St. Lambertus (Brück)
The Protestant town church of St. Lambertus is an essentially late Gothic hall church in Brück , a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . According to a register from 1575, it is named after the Bishop of Maastricht Lambert von Liège .
location
The federal road 246 leads from the southwest in a northeast direction through the historic town center. There the middle row branches off to the north of the main road and spans a lenticular lawn on which the church stands on an unfenced property. This was used as a cemetery until 1810.
history
The founding of Brück is said to go back to Flemings who came to the region as part of the German East Settlement . This could also be an indication of the naming of the church. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) points out that the church is essentially late-Gothic. It is therefore very likely that there was (at least?) A previous building. The parish assumes that the reconstruction began around 1650 - and thus after the Thirty Years War - and that the work took around 60 years to complete. On August 8, 1764, a fire broke out in the city, during which the church burned down again and the church tower was destroyed. In just under 12 years, the ruins were cleared and rebuilt.
The consecration took place on June 30, 1776. On March 9, 1842, the foundation stone for the new tower was laid. In an earlier period there was a wooden staircase on the outer wall east of the sacristy. During the renovation work in 1857, it was moved into the interior to create more space for a new organ . In 1915 the church received electric lighting, which was expanded in 1933. In 1929 an electric foot heater was added in the front benches, which was renewed in 1960. In 1955 a door to the former Christian teaching room was walled up to make room for a World War II memorial. In 1966/1967 the tower roof was restored, while in 1976 the roof of the nave was re-covered. As part of the renovation of the old town, the building was completely renovated from 2005 to 2010.
Building description
The building was essentially made of bricks , which were then partially plastered . Field stone was also used. The choir has moved in and has a five-eighth closing . Its walls are stabilized by double-stepped buttresses at the corners. At the end of the choir there is another buttress in the middle. In between there are two large, arched windows on the other sides of the wall. The choir has a simple saddle roof , which is hipped towards the sides of the choir .
This is followed by the nave, which was built in the form of a basilica. The main entrance with a vestibule is on the lower, southern arm, and the sacristy is on the lower, northern arm . It can be entered from the west through a simple, arched gate. On the north side there is a large, pressed segment arch-shaped window in the middle, below which is a much smaller one. In the gable is another, also much smaller window. On the long wall that remains to the west is first a small gate, followed by a large and also pressed segment-arched window. At the northwest corner is another buttress with two steps; on the west wall in the gable a small window. The south side is dominated by the aforementioned vestibule. There is a large gate to the south, above it a small, ogival window and in the gable a small, upright rectangular window. There are further windows on the west and east sides. The remaining part of the land wall on the southern side is divided into two areas by a centrally mounted buttress. To the east there is a large window, to the west another gate and another window. The southwest corner is also stabilized with a buttress.
To the west is the square and strongly indented church tower with a width and depth of six meters. It can be entered from the west through a pressed-segment arched gate. On the lower floor there is a small, high-angle window on the north and south sides. Above this is a cornice with another floor, in which a sound arcade was built on each of the three accessible sides . Above another cornice is a storey with small windows, above which is a clock tower on each side. The 32 m high tower itself ends with a pyramid roof with a tower ball and cross.
The horseshoe gallery dates from the end of the 18th century. The building has a wooden beam ceiling inside. The interior is 30.5 m long and 12 m wide including the arms. Its clear height is seven meters.
Furnishing
The church interior dates from 1776 and was created in late Baroque forms, interspersed with classicist elements. The pulpit altar has a polygonal pulpit ; above it a crown-like sound cover , both between wooden pillars that lead to a radiant sun, which are decorated with putti and vases. The crucifix is from 1899, as are two altar candlesticks.
The octagonal fifth was made of stone and is around 1.20 m high with a diameter of 90 cm. The matching pewter baptismal bowl bears the inscription: "Müller, Brück renovated by the grandson Friedrich Heinze for the Reformation Festival 1881".
An inscription on a communion chalice dates from 1652; a second Gothic chalice has not yet been identified more precisely. Both items are not in the church, but in the cathedral museum in Brandenburg an der Havel .
In 1880 the parish bought a new organ from Friedrich Wilhelm Lobbes , which was equipped with an electric fan in 1927. In 1974 a restoration was carried out by the Central German organ builder A. Voigt .
Of the three bells, the two smaller ones were destroyed in the fire in 1749. The largest bell with a weight of around 400 kg was sold to Rottstock and was lost there in the First World War as a metal donation by the German people . At that time, there was a small bell hanging in the southern arm of the church that cracked. In 1841 it was re-cast by the bell founder Eduard Senke in Wittenberg and enlarged in the process. It was also lost in the First World War. The third bell went to the parish of Linthe in 1919 after the parish had procured a new, three-part steel bell from the company JF Weule from Bockenem . The largest bell is 101 cm in diameter and weighs 472 kg. It bears the inscription: "Glory to God in the highest" and has the striking note h . The middle bell with a diameter of 85 cm and a weight of 308 kg bears the inscription "Peace on Earth" and has the strike tone d . The smallest bell has a diameter of 73 cm and a weight of 176 kg. It bears the inscription "Brück 1919" as well as "A pleasure for the people" and has the striking note "f".
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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- The St. Lambertus Church and its history , website of the Evangelical Parish of Brück, accessed on April 26, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 52 ″ N , 12 ° 46 ′ 11 ″ E