Arenzhain village church
The Evangelical-Lutheran village church Arenzhain is a listed church building in Arenzhain , a district of the town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here is the in the middle of the 13th century created and surrounded by a cemetery monument to find in the town center.
Building description and history
Today's Arenzhain Church is a hall building made of field stone with a retracted rectangular choir that was built in the middle of the 13th century . To the west of the nave is a ship-wide tower with a transverse saddle roof and octagonal roof turret, which was probably built in the 13th century . The upper floor of the tower, which dates back to the 15th century , is made of brick and has ogival sound openings between arched panels . On the south-west corner of the tower and on the south side, a stone with a checkerboard pattern was walled up.
The building underwent extensive restoration and expansion work in 1865. Among other things, the windows were renewed using brick and the church was expanded in a cross shape. These largely shaped the interior of the church, which has a wooden barrel vault. Most of the furnishings in the church also date from this period. There is also a Baroque altarpiece with paintings from the 1st quarter of the 18th century . The paintings show the Lord's Supper , the Crucifixion and the Resurrection .
The existing organ in the church dates from 1867 and was built by the Eilenburg organ builder Nicolaus Schrickel (1820-1893).
Checkerboard pieces
The two chessboard stones built into the masonry of the church are considered decorative elements. However, their meaning is largely unclear. Checkerboard stones can be found on a large number of churches from this construction period. Its distribution area is in Niederlausitz , Märkisch-Oderland , Neumark , Barnim and Uckermark . They also still occur in Denmark , especially mainly in North Jutland . They could possibly have had some kind of protective function and entered the region through Danish builders. A written proof for this theory has not yet been proven.
In the vicinity you can also find chessboard pieces at the churches in Werenzhain and Frankena . It cannot be ruled out that the same stonemasons or construction huts could originally have been involved in the construction of these churches.
Literature (selection)
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 28 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ 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 on September 2, 2018.
- ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 28 .
- ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster, S. 60 .
- ↑ www.schachbrettsteine.de , accessed on September 2, 2018
- ↑ St. Uhlig: “Phenomenon with the chessboard” on Lausitzer Rundschau -online, November 21, 2011
- ↑ a b Eberhard Bönisch: "Ornament or symbol?" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.altekirchen.de (PDF file)
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 26.2 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 38" E