Village church Oschätze
The Protestant village church Oschätze is a church building in the district of Oschätze of the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster .
The church stands in the center and is surrounded by a cemetery surrounded, it stands together with the original organ under monument protection .
Building description and history
Originally the village of Oschätze belonged to the Würdenhain rule . While the Würdenhain Castle was destroyed by the order of the Saxon Elector in the middle of the 15th century and the lands were annexed to the rule of Mühlberg , the church remained with Würdenhain .
In 1686 a branch church was built in Oschätze . The half-timbered building , which looked similar to the original mother church in Würdenhain and was also dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria , was demolished in 1908 and replaced by a new building in the same year. Kröbeln and Kosilenzien, where churches are also located, had already been spun off as an independent parish after the Reformation .
The hall church is a neo-baroque , plastered solid building with a three-sided east end. To the west of the nave is a square church tower with a tail hood , tower clock and weather vane . The construction company Nicklisch & Mattheus in Liebenwerda carried out the new building .
In 2016 Oschätze belonged to the Prösen parish .
- The half-timbered previous church and the former Würdenhain mother church
The half-timbered church Oschätze, demolished in 1908
The former mother church of St. Katharina in Würdenhain
Equipment (selection)
The interior of the church is characterized by a vaulted wooden ceiling and a horseshoe gallery .
In the church there is a winged altar from the 15th century , in the middle shrine of which Mary with child can be seen. Several saints are depicted on the wings, which are divided into two zones. The backs of the wings are also painted. Other pieces of equipment include a wooden pulpit from the 17th century and a late Gothic font .
The old half-timbered church already had an organ from the year 1844 and built by the Meissen master organ builder Friedrich Pfützner. Today's organ has a pneumatic cone chest , two manuals and seven registers . This was created in 1908 by the Liebenwerda organ builder Arno Voigt (op. 8).
The bells of the church had to be removed in both world wars and given for armament purposes. Today's bell is from 1957. It has been ringing automatically since 2007.
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b Rudolf Matthies: History of the village Würdenhain . 1953 (set up within the framework of the national construction work).
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Bastian : The church in Würdenhain. In: Die Schwarze Elster , No. 486, July 1935.
- ↑ a b c d Miriam Balzer: The center of Oschätze celebrates its 100th birthday. In: Lausitzer Rundschau from November 2, 2009
- ↑ a b Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , page 786.
- ↑ Internet presence of the parish of Prösen , accessed on October 22, 2016
- ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on October 22, 2016
- ↑ a b Gudrun Kupsch: Oschätze district . In: Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda e. V. (Ed.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 264 to 265 .
- ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 62 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 11.2 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 20.1" E