Church ruins Heinsdorf (Dahme / Mark)
The church ruin Heinsdorf is the former late Romanesque village church of the formerly independent community of Heinsdorf . This was merged with Niebendorf in 1957 and has been part of the Niebendorf-Heinsdorf district of the city of Dahme / Mark in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg since 2003 . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The district road 7208 leads as Heinsdorf-Angerstraße coming from the south into the historical town center. There, Landstrasse 70 branches off to the west as Heinsdorfer Strasse . The church stands southeast of this intersection on a piece of land that is fenced in .
history
The building originated in the middle of the 13th century, probably consisting of a nave , choir and apse . Around 300 years later, a church tower was added to make it a complete complex . In the 18th century the windows in the nave and choir were enlarged “ baroque ”. The tower received a west portal and the east wall of the choir was changed after the apse was demolished. The north wall of the nave had to be stabilized with a buttress . At the same time, the building in the east of the south side of the ship received a patronage box with a crypt below.
In 1911 the parish bought an organ from Schuke for 2,150 marks . However, the interior of the church was in extremely poor condition at the time. The Evangelische Frauenhilfe therefore invited to a community evening at Cantata in 1930, during which 190 RM could be collected in donations. With the help of further donations, the sanctuary could be renovated by the painter Hönicke from Petkus . In 1924 the community sold two bronze bells for 200 RM to the neighboring community in Niebendorf. They then bought two cheaper chilled cast iron bells , which were inaugurated on December 21, 1924. The larger of the two bells weighed 450 kg, carried the inscription Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe and had the strike tone h , the smaller one with 275 kg the strike tone c sharp and the inscription Ihr Kinderlein kommet .
During the Second World War , the windows of the church were badly damaged by several bombs. In addition, the pastor's post remained vacant from 1940 and in 1967 Heinsdorf was transferred to Gebersdorf. Necessary maintenance of the structure was omitted. The buttresses erected in the 18th century gave way and further damage to the masonry occurred. In 1970, after long deliberations, the parish decided to demolish the structure to a height of 2.50 m. The lower-lying walls were filled with the rubble. A renovation would have cost around 250,000 marks , which the community could not raise. The ruin was then left to decay, so that in 1995 the tower had to be closed for security reasons.
On September 20, 2007, 23 members founded a development association that has been committed to maintaining the building since then. The exposed part in the nave was covered with a barrel roof with a light strip, and the tower was renovated. There is an exhibition on the eventful history of the building. The church has been used as the local cultural center since then. Exhibitions, book readings, theater performances and church events take place there.
Building description
Even in the 21st century, statements about the original construction method are still possible from historical records and photographs. In addition, the structure was not completely removed. It is therefore certain that processed and layered field stones were used to create it . The choir had a square floor plan and was slightly drawn in. There were two arched windows on the north and south sides. On the north and south sides of the nave were two portals and segment-arched windows. The north portal is still preserved and covered with split field stones. At the sides, wide, modern buttresses stabilize the nave.
The church tower has a square floor plan and is drawn in opposite the nave. It can be entered from the west through a large, pressed-segment arched portal. The reveal is edged with reddish bricks . Above it is another, pressed, segment-arch shaped panel , which is now walled up with bricks. In the upper area is an ox-eye . On the north and south sides there is a segment-arched window; above each a sound arcade . The friends' association of the church suspects that the lower, slightly indented tower storey could have been built in the Gothic period . It consists of uncut field stones and mixed masonry. The upper floors were no longer there (fire?). In the interior there was a patronage box, which was separated from the church by a glass wall. On the parapet there was a coat of arms of the church patron and a stage-like equestrian image.
Furnishing
According to an inventory in the church in 1848 there were two altar claddings, a pulpit cladding, a fifth , two brass candlesticks and a silver chalice with a paten. There was a working clock in the tower. At the time of the demolition, the church furnishings were in poor condition: too high a humidity level and worms had damaged many of the furnishings. The parish therefore decided to give the pieces to other churches or individual villagers. This included a baroque altarpiece that Johannes Christian Schütze created in 1717. It consisted of a carved, almost life-size crucifix , which was decorated with two putti and four angel heads on the side . The altarpiece consisted of a representation of rocks in front of the city of Jerusalem . A baroque pulpit decorated with two putti and six angel heads, the front of the patronage box and the Schuke organ were also handed in. In 1960, according to the parish archives, there was a fifth made of artificial stone and a chandelier. A commemorative plaque commemorated those who died in the Wars of Liberation .
See also
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 .
- 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
- Heinsdorfer Kirche , website of the Förderverein Sanierung Heinsdorfer Kirche, accessed on January 13, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 11.4 ″ E