Kietz village church
The Protestant village church Kietz is a neo-Romanesque cruciform church from the 1890s in Kietz , a district of the municipality of Lenzerwische in the district of Prignitz in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish district Prignitz of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The ring road runs parallel to the Elbe from north-west to south-east through the town. The church stands north of this street on an elevation that is not fenced in .
history
The Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg reported in its newsletter from October 2019 that a first sacred building was destroyed by a flood of the Elbe. The parish then built a half-timbered church in 1703 , but it was destroyed by a lightning strike. To avoid re-destruction by a flood, the building was made of made of bricks built the current building in the years 1892-1894 on a sure heaped mound .
After the Second World War and the division of Germany , the church was in the restricted area and was no longer allowed to be entered. The parish therefore had to watch as the building gradually fell into disrepair. After the fall of the Wall , the church was only a ruin, which had to be closed due to the risk of collapse. After the roof leaked, water entered the building; the dry rot had spread. After considering demolition, a support association was founded in 1999, which gradually renovated the building until 2012. The wall paintings from the construction period could be exposed and the altar and pulpit restored. In the 21st century, the church is used for numerous cultural events in addition to worship. In 2019, the roof, which was secured in 1999, was finally renovated.
Building description
The cross-shaped structure was essentially made of reddish brick and is closed in the east with a polygonal apse . In the transept arms there are galleries that were used as patrons' boxes at an earlier time .
Furnishing
The altar retable comes from the baroque predecessor church and was created in 1706. It shows the crucifixion of Christ on the altar leaf decorated with acanthus . The pulpit was probably built around the same time. It is decorated with rich baroque ornament; the pulpit is carried by Moses . The patronage chair has a painted back wall with spiral columns, a carved crown and the coat of arms of those of Wenckstern . An epitaph commemorates Bartholomäus von Wenckstern, who died in 1553. It shows the half-length figure of the deceased in a relief between a column-like structure; God the Father in the central gable.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Village Church of the Month October 2019 - Kietz (PR) , Infobrief 10/19 - October 1, 2019, p. 4.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 15.8 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 57.4" E