Hope Church (Rüdersdorf near Berlin)
The Protestant Church of Hope is a stone church from the 13th century in Rüdersdorf near Berlin , a 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 . It is named after the Christian virtue of hope .
location
The Karl-Liebknecht-Straße leads from the north to the south through the town. In the historic center, Fürstenwalder Straße branches off to the west. The church stands northeast of this intersection on a piece of land that is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones .
history
The sacred building was built around 1240. The church patronage at that time lay with the Cistercian monks from the Zinna monastery . Under her leadership, one of the numerous late Romanesque field stone churches was built, which is characterized by the careful ashlaring of the field stones. It was a complete system consisting of a nave , a retracted choir and a semicircular apse . The patronage of the Roman Catholic Church lay with the Virgin Mary . In the first third of the 14th century the church received the late Gothic west tower .
The first documentary mention can be found in Charles IV's land register in 1375. In 1540 the Reformation came to the place and the last Catholic priest, Johann Arndt, became the first Protestant. During the Thirty Years War the village was burned down; the church tower burned out. But as early as 1645 Jacob Neuwert from Berlin cast a new bell, which was hung in the restored tower in 1655.
In the 18th century, the number of the population increased sharply due to the promotion of mining . The parish grew, also due to colonists from Grünheide (Mark) . In 1718 and 1790, craftsmen therefore extended the building to the east.
Experts examined the structure between 1912 and 1914. They uncovered the foundations of the original building and 16 grave vaults from the 16th to 18th centuries - including the grave slab of the first electoral governor Volkmer von Germershausen. In 1968 the nave, which had been damaged by groundwater, was restored. Under the direction of Pastor Dietrich Herm, craftsmen drained the ship, expanded the gallery and renewed the painting. Another extensive reconstruction took place in 1998, in which the altar was redesigned. From 2002 to 2003 the parish renewed the surrounding wall. The choir is used as a winter church in the 21st century.
Building description
The building was mainly made of field stone, which is plastered over the entire area . Brick was preferably used for the expansion. To the east of the building is a rectangular choir that is straight and strongly drawn in. Its east wall is closed except for a pressed segment arched gate in the northern area. There are two large beehive-shaped windows on the north wall and three on the south wall. They are supplemented by a small, centrally mounted window on the north side and a cellar exit below the window to the west on the south side. The choir has a simple saddle roof that is sloped to the east .
The nave also has a rectangular floor plan. Two lattice windows are installed to the east; this is followed by four more slender windows at a distance to the west. The south side is now designed identically. A photo from 1912 shows a gate between the four western and two eastern windows through which the colonists from Grünheide entered the church.
The church tower is rectangular and slightly drawn in. It was also built from field stones, which, however, were only slightly carved and only lightly layered in the lower area. The builders used large boulders in the base. Access is via a large, segment-arched portal with lightly hewn field stones that form the reveal . Above this, off-center on the right, is a slot-shaped opening, the shape of which is also found on the south side. There is a small window on the north side. The tower floor is structured on its western front with two beehive-shaped sound arcades, above two further, smaller openings. On the north side is a clock tower, above it a small, rectangular opening and another sound arcade. On the south side there is a panel as a replacement for a tower clock that has to be re-attached; above it another sound arcade. The tower ends with a tent roof with a tower button and a star.
Furnishing
The pulpit dates from 1718. The other church furnishings include a crucifix from 1525 and a fifth in the shape of a runner, which was made from limestone in 1598 . A gold-plated metal cross with symbols of Christ hangs on the east wall. It is supplemented by 12 Bible verses from the Old and New Testament, which were attached to the longitudinal walls under the ceiling profile. On the north side of the nave is the epitaph of the governor Germershausen, who died in 1572.
Two bells hang in the tower. Josef Neuwert poured the larger bell in 1645. The municipality had to give up the smaller bell in 1817; it was replaced by a donation from the teacher Thal in 1928 with a new bell from the Voss & Sohn foundry in Stettin . The organ from 1839 comes from the organ builder Heise from Potsdam .
To the north-west of the church there is a memorial stone for those who died in the world wars outside the surrounding walls.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information panel on the Hope Church, set up at the village church, May 2018.
- ↑ Hoffnungskirche , website of the Rüdersdorf parish near Berlin, accessed on May 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 3.3 " N , 13 ° 48 ′ 47.7" E