Christ Church (Biehla)

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Christ Church

The Protestant Christ Church is a monument in the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . The structure, which was erected between 1955 and 1961, is located in the immediate vicinity of the water tower , which is also under monument protection, on the Winterberg in the Elsterwerda district of Biehla . The church belongs to the parish of Bad Liebenwerda in the provost district Halle-Wittenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Building description

The church is a hall made of reddish Meissen granite . A lower semicircular apse can be found in the east of the nave with a gable roof. In the south of the nave there is a square church tower, in the north there is an annex that serves as a parish hall.

The edition of Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments for Brandenburg , published in 2012, notes on the Christ Church in Biehla that the architecture of the building shows "the factual, monumental formal language of the 1930s" .

Inside you can find an organ that was created in 1965 by Stadtilmer master organ builder Lothar Heinze . The instrument has a mechanical slide box , two manuals and ten registers .

history

The foundation stone for the Christ Church was laid on July 3, 1955. The topping-out ceremony for the structure took place on November 2, 1957. The church was consecrated in the year of the 750th anniversary of Elsterwerda on December 3, 1961, the 1st Advent of that year. The then bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Ecclesiastical Province of Saxony Johannes Jänicke (1900–1979) consecrated the Biehla Church.

The church building, like the adjoining green area, which was created between 1960 and 1965, is now a listed building by the State of Brandenburg. Extensive renovation work is currently taking place on the church and the annex. As a result of the work, the church roof, the sanitary rooms and the community room have been renewed so far.

  • Biehla Church 2008.jpg

Web links

Commons : Christ Church (Biehla)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 21, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ A b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 283 .
  3. ↑ Markus Voigt: " Directory of the organs manufactured by companies based in the GDR for the area of ​​the GDR from 1945 to 1990 " (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 60 .
  5. ↑ Elsterwerda City Administration (ed.): "Biehla-A district with a historical and industrial background" . ( Information sheet [PDF]).
  6. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  7. ↑ Felix Hoffmann: "From Elsterwerdas Kirchengeschichte" in "750 Years Elsterwerda 1211 - 1961" . Ed .: Festival committee at the Elsterwerda City Council. Elsterwerda 1961, p. 11 to 15 (Festschrift of the city of Elsterwerda on the occasion of its 750th anniversary).
  8. ↑ a b Manfred Feller: “Rejuvenation for the pensioner church” in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 21, 2017
  9. ↑ As of December 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 26.5 "  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 23.7"  E