Lebusa village church

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Lebusa village church
Southwest view

The Protestant village church Lebusa is a baroque hall church in Lebusa belonging to the Schlieben district in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Lebusa-Körba in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , is best known for Gottfried Silbermann's organ and can be visited upon registration.

History and architecture

The Protestant church was built between 1725 and 1727 as a stately plastered hall building with a three-sided east end and a square west tower; the design is attributed to the master builder Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann . The church is a foundation of the cavalry general Moritz Friedrich von Milkau , an envoy of the Polish King and Elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong . The base and the frames of the two-zone windows are made of sandstone. Larger arched windows with roofs are arranged at the top. Symmetrical single-storey boxes with hipped roofs are built on the north and south sides. The floor plan of the tower develops from a square to an octagon and is completed by a sloping, curved dome with a lantern and a high point. The exterior has been restored since 1992.

The interior is characterized by the three-sided, west-facing concave loft from the construction period and the plastered ceiling over a cornice strip, under which glass mansion boxes are installed in the northeast and southeast.

Furnishing

The artistically valuable baroque furnishings, which are rare in this region due to their cohesion, determine the impression of the interior. The unusually monumental pulpit altar from 1726 made of sandstone with a wooden pulpit and sound cover is designed as a steeply proportioned pilaster structure with a blown volute gable and marbled frame. The curved pulpit basket is decorated with rich carvings and angel heads and equipped with a pulpit hourglass , the sound cover with tassels and a flame vase.

The wooden baptism from the first quarter of the 18th century shows sculptured putti heads between the eight-sided cupa and the four-sided base between curved volutes.

A richly decorated faience tiled stove from 1727 with reliefs has been preserved in each of the box extensions. On the northern oven there are chinoiseries with a crowning Buddha figure , on the southern relief depictions with the sacrifice of Isaac , Cain and Abel and the sacrifice of Noah as well as a crowning vase. On the inner walls of the choir there are nine figure tombstones of the von Löser estate family from the years 1536 to 1605, including three children's tombstones. A death shield for Moritz Friedrich von Milkau's († 1740) builder shows the vita with warlike emblems.

organ

Silbermann organ of the Lebusa village church

The organ was probably built by Gottfried Silbermann in the year the church was consecrated in 1727. The exact date is unclear, but is certainly before the first mention in 1730. It has 14 stops on a manual and pedal . The instrument was restored in 1953 by the Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden company . Between 1994 and 1997, the same company carried out a comprehensive restoration and return of all technical parts to their original condition. The pipework with 94% original substance was restored and the wind pressure, which was reduced in 1953, was increased to its original value. The case frame was restored by Hilke Frach-Renner and Peter Taubert. The disposition is:

Major work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Qvintads 8th'
Prestant 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Qvinte 3 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Qvinte 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sufflöt 1'
Cornet III (from c 1 )
Mixture III
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Trombone bass 16 ′
Remarks
  • Pitch: currently a 1 = 469.9 Hz
  • Tuning : after 1997 reconstruction according to the well-tempered tuning of later Silbermann organs
  • Wind pressure: about 80 mm water column

Recordings of the Silbermann organ

  • Organ music on the YouTube channel of the Silbermann organ Lebusa

literature

Web links

Commons : Lebusa village church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Frank-Harald Greß , Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 72.
  3. ↑ Silbermann organ Lebusa. Retrieved on February 11, 2020 (German).

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 45.2 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 7.7"  E