Dreska village church

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Dreska village church

The Evangelical village church Dreska is a listed church building in the district of Dreska in the municipality of Hohenleipisch in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . The church is located on a small hill in the center, surrounded by the former Dreska local cemetery.

history

More views of the church
Northeast view
Steeple
Northwest view
Churchyard wall with inscription
Churchyard wall with the well recognizable boulders
Cemetery wall and east gable
The renovated churchyard wall south of the church (2016).
Southern portal

Dreska originally had a chapel since the beginning of the 16th century, which was a branch of the Elsterwerda parish . In 1598 the villages of Kraupa and Krauschütz were parish here. However, Krauschütz soon came back to Elsterwerda.

In 1741, today's church was finally built on the village square. In 1797, the building was then probably converted or expanded.

After the fall of the Wall , the Dreska church was partially restored in the early 1990s with the help of grants and donations. In addition to a new steeple, it was given a new coat of paint. Later, the cemetery wall, which is inscribed from 1840, was renovated.

At the beginning of 1999 the Dreska branch was closed. While Kraupa was henceforth part of Elsterwerda, Dreska went up in Hohenleipisch, part of the parish of Plessa . In the present, to who owns Kirchenkreis Bad Liebenwerda associated parish Plessa , Plessa next and Dreska the places Kahla , Hohenleipisch , Döllingen and Gorden . However, this is currently co-administered by the Elsterwerda Parish Office.

Architecture and equipment (selection)

The plastered hall building has a three-sided east end from the 18th century. To the west of the nave is a rectangular tower with an octagonal upper part, a square hood and a weather vane.

The interior of the church is characterized by a plastered ceiling and a horseshoe gallery, the painting of which dates from 1935. The pulpit altar has an inscription from 1744.

While the organ prospectus dates from the 18th century, the organ in the church today was created around 1880 by the Giengen organ manufacturer Gebr. Link . The instrument, in need of repair for a long time, has a mechanical slide drawer , a manual and seven registers . In 2017, a comprehensive repair and cleaning was carried out by the Moritzburg organ building company Rühle .

There are also four bells in the church's bell tower .

Tombs

The Dreska church is surrounded by the former local cemetery, but there are only a few graves left. The last funerals took place here in the 1990s.

In the immediate vicinity to the west of the church there is a memorial to the fallen in the form of a stele with the crowning figure of an eagle on top in honor of the villagers who died in the First and Second World Wars .

Web links

Commons : Dreska village church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c 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 November 6, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Christina Dirlich: "Churchyard wall in Dreska crumbles" in Lausitzer Rundschau, November 12, 2005
  3. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 61 .
  4. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 96 .
  5. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 70 .
  6. ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 260 .
  7. ↑ a b Veit Rösler: "Dreska Church: a small but fine village beauty" in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 22, 2008
  8. ↑ As of 2016
  9. ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on November 6, 2016
  10. ↑ As of 2008
  11. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 60 .
  12. ↑ Manfred Feller: "Fresh sound from dust-free organs" in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 9, 2017
  13. ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen , accessed on November 6, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 18.5 ″  E