Burxdorf village church
The Protestant village church in Burxdorf is a church building in the district of Burxdorf in the town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here you can find the church in the center of the village with a surrounding cemetery on the village green . The building is now a listed building .
Building description and history
The Burxdorf Church was built under the influence of the Mühlberg Monastery of Marienstern in the first half of the 13th century. It is an early Gothic hall building with a retracted rectangular choir . The originally existing church tower burned down in 1889 and was replaced in the same year by a hexagonal roof turret with a tower clock , slate roof , weather vane and cross placed on the western nave . Due to the weight of the tower, cracks had formed in the brickwork between the gable and the nave, which is why the tower is supported by a pillar at the northwest corner. On the east side there is a staggered group of three windows in a lancet shape .
After the ravages of time had gnawed the building over the years, a renovation of the outer facade became urgently necessary in 1980 . Numerous Burxdorf residents responded to a call by the parish council to support the project and actively helped with the extensive work.
Equipment (selection)
The interior of the church is characterized by baroque beamed ceilings and a three-sided gallery . In the central shrine of the wooden altarpiece from the second half of the 17th century there is a representation of Anna the third of herself . The polygonal pulpit is from the same period . The sandstone baptism from the first half was probably originally located in the Mühlberg monastery church . There are also five late Gothic carved figures in the church .
The organ , created in 1870 by the master organ builder Christian Friedrich Raspe (1822–1892) from Liebenwerda , has a mechanical sliding drawer , a manual and nine stops .
Tombs
The Burxdorf Church is surrounded by the local cemetery. In the western entrance area, in front of the entrance hall to the church, there is a memorial to the fallen in memory of the villagers who died in the two world wars with the names of the victims. In the immediate vicinity to the left is the grave of an unknown German soldier from the Second World War . In addition, a mourning hall was built in the northeast area of the cemetery .
Grave of an unknown German soldier
The memorial for the fallen in the entrance area to the Burxdorf village church (September 2016)
Mourning hall
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- The Burxdorf village church on the homepage of the evangelical parish Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b 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.
- ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 176 .
- ↑ a b Cornelia Mattauch: Burxdorf district . In: Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda e. V. (Ed.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 246-247 .
- ^ Rüdiger Rost: Burxdorf - from yesterday to today . In: Heimatjahrbuch for the Bad Liebenwerda district, born in 1969/70 . Bad Liebenwerda 1969, p. 30-35 .
- ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 60 .
- ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on October 25, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 35.3 " N , 13 ° 28 ′ 30.3" E