Village church in Wiederau
The Protestant village church in Wiederau is a listed church building in the district of Wiederau in the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here it is, surrounded by a cemetery, in a central location in the south of the Wiederauer Dorfanger .
It belongs to the parish Uebigau in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
Building description and history
The Wiederauer village church is a rectangular field stone hall with a gable roof that was built at the end of the 13th century . The retracted west cross tower , built in the 15th century , with a hipped roof and weather vane, consists mainly of lawn iron stone . On the north and south side of the nave there is a building-time recessed portal with brick walls . On the northeast side there is an extension from 1952 under a tied roof .
After the church was badly damaged by fire in the Thirty Years War in 1631, it was restored between 1661 and 1671. During this work, among other things, all windows were expanded. At the end of the 19th century , the building was finally restored in 1895. In 1980 the tower roof was renewed. Originally a roof turret with a lantern and tail hood was to be found on this .
Equipment (selection)
The interior is of a flat beam ceiling and a short from the 17th century originated horseshoe gallery coined. In the predella of the pulpit altar from 1672, there is an inscription cartouche framed by the donor's coat of arms . The hexagonal sandstone baptism dates from 1675. The coat of arms of the von Brandenstein family can be found in its cup . The magnificent patronage box of Neudeck Castle , which was built in 1675 and rests on a winding corner column, has round pane glazing in the arched openings . There is also a medieval church chest in the church.
organ
The Wiederauer organ was made in 1855/1856 by the organ builder Moritz Baumgarten from Zahna . The Second World War brought devastation for the organ towards the end. In June 1950, Cantor Schuster gave explanations of a regional church survey on the condition of the organ: “The organ is in great need of repair. The organ suffered greatly from the effects of the war. In June 1945 there were hundreds of pipes scattered around the church. Many pipes are still missing today and many of the pipes that have been reinstalled are badly damaged, so that the organ can hardly be used to accompany the congregation singing. The parish singing of the otherwise singing joyful churchgoers suffers greatly. ”How long this desolate state lasted is unknown.
The disposition (1856) looked like this:
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The instrument became really desolate in the 1980s when a violent storm covered the roof over the organ and rainwater entered and damaged a lot. This required a major repair, and everyone involved addressed it thoroughly. For this project, too, this meant that, following the view at the time of the end of the organ movement, the sound ideal of Romanticism was viewed as a wrong path and therefore it was considered advisable to “baroque” organs from the 19th century. The now necessary organ repair in Wiederau now offered the opportunity: In the old case behind the replacement prospectus pipes installed after the First World War, new pipes were used as other registers on the historical Baumgarten wind chest in the manual. The old pipework was abandoned. Only Baumgarten's pedal pipes have kept their place in the organ to this day.
Since then the disposition has been as follows:
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The organ is currently being renovated by the company Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt and is receiving new pewter prospect pipes. At the same time, a new Baroque intonation will be carried out. The re-inauguration is planned for October 2020.
Tombs
In the cemetery surrounding the church there is a tomb in the form of an oak trunk from around 1800 of the von Rephun family, who lived on the Wiederauer manor at the end of the 18th century . In addition, there is also a simultaneous tomb in the form of a fluted column with an inscription cartouche and a flame vase .
The monument to the fallen is enclosed with a wrought iron fence and is located directly next to the late medieval stone church . It is intended to commemorate the inhabitants of Wiederau, Bahnsdorf and Neudeck who died in the two world wars . At the upper, temple-like part of the monument there are two plaques with the names of the victims of the First World War . A memorial plaque for the victims of the Second World War from Wiederau and Bahnsdorf was attached to the front of the base .
Literature (selection)
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- 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. 230 to 233, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3 .
- Franz: Historical news about Wiederau . In: The Black Magpie . No. 214 , 1914.
- Wiederau - for the conflict between community and property . In: The Black Magpie . No. 399 , 1930.
- The manors Schmerkendorf and Wiederau are divided up for settlement purposes . In: The Black Magpie . No. 409 , 1930.
- The church of Wiederau . In: The Black Magpie . No. 537 , 1937.
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b 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 10, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e 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. 230 to 233, ISBN 978-3-88462- 152-3
- ^ Website of the church district .
- ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1155 .
- ↑ The Church of Wiederau . In: The Black Magpie . No. 537 , 1937.
- ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen , accessed on October 26, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ' N , 13 ° 19' E