Schmerkendorf village church

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Schmerkendorf village church

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

The turf iron stone church, which was first mentioned in the 13th century , houses, among other things, a winged altar from around 1500, one of the few large reredos that have survived in the area from the pre-Reformation period.

The former rectory of the village can be found on a plot of land directly at the cemetery . The half-timbered building from the early 17th century houses the Schmerkendorfer Heimatstube.

Building description and history

The church, the interior of which is characterized by baroque alterations, was first mentioned in a document in 1251. At that time it was a branch church of the Patronage Altbelgern , which was subordinate to the nunnery "Marienthron" in Torgau . The lawn iron stone building, which has been changed several times, is an elongated hall church with a three-sided closure and a gable roof . The nave has a flat, square coffered wooden ceiling . There is an ogival portal on the south side . To the west is a square, plastered tower, the core of which dates from the 14th century. Its superstructure consists of a plastered brick framework from 1767 with a slate-covered tail hood and lantern . Its current plaster dates from 1982.

The church suffered severe damage during the Thirty Years' War , after which it was rebuilt in 1672. After that, the church was rebuilt and expanded several times. The west gallery of the building dates from the 17th century, the curved staircase to the patronage's box on the south wall from around 1900, and the north gallery and wooden ceiling from the 18th century. Three choir windows with colored borders can be attributed to restoration work in 1897. A supporting pillar in the northwest corner bears the year 1703.

Equipment (selection)

South side

altar

The wooden pulpit altar from 1897 is provided with twisted columns , pilasters and final entablature . A winged altar dates from around 1500. It is one of the few large reredos that have survived in the area from the pre-Reformation period. In the modern shrine there are three carved figures, which are supposed to represent Mary with child, Laurentius and Magdalena. On the wings there are twelve painted apostles in two registers, each in groups of three.

Sacred furnishings

  • The tin chalice with the inscription Der Kirche zu Schmerkendorf 1829 .
  • Tin chalice from the first half of the 19th century.
  • Tin chalice with the inscription Der Kirche zu Lönnewitz from the 18th century.
  • The pewter supper with the inscription Der Kirche zu Lönnewitz 1842 .

organ

The organ dates from 1938. It was built by the Frankfurt organ building company Sauer . A vase-crowned organ prospect from around 1800 was used . It has a mechanical slide drawer , two manuals and twelve registers .

Bells

The church has four bronze bells, two from the 14th century and one from the 15th century. Another bell was originally in the Alt-Lönnewitz branch church. There the bell, cast in 1721 by the Dresden bell foundry Weinhold , was donated by Barbara Maria von Hackin and hung on a wooden frame that replaced the originally existing bell tower . As part of the resettlement of the village in 1947, it was brought to the Schmerkendorf church with other items of equipment.

Tombs

  • Sandstone tombs on the outer wall
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  • Grave stone of sandstone with ganzfigurigem relief of Katherine Marshall (1599).
  • Sandstone tombstone with four coats of arms of Maria von Dehm-Rotfelser (1617).
  • Sandstone gravestone with coat of arms and cartilage by M. Jakob Sämler (1667).
  • Wooden suspension epitaph with crest , military emblems and skull for landlord AM roof Roeder (1703).
  • Two fragments of a tombstone with coats of arms, angels and a skull (18th century).

There are also some more sandstone tombs on the outside wall of the church.

Fallen memorial

In the church there is a monument to the fallen from between 1920 and 1930 . The neoclassical monument in honor of the Schmerkendorf residents who died in World War I can be found in a wall niche on the northeast wall.

Rectory

Rectory

The former rectory of Schmerkendorf is in the immediate vicinity of the church's cemetery. Inside you can find the Schmerkendorfer Heimatstube, which deals with the village, church and school history of the place as well as the life of the local homeland researcher Friedrich Stoy .

The half-timbered building was built between 1613 and 1618 as a residential stable. Today it represents the last rural half-timbered building in the area, which survived the Thirty Years War, and is the oldest rectory in the region. The two storey building with gable roof is now a listed building. In 1993 the building was extensively renovated .

The parish church in Schmerkendorf was also subordinate to the neighboring Falkenberg, which was looked after by church and school from here, which the old parish staircase between the two places still reminds of today. About three kilometers southwest of the village, the places Alt- and Neulönnewitz (today's Lönnewitz ) with a branch church belonged to the parish since 1529 . Today Schmerkendorf belongs to the parish in Falkenberg Kirchenkreis Bad Liebenwerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Branch church Alt-Lönnewitz

Entrance portal of the Alt-Lönnewitz church ruins on the south side

The ruin of the former village church of Alt-Lönnewitz, which is now also under monument protection, is located in a wooded area near Bundesstraße 183 .

This was once a branch church of Schmerkendorf. In 1529 Lönnewitz, which had eleven Hufner at the time, came to the Schmerkendorf parish after a church visit. The area in which the building is located, which was declared a restricted military area for many years after the Second World War , once belonged to the location of the village of Alt-Lönnewitz, which has since disappeared . Here the church with the adjoining cemetery was to be found south of the now no longer existing property in a park between trees. The sparse remains of the church are almost the last structural traces of the former village of Alt-Lönnewitz. Some of the sacred objects of the church could be brought to the church of Schmerkendorf during the relocation of the place in 1947 and thus escaped looting. The heavily damaged and dilapidated structure was later abandoned after the restricted area was lifted.

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1018 .
  • 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. 295 to 298, ISBN 978-3884621523

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c 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 8, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: District Elbe-Elster Part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , p . 295 to 298, ISBN 978-3884621523
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1018 .
  4. ↑ The village church Schmerkendorf at www.askanier-welten.de , accessed on September 25, 2016
  5. ↑ a b The piece comes from the abandoned church Alt-Lönnewitz.
  6. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 63 .
  7. ^ Brandenburg cultural portal. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 5, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kulturportal.maerkischeallgemeine.de  
  8. ^ Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities . Stadtbuchverlag W + I GmbH and Co.KG Zeuthen, 1996, p. 9 (brochure).
  9. ↑ Heinz Schwarick: Chronicle of the City of Falkenberg / Elster - Part 1 . Falkenberg / Elster 2007, p. 20 to 21 .
  10. ↑ a b M. Karl Fitzkow : The little church in Lönnewitz . In: The Black Magpie . No. 473 , 1934 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  11. ^ A b Friedrich Stoy : Lönnewitz . In: The Black Magpie . No. 295/296 , 1925 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  12. ^ Website of the church district .
  13. ↑ Günther Bogus: "Altlönnewitz - a disappeared village" in "Local calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda , the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg" . Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV Bad Liebenwerda. No. 57 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, ISBN 3-932913-00-0 , p. 140-144 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 17.7 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 9.4 ″  E