Dobra village church (Bad Liebenwerda)

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Dobra village church

The Protestant village church Dobra is a church building in the Dobra district of the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here the church can be found in the center of the village on the village green with a former cemetery surrounding it . The building is now a listed building .

Building description and history

Church tower with weather vane

The Dobra village church is a small plastered and, in essence, late Gothic field stone building with a three-sided east end. The year 1483 can be found in the roof of the nave. The upper part of the nave was renewed in a weaker form in the 17th century. Small arched windows can be found on the south and east sides . A square wooden tower with a tail hood and weather vane was added to the west . This dates from the middle of the 18th century and was restored in 1992.

Just like the tower, the entire structure was renovated after the fall of the Wall . That is why the two bells were restored in Nördlingen in 1996 . Both bells once survived the First and Second World War , although the larger bell (cast in 1560) actually had to be handed in for war purposes in 1943 and was later found in the Hamburg harbor basin .

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is characterized by a stucco framed ceiling and a west gallery.

It has a carved winged altar from the time before the Reformation, restored in 1928 and with inscriptions dating from 1510 . This comes from the workshop of the Grossenhainers Pankratius Grueber . In the large central field of the altar it shows Maria and Anna, the three of them, and their three husbands as half-figures. Several saints are depicted on the wings, which are divided into two zones. The backs of the wings are also painted. On the predella is Lamentation shown.

The pulpit with corner pillars here dates from the 17th century . A wooden crucifix is dated to the second half of the 15th century , a cupboard to 1543. The wooden tower houses two bells made in the 16th century .

  • Winged altar from 1510

  • Back left side

  • Winged altar

  • Back right side

  • Further equipment

  • Crucifix (15th century)

  • Pulpit (17th century)

  • organ

Tombs

The Dobra Church with the surrounding cemetery around 1900.

The church is surrounded by the former cemetery of the place where the last burial took place in 1933. A tombstone from 1568 found here in 1979 during construction work is now inside the church.

The entrance area to the former cemetery was transformed into a kind of memorial for the fallen in 1928. Recessed granite slabs are named after the villagers of Dobra who died in World War I. In 1993 the cemetery wall was renewed and an additional plaque with the names of those killed and missing in World War II was attached.

  • Old tomb

  • The monument to the fallen in the entrance area to the Dobra village church (October 2016)

  • View from the southeast

Literature (selection)

  • Bethke: The altar of the church in Dobra after its restoration . In: The Black Magpie . No. 365 , 1928.
  • M. Karl Fitzkow : The old parish book of Dobra . In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district in 1955 . S. 90-94 .
  • Alfred Pitzsch: deposited in the Dobra cemetery wall . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. (Hrsg.): Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . No. 49 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, Bad Liebenwerda 1996, p. 89-94 .
  • Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 248 to 249 .
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 253-254 .

Web links

Commons : Dobra village church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 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 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ A b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 253-254 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Dobra Church on the municipal homepage of Bad Liebenwerda ( memento of the original from October 19, 2016 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. , accessed October 19, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dobra.badliebenwerda.de
  4. ↑ Herbert Bartha: District Dobra . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 248 to 249 .
  5. ^ Felix Hoffmann , M. Karl Fitzkow : Works of art of old Großenhainer masters . In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1962, p. 223-226 .
  6. ↑ Bethke: The altar of the church in Dobra after its restoration . In: The Black Magpie . No. 365 , 1928.
  7. ↑ Alfred Pitzsch: deposited in the Dobraer cemetery wall . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. (Hrsg.): Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . No. 49 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, Bad Liebenwerda 1996, p. 89-94 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 53.7 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 46.9"  E