Parish Church of St. Sebastian (Baruth / Mark)
The parish church of St. Sebastian is a Gothic religious building from the second half of the 15th or the first half of the 16th century. It goes back to a previous building which was consecrated in 1346 and is located in Baruth / Mark in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg (Germany).
history
The parish states in a church guide that the building was built in the 15th or first half of the 16th century. A recorded date of a church consecration from 1346 refers to a previous building. What is certain is that there were severe fire damage in 1595 and 1671, after which the interior of the church was renewed. The work was carried out at the behest of the Counts and Princes of Solms-Baruth , who lived in the city. In 1678 the church was given a horseshoe gallery. In 1855 the parish built a sacristy and a ground floor crypt . In 1909 the western facade with the two towers and a south portal followed. In addition to the extensions, the princes replaced the existing organ from 1820 with a model by the Potsdam organ builder Alexander Schuke . Extensive renovation measures were carried out between 1974 and 1977, some of which included large amounts of wood preservatives . The amelioration in the region and the associated lowering of the groundwater level caused further damage to the church in the 1970s. The foundation piles, which had previously been hermetically sealed, came into contact with oxygen and began to rot. As a result, there were large cracks in the nave and the choir ; the altar and pews fell to one side. The tower, on the other hand, had a comparatively stable foundation due to its more recent construction date. The church was therefore extensively renovated between 2001 and 2008. Experts stabilized both the old field stone foundation and the inner church supports. They injected around 600 m³ of high-pressure floor mortar into the walls, including around 180 m³ in the cellar of the building. In addition, the parish repaired the roof on the tower and in the nave and repaired the Schuke organ. The pollution with wood preservatives such as DDT and lindane , which had to be reduced using complex chemical processes, proved to be problematic . The entire renovation work took around ten years.
architecture
The three-aisled hall church was built from reddish brick . The emerging structure is stabilized by a stepped buttress . In between there are symmetrically arranged, large pointed arch windows . There is a pointed arched portal on the north and south side of the nave. Above the nave there is a gable roof . The choir has a three-sided conclusion. The neo-Gothic twin tower was also built from brick and houses the medieval tracery in the upper third . In this area, it is provided with white, diamond-shaped plaster panels, which merge into arched panels, which in turn are crowned with a diamond-shaped pattern, followed by a double wave. The arched panels also contain the sound arcades and a church tower clock. Above this is a six-fold kinked spire , which ends with a ball and a cross or a weather vane. The sacristy is provided with a simple plaster .
Interior
The baroque altar dates from 1679 and was designed by the Finsterwald carpenter Abraham Jäger and the Lübben painter Michael Scharbe . It shows the Lord's Supper , the crucifixion and the resurrection in a classic sequence . The left and right sides of the altar are decorated with portraits of the altar donors Johann Georg zu Solms-Laubach and his wife Eleonore. The pulpit from 1680 was created by the Prenzlau carpenter E. Hoffmann . It has a sound cover and shows the images of the apostles on its basket . The image of Jesus Christ and two coats of arms can be seen on the rear wall of the pulpit. There are a total of four patronage chairs in the choir. They, too, were made by E. Hoffmann in 1680. In the tower room there are two altar wings, which were probably built around 1510/1530. Jesus Christ and Mary are depicted on the outside and St. Anthony and Mary Magdalene on the former inside . In the organ gallery there are two paintings from the 18th century showing Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . Two further portraits from 1683 show the donors and their coats of arms. They were also entitled to the patron's box , which is located in a northern, two-bay extension. In the right church window of the organ loft you can see a red cross set in glass . It indicates the relationship between the Solms-Baruth family and the English royal family.
The archway is designed as a reduced ambulatory choir. The arches consist of massive, unequal-sided octagonal pillars with protruding cover plates. Experts suspect that the parish originally intended to vault the ceiling . So it only has a beamed ceiling. The crypt has a star vault and opens through a double arcade towards the ship.
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 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Teltow-Fläming district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
- Website of the parish of Baruth , accessed on May 18, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartmut F. Reck: Church organ bulged . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , March 20, 2014, accessed on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. on May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Baruth / Mark ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of PST Grundbau, accessed on May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Carsten Preuss website , accessed on May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Hartmut F. Reck: You no longer knew how beautiful the church was inside . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , December 20, 2013, accessed on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V..de on May 15, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 59.7 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 11.6" E