Pißdorf village church

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Pißdorf village church
Pißdorf village church

The village church of Pißdorf is the evangelical church of Pißdorf in the unified community Easterienburger 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 70851 as a monument . The church belongs to the parish office Osternienburg in the parish of Köthen of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt .

location

At a fork in the road from Köthen (Anhalt) to Aken (Elbe) on the one hand and Easterienburg on the other. Its location makes it the point de vue of these streets. Right next to the church is the cemetery and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in a separate square . In addition, a memorial plaque for those who fell in World War I is attached to the church .

Patronage

The patronage of the church is not entirely assured. It is assumed that it was initially a St. Rochus chapel that served as a pilgrimage chapel. This is supported by the fact that the tower is not fully integrated with the church and is probably a bit older than the nave and choir and the location at the fork in the road on the southern outskirts. Heinrich Lindner (1833) already suspected that parts of the church were particularly old. However, none of the authors comment on the patronage.

History and shape

Pißdorf, whose name probably goes back to the word bishop , seems to have been a relatively early church foundation for the long Slavic area ( Gau Serimunt ). In 1342 a pastor from Bistorp is mentioned. The patronage was held by the Bishop of Brandenburg until 1344, who is therefore a possible church founder. In its current form, the house of God can no longer be assigned to a specific style. The Romanesque west transverse tower is dated to the early 13th century, its completion in the middle of the 13th century. Individual stones have ornamentation and crosses. Larger alterations can be found in the years 1775, 1791, 1836, 1871/1872 and 1910. Among other things, the Romanesque slit windows on the ground floor of the tower were enlarged.

During the renovation in 1871 and 1872, which followed a lightning strike in the tower, the nave walls were raised, but the basket-arched windows from the late 18th century were retained. An entrance walled in 1836 with a pointed arch on the north side of the choir dates from the Gothic period. In 1836 the vestibule was also demolished. This choir probably also dates from the 13th century, because three early Gothic lancet windows have been preserved in the east wall of the choir, but the middle one was changed by the renovation in the Baroque period. There are also baroque window openings on the north and south sides of the choir.

In 1972, an attempt to renovate it came to a tragedy: as the construction company did not consider it possible to replace a column in the tower, they tore off the entire bell tower, damaging the church roof and this also collapsed shortly afterwards. The only replacement for the church tower was a flat asbestos roof, which meant that it lost its formative effect. The ship was left without a roof. In order to be able to use the choir as a celebration hall of the cemetery, it was bricked up in 1987. Security measures began in 1990. In 1995 the choir was finally made available for church use again.

In 2005 the building association of the church in Pißdorf was founded. He published regular information leaflets and collected funds with a commemorative stamp, wine sale and other campaigns, with which the tower was to get its hood again. This project, to which the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld and the KiBa Foundation also contributed money, was implemented in 2011. Since then, the 15 meter high tower has again crowned its 20 meter high dome. The topping-out ceremony was on December 2, 2011. The scaffolding was accepted in February 2012. The new tower flag received the years, the previous roof flag (1871 and 1910) as well as the year 2011 and the jumping dog, the symbol of Pißdorf. In 2015 the tower clock was repaired, which had been sold in 1979 and has now returned.

Furnishing

The inside of the church had a flat roof and a horseshoe gallery. In 1933 Degenkolbe (Halle) painted it. Most of the furnishings (including the organ, the wooden pulpit and the gallery) have been lost. It was from the 1870s. There are three bells in the tower, one of which is inscribed from 1928 and a second can be dated to around 1340. The big bell dates from 1440 and measures 1.20 × 1.25 meters.

The Köthen painter Steffen Rogge gave the church the picture cycle Hope even in the dark - the radioactive danger .

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.
  • Heinrich Lindner: History and description of the state of Anhalt. Dessau 1833 (Reprint: Flugkopf Verlag, Halle 1991).

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Pißdorf  - 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. ↑ The Church. kirche.pissdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Haetge / Harksen, p. 276.
  5. ↑ Lindner, Vol. IV, p. 590.
  6. ↑ Haetge / Harksen, p. 275.
  7. ↑ a b c Dehio, p. 658.
  8. ↑ a b c Ortschronik from 1995, accessed on November 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ Pictures (historical views before and after 1972), kirche.pissdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2019.
  10. ↑ Ute Hartling: Almost every family in the village has already helped build the hall. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , January 27, 2016, accessed November 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Matthias Bartl: Small chapel is almost finished now. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 14, 1995, accessed November 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ All information sheets , accessed on November 26, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sylke Hermann: With Plan B to a stage victory. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, May 27, 2011, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ All supported churches. Pißdorf. KiBa Foundation, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Sylke Hermann: District gets on board . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 31, 2011, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Sylke Hermann: The hood is in place. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, November 16, 2011, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  17. ^ Sylke Hermann: cleaning the handles. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, January 4, 2013, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Wladimir Kleschtschow: On top comes the dog. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, December 5, 2011, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  19. ↑ RAN1: Pißdorf church tower top is put back on. AnhaltFreizeitSport (YouTube), December 23, 2011, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Sylke Hermann: Nothing rusts there. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 16, 2014, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  21. ^ Sylke Hermann: Pißdorf. Lost church tower clock comes back. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 14, 2014, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Ute Hartling-Lieblang: Pißdorfer Church. Historic tower clock back in operation. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 23 August 2015, accessed on 26 November 2019 .
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ Steffen Rogge: Picture gallery - art painting Steffen Rogge. kunstmaler-rogge.de, accessed on November 26, 2019 . - Picture gallery church Pißdorf - hope even in dark times with 5 photos.
  25. ↑ News - Exhibition opening. pissdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2019 . .

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 27.9 "  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 34.7"  E