Paul Gerhardt Church (Lübben)
| Paul Gerhardt Church | |
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_-_Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche.JPG) View of the church from the market square |
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| Construction year: | 1607-1688 |
| Inauguration: | under the patronage of St. Nikolai |
| Builder : | unknown |
| Style elements : | mixed, including neo-romance |
| Client: | Evangelical Nikolai community in Lübben |
| Tower height: |
approx. 33 m |
| Location: | 51 ° 56 '31.1 " N , 13 ° 53' 50.4" E |
| Location: |
Lübben (Spreewald) Brandenburg , Germany |
| Purpose: | Protestant church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical Paul Gerhardt Parish Lübben |
| Parish: | Paul-Gerhardt-Strasse 2 (rectory) |
| Website: | www.paul-gerhardt-luebben.de |
The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is a Protestant church in the city of Lübben (Spreewald) . It is named after the theologian and song writer Paul Gerhardt , who was archdeacon here from 1669 to 1676 . The church belongs to the Evangelical Paul Gerhardt Parish of Lübben in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
architecture
Church ground building
The brick- built church is a three-aisled hall longhouse on a rectangular floor plan. The facade of the nave is unplastered, that of the tower with white plaster.
Steeple
The transverse rectangular church tower with an octagonal attachment is built on the west side . It has a tower gallery that can be reached via 115 steps. Above it are the church clock and the bell house , which are vaulted by the copper dome . The chiming of the church consists of three bronze bells . Two bells had to be delivered in the First World War for production for war material. After these could be renewed in the 1920s, the parish had to deliver two bells again during World War II . It was not until 1963 that the bell was completed again. But after the first bell, experts discovered that the tower had cracked due to the vibrations - initially the bell was prohibited. Finally, it was even considered to completely demolish the tower. But a building expert from Dresden designed a structure to stabilize the tower.
The tower of the church building has an apartment for a family of towers . The tradition of the tower keeper can be proven up to the 18th century.
history
The church building was erected between 1494 and 1550, probably using the remains of a previous building. At first the church was named Saint Nikolai . The tower is the oldest part of the building and is dated to the mid-15th century. It served as a defense and watchtower. From 1669 until his death in 1676, the song writer Paul Gerhardt worked as a pastor at the church.
The octagonal tower tower was built in 1494. Originally, a curved dome with a high lantern and top formed the top of the tower. In 1846 Ludwig Hartig from Züllichau made an organ for the church, which was replaced in 1906 by the still existing organ by Alexander Schuke from Potsdam .
In front of the church is the Paul Gerhardt memorial created in 1907 by Friedrich Pfannschmidt .
In 1930 it was renamed the Paul Gerhardt Church in view of Gerhardt's work at this point. In the same year, a clinker brick church portal was built into the tower , showing six personalities from Protestant church history: Johann Hinrich Wichern , Martin Luther , Georg Friedrich Händel , Johann Sebastian Bach , Philipp Melanchthon and August Hermann Francke . In 1936 two new church windows were built.
The tower burned down during the fighting for the city of Lübben at the end of the Second World War in April 1945. The tower hood and the false ceilings were destroyed. After the masonry of the tower had been secured in 1950, it was then given a reinforced concrete ceiling . The previous spire was restored in 1988 using 60 cubic meters of wood and 2153 kilograms of sheet copper, among other things.
The parish had a memorial plaque for Paul Gerhardt put up inside the church in 1976.
In 1994 a memorial for the victims of war, violence and terror was set up on the southern side of the tower room. Uwe Burkhardt made the draft for the monument, which shows an open steel globe in which a candle burns permanently. The written cross created by Bernd Huebner bears the names of places in which there were camps, in which people perished or in wars battles were fought.
On April 12, 1998, after the renovation, the Paul Gerhardt memorial was inaugurated again.
Vera Städter from Lübben held the position of tower keeper in 2014. Events take place in the Türmerstube, including an exhibition of children's drawings on the theme of 520 years of the Lübben church tower (late summer 2014).
Design and equipment
Altar, choir and more
In the presbytery there is a altar , which from limestone worked altarpiece in 1609 by Samuel Hanauer from Strehla was created. The altarpiece shows, among other things, scenes from the life of Jesus Christ . In the choir there is a memorial plaque for Gerhardt created in 1976. The baptismal font and pulpit , made in 1610 , also from Hanauer , both made of limestone.
The church windows behind the altar depict Pentecost , Christmas , Easter , the Descent from the Cross and the Entombment of Jesus. Under the Christmas / Easter window is the grave slab of Katharina von Rosenthal and Blathna, who died in 1534. This and the corresponding bronze coat of arms are the oldest furnishings in the church.
Works of art and tombstones in the church and in the tower
Several works of art remind of Paul Gerhardt, the namesake of the church. Opposite the pulpit is an oil portrait of Gerhardt by an unknown artist. A colored lead-glazed Paul Gerhardt window was installed in the sacristy . Other colored church windows in the side aisles show song verses and pictures by hymn poets from Gerhardt's time. Under the title Paul Gerhardt - his songs live in worldwide Christianity , a collection of song books from all over the world is presented in the church, in which Paul Gerhardt songs are printed.
In the tower there are tombs for the senior official and consistorial councilor Andreas Jahn (left side), who died in 1676, and the physicist Jacobus Copius, who died in 1620 . Another tombstone for Gedeon Kindler von Zackenstein , who died in 1619, stands under the Descent from the Cross / Entombment window. Furthermore, a tombstone commemorates the senior secretary Andreas Leddin, who died in 1722. An epitaph exists for the general superintendent Georg Hutten, who died in 1683 . Dorothea Luise Löscher and Luben von Wulffen, who died in 1727, and Albrecht Kindler von Zackenstein (around 1600), Dietrich Kracht (1657) and Georg Plank (1657) name other epitaphs.
Only in the 20th century came one from the Baroque originating triumph crucifix in the front right side arch of the presbytery. Its origin is unknown.
organ
The organ dates from 1906 and was built by Alexander Schuke from Potsdam. Parts of the previous organ from 1846 were used. The instrument has 29 registers . The actions are pneumatic.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : crescendo roller (rolling roller).
literature
- Hans-Joachim Beeskow : Guide through the Protestant churches of the parish of Lübben . Lübben 1998, ISBN 3-929600-14-5 , pp. 130-134.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche on the website of the Paul-Gerhardt-Gemeinde Lübben (Spreewald)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the church district ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ keeper of the city of Lübben ; accessed on August 16, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Katrin Bischoff: Lübben now has a keeper . In: Berliner Zeitung of June 6, 2011; accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ a b Contemporary witnesses talk about the construction of the Lübben church tower dome . In: Lübbener Rundschau of August 14, 2014, page 14.
- ^ Lübben (Spreewald), Paul-Gerhardt-Church at orgelwerkstatt.de
