St. Johannis (Niemegk)

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St. Johannis Church

The St. Johannis Church is a monument in Niemegk in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . It is on the list of monuments with the number 09190312. The Protestant church belongs to the parish of Niemegk in the parish of Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

History and shape

The neo-Gothic hall church , which was built in 1853, stands on the church square east of the town hall . It is the work of Friedrich August Stüler . The much narrower church tower, which is almost like a foreign body to the west of the ship, is quite typical of its churches. Stüler was able to implement an octagonal tower several times, for example in the St. Antonius Church (Nowa Sól) , the Caputh village church or the St. Peter Church in Międzyzdroje.

What is also noteworthy is the classicistic rigor often found in Stüler buildings, which, for example, monotonously lines up the windows of the ship. However, the church is not designed in a plain, but has pinnacles on the four corners of the nave, a cross on the east gable and friezes . The west side is particularly well structured with changing window shapes, one of the four tower clocks, lanterns on the three-portal front or a balcony grille on the eaves . Nevertheless, the symmetry is also preserved here.

The church is a stop on the signposted city tour through Niemegk.

Interior and outfit

It is a three-storey gallery with a flat polygonal apse. The organ from 1853/54 comes from Gottfried Wilhelm Baer , who lived in Niemegk. It has 1671 pipes and 30 registers. In 1917 the large prospect pipes were melted down for war purposes. During the Second World War , the organ was damaged by shelling the church. The organ was first renovated in the 1950s. From 1994 to 2018 donations were collected for the organ and the renovation was carried out accordingly. For example the coronation in 2018 or the pipes in 2019. Completion is planned by 2020. The altar triptych and apse window with glass paintings were created in 1953 by Gerhard Olbrich .

Previous buildings

The first church is documented for 1161 and had to give way to a new building in 1593. This was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , so that another new building was built in 1678. A city fire in 1850 destroyed this building again; thus the Johanniskirche is the fourth church with this name. There was also a church of St. Nicholas, which probably belonged to a hospital , as it was called St. Niklas Monastery in a loan letter around 1500 , but a monastery is not occupied. It was located in front of the Wittenberger Tor and can still be seen on Wilhelm Dilich's view of the city from the first half of the 17th century. However, it is already called desolate in 1526 and 1554.

Trivia

  • Stüler's son Franz (1852–1943) later worked as a doctor in Niemegk.
  • The organ is the largest instrument in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district and Baer's largest organ.

literature

Web links

Commons : Niemegk church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 313.
  2. ↑ a b The largest organ in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district needs your help. Amt Niemegk, July 18, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bärbel Kraemer: renovation. A long organ life - with many ups and downs. MOZ.de, March 12, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New golden crowns for the queen. Märkische Allgemeine, December 30, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ New pipes for the old organ. Märkische Allgemeine, February 21, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b St. Johannis Church in Niemegk. Amt Niemegk, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  7. ^ Siegfried Dalitz: Stories on the history of the city of Niemegk. (= The Chronicle of the City of Niemegk , 2), Wittenberg 1999.
  8. ↑ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Nikolaikirchen and urban development in Europe. From the merchant settlement to the city , Berlin 2013, p. 178.
  9. ^ Eva Börsch-Supan:  Stüler, Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 627-629 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 29.7 "  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 23.4"  E