St. Marien (Wiesenburg)
The Evangelical Church of St. Marien is a hall church on a cross-shaped floor plan in the village of Wiesenburg in the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark in the west of the state of Brandenburg . It is designated as an architectural monument , belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Wiesenburg of the Evangelical Church District Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and is an open church .
history
The Marienkirche was probably built in the middle of the 13th century, possibly as early as the 12th century as a Romanesque field stone building. The peripheral location in the village of Wiesenburg is striking. The nave was later shortened in the west. In 1561/62 the altar of the church was created as a work by the sculptor Georg Schröter from Torgau . In 1594 and 1623 a wooden gallery was built in the church above the north portal. The Marienkirche had a tower clock since the 17th century at the latest.
A first organ was installed in 1696 and came from the workshop of Christoph Donat from Leipzig . In that year the nave gallery was also built. The floor of the church was raised during renovation work in 1769. Colored lead glass windows of the church were built between 1864 and 1871 and were transferred to the church by Luise von Miltitz. The existing tower in the neo-Romanesque style was built from 1879 to 1880. Between 1958 and 1959 the church was restored . During this time, the triumphal cross by the Magdeburg sculptor Goebel was created. A large number of interior furnishings date from 1958.
Extensive restoration work took place in the church in the 1990s . From 1992 to 1993 the interior plaster and wooden beam ceiling were renovated and the church roof was re-roofed. Repair work was carried out on the tower in 1994 and the floor was renewed in 1995. In the following years, the wooden beam ceiling and the walls were repainted, the church stalls and the pulpit were repaired and restored leaded glass windows were reinstalled. In 1999 the church tower received a radio clock and the organ was comprehensively cleaned and retuned and the bellows replaced. In 2001 the church bells were restored .
Building
The church is a cruciform church with four arms of about the same length. It is made of field stones. In the eastern arm, an apse protrudes from the structure, which appears polygonal on the outside and round on the inside. The tower is to the west. This is also built from field stones in the lower part. On the field stone plinths, clinker brick was added in the neo-Romanesque style. The windows of the church and sound openings in the tower are almost exclusively round-arched . Three were incorporated in the apse. Only a small and subsequently incorporated south window is designed in a segmental arch and there is a rose window above the west portal . The Marienkirche has three portals . In the transept there is an ogival north and south portal. A west portal in the tower is a distinctive, four-step round-arched step portal made of bricks . An original, small and arched north portal in the nave has been added. The roof of the nave and transept is a gable roof , which is covered with red beaver tails . Half the conical roof of the apse is also covered with red beaver tails . There is a sharp towering on the steeple spire , which with black slate is covered. A tower ball and a cross mark the top . Another four crosses are set up above the pointed gables in which the tower clocks are placed.
Interior
The gallery in the nave has a dock parapet . The one above the north portal from 1594 is called the mansion gallery and is horseshoe-shaped . It shows a gallery with family coats of arms of various nobles . The coat of arms of the ancestors of the von Lindau family should be shown. Several leaded glass windows show coats of arms. Two windows are called insect windows. Stories from the New Testament are presented in four windows with figurative representations .
On the sides in the choir and in the south aisle there are several epitaphs and tombstones. A gravestone with an incised drawing that was found during floor work in 1995 shows the year 1257. A sandstone relief depicts the Last Judgment . In the south transept hang a dove and an angel with a harp. These date from the 18th century. An oil painting , which is attributed to Lucas Cranach the Younger , shows the wife Margarethe von Dieskau, the first wife of Friedrich Brand von Lindau, in childbed and her newborn child.
The altar dates from 1561/62 and was restored in 1931. It has a brick table with an altarpiece made of sandstone and shows the Annunciation to Mary in the left wing , the Lord's Supper in the middle and the Resurrection of the Lord in the right wing . The essay shows the crowned God the Father and before him the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove . Above it, the year 1561 can be seen. Inscriptions in the predella take up the altarpiece and refer to the donor Friedrich III on the reverse . Fire from Lindau.
A wooden beam ceiling is kept in the colors gray and white and decorated with ribbons in green, red and blue. The octagonal baptismal font is made of sandstone and has a lily pattern on the edge as a frieze . It dates from around 1400. It holds around 70 liters. A hood for the font dates from 1958 and was made by a local coppersmith . The same coppersmith Hess also made the candlesticks and the altar cross . The triumphal cross also dates from 1958 by a Magdeburg sculptor Goebel.
There are three bells hanging in the church bell cage. The largest of these is made of bronze and has a diameter of 112 centimeters and a weight of around 880 kilograms. This is also the oldest of the three and dates from around 1250. It bears a Latin inscription. The two smaller bells originate from the year 1957 as casts of the pre-existing ones . The clock face of the church tower points in all four directions. The movement from the 17th century was exchanged for a radio controlled clock in the 1990s and was housed in the north gallery.
organ
In 1755 the donor gel was replaced by a new organ from the workshop of Johann Ephraim Hübner from Wittenberg . Hübner used parts of the existing instrument in its construction. The organ is on the west gallery. It has 17 stops on two manuals and one pedal. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
- Playing aids : check valve HW
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Berlin / GDR Potsdam. German art publisher . Munich, Berlin. 1983. pp. 453 f.
- ↑ a b churches . Published on ev-kirchengemeinde-wiesenburg.de. Accessed June 21, 2018.
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - St. Mary's Church, Wiesenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 15.5 ″ E