Evangelical town church Ruhland

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The Protestant City Church Ruhland is a listed church building in the small town of Ruhland in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg . Here the building can be found in the center of the village. The building is recorded in the local monument register under registration number 09120217 .

Building description and history

View around 1890

One after the other there were several previous buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries at the site of today's town church, which were badly damaged or completely destroyed in town fires, most recently in 1768. As a result of the fire in 1768, the building that can still be found in Ruhland was erected. As builder of the church in the years 1772 to 1774 the recorded Dresdner Samuel Locke responsible (1710-1793), after whose plans the building was rebuilt and renewed.

The church is a plastered hall construction made of lawn iron stone, its smelting slag and various bricks with a retracted polygonal closed choir. In the west of the nave there is a square tower from the period of construction. This has an octagonal top with a copper-covered hood and lantern. In the north of a hipped roof nave provided a before 1710 (wooden baptismal font) is established, most recently in the 19th century converted sacristy to find.

In 1964/65 the church and tower were given a new exterior plaster. In 1986, sponge infestation in the framework is removed, from 1987 to 1990 the church roof is covered with 12,000 used roof tiles and is provided with copper roof drainage. The church and tower are getting a new paint job. When the heating was installed in 1994, several caves were found and built over.

In 2005/06 the foundation of the church tower was stabilized by means of concrete injection. The alder wood gratings, which were laid 3 m deep under the foundation because of the swampy subsoil, were rotten due to fluctuations in the groundwater level and cracks appeared in the church tower itself and between the nave and the church tower; the western half of the steeple began to slope. 75% of the renovation costs of around € 172,000 were borne by the state of Brandenburg, the city of Ruhland contributed € 20,000, plus church funds. The plan was to cover half of the city's own contribution from donations. In the end, € 22,000 was collected in the city and parish.

Equipment (selection)

Inside, the church is characterized by baroque elements. Among other things, a baptismal font from 1710 can be found here, as well as a pulpit altar from around 1780. The inventory also includes the fragments of a late medieval carved altar, which were created around 1510 and were originally in the Ruhland burial church. Among other things, this is the center shrine of the altar, which shows a representation of the death of the Virgin in the form of a relief. Other preserved parts from the same period are three carved figures ( crescent moon Madonna , Heinrich and Sigismund ).

There are two-storey galleries in the north and south of the ship. The single-storey west gallery, which extends into the tower hall, has a curved parapet. The organ of the church can also be found on it. This is an instrument that was created around 1910 by the Sorau organ builder Friedrich Ernst Gustav Heinze (1874–1949). It has a pneumatic cone drawer , two manuals and nineteen stops . The organ case, however, comes from an instrument that was built into the church in 1854.

On the aristocratic box in the northeast part of the nave are the coats of arms of the four Ruhland estates .

Recent past and church membership

Anatoly Riaboshenko at work

Extensive restoration and renovation work was last carried out on the church between 1986 and 1992. The organ was extensively restored a few years later in 1996 by the Bad Liebenwerda organ building company Voigt .

As part of the celebrations for the 700th city anniversary in 2017, the aristocratic box was used as a studio and exhibition space for the work of the Georgian painter Anatoli Riaboshenko (* 1948), who is closely associated with Ruhland , where the artist created, among other things, paintings and drawings of Ruhland city views and buildings .

The building is used today by the Protestant parish in Ruhland . The parish is located in the church district of Schlesische Oberlausitz of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz , EKBO for short . Another church used by this parish is the castle chapel in Guteborn .

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Dunning and remembrance

Germania monument

At the north entrance of the Protestant town church there are several memorial plaques commemorating the inhabitants of Ruhland and the neighboring towns of Arnsdorf , Biehlen , Guteborn , Jannowitz , Naundorf and Schwarzbach who died in the two world wars .

The so-called Germania monument can be found in front of the church . This memorial was originally erected in 1875 on the Ruhlander Brauhausplatz, where it was intended to commemorate the fallen residents of the German War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870/71). Shortly before the Second World War , it was moved to its current location in 1939 for traffic reasons. After the war, the inscription on the base with the text "The dead of the two world wars urge peace" was added to the front, which reinforced the character of a peace memorial.

  • Ruhland, Protestant church, north entrance; Memorial plaque for those killed in World War I 2, 02.jpg
  • Ruhland, Protestant church, north entrance; Memorial plaque for victims in WWII.jpg
  • Ruhland, Protestant church, north entrance; Memorial plaque for those killed in World War I 2, 01.jpg

Literature (selection)

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

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Ruhland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , accessed on April 12, 2019.
  2. ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 997-998 .
  3. ↑ a b Information board in front of the Ruhland town church
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the city of Ruhland 1317–1997. Ruhland 1995-1997, in the context of ABM emerged
  5. ↑ Kornelia Noack: The church tower is safe again. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition, November 10, 2006, accessed on January 15, 2018
  6. ↑ Wooden baptismal font in the sacristy based on an invoice in the files of the Protestant parish of Ruhland
  7. ↑ Help for the late medieval altar in the Ruhland town church, December 7, 2015
  8. ↑ a b The Ruhlander Heinze organ in the organ database , accessed on January 7, 2018.
  9. ^ Ruhland pictures by painters from Georgia . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 2, 2017
  10. ^ The Ruhland parish on the homepage of the church district Schlesische Oberlausitz, accessed on January 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ a b The Guteborn Palace Chapel on the homepage of the Evangelical Church Community Ruhland
  12. ↑ Online project Fallen Memorials , accessed on January 14, 2018
  13. ↑ Website of the Ruhland Office , accessed on January 14, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E