Schönborn village church (Niederlausitz)
The Protestant village church Schönborn (Niederlausitz) is a late Romanesque brick church in Schönborn (Niederlausitz) in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Schönborn in the Doberlug region in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and can be visited upon registration.
History and architecture
The village church Schönborn is a Romanesque hall building with extruded square choir in brick . It is the mother church of the Lindena village church and is formally related to this church. It was owned by the Dobrilugk Monastery in 1234 and is under the influence of the Doberlug Monastery Church . The choir with a semicircular apse is still closed with the vault from the construction period. The nave was covered according to dendrochronological dating (d) in 1253. The tower the width of the nave was added after the middle of the 13th century. The upper floor of the tower with pinnacle gables, like the barrel-vaulted sacristy on the north side of the choir, was only built towards the end of the 15th century. The nave of the church was probably only vaulted at the beginning of the 16th century and provided with the necessary buttresses .
A square roof turret from 1848 sits on the tower . The church was thoroughly restored in 1906; the portal vestibules were added to the west and south of the choir. The original lancet windows were later widened with a basket arch, except for three narrow, rounded apse windows. A pointed arch frieze stretches around the apse under the eaves . A round arched south choir portal (within the vestibule) has been preserved with a stepped reveal and remnants of medieval fittings on the door leaf, the other portals were probably rebuilt in the 16th century.
The interior was redesigned and painted during the restoration in 1906, another restoration took place in 1984. The triumphal arch and the apse arch are designed as pressed pointed arches . The ribbed star vaults in the nave, like the groin vaults in the tower hall, probably date from the beginning of the 16th century. Above the nave vault on the east wall, there are remains of figural wall paintings from an interior version from around 1300 depicting seated saints or apostles under a palmette frieze .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is an artistically valuable carved altar, which is dated to 1513. In the predella there is a niche with a group of figures of St. Martin on horseback with a beggar. In the middle shrine a Madonna is depicted between Peter and Paul, in the wings two saints one on top of the other, the Annunciation is painted on the back . Three free figures are arranged in the delicate crack of the altar , with Hieronymus in the middle; the figures next to it were subsequently identified as Peter and Paul through apparently incorrectly added attributes .
An elaborate sandstone pulpit of late Mannerism , accessible through a walled staircase, was created with an inscription in 1655 by Andreas Schultze from Torgau . The five-sided basket stands on a baluster foot , on its parapet are shown moving reliefs of Christ and the four evangelists in arched niches. On the side of the back wall of the pulpit there are oval reliefs with the Resurrection and the Last Judgment , which are framed by cartilage and auricular decoration . On the wooden sounding board are trombone Engel arranged.
A sacrament niche with an ornamentally painted door, dated 1742, completes the furnishings. A box-shaped, wood-carved sacrament house on a slightly rotated base has been preserved with the late Gothic painting . An expressive triumphal crucifix comes from the middle of the 14th century. Three-sided galleries on baluster posts were created by Abraham Jäger from Doberlug between 1710 and 1715 ; the northern one was extended into the choir.
A floating baptismal angel with a crown from the beginning of the 18th century, like the galleries, was probably made by Abraham Jäger and was restored in 1994. A dugout chest dated around 1220 (d) has been preserved from the Middle Ages . On the southern outer wall is a tombstone for Abraham Sieber († 1654) framed by auricle and cartilage, which may also come from Andreas Schultze.
The organ is a work by Moritz Baumgarten from 1859 with twelve stops on two manuals and pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 975–976.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the parish of Schönborn
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Schönborn village church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 41.7 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 15.8" E