Sorno village church
The Protestant village church Sorno is a listed church building in the district of Sorno in the southern Brandenburg town of Finsterwalde in the Elbe-Elster district . The 13th century stone building is located on the old village green of the place.
Building description and history
| Pastors in Sorno from 1827 to 1999 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Period | ||||||||
| Roth | 1824-1825 | ||||||||
| rust | 1825-1838 | ||||||||
| Kruschwitz | 1838-1852 | ||||||||
| Marker | 1852-1883 | ||||||||
| bush | 1886-1888 | ||||||||
| Langhoff | 1888-1929 | ||||||||
| Winkler | 1931-1936 | ||||||||
| Wegner | 1941-1951 | ||||||||
| Meyer | 1952-1956 / 57 | ||||||||
| Rohde | 1962-1973 | ||||||||
| Mitschke | 1973-1997 | ||||||||
| Melchior | 1997-1999 | ||||||||
The Sorno village church is a late Gothic field stone hall building , probably built in the 13th century, with a saddle roof , west transverse tower and a recessed 5/8 choir with a three-sided east end. The building was rebuilt and expanded in the 14th century. In the north of the nave there is one from the 15th century originated sacristy . This has a barrel vault . The roof tower probably dates from 1706.
The church fell victim to a devastating village fire at the beginning of 1827, which affected almost the entire village as well as the church. The subsequent new construction was carried out using the old basic and surrounding walls in the years 1827 to 1832. The church was plastered and the windows and portals were enlarged.
The interior of the church was renovated in 1965. In 1971 it was re-plastered. In the following year there were redesign measures on the church square surrounding the building. Shortly after the fall of the Wall in 1994, the roof of the church was renewed and in 1998 the interior of the church was renovated again.
The parish Sorno belongs since 1999 to St. Catherine parish Finsterwalde and surrounding areas to which further present the parishes Finsterwalde-Süd with green house and Pechhütte, Drößig and Staupitz belong.
Equipment (selection)
The flat-roofed interior of the church is characterized by a three-sided gallery and simple furnishings. The gallery is on Tuscan columns. It has a pulpit altar, the altarpiece of which dates from 1647.
The tomb of Maria Christina Kleinpaul († 1778) can be found in the southeast wall of the building .
There is also an organ (op. 213) created in 1933 by the Sorau organ builder Gustav Heinze (1874–1949) in the church . It has a pneumatic cone drawer , two manuals and eight registers . The organ prospect in the building was erected in 1832.
Commemoration
On the area surrounding the church, not far from the building, there is a memorial stone in the form of a boulder, which commemorates the comrades of the local volunteer fire brigade who died in World War II .
The following inscription can be found on the plaque attached here:
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In memory of the comrades of the |
further reading
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d e f g h 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 October 22, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d The local chronicle of Sorno on the private local website of the district, accessed on September 8, 2017
- ^ A b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1059 .
- ↑ The parishes belonging to the Katharinenkirchen parish of Finsterwalde and the surrounding area on the homepage of the parish of Niederlausitz, accessed on September 7, 2017
- ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 61 .
- ^ Online project memorials for the fallen , accessed on September 8, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 7.2 " N , 13 ° 40 ′ 2" E