St. Johannis (Niemiegk) – Wikipedia

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The St. Johannis Church is a monument in Niemegk in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in Brandenburg. It stands on the list of monuments with the number 09190312. The Evangelical Church belongs to the parish area of ​​Niemegk in the church district of Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

On the church square east of the town hall is the neo -Gothic hall church, which was built in 1853. She is a work by Friedrich August Stüler. [first] The much narrower church tower, which is almost like a foreign body west of the ship, is quite typical for its churches. Students have been able to implement an octagonal tower several times, for example at the St. Antonius Church (Nowa Sól), the village church of Caputh or the St. Peter Church in Międzyzdroje.

It is also noteworthy, the classicist rigor, which is often found in the case of Stüler-buildings, which, for example, ranks the windows of the ship monotonous. Nevertheless, the church is not shaped unadorned, but has fials on the four corners of the ship, a cross on the east gable and frieze. The west side with changing window shapes, one of the four tower clocks, lanterns on the triple portal front or a balcony grille on the roof cornice is particularly strongly structured. Nevertheless, symmetry is also preserved here.

The church is a station on the signposted city tour through Niemegk.

Interior view, view to the east
Interior view, view to the west

It is a three -story gallery hall with a flat polygonalapsis. The organ of 1853/54 comes from Gottfried Wilhelm Baer, ​​who lived in Niemegk. It has 1671 whistles and 30 registers. In 1917 the large prospectus pipes were melted down for war purposes. During the Second World War, the organ was damaged by the shelling of the church. The organ was first renovated in the 1950s. From 1994 to 2018, donations for the organ were collected and accordingly the renovation was carried out gradually. [2] [3] For example, those in 2018 the crown or in 2019 whistle. A completion is planned by 2020. [4] [5] Altartriptych and apse window with glass paintings were created in 1953 by Gerhard Olbrich. [first] [6]

The first church is occupied for 1161 and had to give way to a new building in 1593. This was destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War, so that another new building was built in 1678. A city fire in 1850 destroyed this building; So the Johanniskirche is the fourth church of this name. There was also a church of St. Nicholas, which probably belonged to a hospital, since it was in a loan letter around 1500 Monastery St. Niklas is named, but a monastery is not proven. She was in front of the Wittenberger Tor and can still be seen from Wilhelm Dilich’s city view from the first half of the 17th century. However, it was called Wüst in 1526 and 1554. [7] [8]

  • Stüler’s son Franz (1852–1943) later worked as a doctor in Niemegk. [9]
  • The organ is considered the largest instrument in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district and the largest organ of Baers. [6] [2]
  1. ↑ a b Dehio, S. 313.
  2. ↑ a b The largest organ in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district needs your help. Amt Niemiegk, 18. Juli 2017, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bearletorsal Komers: Refurbishment. A long organ life – with many ups and downs. MOZ.de, March 12, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New golden crowns for the queen. Märkische General, December 30, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ New whistles for the old organ. Märkische General, February 21, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b St. Johannis Church Niemegk. Amt Niemiegk, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Siegfried Dalitz: Stories about the history of the city of Niemegk. (= The chronicle of the city of Niemegk , 2), Wittenberg 1999.
  8. ↑ Karlheinz Blaschke, Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Nikolaikirchen and city development in Europe. From the merchant settlement to the city , Berlin 2013, S. 178.
  9. ↑ Eva Börsch-Soup: Stüler, Friedrich August. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7, pp. 627–629 ( Digitized ).

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