Gruhno village church

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Gruhno village church

The Protestant village church Gruhno is a listed church building in the district of Gruhno in the southern Brandenburg municipality of Schönborn in the Elbe-Elster district .

The out of the 13th century originated hall building from bog iron is the local cemetery surrounded in the center of the village.

Building description and history

The Gruhno village church on a painting by Adolf Werner (1860)

The structure is an elongated hall structure made of lawn iron stone with a field stone base. In the east of the nave there is a recessed rectangular choir with a straight east end. To the west of the ship is a neo-Gothic church tower , which was only built from brick in 1885 . Previously this was designed as a roof turret. The tower was treated with a hipped roof provided, on which there is a small square skylights with lantern and spire located. In the south of the choir there is an extension in front of it. This conceals a pointed arched brick portal. A pointed arched portal in the north wall was half closed and serves as a window. The church was rebuilt in the 17th century . At the same time, the ship's windows were enlarged like an arc. The two lancet windows on the east side of the choir have been preserved in their original form.

Equipment (selection)

Inside the church has a wooden beam ceiling . A pointed arch connects the hall, the nave with the adjoining choir. There have been galleries on the north and south sides since 1722 . The pulpit, which has been located on the south wall since 1836, dates from the second half of the 17th century. A simple wooden altarpiece can be found in the choir . It was created towards the end of the 18th century and completely restored in 1836, although it was only given its current color scheme almost 100 years later at the beginning of the 20th century. In the center of the altar is part of an old altar shrine with inset relief figures ( Madonna , John the Evangelist and a bishop ) from the late 15th century . The baptismal font of the Gruhno church is remarkable . A late Romanesque chalice block capital from around 1230 was used for it. Its ornaments show rich foliage and tendrils as well as birds pecking at grapes. It is believed that it was once part of the Dobrilugk Monastery and came to Gruhno during the 19th century . A similarly designed baptismal font from the same period can also be found in the village church in Schilda, ten kilometers north-west .

The organ in the church dates from around 1850 and was built by the Sonnewald master organ builder Johann Christoph Schröther (1774-1859). It has a mechanical drawer , a manual and five stops .

There are two bells in the church tower. One of them is made of cast steel and was manufactured in 1923 in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry . The second bell dates from 1890. This is the last of the three bells originally made in the Berlin-Zehlendorf foundry by Hugo Collier for the church in Gruhno. The other two bells had to be handed in for war purposes during the First World War .

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Community membership

Today Gruhno is part of the evangelical church community Friedersdorf , to which besides Friedersdorf , Oppelhain , Rückersdorf and Gruhno also belong. The parish is located in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , EKBO for short .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 445 .
  • Sybille Schrey and Bernhard Wagner: Gruhno - local history and stories in words and pictures. 2010

Web links

Commons : Gruhno village church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 1, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 445 .
  3. ↑ a b c The Gruhnoer Kirche on the local homepage (privately operated by Sybille Schrey and Bernhard Wagner, Gruhno) , accessed on November 2, 2017
  4. ↑ Business card of the Gruhno Church on the homepage of the Evangelical Cistercian Monastery Church in Doberlug , accessed on November 1, 2017
  5. ↑ The Friedersdorfer Dorfkirche on the website www.askanier-welten.de
  6. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster, S. 61 .
  7. ^ The parish district Friedersdorf on the homepage of the church district Niederlausitz, accessed on November 1, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '3 "  N , 13 ° 31' 9.3"  E