Kreblitz village church
The Protestant village church Kreblitz is a stone church from the middle of the 14th century in Kreblitz , a district of the city of Luckau in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The district road 6137 leads coming from the north in a south direction through the place. In the historic town center, Kreisstraße 6139 branches off to the west. The church stands northwest of this intersection on a piece of land that is enclosed with a fence . To the east there is a residential area. At an earlier time there was a manor to the north.
history
The building was initially built as a hall in the middle of the 14th century. The church tower was added at the beginning of the 15th century . The building was restored in 1992.
Building description
The building was essentially made of mixed masonry, ie from uncut and not layered field stones , which were filled with rock fragments. Turf iron was used in numerous corners of the building, and masonry was mostly used for renovation and expansion work . The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east side there are three pressed segment arched windows. They were originally larger and arched in shape. In the gable above there is a narrow, high rectangular opening in the middle.
This is followed by the nave to the west . The north wall has no windows and was therefore prepared for a large-scale mural inside , comparable to the Kemnitz village church , for example . On the south side there are three pressed-segment-arch-shaped windows, the facings of which were also made of brick. One window is in the choir area, in between is a double-stepped, pointed arch-shaped gate with cup stones and two further windows in the western area. The ship has a simple gable roof .
The church tower takes up the full width of the ship. It can be entered from the west through a small, double-stepped and arched gate and is otherwise windowless. These, like the south portal, are likely to date from the construction period. On each side of the bell storey there are three coupled, ogival panels . A sound arcade is built into the middle panel . The tower ends with a pyramid roof .
Furnishing
The pulpit altar dates from the beginning of the 18th century. It consists of two openwork, twisted columns, which are adorned with narrow cheeks decorated with acanthus . In the center is the pulpit with twisted corner pillars, above it a sound cover on which a pelican was originally attached.
Other church furnishings include a parish and choir chair with a barred top from the 18th century. As well as a gallery from the same era in the west and north . The east gallery presumably dates from the 17th century. On it stands an organ that Johann Christoph Schröther the Younger created in 1836. The painted marbling of the gallery was probably made in 1932. In the east wall there is a late Gothic sacrament niche with a stepped gable. The building has a beamed ceiling inside.
A special feature is a baptismal angel from 1713, to which Tobias Mathias Beyermann is attributed. The figure is described by the Dehio manual as "somewhat folksy-looking". It is a foundation of those from Stutterheim , who held the church patronage at that time . The 1.36 m tall figure bears the original color, which was restored in 2013. Presumably the figure was holding a laurel wreath in its outstretched arms, on which the bowl rested. After the parish erected a plaster baptismal font in 1873, it lost its function and was stored in the attic. There it was heavily soiled, but was spared further, in comparable cases occasionally unprofessionally carried out work. The right forearm, hand and wings were damaged and could be restored. During the restoration, the face was sculpted; the work costs around 8,000 euros.
To the southwest in front of the church a memorial commemorates those who died in the world wars. On the stele is the inscription: “The heroic death for the fatherland in the World War 1914/1918 suffered from the community of Kreblitz and / Rüdingsdorf” and “To commemorate the fallen of the Second World War / from Kreblitz 1939–1945”. The list is supplemented by a single memorial stone that stands west of the south portal. There is the grave of corporal Kurt Wachholz, who died in 1941.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anja Brautschek: Taufengel returns to Kreblitz . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , December 6, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 44.8 ″ E