Müncheberg town church

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Müncheberg town church
View from the northeast
Bridge to the tower

The evangelical town church Müncheberg is a Gothic brick church in Müncheberg in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg . It is used by the Evangelical Parish of Müncheberg in the Oderland-Spree parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and the City of Müncheberg. It is also known as the Parish Church of St. Mary and is an open church .

History and architecture

The core of the church is a single-nave field stone building, dendrochronologically dated to 1268 ± 10 years, with a retracted rectangular choir. In the early 15th century the church was raised in brick masonry, equipped with buttresses and converted into a two-aisled, three-bay hall church with star vaults on two octagonal pillars with corner bars. The single-nave choir adjoins the triumphal arch with the five-sided end added in the early 15th century. The high lancet windows, which were traced in the nave, also date from this period.

In the years 1817 to 1827 the west tower was demolished after structural damage and for reasons of stability it was rebuilt 4 meters from the ship according to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in a striking shape with a conical top and four corner towers. The second tower storey is connected to the ship's roof by a bridge-like corridor over a pointed arch. The bell storey with pointed arched openings was completed with a pointed cone with corner pinnacles, based on medieval brick architecture in the Brandenburg region. Portals on the north and south sides with vestibules open up the church. The building is decorated with decorative friezes at eaves height.

On April 19, 1945, the church burned down as a result of fire with the entire inventory except for the surrounding walls. The roof, the vaults and the pillars collapsed; the tower remained essentially undamaged.

In the years 1991 to 1996 the church roof was restored and the church modernized for use as a church, library and event location. The Gothic vaults and pillars were not restored. The architect of the renovation was Klaus Block.

Furnishing

The furnishings consisted of a three-sided gallery, an organ in the shape of the Schinkel School and a stately neo-Gothic reredos from around 1868. Of the medieval furnishings, two wing paintings of a Gothic altar were preserved until 1945. A tombstone of Blasius Bethinius from 1605 was also included.

The liturgical equipment of the church consists of a pewter jug ​​from around 1800 and a silver chalice from 1877. A bell was cast in 1621.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 682.
  • Götz Eckardt (Hrsg.): Fates of German monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 192.
  • 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. 298.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Müncheberg  - 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. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 682.
  3. ↑ a b Götz Eckardt (ed.): Fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 192.
  4. ↑ 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. 298.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 14 ° 8 ′ 35.2 ″  E