Saxdorf village church

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Saxdorf village church
View of the church from the southwest

The Evangelical village church Saxdorf is a listed church building in the Saxdorf district of the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

The church, built in the 13th century, has been the focus of many cultural events for decades. The Saxdorfer Pfarrgarten , designed by the artist Hanspeter Bethke , was voted one of the most beautiful gardens in the Berlin-Brandenburg region by viewers of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in 2013.

Building description and history

The Saxdorf Church is a late Romanesque hall building made of brick from the 13th century . A slightly drawn-in semicircular apse adjoins the east of the nave. In 1585 the church was destroyed and then rebuilt, shortened by about six meters. The renewed west side was made from lawn iron stone . In the west of the nave there is a boarded-up octagonal roof tower with a tail hood and lantern from 1765.

Restoration work took place in it in the 1970s and 80s . Frescoes on the north wall and remains of ornamental paintings in the apse were uncovered. In addition, the ogival windows in the apse have been reconstructed.

The church has been the focus of many cultural events for decades. The “Saxdorf Summer Concerts” have been taking place here regularly since 1974. Well-known artists such as Dirk Zöllner , Baby Sommer and Tom Quaas performed here. Johann Plietzsch gave the first concert of the series of events.

Saxdorf belongs to the church district Bad Liebenwerda . The parish of Saxdorf also looks after the neighboring community of Kauxdorf .

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the ship is flat. Here is a horseshoe gallery, the core of which was probably changed in the 16th century . The late Gothic frescoes on the north wall depict the Annunciation and the birth of Christ , with the baby Jesus being surrounded by a mandorla .

The furnishings include a late Gothic carved altar from the 16th century and made in an Obhausen workshop. In the central shrine of the altar, Mary can be seen between Saint Ursula and Saint Barbara , with four apostles in each of the wings . The painted backs of the wings show the Annunciation, the Visitation , the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi . The wooden pulpit is from the 19th century . The late Romanesque sandstone baptism in the church was originally in the village church of Martinskirchen . There is also a pastor's portrait from 1622 in the church . The oil painting applied to wood shows Magister Johannes Cummer, who died in 1622. The clergyman, who was born in Dahlen in 1575 , was pastor in Saxdorf for 13 years.

In the church there is furthermore one in 1978 from the Bad Liebenwerdaer organ building company Voigt created organ . The Saxdorf organ has a mechanical slide box , a manual , four registers and an attached pedal. The instrument was completely overhauled in 2011.

Tombs

South entrance portal of the church with stone cross

The Saxdorf Church is surrounded by the local cemetery . There are also several tombs in the church itself:

  • Gravestone with figurative bust for Wenceslaus Glogo († 1554)
  • Gravestone for Pastor Johann Gottfried Schaaff († 1719)
  • Gravestone of the judge Hans Blumisch († 1728)

Next to the south entrance portal of the church is a 78 cm × 92 cm × 31 cm stone cross . Its original location was on the outskirts in the direction of Kauxdorf . It was converted to the current location in 1980. Another stone cross was originally on the road to Koßdorf at kilometer 5.4.

Before Saxdorfer rectory near the church there is a war memorial in the form of a is granite - stele in honor of the First World War to find the fallen inhabitants of the village. Like the church, the monument is now on the Brandenburg State Monument Protection List.

Garden artwork "Parish Garden Saxdorf"

View from the east with apse

In the immediate vicinity of the church, the parish garden of the village, which is now known nationwide among gardening experts and friends, is to be found with native and foreign plants, shrubs and trees.

The approximately 4,000 square meter garden, which has been designed and maintained for decades by the Saxdorf pastor Karl-Heinrich Zahn and the artist Hanspeter Bethke , currently houses around 3,000 different types and varieties of plants, including 300 different types of roses. It has around 6,000 visitors a year and in 2013 was voted one of the 15 most beautiful gardens in the Berlin-Brandenburg region by viewers of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). In the RBB series Landschleicher and various other media, it was also referred to as one of the most beautiful gardens in Germany .

Personalities

The studied theologian has been a pastor in Saxdorf since 1967. In 1999 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his cultural activities in Saxdorf .
From 1954 to 1959, the artist studied at the Institute for Artistic Design in Halle-Burg Giebichenstein . In 1967 he was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and in the same year began to lay out and design the Saxdorf parish garden. In 2012 he received the culture award of the Elbe-Elster district .

Literature (selection)

  • Radlach: An old pastor picture . In: The Black Magpie . No. 277 , 1924.
  • Radlach: A letter of complaint and begging . In: The Black Magpie . No. 279 , 1924.
  • From the parish of Saxdorf . In: The Black Magpie . No. 282 , 1924.
  • Lange: Fire and water shortages in the parish of Saxdorf in the 18th century . No. 420 , 1931.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1008-1009 .
  • Stefan Leppert: His garden: when men become gardeners . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2012.
  • Churches in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda . art.media Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-037788-4 .
  • Helga Panten: Plant collectors and their passion: 34 portraits, tips, addresses . Köllen Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88579-145-4 .
  • Kara Huber: Brandenburg and its churches - presented by prominent sponsors . Prestel Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-5044-8 .
  • Petra Bahr , Klaus-Martin Bresgott , Hannes Langbein: Cultural churches - A journey through Germany . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02906-8 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Saxdorf  - 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 November 25, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Article about Saxdorf in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher from June 23, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1008-1009 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ida Kretzschmar: “Spontaneous healing at Saxdorf, a place of longing - What the painter Hanspeter Bethke and pastor Karl-Heinrich Zahn are hoping for in the anniversary year of the parish garden” in Lausitzer Rundschau , July 21, 2014
  5. ↑ Concert program of the Saxdorf Music Summer 2007 on saxdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2016
  6. ↑ As of 2016
  7. ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on November 27, 2016
  8. ↑ a b c The Saxdorf Church ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the private website saxdorf.de, accessed on November 25, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saxdorf.de
  9. ^ Radlach: An old pastor picture . In: The Black Magpie . No. 277 , 1924.
  10. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 63 .
  11. ↑ Georg A. Kuhlins: "The stone crosses of the Bad Liebenwerda district" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 579 . Bad Liebenwerda 1980, p. 4 to 9 .
  12. ↑ The Saxdorf Church ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2016 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. on the Saxdorfer Gemeinde website, accessed on November 26, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saxdorf.de
  13. ↑ Online project Memorial Memorials , accessed on November 25, 2016
  14. ↑ Status: 2014
  15. ↑ a b c d Frank Claus: “Where a garden has become a work of art” in Lausitzer Rundschau , April 17, 2014
  16. ↑ The Saxdorf Church ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the private website saxdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saxdorf.de
  17. ↑ The Saxdorf Church ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2018 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. on the private website saxdorf.de, accessed on November 26, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saxdorf.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '7.3 "  N , 13 ° 17' 4.4"  E