Gorden village church

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Gorden village church

The Protestant village church Gorden is a church building in the district of Gorden of the municipality of Gorden-Staupitz in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . 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 . It belongs to the Plessa parish in the Bad Liebenwerda parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Building description, history and equipment

The Gorden village church is a small plastered hall building with a three-sided east end. The church was built in 1749. In the west of the nave, a wooden tower, square at its base and soon merging into octagonal, with a tail hood and weather vane was added.

The interior of the church is characterized by a beamed ceiling and a horseshoe gallery. The pulpit altar, the patronage and parish chair and the other wooden fittings of the church are from the construction period.

The Gorden organ has a mechanical slide box , a manual , six registers and an attached pedal . The instrument comes from the workshop of the Saxon organ builder Gottlob Heinrich Nagel from Großenhain . It was built in 1840. The organ prospect is also from the construction period.

Church tower with weather vane
I Manual C – c 3
Reed flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C – c 1
attached

Tombs

Monument "mother and child"

On the far east side of the church there is a tombstone from the 18th century .

Not far from the church is another monumental monument . Born in Gorden Erzgießermeister Oswald Haberland (1877-1948) created here in 1926 in honor of his prematurely deceased mother, 43 years after her death, the bronze free-standing sculpture "Mother and Child" . After his death, the ashes of the artist who died in Düsseldorf in 1948 were transferred to his place of birth according to his wishes and buried in an urn on the monument depicting deep love and gratitude.

Rectory

The Gorden rectory can be found in the immediate vicinity of the church. Like the church itself and the bronze sculpture, it is now a listed building. The single-storey building with a mansard gable roof was erected between 1908 and 1910.

Literature (selection)

  • M. Karl Fitzkow : In Gorden and Hohenleipisch after the Reformation . In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1955, p. 104 to 106 .
  • R. Schertzberg: "A mother's monument". In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda 1959 . Ed .: Working groups of nature and homeland friends of the German Cultural Association in the Bad Liebenwerda district. Print shop activist Bad Liebenwerda, Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 186 to 188 .
  • Nail organ in a baroque frame . In: Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster Organ Landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 24 to 25 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 397 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Gorden  - 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 22, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ Website of the church district ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchenkreis-badliebenwerda.de
  3. ↑ Gorden-Staupitz on the homepage of the Plessa office
  4. ↑ a b c cultural office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster organ landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 24-25 .
  5. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 397 .
  6. ↑ R. Schertzberg: "The monument of a mother". In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda 1959 . Ed .: Working groups of nature and homeland friends of the German Cultural Association in the Bad Liebenwerda district. Print shop activist Bad Liebenwerda, Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 186 to 188 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '5.4 "  N , 13 ° 37" 24.7 "  E