Evangelical Church Tröbitz

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Evangelical Church Tröbitz

The Protestant village church Tröbitz is a listed church building in the municipality of Tröbitz in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . Immediately next to the building from the 15th century is the Holocaust memorial , which commemorates the victims of the lost train .

Building description and history

  • Western view (around 1900)

  • South side

The Tröbitzer Evangelical village church was built in the 15th century as a field stone hall with a gable roof and three-sided east end. In the west of the nave , a square tower with a slipped octagonal tail hood and weather vane in the form of a ridge was put on. It dates from 1717 and is a half-timbered construction.

In 1717 the church, like the rest of the village, fell victim to a devastating conflagration. When the reconstruction work started that same year, the windows and doors of the church were changed at the same time. In the 1920s, with financial support from the Tröbitzer lignite mine Hansa , extensive repair work was carried out in and on the structure. Further renovation work was carried out in 1935. In that year, the western porch of the church was also built, which was made of massive brick .

Shortly after the fall of the Wall, further restoration work was carried out on the church between 1992 and 1994. The roofs of the nave and the tower were re-covered. Furthermore, the original exterior view has been restored. In 1998 the church was extensively renovated.

Equipment (selection)

The Tröbitz high altar around 1900

The interior of the church has a plastered hollow barrel ceiling. It is characterized by a horseshoe gallery . Most of the equipment, among other things, from a pulpit and barred boxes in the sanctuary there, dates from the 18th century.

The historical carved altar is remarkable. The church got this altar during the renovation work at the beginning of the 18th century. At this time, extensive construction work was also required at the Katharinenkirche in Elsterwerda . The altar in the church at that time was therefore sold to Tröbitz , where it has been preserved to the present day. The carved altar was made around 1500 in the Grossenhain carving workshop Pankratius Grueber . In Tröbitz, it was supplemented by a heavy cornice with vases and a tendril-decorated attachment. In the center shrine of the altar, Mary with the child can be seen between John the Baptist and Bartholomew . Peter and Paul are depicted in the wings. On the wings there are paintings of the two saints Barbara and Katharina, to whom the Elsterwerda town church was consecrated. Furthermore, the original donor Georg von Köckritz , who owned Elsterwerda from 1462 to 1499, and his wife Katharina von Schleinitz and the Köckritz coat of arms are depicted on the altar .

In the church also has a 1870 by an unknown organ builder created organ . The three-part organ prospectus dates from the 17th century. The organ has a mechanical drawer , a manual and nine stops .

Parish Tröbitz

The Protestant church Tröbitz since 1969, forms its own parish in the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz , just EKBO . Originally Tröbitz was a branch of the Wahrenbrück Church .

In 1991 the parishes of Tröbitz, Schilda and Schadewitz founded the Doberlug-Kirchhain Diakoniestation . In May 1992 the Tröbitz parish took over the sponsorship of the local day care center .

Dunning and remembrance

Tröbitzer Fallen Monument (2005)

Fallen memorials

Immediately by the Protestant church there is a memorial to the fallen on a three-tiered base. On the left there is a temple-like war memorial that is supposed to commemorate the villagers who died in World War I. On a large boulder to the right of the memorial there is a plaque in honor of those who fell in World War II .

Holocaust memorial

South of the church, a memorial and memorial was erected and inaugurated in April 1952 in the former cemetery in honor of the victims of the so-called lost train with Jewish prisoners that was stranded in Tröbitz in April 1945 . A total of 160 dead rest here, 134 of them from a mass grave in a pit at Tröbitzer Nordfeld . 26 dead come from a mass grave at the block site of the Hansa mine . These bodies were exhumed and reburied in 1951. Since the inscription on the memorial , originally erected as a VVN memorial , does not indicate that Jewish people were buried at this place, shortly after the fall of the Wall in 1995, two memorial plaques were added in German and Hebrew, which refer to the fate of the lost transport . A display at the entrance provides information about the events of that time.

  • Memorial plaque in German

  • Reminder and memorial

  • Memorial plaque in Hebrew

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Tröbitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Erika Arlt : The Jewish memorials of the lost transport . Ed .: Elbe-Elster district. Herzberg 2011, p. 27 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1117 .
  4. ↑ a b c d The Protestant parish Tröbitz on the homepage of the Tröbitz parish, accessed on September 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Felix Hoffmann : "From Elsterwerdas Kirchengeschichte" in "750 Years Elsterwerda 1211–1961" . Ed .: Festival committee at the Elsterwerda City Council. Elsterwerda 1961, p. 11-15 (Festschrift of the city of Elsterwerda on the occasion of its 750th anniversary).
  6. ↑ a b Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster Organ Landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 63 .
  7. ↑ a b picture of the organ in the Protestant church Tröbitz in the German Digital Library , accessed on September 10, 2017
  8. ↑ The Parish Tröbitz on the homepage of the Lower Lusatia parish , accessed on September 9, 2017
  9. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on September 9, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 45.4 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 38.9"  E