Graefendorf village church (Herzberg)

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The Graefendorfer Village Church (2009)
The Graefendorfer village church from the north-west (2009)

The Protestant village church Gräfendorf is a listed church building in the Gräfendorf district in the district town of Herzberg (Elster) in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It is listed as a local monument in the local monument register under registration number 09135155.

Building description and history

The Gräfendorfer village church is a hall building made of lawn iron stone and brick tiles with a gable roof . The origin is dated to the 13th century . To the west of the nave there has been a recessed bell tower with a square floor plan since 1847. This was built that year as part of a restoration and has an octagonal tower top and a slate-covered tail hood .

The interior of the church is characterized by a flat plastered ceiling, a triumphal arch and a horseshoe gallery. The furnishings of the church include a double-chalice-shaped baptismal font from the 17th or 18th century and a pulpit altar from the mid-19th century.

In the church there is also an organ created in 1803 by Torgau organ builder Johann Christian Friedrich Flemming (1745-1811). This organ has a mechanical drawer , a manual and 10 stops .

Major work CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flute (from c1) 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture 2-fold
Cornett 3-fold (from c1)
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 8th'

The building also has two bells, the first of which was made in bronze in 1800 by Johann Joseph Kittel from the Bohemian Nixdorf in Bohemia . The other bell is a bell created in 1922 in the bell foundry of Ulrich & Weule , which was based in Apolda and Bockenem .

The Gräfendorfer village church is located in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda and belongs to the parish of Uebigau , which in addition to Gräfendorf includes the churches in Langennaundorf , Wiederau and Drasdo .

Literature (selection)

  • Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , ISBN 978-3884621523

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Gräfendorf (Herzberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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 was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 26, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , p. 114, ISBN 978-3884621523
  3. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 61 .
  4. ↑ The parish offices of the Bad Liebenwerda church district on its homepage, accessed on November 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 26 "  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 26.9"  E