City Parish Church Buckow (Märkische Schweiz)

City Parish Church, May 2014

The parish church is the Protestant church of Buckow (Märkische Schweiz) , a town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg . The parish is part of the "parochial parish Märkische Switzerland" in the church district Oderland-Spree the Silesian Berlin-Brandenburg-Oberlausitz Evangelical Church (EKBO).

history

A simple wooden church for German settlers was built for the first time around 1250 on the site of the current building. Around 1300, Cistercian monks replaced it with a building made of field stones in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles . As the first Protestant pastor , Thomas Sameland has been handed down from 1541 to 1577. In 1665 a fire destroyed the entire place, including the church tower , the rectory and the diaconate . 1671 gave Mathias Beetz the church a baptismal font made of brass . It bears a picture of the famous Roman speaker Ciceros and a circumferential lettering. Ten years later, Dorothea Elisabeth von Flemming donated a sacrament set . In 1686 the church burned down.

Under the direction of the Berlin master builder Mathias , the church received its form as a baroque plastered building that is still preserved today . Mathias put on a crypt for the families of Pfuel and Flemming. In 1730 three buttresses were added to stabilize the masonry . The interior was renewed in 1891.

In 1709 the church received an organ from Gottlieb Spiess . The Spiess organ was replaced by a model by Wilhelm Sauer .

During the First World War , the parish had to hand over two bronze bells . During the Second World War , the church was destroyed to the ground by a fire on May 1, 1945. The remaining bells fell into the ruins and were destroyed.

Between 1950 and 1951 the congregation rebuilt the church. The tower received its late Baroque hood again. The church was rededicated on April 8, 1951. Five years later she received an organ from Hermann Eule from Bautzen .

architecture

The single-nave hall church has a rectangular floor plan with an attached choir . The originally existing enclosing walls made of field stones are no longer recognizable, as the entire structure is provided with a light yellow plaster. The west tower with its orange clinker bricks clearly stands out from this. Here is also the entrance to the church, which is framed in an arched, double staggered portal made of dark red brick . Above that, on each of the three visible sides of the tower, there are two narrow, gray plastered window openings, which were also clad in arches with brickwork. This is followed by a circumferential frieze , over which three individual, significantly larger windows were installed. Another, cross-framed frieze made of red bricks creates the transition to the sound arcades . They are decorated with bricks arranged in a semicircle. The church clock is located above it. The edges of the tower are strikingly designed with pilaster strips . The spire is divided into two parts and interrupted by a platform. The top of the helmet is crowned by a ball and a cross. The north and south facades are structured with five tall, sleek, arched lead glass windows. On the south side, below one of these windows, there is a portal with a mighty central projection , which rests on two columns.

tower

In 1791 a lightning strike destroyed the church tower with its baroque dome and a lantern . It was rebuilt two years later, but had to be demolished in 1885 as it threatened to collapse. In 1887 the parish erected a new, significantly slimmer tower made of bricks from a Buckow brick factory. In 1901 it was found that the bricks in the tower had a high content of lime and saltpetre and that they weathered quickly . Therefore, the church tower was clad with facing stones from Liegnitz . In 1960 a clock was added to the tower; three years later the exterior plaster was renewed. In 1989 the tower was covered with a new sheet of copper . In 1997 cracks were found again. The cause is believed to be the increasing heavy goods traffic ; So by the end of 2004 the foundation was stabilized .

Interior and inventory

The interior is kept in a simple white and equipped with a flat ceiling clad in dark wood. The gallery is also kept simple and clad with dark wood, from which lighter cassettes stand out. A central arch creates space for the organ behind it.

gallery

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  View from a hill

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  Memorial to those who fell in World War I.

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  Gallery with organ

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  inner space

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  West portal

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche (Buckow in Märkische Schweiz)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Church district

literature

• Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung Berlin (Ed.): Yearbook for Brandenburg State History , 4.1953, Berlin, 1953, p. 80
• Evangelical Church Community Buckow / Märkische Schweiz (Hrsg.): From the history of the Protestant town church Buckow / Märkische Schweiz , flyer, display in the church

Individual evidence

1. ^ Churches in Buckow (Märkische Schweiz): visiting card. Parish of Märkische Schweiz , accessed on May 24, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 4.8 "  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 29"  E