Reitwein village church
The village church of the Brandenburg town of Reitwein is a Protestant brick church . It was built at the foot of the Reitweiner Berge in neo-Gothic style between 1855 and 1858 according to a design by the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler . The secret building councilor was a student of Schinkel . Since its destruction in the Second World War, it has only been preserved as a ruin, but is still used for church services and cultural events.
history
Previous construction
The first Reitweiner church was built in 1414. Its tower was above the church roof and had to be renewed in 1597, 1666 and 1672. In 1735 the church was extensively rebuilt under Pastor Orth, during which the old tower was torn down and a new one was built. This tower collapsed again in 1760 and damaged the church roof, which could not be restored until 1771–1772. The tower of the church was renewed again in 1824.
New building in the 19th century
Since the old church offered too little space for the growing population in the middle of the 19th century, the parish decided to build a new building on the initiative of the patron Rudolf Count Finck von Finckenstein . The foundation stone was laid on May 28, 1855. The old church was demolished on March 12, 1856. The shell of the church was completed in September 1857 and in the summer of 1858, in addition to other painters' assistants from the Frankfurt company Stubenmaler Atzenroth , Anton von Werner was also busy with the interior design, the painting of the church.
The inauguration took place on August 25, 1858 .
Destruction in World War II
The church was badly damaged in February 1945 by the acts of war in the context of the Battle of the Seelow Heights and was an unused ruin for decades. The parish council finally saved it from being blown up in 1970. In 1983 the ruin was placed under monument protection.
Reconstruction after 1990
The first renovation work could only be started after the fall of the Wall in the GDR in 1990. In 1993 the first construction phase, securing the masonry crowns, the nave and the roofs, was completed. In the following year, a concept was drawn up for the renovation of the ruins with the securing of the tower and the nave in their current state. In October 1998 the reconstruction of the church tower began. With the erection of the steeple on September 3, 1999, the church tower renovation was completed. The construction project was accompanied by the Frankfurt architect Hans Tulke . The bell consecration took place on October 5, 2001. The blacksmith Wilfried Schwuchow from Angermünde made the crowning of the spire and the clock system. It is planned to use the church building and its surroundings as a central meeting place in the future. The neighboring former rectory is used as a set-up home.
View into the apse of the church ruins
View into the nave
View into the transept
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literature
- Paul Schroeder: Reitweinische oddities . History of the village of Reitwein im Oderbruch. Self-published by the author, Reitwein 1904.
- Hans-Georg Rieger, Reinhard Schmook, Hans Joachim Teller: Churches in the Oderbruch and their fate since the spring of 1945 . With pictures and historical notes. Ed .: H.-G. Rieger and G.-A. von Wittich on behalf of the Lebus home district. 1st edition. Self-published by the Lebus home district, Lebus 1992. P. 62.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton von Werner: Jugenderinnerungen 1843–1879 . Commented by Karin Schrader. In: Dominik Bartmann (Hrsg.): Sources on German art history from classicism to the present . tape 3 . Deutscher Verlag für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87157-165-2 , p. 31-32 .
- ↑ a b c d Märkische Oderzeitung : The Stüler building on the Oder from June 27, 2004.
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, district of Märkisch-Oderland, status: December 31, 2007 (PDF; 270 kB)
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 58 " N , 14 ° 34 ′ 43" E