Parish Church of St. Mary on the Mountain

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Parish Church of St. Mary on the Mountain

The Protestant parish church St. Marien auf dem Berge is a listed church building in Boitzenburg , a district of the municipality Boitzenburger Land in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg .

The church building, together with the organ from 1849, is listed as an architectural monument in the state of Brandenburg's list of monuments .

Architecture and building history

inner space

The parish church in Boitzenburg was built in the second half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned on July 25, 1271 in a deed of gift from the Margraves of the Mark Brandenburg to the Cistercian monastery Boitzenburg . The church is located on a hill near the highest point in Boitzenburg. The building is an elongated rectangular fieldstone hall with a four-storey west tower from 1650 and a polygonal choir conclusion of brick , which was completed in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the church building was supplemented in the north and south by transept-like , romanized extensions.

The west tower of the church is about the same width as the nave . The two upper floors of the tower are divided by pilasters . In the 18th century the nave received its current arched windows . Around this time, the church tower was raised to four storeys; today it is 47 meters high. At the same time, the corners of the three-sided choir polygon were structured using templates. The transept-like extensions are structured by pilaster strips , each with three pointed gables on the front sides . There is a rose window in the middle extension . All additions were plastered from the start. Between 2000 and 2008 the church was extensively renovated .

The entire parish of Boitzenburg, which includes seven other parishes, belongs to the parish of Uckermark in the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Furnishing

The parish church of St. Marien has an altar with a wooden structure from 1718, which was probably built by altar maker Bekmann. The altar has four Corinthian columns on each side. These carry an openwork framework with a crowned god's eye on a flat segment floor above. The god eye is flanked left and right with angel figures. On the side pedestals there are figures of Moses , the four evangelists and John the Baptist . The curved altar table stands on eagle claws with four carved reliefs .

The wooden pulpit dates from around the same time . This has a bas-relief decoration and carved leaf hangings. The pulpit is carried by the allegorical figures of hope and love . The cast-iron baptism of St. Mary's Church dates from 1841, on the octagonal foot there are depictions of the circumcision of the Lord , the baptism of Jesus and the Lord's Supper .

  • altar

  • pulpit

  • Baptismal font

In the church there is a marble funerary monument for the Prussian minister Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg, who died in 1753 . It has a high niche with a coat of arms and a life-size sculpture by Arnims. On the side is a sarcophagus with an inscription plaque with a mourning putto and a figure of Sapientia. In the cemetery there are other elaborately designed tombs of the von Arnim family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Nearby there is a black wooden epitaph with a gold carved ornament from 1724 for the pastor's wife Sybille Schüsseler.

organ

Buchholz organ from 1849

The organ of the parish church St. Marien auf dem Berge was built in 1849 by organ builder Carl August Buchholz from Berlin. It replaced the organ built by Ernst Julius Marx in 1770 , which was sold a year earlier to the evangelical parish of Falkenwalde (now in Uckerfelde ). The organ was restored for the first time around 1900 and the Flauto traverso was removed and replaced by an Aeoline . During the Second World War, the organ builder Karl Gerbig replaced the prospect pipes with pipes made of zinc . The last repair of the organ so far took place in 1999 by Christian Scheffler . The organ is a listed building . The two-manual instrument has a mechanical drawer , eight stops on the first manual, three on the second manual and three stops on the pedal .

The disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture II-III
Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Viola de gamba 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'
trombone 16 ′

Commemoration

Near the church there is a memorial in memory of the fallen residents of Boitzenburg during the First World War . The monument has two walls. In the middle of the square on which it is located, there is also an oak tree and a separate stele with an attached sphere. The inscription on the monument reads:

In the World War 1914–1918
the heroic deaths
for king and fatherland died.

Nobody has greater love than the one that
he gives up his life for his friends on
John 15. 13.

Their sons in gratitude and loyalty to the
Boitzenburg estate and community.

The names of the fallen are listed under the inscription.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 101-102 .

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of St. Marien auf dem Berge  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Parish church St. Marien auf dem Berge on the side of the municipality Boitzenburger Land , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  3. ^ A b c d Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 101-102.
  4. ↑ a b c Information on the Protestant church "St. Marien auf dem Berge" in Boitzenburg , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  5. ^ Page of the Boitzenburg parish , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  6. ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Marien in the organ database , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ War memorials in Boitzenburg in the online project Gefallendenkmäler , accessed on December 15, 2017.

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 21.3 ″  E