Mühlberg / Elbe cemetery chapel

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The Mühlberg cemetery chapel (2018)

The cemetery chapel is a church building in the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . The church, built in the 16th century, can be found here not far from the Elbe in the Mühlberg city cemetery. The building is as a stationary image formative monument in the local memorial directory listed below the detection number 09,135,445th

Building description and history

The Mühlberg cemetery chapel is a flat-roofed hall building made of field and brick built in the 16th century with a three-sided east end. In the west, an octagonal roof turret with a tail hood was added . There is also a pointed arched portal here. A stretcher house was added south of the building in 1862. The chapel was also restored in the same year.

Inside the chapel there is a west gallery with a keel decor. The wooden polygonal pulpit is of construction-time origin. The historical inventory of the building includes an altarpiece from the 17th century, which was donated in 1614 by Mühlberg's mayor Christoph Ottenbach and his wife Ursula. It is a painted shrine in simple Renaissance shapes, which is equipped with two movable and two fixed wings. The portraits of the two donors are on either side of the predella of the altar. A restoration of this work of art took place after a visit by the architectural monuments commission of the province of Saxony in 1926. For this purpose, the work of art was specially sent to Halle (Saale) and renewed in his workshop under the supervision of the painter Leusch. Another restoration finally took place in 1966.

On the southern outer wall of the chapel there is an epitaph with two donor figures and an inscription from 1598, which was originally located in the cemetery wall.

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 717 .
  • Maximillian Lorenz: The altar of the cemetery church in Mühlberg . In: The Black Magpie . No. 435 , 1932 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle Mühlberg / Elbe  - Collection of pictures, 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 November 26, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 717 .
  3. ↑ Maximillian Lorenz: The altar of the cemetery church in Mühlberg . In: The Black Magpie . No. 435 , 1932 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 17.5 ″  E