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Lehnin monastery community
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 24 ″ N , 12 ° 31 ′ 50 ″ E
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| Height : | 35 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 55 (December 31, 1925) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1928 |
| Incorporated into: | Reckahn |
| Postal code : | 14542 |
| Area code : | 033853 |
Meßdunk is a residential area in Reckahn , a district of the municipality of Kloster Lehnin in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the west of the German state of Brandenburg . The place is about 12 kilometers south of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel and two kilometers southwest of Reckahn. There is a paved driveway only from Reckahn.
history
In the north of the village, human skeletal parts and ceramics from the 13th and 14th centuries were found when fish ponds were created, which prove the foundation of a settlement. Even then, the place belonged to the von Rochow family and thus to the Reckahn estate. The first documentary mention can be found in Charles IV's land register in 1375. From a church visit in 1540, the existence of a village church is recorded for the first time .
In the Thirty Years' War , hardly anyone lived in the place in 1652, only two were Kossäten resident. Around 1745 there were again eleven cossets occupied. A Vorwerk is mentioned for the first time in 1775 , at the beginning of the 19th century Meßdunk was just a colony, not a village. In the further course of the 19th century the population of the place declined in contrast to the surrounding villages. In 1801, 67 people still lived in the village; in 1837 the number of inhabitants had fallen to 48. In the middle of the 19th century the church had become dilapidated and should be replaced by a new building.
In 1928 Meßdunk was incorporated into Reckahn, in 1991 it was assigned to Reckahn in the Lehnin office. In 2002, Meßdunk became a part of Lehnin Monastery.
Culture and sights
In the middle of the village there is a small square, here is also the cemetery of the village. The cemetery is still occupied. The old village church also stood here. Smallholder farms are located around the square. The Vorwerk no longer exists, it was on the western edge of the village.
The present church was built from 1867 to 1868 on the northern outskirts in the style of historicism . The master bricklayer August Eiserbeck from Golzow was commissioned with the implementation, whose plans were revised by the government master builder Horn. The old church at the cemetery was found to be "unworthy". The church was damaged during World War II . In 1963 a lightning strike damaged the church, but no repairs were made. In 1980 the church was supposed to be demolished, but the demolition was not carried out. After the fall of the Wall , the church was repaired from 1990 to 1993. Subsequently, an association was founded that has used the church for concerts and other events since that time. In 1998 the church was divorced .
The church is a hall made of red bricks. The church has a tower in the west of the church and an apse . The side walls are divided into three fields, in each field there are two arched windows. The tower has two floors, the floors are separated by a frieze band. The tower has a pointed helmet with four gable panels. The church was painted in the 19th century, the painting has largely been preserved. The furnishings, pulpit, organ front and gallery are from the construction period. An altarpiece from 1474, which was taken over from the previous building, is worth seeing . It comes from Gerard Weger , who also created the altar in St. Katharinen in Brandenburg an der Havel .
literature
- Monuments in Brandenburg, Potsdam-Mittelmark. Part 1: Marie-Luise Buchinger, Marcus Cante: Nördliche Zauche. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-285-8 , pages 383-385
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bernd Janowski: Only one way leads to Meßdunk - concerts (almost) at the end of the world , published in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. (Ed.): Open Churches , 2020 edition, ISBN 978-3-928918-36-7 , pp. 12 and 13