Werenzhain village church
The Evangelical Lutheran village church Werenzhain is a listed church building in Werenzhain , a district of the town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here is the in the middle of the 13th century created and surrounded by a cemetery monument to find in the town center.
Building description and history
Today's Werenzhain Church is a hall building made of field stone with a retracted rectangular choir that was built in the middle of the 13th century . To the west of the nave is a ship-wide west transverse tower with a transverse gable roof and a polygonal roof turret from 1907. The two upper floors of the tower, dating from the 15th century , are made of brick . At the northwest corner of the tower is a stone with a checkerboard pattern.
A brick sacristy can also be found on the north side . The vestibule in the south of the choir is also made of brick. The construction of the sacristy and vestibule, like that of the tower, is dated to the 15th century.
The building underwent extensive restoration and expansion work in 1907. Further restoration work inside the church also took place between 1986 and 1989.
Equipment (selection)
The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault in the nave and choir. There is also a barrel vault in the sacristy. A three-sided gallery from 1688 in the nave, which is two-story in the west, is part of the furnishings . Another gallery is located in the choir.
There is also an altarpiece with paintings from the second half of the 18th century. In the main field there is a carved crucifix between double columns . The painting in the predella shows the Lord's Supper . Further paintings can be found in the gables of the altar. The wooden pulpit dates from the 17th century, the sandstone baptism from the first quarter of the 16th century.
The organ of the church dates from 1867 and was built by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer (1831-1916). It has a mechanical cone chest , two manuals and eleven stops .
Checkerboard pieces
The chessboard stone built into the masonry of the church tower is considered a decorative element. The meaning of the chessboard pieces is largely unclear. Checkerboard stones can be found on a large number of churches from this construction period. Its distribution area is in Niederlausitz , Märkisch-Oderland , Neumark , Barnim and Uckermark . They also still occur in Denmark , especially mainly in North Jutland . They could possibly have had some kind of protective function and entered the region through Danish builders. A written proof for this theory has not yet been proven.
In the vicinity you can also find chessboard pieces at the churches in Arenzhain and Frankena . It cannot be ruled out that the same stonemasons or construction huts could originally have been involved in the construction of these churches.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1151 .
Web links
- The Werenzhain village church on the municipal website of Doberlug-Kirchhain
- The Werenzhain village church on www.askanier-welten.de
Notes and individual references
- ↑ 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 on September 2, 2018.
- ↑ 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. 1151 .
- ↑ The Werenzhain village church at www.askanier-welten.de , accessed on September 9, 2018
- ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster, S. 63 .
- ↑ www.schachbrettsteine.de , accessed on September 2, 2018
- ↑ St. Uhlig: “Phenomenon with the chessboard” on Lausitzer Rundschau -online, November 21, 2011
- ↑ a b Eberhard Bönisch: "Ornament or symbol?" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. at www.altekirchen.de (PDF file)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 8.3 ″ E