Fermerswalde village church

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Fermerswalde village church

The Protestant village church Fermerswalde is a listed church building in the district of Fermerswalde of the non-governmental city of Herzberg (Elster) in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . It belongs to the parish Rehfeld in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Building description and history

The village church of Fermerswalde was founded as a branch church of Beyern . Since then, the so-called “Pfaffensteg” has been the shortest connection between Fermerswalde and Beyern.

The time of its construction is not documented, but the plastered mixed masonry ( lawn iron stone with brick interweaving , brick-reinforced corners, irregular stone formats) indicates the beginning of the construction period in the 14th century . The Dehio indefinitely refers the building to the 14th / 15th centuries .

The nave and the remarkable long choir are accentuated, the choir part is clearly drawn in. In the east, the straight part of the choir is illuminated through a window, as well as through a window on the south and north walls. Entrances to the church can be found on the south wall of the choir and on the south wall of the tower building. Another earlier entrance on the south wall in the area of ​​the nave was added. In front of this old opening there is a damaged and weathered double tomb with a crowning obelisk . The south aisle receives light through three curved windows of different sizes. The north aisle has only one window.

The church tower has been redesigned several times over the centuries. Nothing is known about its earlier form before the baroque construction. In 1733 the church tower was rebuilt as a half-timbered tower by the master carpenter Johann Gottfried Wassermann and the master bricklayer Johann Georg Noack from Annaburg , whereby the residents “did help and serve”. It was completed on September 19, 1733. However, as other old documents say, the tower was so badly built that in 1753 it was “so wobbly that it could no longer bear the bells and therefore they had to be removed which remained hanging over a small scaffolding and little roof in the churchyard until the year was up ”. However, due to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the new tower was not built. It was not until 1771 that the construction of the new lattice tower could begin. The church's assets at that time were barely 60 thalers, but the construction cost 230 thalers. Therefore, the community had to provide the missing money itself. The builders were the council carpenter Johann Christian Wolfen from Torgau and the mason Christian Jacob from Herzberg. The foundation stone for the new tower was laid on April 12th, 1771 by the master mason Jacob and Mrs. Forster Kröhner. The tower itself was erected on May 11, 1771, “without anyone being damaged in the least”. The bells were hung on May 30th and on June 6th, 1771 the button and flag were put on by Master Wolfen.

In the years 1861 and 1862 a "thorough tower repair" and a "repair of the top roof of the tower by the plumber Mr. Bredow from Herzberg" took place.

In 1932 the old lattice tower was demolished. “The wood of the lattice tower built in 1771 was largely rotten and the tower threatened to collapse. More and more he had already lowered himself to the side. ”The new tower was built according to a design by Dr. Dobert. The parish council began with the construction without drawings and without the admission of the consistory and the conservator. Shortly before the actual roof structure was erected, the church building authority in Magdeburg intervened and at the instigation of Dr. Dobert, the last 6 m of the tower were demolished and rebuilt according to his plans with five very narrow and very high sound hatch openings on each side of the square tower. This new tower was covered with a simple and relatively low tent roof with beaver tail covering . Overall, the massive new building in the style of the 1930s appeared as a voluminous rectangular tower with a flat hood. The demolition of the old dilapidated tower and the reconstruction were carried out by the Otto Ahrens company from Falkenberg / Elster .

“During a severe storm on June 8, 1953, at around 9:15 p.m. in pouring rain, lightning struck the church roof. It was only around 11 p.m. that it was noticed that the church roof and the church tower were on fire. The countermeasures taken immediately had hardly any effect, as the local motorized sprayer failed and the fire fighting could initially only be carried out with an outdated pump. Only later did the engine sprayer come from Herzberg. ”The roof of the nave was completely destroyed by the fire and the tower burned down completely. The fire fighting measures saved the roof and the ceiling above the choir room. The large bell, cast in 1490 and weighing 264 kg, "showed large cracks and sounded like an old tin pot". The smaller bell, weighing 117 kg, was completely melted and there were only bronze lumps in the ashes. This bell was bought by the Torgau City Council in 1949. It was the "Poor Sinner Bell" given back to the city of Torgau by the Hamburg Bell Camp. The nave was given a new roof in 1953 and two new replacement bells were also cast. At the instigation of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the GDR in Dresden, the tower was rebuilt based on the model of the baroque tower from 1771, since the “tower solution from 1933 did not satisfy the parish in any way. The tower building at that time in its modern design was widely perceived as unfamiliar, unfamiliar, in short as a foreign body in connection with the medieval structure of the church. ”The design for the new tower comes from the architect Otto Semerau from Herzberg. The square tower stump sits a half-timbered octagon on which tail hood and lantern crowning. The carpentry work was carried out by the Otto Ahrens sawmill from Fermerswalde under the direction of the foreman Böhme with his son Gerhard Böhme from Buckau, while the masonry work was carried out by the Otto company from Herzberg, the slate work by the roofer Martin Liepe from Herzberg and the plumbing work by the plumber Erich Noack from Herzberg were provided. The new bells were cast by the Schilling company in Apolda and installed in early March 1954. The new big bell with a weight of 475 kg bears the new inscription “Lord let your eyes stand open over this house night and day” next to the old writing on the bell from 1490. The smaller bell weighing 269 kg carries the banner of the purchased from Torgau beat bell "Verbum Domini manet aeternum" ( "The Word of God stands forever") the motto of the in Torgau in 1548 with the Elector Augustus I of Saxony married Princess Anna of Denmark and Norway . The new cross on the tower was made from old copper sheet from Neudeck Castle due to a lack of material . The crown and the weather vane were put up on December 7, 1954.

