Martinskirche (Val Gardena)

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Village church Val Gardena

The Protestant Martinskirche is a listed church building in the municipality of Val Gardena in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

Building description and history

pulpit

A church in Val Gardena was first mentioned in documents in 1378. In 1495 the village was mentioned as a parish. At that time the district was subordinate to the superintendent of Hayn . A first church book can finally be found from 1638.

The Martinskirche in Val Gardena, built between 1552 and 1594, is a hall construction made of field stones with rough plaster. The square tower was built from 1582 to 1594. With the construction of the church tower in 1594, the nave with a gable roof was also increased. The remains of a late Romanesque chapel are presumably hidden in its nave-wide rectangular choir . The choir was renewed in the 16th century. In the north there is a two-storey extension with a sacristy and master gallery . The construction of a tail cap and lantern provided oktonalen tower essay carried 1799th

In 1838 the interior was redesigned. Among other things, a double gallery and a stone altar were installed. The gallery was redesigned in 1892. In the same year, today's cemetery was opened.

In 1881 the church received new bells from the Dresden bell foundry Große . These had to be given for war purposes during the First World War. They were eventually melted down. After the war, on May 4, 1922, a memorial for the villagers who died in World War I was inaugurated in the churchyard . In addition, the church received three new bells in the same year, which, however, were also melted down during the Second World War. The bells that are in the church today are from 1954 and were cast by the Schilling and Lattermann bell foundry .

The church was extensively renovated in 1978/79 and 2008/09. At present, Val Gardena belongs to the Evangelical Church Community of Hirschfeld in the Bad Liebenwerda parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Equipment (selection)

  • Jesus figure

  • Ceiling painting above the chancel, exposed and restored in 2019

  • altar

  • Bell jar

In its interior, which is characterized by a flat ceiling and a three-sided gallery, there is a late Romanesque baptismal font, the middle part of a late Gothic baptismal font and a triumphal cross from around 1400. The wooden polygonal pulpit stems from the second half of the 16th century.

The church received its first organ in 1699, which was replaced in 1892 by an instrument from the Schweidnitz organ building company Schlag & Söhne . In 1947 this had to be repaired. The organ in the church today dates from 1982 and was created by the Moritzburg organ builder Wilhelm Rühle . It has a mechanical drawer , a manual and seven stops without a pedal .

In the choir there is a grave slab of the Glasewald forest ranger family with the coat of arms of the Saxon chief ranger from the second half of the 17th century.

Literature (selection)

  • Berndt Engelmann: The Protestant St. Martinikirche Val Gardena . In: The Black Magpie . No. 601 , 1986.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 411 .
  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .

Web links

Commons : Martinskirche (Val Gardena)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 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 September 25, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ A b Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 171-176 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g The Val Gardena Church on the homepage of the Schradenland Office , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  4. ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1079 .
  5. ↑ Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community Hirschfeld , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Internet presence of the Bad Liebenwerda church district , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  7. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 61 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '29.2 "  N , 13 ° 34' 14.3"  E