Langennaundorf village church

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Langennaundorf village church

The Protestant village church Langennaundorf is a listed church building in the district of Langennaundorf in the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here it is, surrounded by a cemetery, in a central location on the grassland of the village. The former rectory of the church, which is also under monument protection, can be found about 200 meters away on the northern village green .

It belongs to the parish Uebigau in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Building description and history

The Langennaundorf Church is a rectangular, late Gothic hall building with a straight east end made of field stones. It was built in the 14th century . Around 1715 the building was extensively renewed, including enlarging the south and east windows. In the west of the nave there is a square , half-timbered bell tower , which dates from the same time as the renovations. This has a convicted the octagonal bell upstairs with verschieferter tail hood and lantern .

Equipment (selection)

The impressive interior of the church dates from around 1715. It is characterized by a wooden barrel ceiling, which, in order to visually increase the space , was painted illusionistically with galleries , slug panes and curtains. Further ceiling paintings in the top of the vault show the slightly cloudy sky, a female figure with tape and depictions of angels in three image fields.

The altarpiece dates from around 1715. In the predella there is the depiction of the Last Supper , the crucifixion of Jesus can be seen in the middle picture and the birth of Christ in the upper painting. The polygonal pulpit also dates from 1726, the cup-shaped font from the 15th century .

Other pieces of the church include an altar crucifix ( 18th century ), a chalice from tin (around 1800), a baptismal font with an inscription (1769) and a pewter Altarleuchter couple on ball feet (1715).

The Langennaundorf organ has a pneumatic cone chest , a manual and 6 stops . This was created in 1917 by the Liebenwerda organ builder Arno Voigt (op. 43). The organ prospectus is inscribed from the year 1799.

Tombs

Northern village green with memorial to the fallen

The Langennaundorf Church is surrounded by the local cemetery. In the church itself there is an incised gravestone behind the altar for the clergyman Johannes, who died in 1514. The grave of Margarethe Richter, who died in 1650, can be found on the south wall outside, crowned with rolls and cartilage.

A war memorial for the villagers of Langennaundorf who died in the First World War is in the form of a field stone a little north of the church on the village green. On a plaque attached there are 6 names with date of death and unit. At the base of the monument there is also a memorial plaque for those who died in the village in World War II .

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
  • 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. 230 to 233, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3 .
  • About the church and bells in Langennaundorf . In: The Black Magpie . No. 268 , 1924.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Langennaundorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 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 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 230 to 233, ISBN 978-3- 88462-152-3
  3. ^ Website of the church district .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 592 .
  5. ↑ The Langennaundorfer Church at www.altekirchen.de , accessed on October 10, 2016
  6. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 62 .
  7. ↑ Online project Memorial Memorials , accessed on October 11, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '17.3 "  N , 13 ° 20' 27.4"  E