Martinskirchen village church
The Protestant village church Martinskirchen is a church building in the district of Martinskirchen in the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . Here the church can be found surrounded by a cemetery in the center of the village, from which it probably owes its name. The building is now a listed building .
Building description and history
The Martinskirchen village church is probably the namesake of the place. It is believed that Saint Martin was the patron saint of the town's founder or first owner.
Originally there was probably a wooden previous building around 1200. The church that exists today is a late Romanesque and later plastered brick building with a gable roof , west transverse tower and a retracted choir with a three-eighth end that was built in the first half of the 13th century . On the from the 17th century, originating steeple , which presumably instead of a double tower originally located here was built, is situated on the hipped an octagonal roof skylights with tail hood.
There are brick additions to the north of the choir. This was created during the renovation work at the end of the 17th century instead of a sacristy that was probably originally located here . A stepped portal can be seen in the south wall of the church.
The church fell victim to a fire in the 17th century and was rebuilt between 1690 and 1699 under the owner of the Martinskirchen manor, Hans Georg von Wehlen . Restoration work was carried out on the church in 1738, 1767 after a lightning strike and in 1828 with the installation of the first organ. Extensive restoration work was carried out around 1903/1904. She got the tower clock at the church in 1852. This clock has two faces and was renewed in 1936. During the GDR era , a hobbyist also gave it a second hand, which is sometimes perceived as a curiosity.
Martinskirchen was originally a branch church of Altbelgern . Today is one church for Protestant parish area "Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf" which part of the church district Bad Liebenwerda is.
Equipment (selection)
The interior of the church is characterized by a horseshoe gallery and in the nave by a wooden beam ceiling . A flat wooden barrel ceiling can be found in the choir. There is also a high round arched triumphal arch and a large double arcade in the church .
The wooden pulpit altar in the church dates from 1697. It has a simple column structure with side passages. A painting of the Last Supper can be seen under the bulging pulpit. Another piece of equipment in the church is a vase-like baptismal font made of sandstone with a shell base, lid and lectern attachment. In the extension there is an altar painting from the first quarter of the 16th century .
In the church there is a further 1835 from Delitzscher organ builder Johann Carl Friedrich Lochmann created (1779-1838) organ . The organ has a mechanical drawer , a manual and 13 stops .
Tombs and memorials
The church is surrounded by the local cemetery. Several tombstones can be found in the church itself, including the tomb of Hans Georg von Wehlens (1652–1711) with an inscription . The will of the electoral stable master is now kept in the Wernigerode branch of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives.
There are also three related figural gravestones in the church for four children of the von Rottendorf family from 1689 and 1690 and three knight gravestones from the von Korbitz family from the second half of the 16th century and from 1620.
A memorial to the fallen in honor of the villagers who died in the two world wars can be found in the church cemetery. The monument with two inscriptions is located on a three-tiered base. On the left and right side there are name boards for the victims of the First World War . Another name plaque with the names of those killed and missing in World War II was attached or leaned against the base of the monument .
There is also a medieval atonement cross to the west of the cemetery.
Literature (selection)
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 7-8 .
- Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (publisher): Elbe-Elster organ landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 46 to 47 .
Web links
- The Martinskirchener Martinskirche on the homepage of the evangelical parish area Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf
- The Martinskirche on the website www.askanier-welten.de
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-937233-30-7 , p. 113 .
- ↑ a b c d 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 was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 12, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 7-8 .
- ↑ a b c d Martinskirchen . In: The Black Magpie . No. 28 , 1906 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
- ↑ a b c d e f g The Martinskirchen village church on the private homepage www.maegel-net.de, accessed on September 12, 2017
- ↑ a b Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster Organ Landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 46-47 .
- ↑ a b The Martinskirchen village church on the homepage of the Evangelical Parish Mühlberg / Elbe and Koßdorf , accessed on September 12, 2017
- ↑ The parish offices of the Bad Liebenwerda church district on its homepage, accessed on September 11, 2017.
- ↑ The Martinskirche on the website www.askanier-welten.de , accessed on September 12, 2017.
- ^ Entry: "Affairs of the Lords of Wehlen" in the archive portal of the German Digital Library , accessed on September 12, 2017
- ↑ Online project Memorial Memorials , accessed on September 12, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 33.8 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 20.5" E