City church Fürstenberg / Havel

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The striking slender church tower of Buttel
View from Brandenburger Strasse

The Protestant town church in Fürstenberg an der Havel is a brick church in Fürstenberg / Havel in the Oberhavel district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Fürstenberg / Havel in the Neustrelitz Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) and is an open church .

History and architecture

Fürstenberg is first mentioned in 1287 as a parish with a pastor Arnoldus . The Mecklenburg dukes had church patronage . In 1551 Matthias Bracht Kesselius became the first Lutheran preacher at the church. The nave burned down in 1584 and the tower in 1652. On May 26, 1807 the restored church burned again, the remaining masonry was torn down. The start of the new building was delayed until 1845 due to disputes over manual and clamping services .

Today's church is a cross-shaped brick building , which was built in an Italianizing round arch style in the years 1845–1848 by the Schinkel student Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel . In the west it has a polygonal apse and a sweeping east building that is staggered towards the tower. The building was restored in 1963 and 1997-2006.

The exterior is structured by slim wall templates with pinnacles at the yoke boundaries and the corners of the apse. The arched windows are arranged in two zones corresponding to the galleries and grouped into groups of two and three. The small-scale tracery is mainly made up of three passes and rosettes . The east façade to the market is three-part and three-storey with rich panel structure according to the tracery forms of the windows. The higher central part is crowned by a slender octagonal tower top with a pointed helmet. Overall, the building has an effect due to its well-balanced proportions. The gables are enlivened with tracery rosettes; A tracery frieze is arranged at eaves height.

Inside, the church is designed as a wide, uniform space with a flat ceiling and an apse with a dome . The three-sided gallery completely fills the short, wide cross arms, which therefore only come into their own through the grouped windows.

Furnishing

Interior view with organ

The classical marble baptism in the shape of a cup has been preserved from the original furnishings. The rest of the equipment was renewed in 1963. The organ is a work by the Sauer company with 27 registers on two manuals and a pedal from 1956.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 335–336.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Fürstenberg / Havel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ GND
  3. ^ Art and historical monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The land of Stargard . Neubrandenburg 1925, pp. 15-17
  4. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '7.6 "  N , 13 ° 8" 41.1 "  E