Großthiemig village church

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Großthiemig village church

The Evangelical village church Großthiemig is a listed church building in the community Großthiemig in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster . Its 16th century parapet paintings in the north and west galleries are unique in the region .

history

Building description and history

The construction of the church in the Schradengemeinde Großthiemig, first mentioned in a document in 1364 as Tymenk , is dated between 1386 and 1415. The church patronage ruled Großkmehlen for centuries.

The Großthiemiger village church is a late Gothic hall building made of quarry stone with a stretched core and a polygonal east end. According to an inscription inside the church, this was probably given its south aisle during renovation and expansion work in 1545. To the west is a square 57-meter-high tower with a double hood and lantern . The construction of the octagonal upper floor of the tower is dated to the 17th century . An inscription in the belfry contains the year 1629. In the north there is a vestibule from 1792, in front of the south choir portal there is an extension from 1730.

In 1829, today's plastered ceilings were installed. In addition, the bell projectile received its current ogival sound openings . The two original transverse gables of the church were removed.

In 1934 the church was extensively restored under the direction of the church painter Fritz Leweke from Halle . Almost 50 years later, in 1982 and 1983, there was another restoration of the interior and exterior. The gallery paintings of the church were restored in 1993/94. In 1998 a new baptismal bell was purchased.

Damage to the roof and church tower caused by Hurricane Kyrill in January 2007 made repairs necessary in the same year .

Parish Großthiemig

Former rectory in Großthiemig

In addition to Großthiemig, the municipality of Brößnitz, a few kilometers to the south, belonged to the parish of Großthiemig as early as 1539. As a result of the provisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Großthiemig came from the Kingdom of Saxony to the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony . From then on, the parish of Großthiemig was subordinate to the Superintendent of Elsterwerda . The now Saxon Brößnitz, however, remained with Großthiemig. In the meantime, the community of Schraden and Blochwitz also belonged to Großthiemig. Brößnitz has had its own small chapel since 1905. A communal cemetery was also established here that year.

At the present time Großthiemig belongs to the parish of Hirschfeld belonging to the parish of Bad Liebenwerda , to which, in addition to Hirschfeld and Großthiemig, Val Gardena also belongs.

Equipment (selection)

The Großthiemiger Church in 1916.

The interior of the church is essentially unchanged today. The original wooden ceilings here were replaced by plastered ceilings in 1829.

The rich furnishings of the church come mainly from the 17th century. In the main field of the wooden altarpiece from the mid-17th century is a picture showing Christ on the Mount of Olives . In the predella the Last Supper can be seen, in the cheeks relief medallions depicting the birth of Christ on the left and his crucifixion on the right .

There are galleries in the north, south and west of the church. Its rich painting by the Dresden artist Johann Heidenreich, which the former innkeeper and first Protestant pastor of Großthiemigs Andreas Schuricht had applied from the proceeds of his tavern at the end of the 16th century, is often referred to as the picture Bible . It is considered unique in the region. While the parapet of the north gallery is painted with pictures of the Passion , pictures of Genesis can be found in the parapet of the south pore . Five of these pictures were renewed in 1887 by the Ortrander artist W. Lucas. On the parapet of the west gallery, also known as the children's or organ gallery, there are paintings that were created towards the end of the 18th century . The paintings show 11 angels making music . Below you can see the names of the benefactors of these pictures.

The pulpit of the church was also built in the middle of the 17th century. The wooden, carved polygonal basket is carried by a carved angel. It also has a crown-like sound cover decorated with putti and man of sorrows . The sandstone baptism from the 16th century in the church has a hexagonal cup.

Two confessionals still in existence come from the pre-Reformation period .

organ

The Großthiemiger church received its first organ in 1690. The Dresden organ builder Johann Christian Gräbner created the instrument , which cost 358 thalers . It had 13 sounding voices on a manual and pedal . In 1719 a repair costing 103 thalers was due and by the end of the 18th century the organ was probably in a condition that made repairs constantly necessary. Although the organ was already being considered at that time to be replaced, it was still in place for over 100 years after it was constantly repaired. At the beginning of the 20th century, the necessary funds for a new organ could be collected by setting up an organ building fund.

