City church Biesenthal
The Protestant town church Biesenthal is a single nave sacral building with a choir closed on three sides in the town of Biesenthal in the Barnim district in Brandenburg .
history
The previously Slavic settlement area was settled by the Ascanians in the 13th century . The seat of a bailiwick was first mentioned in a document from 1258 . During this time the community must have built a stone church. The location of the church away from the former village center suggests that the construction took place before the market settlement was established. In the 16th century the church was under the patronage of those von Arnim . In 1544 a member of this noble family donated money to build a double spire. This is evident from a tower button document found in 1713 . The building and its furnishings were destroyed in a fire in 1756, except for the substructure of the rectangular west tower. The city rebuilt the church between 1764 and 1767, incorporating the surrounding walls in the Baroque style . The result was a hall church with a retracted choir closed on three sides . In 1858 and 1859, the community built the square tower tower with a pointed helmet and a small sacristy east of the choir. In 1859 the organ builder Ferdinand Dinse donated an organ to the community. In 1940 the interior was painted; In 1973 the building received warm air heating and in 1975 and 1976 a new roof. In 1978 and 1979 the community installed new windows and renewed the plaster between 1978 and 1981. In 1988 and between 2008 and 2010 the congregation restored the church. During the last renovation, behind the plastering of the facade, the community discovered remains of walls from the time before the great fire and tie rods from 1719 in the roof structure of the choir .
architecture
The hall church is a plastered building that is a little narrower in width than the older west tower. There are five high arched windows on the north and south sides of the ship. They are decorated with a groove and a circumferential warrior at the height of the cornice . The middle window is made smaller in order to leave space for the baroque portal below with a mint-colored, double-winged wooden door. The southern portal is also decorated with a cartouche . The windows in the choir are designed in a similar design to the ship windows, but straight at the level of the cornice.
The substructure of the 42 meter high tower consists of evenly hewn field stones with a triple stepped, pointed arched portal, the arch of which is plastered on the inside. Slit-like windows are located on the three sides of the tower above the portal. Approximately in the middle of the gable roof , which is covered with red beaver tail , the tower continues in a square attachment with a narrower edge. In this area, like the nave and the choir, it is provided with light-colored plaster. On three sides there are arch-shaped sound arcades and on four sides a church tower clock with black pointers on a white dial. The corners of the tower are structured with grooved corner pilaster strips.
Interior
Due to the fire in the 18th century, there are no longer any original furnishings. The pulpit altar dates from around 1770 and is decorated with rocaille ornaments. The wooden fifth dates from the middle of the 19th century, the brass chandeliers from the end of the 18th century. The wooden gallery stands on Tuscan columns and encompasses the north, west and south sides of the interior. It has two storeys on the long sides of the ship. The Dinse organ from 1859 is on the west gallery. It is framed by sayings from 1940 that are affixed to the parapet fields.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Matthias Friske: The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment , Lukas, Berlin 2001 (churches in rural areas, vol. 1), ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Biesenthal Church , website of the Protestant parish, accessed on April 26, 2015.
- Description of the church history , website of Kultursteine Biesenthal, accessed on April 26, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 0.2 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 52.8 ″ E