Breitenfeld village church

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Breitenfeld village church

The village church of Breitenfeld is the Protestant church in the Gardelegen district of Breitenfeld in Saxony-Anhalt .

architecture

The church is of Romanesque origin. Two slotted windows in the east wall date back to this era. A half-timbered tower is located on the west side of the plastered, rectangular nave made of field stones. The top of the tower, built in 1746/47 or 1817, is octagonal. For the half-timbered came oak is used, which on the nearby Rotenberg was beaten.

The interior of the nave is flat. There is a gallery on the west side. The church was renovated in 1958 and 2005/06. A war memorial is located to the west of the church, which is surrounded by a small churchyard . The churchyard served as the town's cemetery for a long time. The floor level of the churchyard is therefore a little higher than the floor of the church today.

history

In 1525, the Reformation was introduced in the office of Klötze , which is likely to have affected the Breitenfeld parish as well. The first documentary mention was made in 1535/1543, when during a border inspection in the vicinity it was recorded in a document that a tree near the border had been felled years ago and "the church in Breedenfeld will benefit" . The peculiarity of the place, which was divided between the rulers of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Brandenburg from the 15th century to 1816, was also reflected in the patronage and the subsequent occupation of the pastor's office, which took place alternately by the office of Klötze and the von der Schulenburg family . In 1605 there were disputes between the office and the family about the right to fill the pastorate. Werner von der Schulenburg had the pastor appointed by the office arrested and arrested him in the Schulenburg prison in Apenburg . Instead, the former pastor of Diesdorf was installed in Breitenfeld. Since it was actually the turn of the Schulenburgs to occupy them, they were able to prevail with the personnel decision. In 1654 they again claimed the right of occupation, although the office was ultimately able to undertake the occupation. After the Lüneburg side of the village also belonged to Prussia from 1815 , Prussia entered the Lüneburg law of patronage. Since then, the right of appointment has changed between the Schulenburg family and Prussia. The last corresponding change took place in 1932.

The Breitenfeld church had a parsonage and some land that the pastor had to work on himself. A protocol of a church visit speaks of a hoof of farmland and additional possession of meadows. In addition, the individual farms had to pay taxes to the rectory. The pastor was entitled to further benefits for certain official acts. There was no sexton yet. The village church Schwiesau and the village church Quarnebeck belonged to Breitenfeld as branch churches . Around 1600, on the occasion of another visitation, the parish is assessed as dilapidated and it is determined that the Breitenfelder is obliged to renew it. In the same protocol it is now required to employ a sexton and to build him a sexton house, which is actually mentioned in a document in 1648. Valuable furnishings are also named in the minutes. In 1541, 1551 and 1600 a silver chalice was performed. 1600 a paten that was still in use in the 20th century. A monstrance from brass is mentioned in 1551 and a red silk Atlas chasuble in 1600th The vestments that remained from the Catholic period were lost during the Thirty Years' War .

The working and living conditions of the pastors in Breitenfeld seem to have been relatively difficult, probably due to the low income. It is said of various pastors that they happily welcomed a transfer from Breitenfeld. Pastor Paulus Krüger (or Küzer), who worked in Breitenfeld at the beginning of the 18th century, even decreed that he wanted to be buried in neighboring Schwiesau , as a Breitenfeld farmer had threatened to throw his bones off the trees after his death. In later years the picture changed. Pastor Gottlieb Paul Pflanz, who was active from 1915 to 1925, described his time very positively. He was born in 1880 as the son of the pastor Karl Paul Pflanz in Breitenfeld and wrote a chronicle about Breitenfeld.

During his tenure the church received electric light. In addition, the churchyard wall was repaired and the church tower clock was repaired in 1916. A bronze bell was purchased and the war memorial was erected in front of the church.

Pastor Ulrich Krüger, who succeeded him, later wrote about his time in Breitenfeld as the “idyll of my life” . In its time, the cemetery, which was located directly at the church, was abandoned and leveled. In after his departure in 1930, initially occurring vacancy was Zichtauer pastor Schrader representatively active until Pastor Friedrich songs Forest in 1931 had accepted the position. Liederwald also expressed himself benevolently about his time in Breitenfeld.

During the Second World War , the bullet on the tower of the church was shot by US troops. The documents enclosed in the sphere are said to have been destroyed as a result. With a view to the 700th anniversary of Breitenfeld in 1958, the church was renovated in 1958. In 1972 the church tower was repaired after a storm damage. In 1973 the church tower received a new ball to replace the one destroyed in the war. The long-time pastor Dieter Wollner was made an honorary citizen of Breitenfeld in 1994.

Pastor of the parish

Pastors of the Breitenfeld Church were: Henning Danckwort (before 1577), Gabriel Zaun (after 1598), Johannes Schultetus (before 1645), Johann Fischer (around 1648), Johann Georg Ungnad (around 1652), Christophorus Rivenius (around 1671), Paulus Krüger (1694–1720), Johann Wilhelm Pfeiffer (1720–1729), Samuel Christian Oldekop (1730–1747), Johann Otto Reinecke (1748–1766), Georg Dietrich Schnökel (1766–1777), Heinrich Nikolaus Preger (1777–1794 ), Friedrich Christian Krause (1794–1806), Ernst Hermann Ludwig Dietrich Klüver (1806–1810), Heinrich Adolph Alberti (1812–1818), Johann Friedrich Hermann Busse (1818–1823), Johann August Hermann (1825–1832), Franz Friedrich Mylius (1832–1847), Otto Aemilius Hermann Kähler (1848–1854), Johann Andreas Gottfried Ebeling (1854–1865), Eduard Schleiff (1865–1874), Joachim Wilhelm Ludwig Rindtorff (1875–1878), Karl Paul Pflanz (1878–1883), Ernst August Derfs (1885–1887), Johann Heinrich Ernst Beneke (1887–1901), Rudolf Christian Wilhelm Otto Sackheim (1902–1912), Johannes Koenig (1912–1915), Gottlieb Paul Pflanz (1915–1925), Ulrich Gustav Friedrich Krüger (1926–1930), Friedrich Liederwald (1931–1935), Martin Buhr (1939–1950), Walter Reifenstein (1950–1955), Dieter Wollner (1958–1994) and Michael Henze since 1994.

Deviating from this, the pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony are named until 1720: Paul Schultze (until 1560), Jürgen Schelin (1561–1566), Heinrich Stockfisch (1566–1571), Johann Schartke (1571–1596), Petrus Quedenius (1596–1598 ), Gabriel Zaun (1598–1619), Johann Dunckhorst (1619–1622), Jakob Lysthenius (1622–1627), Johannes Praetorius (1627–1645), Nikolaus Benjamin Heine (1645), Johannes Fischer (1645–1651), Johann Georg Ungnad (1651–1652), Christoph Rivenius (1652–1688), Johann Otto Peckelius (1690–1694), Paul Kütze (1695–1720).

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Breitenfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from Corrie Leitz in 1258–2008, 750 Years of Breitenfeld, Festschrift , Gemeinde Breitenfeld (editor), Block-Verlag Kremkau 2008, ISBN 978-3-934988-66-8 , page 37 f. and 90
  2. ↑ Leitz, page 81
  3. ↑ Leitz, page 88 f.
  4. ↑ Leitz, page 88 f.
  5. ↑ Leitz, page 131
  6. ↑ Leitz, page 133
  7. ^ Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony e. V. (Hrsg.): Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . Series Pastorum. tape 10 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0 , p. 136 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 5.6 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 12.6 ″  E