Fichtenberg village church (Mühlberg / Elbe)

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Fichtenberg village church

The Protestant village church Fichtenberg is a church building in the municipality of Fichtenberg in the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The church built at the beginning of the 19th century can be found in the center of the village with a cemetery surrounding it . The building is now a listed building .

Building description and history

More views of the church
East view with sacristy
Patronage Lodge
Gate on the south side
Gate at the tower
Gate to the cemetery on the south side
Monument symbol and trademark of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
The octagonal upper floor of the tower

Fichtenberg, first mentioned in a document in 1202, was an independent parish until 1540. In the following year it was united with the neighboring parish Boragk.

The original church in the village burned down to the ground in 1806. The church that can be seen today in Fichtenberg was built between 1808 and 1810 on the remains of a previous church. This is a plastered hall building with a three-sided east end. In the west of the nave there is a 36 meter high church tower with an almost square floor plan. It has an octagonal bell bullet and a lantern with a tail hood. A sacristy can be found in the north of the building; in the south a patronage box.

The first known renovation work took place as early as the 19th century. During the three months of work in 1833, the floor was completely covered with stone slabs, the uppermost gallery on the north side was extended to the altar and all doors were replaced. The outside of the building was painted completely yellow. In 1862 there was said to have been a further 650 thalers of work on the church. While mainly painting work has survived inside, the repair work outside mainly concerned the tower roof, with the tower button also being opened and gilded.

In 1961 the roofs of the nave and the tower were re-covered, and the tower button was again opened, in which some historical documents were found. In the mid-1980s, the condition of the church was so poor that a complete renovation was necessary. In 1986, the first restoration work began, with the cost already amounting to around 100,000 marks. Even after the fall of the Wall , the work continued. The project was financially supported by the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg and the Fund of the State Monument Preservation . The renovation work was finally provisionally completed in 1997.

Fichtenberg originally formed the Boragk parish with the towns of Altenau , Boragk and Burxdorf for centuries . Today is one church for Protestant parish area "Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf" which part of the church district Bad Liebenwerda is.

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is characterized by a vaulted plaster ceiling and a horseshoe gallery, which is two-storey on the sides. The building has a simple wooden pulpit altar with painted column structure from 1810. On the entablature there are three carved figures from the first half of the 16th century , which come from a formerly existing Gothic carved altar ( Mary with child , on the side John the Evangelist and the Saint George ). The remaining figures on this altar are said to have come to the Mühlberger Museum later.

There is also a classical bronze baptism dating from 1825 in the church . On its eight-sided shaft, alternating lily stems and angels can be seen. The stalls in the church and the mansion box are also of construction-time origin.

organ

There was already an organ in the old Fichtenberg church. It was the work of Finsterwalder organ builder H. Klausnitz and was built in 1774. When the church burned in 1806, however, it was also destroyed. The instrument that can be seen in the church today and has a three-part prospectus is an organ that was created in 1914 by the Zörbig master organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann (1842–1922) (op. 378). The organ has a pneumatic cone chest , fifteen stops on two manuals and a pedal .

Bells

Since the bells of the old church had been destroyed in the great fire in 1806, three new bells were purchased from Dresden for the new building in 1810. The two smaller ones had to be handed in for war purposes during the First World War. They were later replaced by two steel bells cast in Lauchhammer. The largest bell, which has a diameter of 105 centimeters, was already recognized as a monument in the First World War. It survived the Second World War and is still in the church today.

Tombs and memorials

Fallen memorial

According to the Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler and an article published in the Schwarzen Elster in 1936 , there are said to be three gravestones on the south wall from the 17th century and the first quarter of the 19th century, which belong to Herr von Tauba (1686) and two pastors ( 1820 to 1830) are to be assigned. An epitaph is clearly visible today on the outer south wall of the church.

Next to the main entrance is a memorial for the fallen in the two world wars of Fichtenberg residents. Originally set up relatively late in 1934 to commemorate the victims of the First World War with an inset name plaque, another plaque with a warning inscription was added after the Second World War .

  • Mourning hall

  • Historic tomb

  • epitaph

  • graveyard

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Fichtenberg village church (Mühlberg / Elbe)  - 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 October 30, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Fichtenberger or Altenau village church on the homepage of the Evangelical Parish Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf , accessed on October 30, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d The Fichtenberg Church on the municipal website of Mühlberg / Elbe , accessed on October 30, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d e Maximilian Lorenz: Fichtenberg . In: The Black Magpie . No. 520 , 1936 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 296 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Manfred Lindert: "Bauarbeiten 1961" (essay on the content of the tower ball opened in 1961) on the local Fichtenberg homepage, accessed on October 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ Manfred Lindert: "Documentation about the renovation work from 1986 to 1997" on the local Fichtenberg homepage, accessed on October 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ The parish offices of the Bad Liebenwerda church district on its homepage, accessed on October 30, 2017
  9. ^ Friedrich Stoy : News from the Boragk church play for the time of the Thirty Years War . In: The Black Magpie . No. 439 , 1932 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  10. ↑ Boragk Cemetery Statute (PDF file), accessed on September 11, 2017
  11. ↑ a b Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster Organ Landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 61 .
  12. ↑ Opus list of organ-building institution of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig on the homepage of Orgelbauanstalt Rühlmann, accessed on 30 October 2017th
  13. ^ Organ database , accessed October 30, 2017.
  14. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on October 30, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 7.5 ″  E