St. Stephan (Gartz)

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St. Stephan (Gartz)

The city church of St. Stephan in Gartz an der Oder in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg is a Gothic brick church that was partially destroyed in the Second World War. It belongs to the Gartz / Oder parish of the Pasewalk provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) and can be viewed upon registration.

View from the northwest

History and architecture

The nave of the three-aisled Gothic brick hall church of four bays was built in the second half of the 14th century. The single-nave choir with a five-sided end comes from the 15th century and shows the ornamental shapes of the churches from the school of Hinrich Brunsberg .

From 1886 to 1915 Hermann Petrich was senior preacher and superintendent at St. Stephan.

The church burned down to the surrounding walls around April 20-23, 1945. However, the star vaults of the choir were preserved and so the choir was covered again until 1953 and separated from the nave. From 1982 to 1987 the long house yoke to the west was expanded to two storeys and separated from the rest of the ship, which is still in ruins.

View of the tower from the ruins of the ship

The star vaults and octagonal pillars in the nave have not been preserved. The wall crowns and window frames of the nave are further secured so that the nave remains accessible. A restoration of the nave is not in sight.

The choir has inwardly drawn buttresses, which appear on the outside as flat wall templates, similar to the Katharinenkirche in Brandenburg . The templates are structured with rods made of glazed and unglazed shaped stones and designed with three double niches for figures on top of each other. The crowning tracery and the eyelash are missing. Inside, between the buttresses, there are deep wall niches with their own small cross vaults. High four and five-part pointed arch windows illuminate the building.

The lower parts of the mighty tower still belong to the Middle Ages, while the top floor made of brick was built in the 18th century. The tower was restored after the war destruction and closed with a tent roof.

Furnishing

General view from the north

From the original fixtures and fittings, which consisted of a neo-Gothic altar and a neo-Gothic pulpit, nothing has been preserved from the destruction. In 1991 the church received a new organ with 16 stops on two manuals and pedal .

The liturgical furnishings include a silver wafer box from 1823 as well as chalices and a silver paten from 1863. A pair of bronze candlesticks is from 1656. A grave slab made of sandstone from the 17th century also survived the destruction.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 350–352.
  • Heinrich Trost, Beate Becker, Horst Büttner, Ilse Schröder, Christa Stepansky: The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Frankfurt / Oder district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 29.
  • Götz Eckardt (Hrsg.): Fates of German monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 187.

Web links

Commons : St. Stephan (Gartz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Website on churches in the Uckermark. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ Image index of art and architecture. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 32.4 "  N , 14 ° 23 ′ 28.6"  E