St. Johannes Baptist (Fürstenwalde / Spree)
St. Johannes Baptist is a Roman Catholic neo-Gothic hall church in Fürstenwalde / Spree , a town in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The parish belongs to the pastoral area Frankfurt (Oder) - Buckow-Müncheberg - Fürstenwalde of the Archdiocese of Berlin . The patronage lies with St. John the Baptist .
location
In the Lebuser quarter lies the Seilerplatz between the northeast running Seilerstrasse and the southeast running Feldstrasse . There the church stands on a piece of land that is fenced in with a lattice fence . The memorial is part of an ensemble that also includes the Catholic parish hall with its front yard and enclosure.
history
The sacred building was built in 19005/1906 based on a design by the architect Engelbert Seibertz . The opposite parish hall was built in the same style. Before that, at the end of the 19th century, a “middle-class residential area” had developed between the city center and the train station. In the Second World War , the previously 68 m high tower was damaged and rebuilt in shortened form.
In the 2010s, the church and the rectory will be renovated .
Building description
For the surrounding plinth , the builders used unhewn field stones that were not layered in layers. Then they erected the building with reddish brick . The choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth closing . The individual fields are structured with pilaster strips . In addition, a surrounding cornice was built into the lower third , into which fields were worked. These are decorated in the upper area with a frieze open at the bottom . The large tracery windows with nuns' heads rise above . Small and ogival panels are incorporated over another frieze .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan, as do the two aisles. On the north side, Seibertz erected four large fields, each with a tracery window and panels arranged above. At the transition to the choir is a cross-shaped extension with significantly narrower pointed arch windows. At the transition to the church tower there are two more ogival windows in the lower strip of fields that let additional light into the building. The south side is built almost identically. However, at the transition from the choir to the nave there is a rectangular extension that serves as a sacristy .
The west tower is strongly drawn in opposite the ship and has a square floor plan, but takes up the full width of the nave on the lower floor . It can be entered from the west through a large and multi-stepped portal, in the tympanum of which a figure of Christ can be seen with outstretched arms. On each side of the tower floor there is a further, pressed segment arch-shaped portal with a pointed gable, over which five panels are arranged. In the richly decorated tower, the high sound arcades that extend above the roof ridge of the side aisles almost into the pyramid roof of the tower are striking. In the bell room behind it there is a three-part chime made of cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochum association . An inventory list of the foundry contains the following information: the ensemble of bells with clapper, bearing, axes and chime lever cost 3,699 marks to manufacture .
| size | Chime | Weight (kg) | lower diameter (mm) |
Height (mm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| greatest | dis | 1260 | 1430 | 1275 | unknown |
| middle | f sharp | 860 | 1260 | 1120 | unknown |
| smallest | g sharp | 550 | 1125 | 1005 | unknown |
The tower ends with a tower ball and cross.
Equipment and community life
The church furnishings come from the same period of construction. A groin vault supports the ceiling of the main nave.
The parish issues a parish letter every quarter ; an association of friends and patrons of the Catholic parish of St. Johannes Baptist supports Christian work.
The Baptist Church has a church café, several Bible study groups and a church choir.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- St. John Baptist , parish website, accessed April 14, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Johannes Baptist (Catholic), Fürstenwalde , website Seenland Oder-Spree, accessed on April 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Parish Letter No. 3–5 / 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b compilation of the bells delivered to Berlin and the surrounding area ; Bochum Association, around 1900. In the archive of the Köpenick Church of St. Josef, viewed on August 6, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '50 " N , 14 ° 3' 55.7" E