In the church there is today an organ created in 1908 by the Bautzen master organ builder Hermann Eule (1846–1929). The instrument had to be restored in 1929 due to water damage that occurred during construction of the tower in 1926. The repair costs at that time amounted to 700 Reichsmarks . The Großthiemiger organ has a pneumatic pocket drawer , two manuals and seventeen stops . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gamb 8th'
5. Dolce 8th'
6th octave 4 ′
7th Fugara 4 ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Mixture III
II Manual C – f 3
10. Violin principal 8th'
11. Covered 8th'
12. Aeoline 8th'
13. Vox coelestis 8th'
14th Gemshorn 4 ′
Pedals C – d 1
15th Sub bass 16 ′
16. Covered bass 16 ′
17th Principal bass 8th'
Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Sub-octave coupling: II / I
Super octave coupling: II / I

Bells

Bell projectile

On the bell floor there are three bells that were procured from the Bochum Association for Mining and Cast Steel Manufacture in April 1920 as a replacement for the three old bronze bells that were originally available . Two of the old bells had to be given in for war purposes in 1917 during the First World War . The third was sold to the Bochumer Verein as part of the new acquisition . The bells were cast with inscriptions in 1919. The costs raised from donations and the sale of the old bells for the new bells, which were described as ordinary in an article published in 1935 in the local history series Die Schwarze Elster , amounted to RM 10829 . The large bell weighs 1120.5 kg, the central bell weighs 728 kg and the small bell 405.25 kg.

In addition to the inscription Cast from Bochumer Verein, Bochum 1919 on all three , the following inscriptions can be found on the bells:

  • Big bell: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts
  • Midday Bell (middle bell): Oh land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord
  • Early bell (little bell): graciously grant us peace

In addition, the church received a new baptismal bell in 1998 , which was created in the bell foundry Lauchhammer .

The four originally existing old bells of the church gave the tones E-flat, G, B-flat and F. Like the new bells, these were also named Big Bell , Midday Bell , Early Bell and Baptismal Bell . The big bell was made in 1483 and weighed around 24 quintals; the midday bell , weighing around 12 quintals , was cast in 1512.

In 1799 the morning bell jumped , which is why it had to be cast in Dresden. The two big bells then jumped in 1826 and 1829. Both had to be cast in 1830 by the bell caster Hadank in Hoyerswerda . In 1879 the central bell cracked again, which is why it had to be re-cast in the Dresden bell foundry Große.

Tombs

Memorial to the fallen in the former cemetery

Inside the church there is a four cubits deep crypt near the pulpit door stairs , in which relatives of the Großkmehlen patronage were once buried. The 18-year-old noblewoman Anna Elisabeth von Borck, the only sister of a Frau General von Brause , was buried here in 1711 . In 1715, Friederika Elisabeth von Borck was buried and in 1717 a Fraulein Johanna von Lüttichau from Kmehlen was buried in the crypt.

The Großthiemiger church is surrounded by the former local cemetery. The last funeral took place here in 1904.

A memorial to the fallen in honor of the villagers who died in the First World War can be found northeast of the church on the site . On the monument made of granite stones , which is located here with name boards on a three-tiered base, is a sculpture depicting a grieving woman with a soldier who has fallen into her arms.

Literature (selection)

  • The church at Großthiemig . In: The Black Magpie . No. 69 , 1908 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt).
  • Naumann: From the church to Großthiemig . In: The Black Magpie . No. 504 , 1935 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt).
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 438 .
  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The 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 .
  • Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (publisher): Elbe-Elster organ landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 28-29 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Großthiemig  - 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 13, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 438-439 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i The Großthiemiger Church on the homepage of the Schradenland Office , accessed on September 30, 2016
  4. ^ A b 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. 207 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Naumann: Von der Kirche zu Großthiemig . In: The Black Magpie . No. 504 , 1935 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt).
  6. ↑ Felix Gaber: "Großthiemig: Where the pastor used to be a landlord" in Lausitzer Rundschau , December 23, 2008
  7. ^ A b 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. 214 .
  8. ↑ Blochwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on November 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ Brößnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on November 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ As of 2016.
  11. ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on November 16, 2016.
  12. ^ "Unique picture Bible in Großthiemiger Church" in Lausitzer Rundschau , October 18, 2003
  13. ↑ a b c d e cultural office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster organ landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 28-29 .
  14. ↑ a b c d e The Church of Großthiemig . In: The Black Magpie . No. 69 , 1908 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt).
  15. ^ Supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt
  16. ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen , accessed on November 16, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  E