Evangelical Church Münchehofe
The evangelical church Münchehofe is a listed building in the community of the same name Münchehofe in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming .
history
The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) assumes that the church was built in the 14th century. It is believed that the Cistercians built a small previous building out of field stones . This was expanded in 1707 on the initiative of the new owner of the community, Colonel Heinrich Wilhelm von Görtz , with an attached choir and a tower. However, this fell in the second half of the 18th century and was demolished. Von Görtz bought more land with the help of a loan from the Prussian state , but died in a dispute before he could trigger it again. The community as well as the church thus fell under Prussian rule. In 1850 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV renovated the building and took over the patronage . The design for the roof turret with the bells visible in it comes from his hand , which reminds of the founding of the church by the Cistercians and which today characterizes the municipality's coat of arms.
Around 1850, craftsmen added further epitaphs to the east side of the building, including a picture of Nickel von Langen from 1599, whose family, the Barons von Langen , believed the community had been in their possession for 232 years.
In 1926 the church received a new bell that was melted down during World War II . In 1966 the parishioners designed a new altar from field stones, a fifth and the pulpit . With these renovations, they also set the pews and the church doors repaired. In 1988 the cover of the crypt broke during a service. A few mummies became visible, which found their final resting place a year later in the adjacent cemetery. It is believed that the remains of Görtz are also among the remains .
architecture
The white plastered, simple building rests on a grayish plastered base. To the west, a double staircase leads to a door, which is framed in reddish brick , is stepped inwards and is semicircular. There is a lantern above it. A few meters above this entrance, a walled up, circular opening can be seen, as is often found in sacred buildings with barrel roofs . However, this building has a gable roof with three semicircular, symmetrically arranged windows in the western gable . As at the entrance, the edging is made of two-tier brick. Above the window in the middle is the tower clock, above it the characteristic roof turret made of brick with bell and cross.
The north side of the building has five symmetrically arranged arched windows on the ground floor without any further decorations, above each five further, much larger windows. This structure is not included on the south side: here there are only two windows in the basement that frame today's main entrance to the building. Above these three openings there are also three windows, albeit significantly smaller than on the north side. In the direction of the apse , the extension from 1707 can be seen, which is accessible through another door. It also has a gable roof. On the east side there are a total of seven epitaphs in the lower area. Above it, like on the west side, a walled, circular opening can be seen. Above this opening there are two semicircular windows in this gable, each with a sound opening in the upper area.
The ceiling inside the building is flat and rests on just a few wooden beams . You divide the ceiling into ten white, square fields. The patronage box no longer exists, but wooden stalls and a glazed building can still be seen inside the church on the south side.
Furnishing
Altar , Fünte and pulpit were built in 1966 from field stones. The epitaphs from the 16th to 18th centuries have only been partially deciphered so far. The middle panel shows Nickel von Langen, two more Ernst von Langen and Georg von Langen auf Neuendorf. Several other panels show the von Stutterheim family's coat of arms. To the north of the building, a plaque on a boulder commemorates the resting place of the bones that were recovered from the collapsed crypt in 1988.
Some mulberry trees grow on the cemetery grounds , which were once planted for silkworms . Some of them are under special protection as natural monuments .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief chronicle of the Münchehofe community ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Münchehofe municipality, (PDF; 7.6 MB), accessed on October 3, 2013.
- ↑ Tourism - Sights ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Münchehofe municipality, accessed on October 3, 2013.
literature
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming , accessed on October 4, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 48.1 " N , 13 ° 50 ′ 15.5" E