometric motifs. There is a gallery on the north and west sides . The glass paintings were created by Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt am Main and show New Testament scenes. The Schuke - Organ from 1911 with neo-baroque decorated carvings.
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 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 56.8 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 40.3" E