Kroppen village church
The listed Protestant village church of Kroppen is located in the center of the southern Brandenburg community of Kroppen in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .
Building description and history
As early as 1495, Kroppen was listed as a parish in the registry of the diocese of Meißen. Until shortly before the Thirty Years' War there was a small wooden church in the village, the location of which was probably in the area of today's parish garden. A tile-roofed successor building in half-timbered construction was built in 1616 under the pastor Christoph Fasolt by the Ortrander carpenter Martin Fuchs in the area of the churchyard, in whose tower there were three bells.
The church survived the chaos of war, but eventually became too small. For this reason, the baroque plastered building that has existed to the present day was erected between 1717 and 1721. The masonry work was done by Balthasar Romberger from Radeburg . Johann Adam, also from Radeburg, made woodwork and carpentry work. The simple pulpit altar also dates from this time. This was created between 1721 and 1722 by the Dresden cabinet maker and sculptor Johann Benjamin Thomae . The founder, builder and patron of the new church was Count Georg von Werthern (1663–1721), once chancellor and minister in the government of Augustus the Strong .
In October 1835, the thatched rectory with all its farm buildings fell victim to a fire and was rebuilt the following year.
In 1863 the interior of the church was restored and whitewashed by Wilhelm Grube from Liebenwerda . During threshing work on the neighboring property in 1919, the church tower caught fire from flying sparks and was badly damaged, as was the organ. The church bells were destroyed. The subsequent reconstruction work, led by Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg , was mainly financed by the Kroppen manor owner and entrepreneur Otto Hoesch, a descendant of the Hoesch family of entrepreneurs of the same name . Furthermore, the church received three new steel bells from the Bochum Association ; these have the following inscriptions:
- Big bell: "Out of the great need of war, lead us to peace, O God"
- Middle bell: "From the earth struggle and dispute call us one day to eternity"
- Small bell: "Donated by the patron, Kommerzienrat Otto Hoesch"
Further restoration and modernization work is known for the early 1950s and 1995. In 2008 the church also underwent a roof and facade renovation.
The organ is the work of the Schweidnitz organ building company Schlag & Söhne . It has two manuals and 14 stops.
Cemetery and tombs
In the church there is a tomb created by Johann Benjamin Thomae for the founder of the church, Georg Graf von Werthern.
In the churchyard there is a war memorial for those who died in the First World War and a memorial stone for the victims of war and violence. Furthermore, wooden steles created by young people from the parish of Kroppen / Lindenau, which are supposed to convey Christian values, can be found here since April 2015.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Internet presence of the parish Kroppen - Lindenau
Footnotes and individual references
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 , pp. 231-234 .
- ↑ The village church Kroppen on the homepage of the municipality Kroppen , accessed on June 30, 2016
- ↑ "Fundstück: Kroppen" in the church , 1950–1952
- ^ The village church Kroppen on the homepage of the KIBA Foundation , accessed on June 29, 2016
- ↑ Torsten Richter-Zippack: “Kroppen church steles convey values” in Lausitzer Rundschau , April 11, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 7.4 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 59.7" E