Easterienburg village church

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Easterienburg village church

The village church of Osternienburg is the Protestant church of Osternienburg in the unified community of Osternienburger Land in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt . The sacred building is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 09996 as a monument . The church belongs to the parish office Osternienburg in the parish of Köthen of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt .

location

On a small elevation in the center of the village, where one of the village ponds and the old cemetery are located. Walter-Rathenau-Strasse and Schulstrasse encompass this hill.

History and shape

Thanks to its neo-Romanesque tower, the church is again the dominant building in the village today - after the Solvay works were demolished. The nave is a baroque hall from the years 1718 and 1719, but its window openings are largely shaped by the renovation work carried out between 1876 and 1879, when the new church tower was built. This has a high pointed helmet topped with a cross. The tower was built relatively deep into the ship. The nave was built from quarry stone, while the tower with the west gable and the southern extension for the entrance to the ship were made of brick.

The baroque building had to be repaired several times. In 1777 the wooden beams were rotten and in 1820 the roof was covered. In the years 1831 to 1847 various renovation measures took place. So the roof and the windows were repaired and the inside whitewashed. In 1933 the church of Degenkolbe (Halle) was painted. Another repair took place in 1968. Two windows were restored in 2018 after several years of fundraising.

predecessor

If the dating of the oldest bell is correct, then the first place of worship could be assumed to be in the 12th century. Like St. Germanus (Weißandt-Gölzau) , it would be one of the older churches that were founded in Anhalt-Köthen . The baroque building received a church tower with a half-timbered upper storey in 1786, so that the church was probably without a tower until then. This tower was financed with a donation from the future Prince August Christian von Anhalt-Köthen . In addition, by rescript of November 15, 1786, he allowed the rector from Köthen to hold the Lutheran Lord's Supper in the Reformed Church every quarter for the surrounding towns. He and his wife attended the first in person, which was praised as a fine example of a tolerant attitude .

Interior and outfit

The oldest preserved elements of the church are the bronze bells. The older one is said to date from the 12th century, the younger was created by Clawes Backmester (Magdeburg) in 1504. Haetge and Harksen, who mention a third bell (from the 16th century), however, date it more to around 1300. They place the baptismal font in the 14th century. A number of the Lord's Supper implements (jugs, baptismal bowl, wafer bowl, chalice) date from the 17th and 18th centuries. Otherwise, the furnishings (altar, pulpit) can be assigned to the time of the renovation in the 19th century. The baroque roof structure was reinforced with four hanging columns during the renovation in the 1870s. The church interior has a flat roof and a gallery running around three sides.

The organ is on the west gallery and was created in 1880 by A. Nickol (Dessau). Its predecessor was last repaired in 1851 by A. Hoff (Dessau).

An oak panel commemorates those who died in the First World War . In 2017, the Köthen painters Steffen and Nadine Rogge presented the church with the picture cycle Miracles of Creation .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • Ernst Haetge / Marie-Luise Harksen: Dessau-Köthen district. First part: The city of Köthen and the district except Wörlitz (= The art monuments of the State of Anhalt ; 2.1), August Hopfer Verlag, Burg 1943.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Osternienburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ^ Website of the church district . For membership, the pastor and contact details, see also the parish search there.
  3. ↑ a b c Dehio, p. 646.
  4. ↑ a b c Haetge / Harksen, p. 270.
  5. ↑ Katrin Noack: Funding for the district gives 48,500 euros for the preservation of cultural monuments. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, March 3, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  6. ^ Sylke Hermann: Working on the choir window. Thanks to many donations, the church Osternienburg can be renovated. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 9, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Philipp Ludwig Hermann Röder : Geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Upper Saxony and the Upper and Lower Lausiz , 1805, p. 170.
  8. ^ Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for all Stands , Vol. 1.4, Leipzig 1793, pp. 740-741.
  9. ↑ a b Haetge / Harksen, p. 271.
  10. ^ Editing of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany North (Magdeburg): Jubilee. Easter castle celebrates 300 years of the church. Meine-kirchenzeitung.de, April 29, 2019, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sebastian Köhler: Miracles of Creation - Painter Rogge enriches the church Osternienburg. Wochenspiegel, May 8, 2019, accessed on November 24, 2019 . - With 3 photos and a video.
  12. ↑ Steffen Rogge: Picture gallery - art painting Steffen Rogge. kunstmaler-rogge.de, accessed on November 24, 2019 . - Picture gallery church Osternienburg - miracle of creation with 8 photos.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '39.2 "  N , 12 ° 1' 37.7"  E