In 1992 the church tower had to be renovated and repaired again. The reasons for this are neglected maintenance work and improper execution of the reconstruction (use of insufficiently dried timber and neglected wood protection) in 1954. A total of approx. 100,000 DM in federal funds and own funds were used for the repair. The residents of Fermerswalde donated an additional DM 3,300 for the necessary construction work. The main work was carried out by Hubrich Hoch-, Tief- und Stahlbetonbau GmbH from Falkenberg / Elster and Lehmann & Schmedt GmbH from Herzberg (Elster). The new crowning with weather vane and the year 1992 was put on in July 1992.

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is divided by a round-arched triumphal arch between the nave and the choir, which was plastered with rustication ashlar in the late 17th century . Both parts of the room are flat-roofed, the nave with a grated floorboard layer over exposed beams and the choir area has a ceiling plastered on reed. In the 17th century (after 1625) the choir ceiling, like that of the nave, consisted of exposed beams with a grated insert. The plastering probably took place only at the beginning of the 20th century . In the 19th century the interior of the church was apparently completely redesigned. The interior walls of the nave are surrounded by a horseshoe gallery above the basic stalls . On the south side this is shortened in front of the pulpit sitting on a wooden stick. The organ gallery in the western part with a baluster parapet comes from the 18th century . The north and south pores, the stalls and the pulpit all have simple decorative fields and date from the late 19th century.

One of the earliest pieces of equipment in the church is the chalice-shaped sandstone baptism from 1524 with an acanthus-decorated conical shaft. On the cylindrical dome there are inscriptions and applied plastic coats of arms of the noble von Falck family. There are also two pictures of an altarpiece (inscribed from 1676) on the north wall of the choir. These were set in a new frame in the 19th century and hung in front of the eastern window of the choir room until the middle of the 20th century. The upper picture shows a crucifixion scene and the lower picture contains a representation of the Lord's Supper.

The east window of the choir, a Naumburg work from 1895 ( stained glass ), like the organ, belongs to the Wilhelmine era and shows a Christ carrying a cross under a cup and above a cross. Two eight-armed brass chandeliers from the late 19th century, a pair of silver altar candlesticks from the same period and a baptistery from 1825 complete the church inventory. The nave was last painted in 1938 by the church painter Mannewitz.

organ

The organ on the west gallery was built in 1909 by the Fleischer und Kindermann organ building company from Dessau. The Fermerswalder organ has a pneumatic box drawer , two manuals and nine registers . The organ is not playable due to the extinguishing water damage from 1953 as well as other later water damage.

Tombs

Leaning against the northern abutment of the arch stands on a wall base a well-preserved epitaph of sandstone for the 1,542 who died in childbirth Hedwig von Falck, born of Sahlhausen. As a symmetrical bas-relief, it shows the deceased below life size under an inscribed vita and the two coats of arms of the von Falck and von Sahlhausen families next to her head. The child who died with her mother kneels at the lower edge of her long-sloping robe.

The inscription on the epitaph from 1542 reads: “When one counts after Christ our Redeemer and Blessed Maker 1542 year in the holy Easter holidays, the honorable, noble and very virtuous Mrs. Hedwigk von Salhausen from the Schwete estate near Oschitz was born was the noble and honorable Clement Falcken in Formerswalde married housewife, together with her first unbaptized child in Formerswalde at the noble court on the 9th day of their childbirth as reported above in God blessedly different and here in this church in Formerswalde honest to earth was confirmed. May Almighty God give them a joyous resurrection on the last day. Amen. But I know that my Redeemer lives and afterwards he will raise me from the earth and afterwards will be surrounded with this skin of mine and will see God in my flesh. I will see the same and my eyes will see him and no stranger. Job on the XIX Capittel. The Falcken coat of arms and that of Salhausen. "

Literature (selection)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 December 4, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ Website of the church district .
  3. ^ Karl Pallas : Registrations of the church visits in the former Saxon spa district
  4. ↑ a b Herrmann Bley: Gemeindechronik, Fermerswalde 1937
  5. ↑ Handbook of German Cultural Monuments
  6. ↑ a b c d e Architects GbR ANGELIS + PARTNER, 04916 Herzberg, Kirchstrasse 7: Description of measures for the village church Fermerswalde
  7. ^ Certificate in the crown of the tower from 1733
  8. ↑ a b Johann Wiegand Kröhner, Electoral Saxon Forester and Judge: Certificate from the crowning of the tower of June 6, 1771
  9. ^ Schoolmaster and sexton Johann Wilhelm Müller: Certificate from the tower crown from July 29, 1862
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Baurat Koch, Ev. Consistory of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony, ecclesiastical building office, branch office Wittenberg: Visit to the church in Fermerswalde, KKs. Torgau, June 15, 1953
  11. ^ A b Pastor Ernst Liebau: Certificate from the tower crown from October 11, 1933
  12. ↑ a b Erich Noack: Certificate from the tower crowning from November 1954
  13. ^ Marlies and Siegbert Lieske: Certificate for the crowning of the tower in July 1992
  14. ↑ Certified restorer Evelin Waldmann: Report on the assessment of the choir ceiling in the church in Fermerswalde from February 13, 2002
  15. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 61 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '48.7 "  N , 13 ° 11' 22.8"  E