Fieldstone church

Stone churches are built of boulders churches, most village churches. The abgesammelten in the fields and transported to the field edges boulders are traditioniell also called in North Germany boulders. One of the most representative examples of a non- village church is the monastery church Zinna.

Stone churches are often incorrectly referred to as fortified churches, even though there is the defense technology missing prerequisites.

Dissemination

Stone churches exist only in areas where the ice ages have left such crystalline sediment and without the natural occurrence of dressed stone, so poor in natural stone from quarries are. In Germany, the Schleswig -Holstein, Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, Saxony -Anhalt, Brandenburg (including Berlin); in Europe: Scandinavia, Poland, Finland and the Baltics. The boulders are usually made of granite, gneiss and quartzite, and are both trimmed ( gequadert ) and unhewn (often split into halves ) were used.

History

The stone churches were mostly built during the late Romanesque and early Gothic. Often they are of simple architecture and many village churches. The earliest date from the 11th century. The highlight of the stone church building is to be set against the end of the 12th century; here dominates the careful cuboid technique. To conclude around the end of the 16th century, the proportions of ungequaderten stones and bricks take the masonry to (so-called mixed masonry ). Move the corresponding time points in northern Germany with the advance of the German Ostsiedlung ( Christianity ); Peak in Brandenburg is the 13th century. In the course of historicism they were (very rare) still built at the beginning of the 20th century ( romanesque ).