Altbelgern village church

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Altbelgern village church

The Protestant village church Altbelgern is a church building in the Altbelgern parish of the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here the church can be found on one of the oldest church sites in the region in the center of the village with a cemetery surrounding it . The building is now a listed building .

history

Middle Ages and previous buildings

Pastor in Boragk / Altenau from 1540 to 1961
Surname Term of office Remarks
Wolfgangus Thammer 1540-1566
Mathäus Zell 1567-1575
Christopherus Hennigk (1572) 1575-1586
Martin Zoch 1586-1623
Johann Kretzschmar [II.] 1623-1662
Johannes Drescher 1662-1679
Erhardt Deggen 1679-1690
Johann Jacob Erlemann 1690-1699
Johann David Erdmann 1699-1716
George Schmidt (1714) 1716-1766
Christian Gottlob Bergmann 1766-1789
Johann Heinrich August Richter 1789-1801
Johann Friedrich Guest 1801-1811
Traugott Wolf 1811-1820
Christian August Polycarp Manitius 1820-1829
Carl Gottlob Lehmann 1829-1868
Friedrich August Paul von Wittern 1868-1894
Carl Heinrich Stephan Bartholdy 1894-1918
Karl Hugo Arthur Gollin 1919-1922
Karl Schneider 1923-1929
unoccupied
Gerhard Marckwardt 1951-1961

Altbelgern is one of the oldest church locations in the Elbe-Elster region . As early as 1251, a church was mentioned here, which was consecrated in 1253 by Bishop Konrad I of Meissen . The patron saint of the church was the Nimbschen monastery , which was dissolved in 1536, the year after the death of the last abbess Margaretha von Haubitz . The Altbelgern parish was comparatively large. The parish comprised a large part of western former district Bad Liebenwerda . Places such as today's cities of Uebigau and Falkenberg / Elster and the communities of Schmerkendorf , Blumberg , Grassau, Koßdorf , Saxdorf , Bönitz and Lönnewitz were originally parish to Altbelgern or their branch churches. Besides Mühlberg, probably the most important place in the region between the Elbe and the Schwarzer Elster , Altbelgern soon lost its importance. After the Reformation , the patronage of the church passed to the sovereign and later to the Martinskirchen castle owners.

In the 15th century the village and church were destroyed by the Hussites . Rebuilt in the following years, it was completely cremated during the Thirty Years' War . Another new construction of the church was probably completed around 1656, initially without a tower. The construction of the church tower was completed in 1756. At that time, the church patron was Friedrich Wilhelm von Brühl , who, in addition to Martinskirchen Castle, also owned the feudal estate in Altbelgern. In the course of the wars of liberation , a fire finally destroyed the church again in 1813. Cossacks quartered in the village prepared an open fire in the rectory, which got out of control and finally set a barn on fire. The fire then spread to the church, the rectory and other buildings.

From the beginning of the 19th century until today

Five years later, in 1817, the church was rebuilt in its current form.

A lightning strike caused considerable damage to the church in the early 1930s, which resulted in the building being restored in 1933. A fire triggered by another lightning strike destroyed the Altbelgerner rectory around fifty years later in 1986.

The church is now in need of renovation. In April 2015, therefore, the Friends of the Church of Altbelgern was founded, one of the aims of which is to initiate and organize necessary repair work. Furthermore, one would like to involve the church more in public life with cultural events and to connect it to tourism.

Architecture and equipment (selection)

Today's Altbelgerner church is a plastered hall building with a three-sided east end from 1817. West of the nave is a square tower with a tent roof . The interior of the church is characterized by a flat plastered ceiling and a horseshoe gallery. There is a small organ on the gallery and two patronage chairs on the north and south sides to the east. It also has a simple pulpit altar from the period of construction.

In the cemetery surrounding the church there is a memorial stone made of polished granite with an inscription for the villagers who fell in World War II , which was once donated by their relatives.

Literature (selection)

  • From the visitation protocol of the Altbelgern church in 1575 . In: The Black Magpie . No. 420 , 1931.
  • Lange: Old Belgians once . In: The Black Magpie . No. 424 , 1931.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Altbelgern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 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 October 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony (ed.): Pfarrerbuch der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen . tape 10 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0 , p. 70 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f The old Belgian village church on the homepage of the Evangelical Parish Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf , accessed on November 2, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d e Internet presence of the Förderverein Kirche zu Altbelgern , accessed on November 27, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Lange: Old Belgians once . In: The Black Magpie . No. 424 , 1931 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  6. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 4 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e The Altbelgerner Kirche on www.altekirchen.de , accessed on November 27, 2016
  8. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on November 2, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '50.2 "  N , 13 ° 11' 38.3"  E