Plessa village church

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Plessa village church

The Protestant village church Plessa is a listed church building in the municipality of Plessa in the southern Brandenburg district of Elbe-Elster .

Building description and history

The Plessa Church on a postcard from around 1911.
Western view (1912)

In 1540 the first mention of a wooden chapel without altar equipment and decorations. At that time, preaching was still in Wendish . In 1792 a stone church was finally built in Plessa. It was built by the carpenter Mittag and the mason Weichelt (both from Elsterwerda). This church, already equipped with an organ, fell victim to a devastating village fire a few years later on October 25, 1811. Only four farms escaped the major fire. In addition to the church, the schoolhouse was also seriously damaged.

In 1814 the church building, which has been preserved to the present day, was finally erected. The two Elsterwerda craftsmen, Mittag and Weichelt, were involved in this. The altar was obtained from the master carpenter Keil from Gruhna. The two bells were created by the Dresden bell founder La Max. The church received its first organ in 1818. In 1886 and 1888, however, the structure suffered severe storm damage. Above all, their insides should have suffered as a result.

The place Plessa originally belonged to the parish of Elsterwerda and its church was a branch church of Elsterwerda. It remained that way until 1865. In that year, a separate rectory was built in Plessa. The church in neighboring Kahla also belonged to the parish of Plessa . At present, the parish of Plessa, belonging to the parish of Bad Liebenwerda , includes the places Kahla, Hohenleipisch , Döllingen , Gorden and Dreska .

The Plessa church, built in 1814, is a rough plastered hall building with a gable roof. In the west there is a tower with an eight-sided top, tail hood and lantern . The sacristy is on the east side .

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is characterized by a three-sided gallery. It has a wooden pulpit altar and a sandstone baptism with a late medieval cupola .

It received the organ that is in the church today as early as 1890. The instrument was created by the Schweidnitz organ building company Schlag & Söhne (op. 322). The playable organ has a mechanical cone chest , two manuals and 12 stops .

Literature (selection)

  • The Plessaers and their church . In: The Black Magpie . No. 179 , 1912.
  • Carl Klein: Contributions to the Church History of Plessa (Part 1) . In: The Black Magpie . No. 566 , 1940.
  • Carl Klein: Contributions to the Church History of Plessa (Part 2) . In: The Black Magpie . No. 567 , 1940.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 814 .
  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Plessa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 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 September 25, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c The Plessaers and their church . In: The Black Magpie . No. 179 , 1912.
  3. ^ A b Carl Klein: Contributions to the Church History of Plessa (Part 1) . In: The Black Magpie . No. 566 , 1940.
  4. ^ A b c Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 106-111 .
  5. ↑ Amt Plessa (Ed.): Amt Plessa - A region in the charming Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft . Euroverlag, Cottbus 1996.
  6. ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on October 2, 2016
  7. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1079 .
  8. ↑ 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 ° 27 ′ 47.5 "  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 13.7"  E