Rückersdorf village church (Niederlausitz)

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Rückersdorf village church

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

The 14th century hall building made of field stone is surrounded by the former cemetery in the old town center. Inside you will find, among other things, an organ created by the Wittstocker organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller , which is also a listed building.

Building description and history

The church tower built in 1907

The core of the church in Rückersdorf, first mentioned in 1234 and which was one of the first possessions of the Dobrilugk Monastery , dates back to the 14th century.

The building is a rectangular hall made of field stone, with a semicircular apse connected to the nave in the east . In the west of the ship there is a neo-baroque church tower built in 1907 in the form of a square ridge turret with an octagonal bell storey and a tail hood . There is a modern vestibule on the south side. This vestibule, which was renovated in 1988, conceals a round arched step portal with an iron-studded door leaf.

The building underwent extensive renovation and renovation work in 1907 and 1908. The architect Karl Weber (1870–1915), who was also involved in the renovation work on the Doberlug monastery church , was probably responsible for the plans . This restoration work largely determines the appearance of the Rückersdorfer church inside and outside. In addition to the renewal of the tower, the windows of the building were also enlarged in an arched manner.

Equipment (selection)

The ceiling inside is hollow barrel-shaped and provided with paintings depicting a cloudy sky. The connection from the nave to the apse, in which there are also paintings, is created by a triumphal arch. In the north and west there are galleries , which are decorated with tendril paintings.

The Rückersdorfer church has a simple altarpiece from the second half of the 17th century . In its main field there is a painting depicting the Lamentation of Christ . This is a copy of an Italian painting in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie. There are oil prints in the predella and in the extract.

The organ that can be seen in the church today is an instrument that was created by the Wittstock organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller (1815–1897) in 1897 and is now a listed building. The organ was restored in 2000 by the Bad Liebenwerda organ building company Voigt . The organ has a mechanical drawer and seven stops on two manuals .

Dunning and remembrance

Immediately by the church there is a memorial in honor of the villagers who died in the two world wars. An inscription and several inset name plaques can be seen on the front of the monument. The inscription reads "In memory of our fallen and missing of the world wars".

Community membership

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

literature

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 November 1, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 993 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Organ landscape Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 63 .
  4. ↑ The Rückersdorfer village church on the website www.askanier-welten.de
  5. ↑ The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation states 1858 as the year of creation in its database.
  6. ^ Organ database , accessed on November 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ The Pfarrsprengel Friedersdorf on the homepage of the church district Niederlausitz, accessed on November 1, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33'52 "  N , 13 ° 32'25.3"  E