Dolgelin church ruins
The Protestant church ruin Dolgelin (official name in the state monument list: ruin of the village church with medieval plaster scratch drawings ) was a stone church from around 1300 in Dolgelin , a district of the municipality of Lindendorf in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the state of Brandenburg . It belongs to the Oderland-Spree parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
location
The Alte Poststraße runs from the west in a north-easterly direction through the town and connects to the federal highway 167 , which passes the town in a south-easterly direction when coming from the north-west. North of the Alte Poststraße there is another connection to the B 167 with the Maxim-Gorki-Straße. The church stands on an area between the two streets on a property that is not fenced .
history
Dolgelin was first mentioned in 1321 in a sales deed of a mill. Probably under the influence of the Knights Templar , later the Order of St. John , a stone church was built around 1300. They erected a single-nave sacred building with a retracted choir . A dendrochronological examination on a beam showed that it dates back to 1304. In the 16th century, craftsmen built a sacristy , of which only remains of the foundations remain in the 21st century. Also in the 16th century, the church was extended by a steeple , which had become dilapidated at the end of the 19th century: in 1867 a corner of the tower collapsed. In 1870, the established church of reddish bricks in neo-Gothic forms a new tower. In it hung a bronze bell , which was donated to the church by the von Schlieben as early as 1500 . During the Second World War , the structure was also badly damaged on April 16 and 17, 1945; However, the tower and roof were preserved. The parish was able to celebrate its service in the building until 1946 . In the same year, the local mayor allowed parts of the roof to be removed in order to repair residential buildings. This eventually led to the collapse of the roof structure . The church furnishings were lost except for a fifth ; the church records were burned. In 1957, the parish procured two chill cast bells and hung them in a bell chair at the rectory. On March 25, 1965, the church tower was blown up. The rubble was only cleared away in 1988.
After the fall of the Wall , a support association was founded in 2002, which stopped the further deterioration of the structure. During excavations in 2000, evidence of a small previous building was discovered. The site was cleared and the renovation of the structure began. In 2013 the walls were grouted and the top of the wall covered. The tower pillars were walled up at the same height; the entrance arch was also walled up. About half of the construction cost was provided by the support association “Dorfkirche Dolgelin eV”. A quarter of this was made available by a wind power company in the form of a sponsorship agreement. The remaining part of the money came from the parish and the district church. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on June 1, 2018 and a new church roof was finally erected by May 25, 2019.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones that were carefully hewn and layered in layers. The choir had a rectangular floor plan and was drawn in opposite the nave. Craftsmen primarily used reddish brick for repair work. After the tower had been blown up, a round window with a double-tiered wall and two circular panels on the side with lime plaster came to light on the gable . It contains two incised drawings from the 13th century, showing Adalbert of Prague in the left panel and a crowned figure with a book and palm fronds in the right panel; possibly a symbol for Ecclesia and synagogue .
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 .
- Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV (Ed.): Village Church of the Month June 2019 - Dolgelin (Märkisch Oderland). Info letter 06/19 - June 1, 2019, p. 9
- Wolf-Rainer Marx: Ruins under roof: Dolgelin knows what to do , published in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. (Ed.): Open Churches , Edition 2020, ISBN 978-3-928918-36-7 , pp. 29 and 30.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dolgelin , Askanier-Welten website, accessed on July 2, 2019.
- ^ Ines Weber-Rath: A roof for Dolgelin's church ruins . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , November 22, 2017, accessed on July 2, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 22.7 ″ E