Village church Bönitz
The Protestant village church Bönitz is a listed church building in the district of Bönitz in the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .
In the church, which has been developed for tourism via the regional church road Elbe-Elster project , sporadic concerts take place on a Raspe organ from 1870.
Building description and history
The Bönitz village church is a small, plastered hall building with a three-sided east end from 1545. The windows were later changed to Baroque style. The south vestibule dates from 1629. At the same time, the brick west wall was probably also renewed.
To the west of the nave of the church further one with attached beaver tails covered and in the 19th century verbretterter bell tower at. The wooden stand construction evidently originated in 1650 and is only slightly higher than the actual church building. It is considered a regional peculiarity.
Since severe structural damage occurred to the church surrounded by the local cemetery, the Bönitz church has been extensively restored in recent years with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection since 1999.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is flat. It has a uniform, simple interior made of wood from around 1628.
The three-sided pre-bulged horseshoe gallery with an ornamentally painted parapet has been changed several times over the centuries. The pulpit altar is characterized by column architecture with fittings . On the predella , the painting shows the Last Supper scene. The wooden polygonal pulpit is painted with paintings depicting three evangelists. In the floor in front of the altar is the tombstone of the priest Martin Hoinius. The church's octagonal baptismal font, which is also decorated with fittings, dates from 1628.
In the church there is furthermore one in 1870 from Liebenwerdaer organ builder Christian Friedrich Raspe (1822-1892) created organ . In the meantime, the instrument was no longer playable and was overhauled in 2004. During the restoration work carried out by the Bad Liebenwerda organ building company Voigt (successor company Raspes) , the organ was dismantled into all its individual parts, new pipes were inserted and the wooden case was painted. A new motor for the bellows had already been installed two years earlier .
The Bönitzer organ has a mechanical slide box , a manual and nine registers .
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In the immediate vicinity of the church, a war memorial in the form of a stele commemorates the villagers who died in the First World War . A mourning hall was also built in the south of the cemetery.
Literature (selection)
- Pastor Sommer's grave in the Bönitzer Church . In: The Black Magpie . No. 453 , 1933.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 99 .
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 September 25, 2016.
- ↑ Internet presence of the "Kirchenstrasse Elbe-Elster" , accessed on October 9, 2016
- ↑ a b c d Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Organ landscape Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 8 - 9 .
- ^ A b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 99 .
- ↑ The Bönitz village church on the homepage of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , accessed on October 9, 2016
- ↑ Article: “Organ builders put their final spurt” in Lausitzer Rundschau, July 2nd, 2004
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 48.9 ″ E