Oppelhain village church

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Oppelhain village church

The Protestant village church Oppelhain is a listed church building in the district of Oppelhain in the southern Brandenburg municipality of Rückersdorf in the district of Elbe-Elster . The field stone building from the 15th century is located in the old village near the village.

Building description and history

The Oppelhain church is a plastered hall building made of field stone that was built in the 15th century . In the west of the nave there is a recessed church tower with a rectangular floor plan and a gable roof . This was increased in the middle of the 19th century. Brick was used as building material . The polygonal apse of the church in the east of the nave is also made of brick . This, too, was not created until the renovation and expansion work in the middle of the 19th century. The windows and doors of the building were enlarged in the 18th century.

Today Oppelhain is part of the Protestant parish Friedersdorf , to which in addition to Friedersdorf and Oppelhain also Rückersdorf and Gruhno belong. The parish is located in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , EKBO for short .

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is characterized by a three-sided gallery and a painted wooden beam ceiling . In the gallery there are slogans and the parapet areas are ornamentally painted. In the Handbook of German Art Monuments they are described as “rough peasant painting of the 18th century”.

The church also features a carved winged altar , which is dated to around 1500. The figures in the middle shrine show Anna herself the third between John the Baptist and Bartholomew . Mary Magdalene and Nicholas can be seen in the wings . The pulpit of the church dates from the 17th century, the parish chair from the 18th century.

organ

The instrument that can be seen in the church today is an organ that was created in 1910 by the Zörbig organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann (1842–1922) (op. 320). After being in poor condition for many years, the Central German organ builder A. Voigt carried out a renovation in 2017. The re-inauguration took place on October 1, 2017. The organ has a pneumatic cone chest , eight stops on two manuals and a pedal .

The disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
octave 4 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Flauto amabile 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Thought bass 8th'

further reading

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Oppelhain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c 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 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 778 .
  3. ↑ The Friedersdorf parish on the homepage of the Lower Lusatia church district, accessed on October 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ 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. 62 .
  5. ↑ Opus list of organ-building institution of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig (PDF file), page 20, Stand: June 24, 2017th
  6. ↑ Opus list of organ-building institution of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig on the homepage of Orgelbauanstalt Rühlmann, accessed on 27 October 2017th
  7. ^ Organ database , accessed on October 28, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 24.2 ″  E