Rehfeld village church (Falkenberg / Elster)

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Rehfeld village church

The Evangelical-Lutheran village church Rehfeld is a listed church building in Rehfeld , a district of the town of Falkenberg / Elster in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

Here is the in its present form at the beginning of the 20th century resulting structure with a cemetery to be found in the center.

Building description and history

Over the centuries there were probably at least three previous buildings on the site of today's church in Rehfeld on the eastern village green. There should have been a church in the village as early as the Middle Ages . The first known church fell victim to the Thirty Years' War in 1637 . Because the village burned down to three houses during this time in 1637. Around 20 years later, the rectory is said to have been rebuilt between 1656 and 1658. A few years later, a church was built in 1664. According to tradition, the bells were cast from the molten material of the original bells. In 1755 a successor was built with the construction of a half-timbered church . However, the church tower had to be renewed as early as 1830 because the building was not able to cope with the weather conditions and at the beginning of the 20th century a new building was finally necessary.

The Rehfelder Church shortly after its construction (1912)

The church in Rehfeld today is a neo-baroque brick hall building with a gable roof that was built in 1910 and 1911 . In the west of the nave there is a square church tower with a tail hood and lantern , crowned by a weather vane with the dates 1755 , 1830 and 1910 . In the south of the nave, the church has a sacristy annex.

A year after its consecration in March 1912, an article by Pastor Oßwald appeared in the local history series Die Schwarze Elster about the prehistory and the new building of the Rehfeld Church . Accordingly, the church was built according to plans by the Falkenberg construction company C. Ehrler, whose owner at that time was Wilhelm Ahrens. The slate roof and the lightning rod were built by the roofer Hoffmann, who is also based in Falkenberg . The necessary carpentry work was carried out by the master carpenter Paul Weg from Schönewalde , the glazing work by the Torgau master glazier Bauch and the locksmith work by the master locksmith Klemm from Torgau. The weather vane in turn came from the Mühlberg workshop of master locksmith Friese. A large part of the items of equipment newly acquired for the new building, such as the chandelier, the altar crucifix and the wall sconces, come from Berlin shops or workshops. The painting in the church was done by the Mühlberg portrait painter Kretschmann.

The church has a branch church in Kölsa and has received financial support from Kölsa residents over the years. The church is located in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . In addition to Rehfeld and Kölsa, Züllsdorf , Beyern , Fermerswalde and Löhsten also belong to the parish .

Equipment (selection)

Steeple

Sacred furnishings

The interior of the church is characterized by a wooden hollow vault and simple neo-baroque furnishings. The floor is covered with clay tiles. The pulpit altar present here has a polygonal pulpit, which is flanked by columns . In the west of the building there is a gallery with an ornamental parapet painting.

Sacred fittings of the church include a chalice-shaped baptismal font from around 1300. A tracery-like frieze can be seen on its eight-sided dome. There is also a crucifixion painting in the church that is dated to around 1700. A wrought-iron chandelier made in the Berlin workshop of Th. Köppen and some sacred objects made in the Torgau workshop of E. Richter, such as the baptismal bowl, baptismal jug, communion chalice, host box and paten come from the year the church was built.

organ

An organ can be found on the gallery . It was created in 1911 by the Bad Liebenwerda organ builder Arno Voigt (opus 15). The organ is provided with two manuals , has eight registers and has a pneumatic cone chest .

Bells

Two bronze bells have survived . One dates from the beginning of the 14th century , the second from 1668. According to its inscription, it was donated by the von Gersdorf family and cast in Andreas Herold's Dresden bell foundry .

Originally there was also another bell from the Lauchaer bell foundry Gebr. Ullrich , which was purchased when the new building was built in 1910.

Dunning and remembrance

East side with cemetery

The church is surrounded by a cemetery. In addition, there is a memorial for the fallen in the form of a stele on a three-tiered base right next to the church , which commemorates the villagers of the Rehfeld community who died in the First and Second World Wars .

Inside, in the church tower, is the sandstone grave monument for the former Rehfeld pastor Johannes Budaeus . The grave slab with an inscription describing the pastor's life is said to have been in the tower of the previous building. Johannes Budaeus (1626–1686) was the first pastor to take up office in Rehfeld after the Thirty Years War. He was born on September 8, 1626 as the son of the cloth maker Andreas Bude and his wife Margarethe in Herzberg. He studied in Osterode, Braunschweig and Wittenberg . Before he took up the post of pastor in Rehfeld and Döbrichau in 1655 , Budaeus was active as a cantor in Dahme , Dürrenberg and Herzberg . Budaeus left a number of records and historical documents. These report, among other things, on the condition and fate of the village during and after the war. And he wrote about the structure of the church and the rectory. The Kölsa branch is also partly an issue. The pastor finally died on February 3, 1686.

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 965 .
  • Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 261 to 263, ISBN 978-3884621523 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Rehfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: District Elbe-Elster Part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 261 to 263, ISBN 978-3884621523
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 965 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Oßwald: The new church in Rehfeld . In: The Black Magpie . No. 171 , 1912 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  5. ↑ Rehfeld district page on the website of the city of Falkenberg / Elster, accessed on October 18, 2017.
  6. ^ Website of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  7. ^ City administration Falkenberg / Elster (Ed.): "City brochure Falkenberg / Elster" . 2nd Edition. 2007, p. 18 .
  8. ↑ 1910
  9. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 63 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 32.3 ″  E