Martinskirchen

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Martinskirchen Castle

Martinskirchen is a district of the official city of Mühlberg , which lies on the Elbe halfway between Torgau and Riesa . It is about 80 kilometers to Leipzig . The place had 265 inhabitants on December 31, 2011.

history

The scenic location in the Elba area probably also prompted Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Brühl to acquire Gut Martinskirchen in 1739 and to have the representative three-wing structure of the castle, which still exists today, built here between 1751 and 1756 with its clearly arranged facade design in the French Baroque style.

The originally independent municipality of Altbelgern is now part of Martinskirchen. Altbelgern was first mentioned in a document as Aldenbelger in 1240 . The name refers to the western town of Belgern . Belgern means white place .

On August 31, 2001, Martinskirchen merged with Altenau , Brottewitz , Fichtenberg , Koßdorf and Mühlberg / Elbe to form the new town of Mühlberg / Elbe and has since been part of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe, which is not an official city.

Culture and sights

Baroque castle

Martinskirchen Castle
Village church
Atonement stone

Martinskirchen Castle dominates the image of the village with its high mansard roof. The castle was built from 1751 to 1756 for the chief tax collector Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Brühl . The mighty baroque building by the Dresden architect Friedrich August Krubsacius is one of the most important baroque palace complexes in Brandenburg. Its architecture and interior design were shaped by master builders and artists from the Dresden court. Inside, the magnificent oval marble hall is one of the outstanding interiors of this period, the ceiling painting is the work of Stefano Torelli and depicts Diana and her entourage. The older brother of the Saxon Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl used the building as a hunting and pleasure palace. After it was sold in 1795 until it was expropriated in 1945, the castle was owned by the Stephann family from Torgau.

It originally served as a hunting and pleasure palace. Generously sized parks and gardens were created in the area. From 1825 the economic use of the goods came to the fore, and part of the gardens had to give way. The castle is currently owned by the municipality of Martinskirchen and has been renovated by the Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH in terms of its exterior and parts of the interior. We are currently looking for a tenant or buyer for the castle.

Village church

The church , first mentioned in 1253, is essentially Romanesque. From 1697 to 1699 it was expanded and rebuilt after a fire. In 1904 another renovation took place, in the course of which it was plastered outside and inside. In the church there is a pulpit altar from 1697. There is also a vase-like baptismal font in the eastern part. The monk's bell hangs in the southern part of the tower; unlike her two sisters, it survived both world wars.

Atonement Cross

In old Germanic times, blood vengeance was the right and duty of every member of the tribe. As the state authority grew stronger, blood revenge was banned. If it was carried out anyway, the murderer suffered other punishments as well as erecting an atonement cross . So this cross was also created for a bloody act.

Personalities

literature

  • Angela Beeskow: Martinskirchen. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark , ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Berlin 1993
  • Ingrid Schaefer: No place in somewhere. Martinskirchen. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460-1188-2 , ( buchhandel.de )
  • Ingrid Schaefer: No place in somewhere. Martinskirchen. 2nd expanded and revised edition February 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-2473-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Main statutes of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe from January 28, 2009 PDF
  2. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, 25./26. November 2006, p. 13
  3. ↑ Formation of the new city of Mühlberg / Elbe, which is free of office Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of July 30, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 34, Potsdam, August 22, 2001, p. 587 PDF
  4. ↑ Schloss Martinskirchen on the website of the Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH
  5. ↑ Desired place @ gellert2015.de, accessed September 11, 2015, “'... when you come back to the fatherland: I want to ask for a place of rest and grave on one of your estates ... Martinskirchen! ' Gellert to Hans Moritz von Brühl March 28, 1757, It is doubtful whether Gellert has ever visited Martinskirchen (Mühlberg), which has been in the possession of Hans Moritz von Brühl's father (1736–1809) since 1739. But the wish to be buried there is testimony to a long and close friendship ... The younger brother Heinrich Adolph von Brühl had been on friendly terms with the professor since his studies. The brothers, however, got into inheritance disputes and ultimately agreed that Hans Moritz Martinskirchen and Heinrich Adolph Bedra would be awarded. Count Moritz, as Gellert often called him, lived as the Saxon envoy in London after stays in Paris and Warsaw. In order to receive money, he mortgaged his property and sold the entire Martinskirchen estate in 1795. "

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 11 ″  E