Bronkow village church

Bronkow village church

The Evangelical village church of Bronkow is a listed church building in the municipality of Bronkow in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg . Here the building can be found in the center of the village. The building is recorded in the local monument register under registration number 09120033, t .

Building description and history

The Bronkower village church is an early Gothic hall building built in the first half of the 14th century with a saddle roof made of brick and field stones. In the west there is an octagonal roof tower built in half-timbered construction with a tail hood and lantern . The church tower was built during renovation work in the middle of the 18th century . The church was rebuilt in the baroque style. In the south of the building there is an annex serving as a community hall, which was built in 1980.

Inside the church there is a flat wooden beam ceiling and a horseshoe gallery. Among the pieces of equipment available here is a pulpit altar from the second half of the 17th century . In the winged altar you can see Bohemian-influenced paintings from around 1430. The chalice-shaped and hexagonal baptism is made of wood and was also created in the second half of the 17th century. Another noteworthy piece of equipment is a baptismal angel with a coat of arms, which is inscribed from the year 1758 and is listed as the church in the local monument register. It was restored in 2001. The organ in the church is an instrument that was created around 1885 by the Neuzell master organ builder Robert Uibe . It has a pneumatic cone drawer , a manual and seven stops .

Bronkow is now part of the Protestant parish Calau in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , EKBO for short .

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  North elevation

Literature (selection)

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 164 .

Web links

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

• Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg: Bronkow village church
• The village church Bronkow on the homepage www.askanier-welten.de
• The village church Bronkow on the homepage www.altekirchen.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 '  N , 13 ° 55'  E

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 November 27, 2016. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 164 .
3. ↑ The Bronkower Uibe organ in the organ database , accessed on November 27, 2017.
4. ^ The parish of Calau on the homepage of the church district Niederlausitz, accessed on November 27, 2017.