Kölsa village church

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Kölsa village church

The Evangelical-Lutheran village church Kölsa is a listed church building in Kölsa , a district of the town of Falkenberg / Elster in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

Here you can find the building in its present form in the middle of the 19th century with a cemetery in the center of the village. It is structurally assigned to the arched style of the Berlin school . A remarkable piece of equipment in the church is a medieval bell reworked for baptism.

Building description and history

The chancel of the church on the east side, built as an apse

For the village of Kölsa, first mentioned in a document in 1251, there is first documentary evidence from the Middle Ages for the existence of a local church, which was dedicated to St. Nicholas .

The inscriptions of the sacred building, which is veneered with split field stones, date for the most part from 1855, with a half-timbered square church tower in the west of the nave , the construction of which is dated to the middle of the 18th century and which probably originally dates back to Previous building of the church dates. Above the actual church roof, this merges into an octagonal shape and is finally provided with a tail hood . In the east of the nave, which is provided with a gable roof , there is a semicircular apse.

The architectural style of the church is assigned to the arched style of the Berlin School. The interior of the church has a flat roof and is characterized by a horseshoe gallery with a coffered parapet . A triumphal arch forms the transition from the nave to the choir .

The church is a branch church of the church in Rehfeld , which has received financial support from Kölsa residents over the years. Kölsa currently belongs to the parish Rehfeld in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , the next Rehfeld and Kölsa also Züllsdorf , Beyern , Fermerswalde and Löhsten belong.

Equipment (selection)

Sacred furnishings

Sacred furnishings of the church include a baptism , which consists of a medieval bell from 1475. The bell serves as a foot. The baptismal bowl is located on the part of the bell on which the bell is normally hung, the so-called crown . The pewter baptismal bowl itself bears the inscription "The Church of Kölsa 1696" .

A cast-iron altar crucifix from the 19th century can be found in the choir of the church. Another piece of equipment in the church is a historical ampulla of tin bearing the inscription Church KOLSAV 1707 .

organ

An organ with a neo-Gothic prospect can be found on the gallery in the west of the building . It was created in 1917 by the Bad Liebenwerda organ builder Arno Voigt (opus 38). The organ is provided with two manuals , has nine registers and has a pneumatic sliding drawer .

Bells

A total of three bells can be found in the Kölsa church, all of which are on the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg . In addition to the bronze bell from 1475, which was reworked into a baptismal font, there is also a bronze bell , the time of which is dated to the 13th century. The third bell is also made of bronze. This was created in 1506 by the bell founder Peter Zendeler .

Dunning and remembrance

The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Several inscription tombstones can be seen on the outside of the structure. Two tombstones on the north side date from 1719 and 1749. A double tombstone on the south side is dated to the middle of the 18th century.

There is also a memorial to the fallen in memory of the villagers of the Kölsa community who died in World War I and World War II . A stele is located on a two-tiered base, with nameplates embedded in four sides.

  • North-east view with the memorial to the fallen

  • West view with cemetery

  • Historic tombstone in the cemetery

legend

Kölsa seen from the air (2015)

In Kölsa there is a legend about the building of the first church in town. According to tradition, the church was once donated by the hermit Nikolaus von Udell out of gratitude to the Kölsa residents because they cared for him during a serious illness. In addition to the church, he also gave the people of Cologne the forest.

The town's annual Christmas market is also attributed to Nikolaus von Udell . The Liebenwerda department , to which the village once belonged, already authorized the place to host the so-called Niklauskirmes in 1670 , which was celebrated every year on December 6th and 7th.

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 558 .
  • Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 218–220, ISBN 978-3884621523

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Kölsa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b 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 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 218–220, ISBN 978 -3884621523
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 558 .
  4. ^ A b City administration Falkenberg / Elster (ed.): "City brochure Falkenberg / Elster" . 2nd Edition. 2007, p. 18 .
  5. ^ Oßwald: The new church in Rehfeld . In: The Black Magpie . No. 171 , 1912 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  6. ↑ As of 2017
  7. ^ Website of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  8. ^ Structure of a bell , on the homepage of the Freiberg Verein Hilliger eV , accessed on October 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 62 .
  10. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on October 15, 2017.
  11. ^ Page of the district of Kölsa on the homepage of the city of Falkenberg / Elster, accessed on October 15, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 56.2 "  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 34.1"  E