Parish Church of the Holy Cross (Neuzelle)
The Protestant parish church of the Holy Cross in Neuzelle is a high baroque church in the Neuzelle monastery in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Neuzelle in the Evangelical Church District Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and is an open church .
History and architecture
The Holy Cross Church stands on the site of the medieval gate chapel of St. Giles , which was built in 1354. It served the lay community of Neuzelle ("Leutekirche"). In the years 1728/34 the Gothic building was replaced by today's high baroque cross-domed church. In 1817 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization and the parish church was handed over to the Protestant community in Neuzelle.
The church is a three-nave hall church of three bays with a drum dome with a lantern over the crossing with reduced cross arms and a semicircular choir closure. The west facade with twin towers did not receive today's slim tower ends until around 1850, based on a design by the building council EKA Flaminius , which was revised by Friedrich August Stüler . The exterior was plastered, the original portals in the north and south walled up. Restorations were carried out in 1961/64 and 1988/92. From 2009 to 2017 the church was completely restored again.
Furnishing
The furnishings of the parish church of the Holy Cross were made by the masters working at the Neuzelle monastery church and are largely of the same quality as the works of art located there. The mirror vault with ribbon ornamentation in stucco was designed by Caspar Hennevogel and his son Johann Michael Hennevogel.
In the dome and in the vaults there are paintings in the style of Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz . In the tambour there are pseudo-architecture with garlands, in the dome there are illusionistic, figurative representations of the sky. Representations of the evangelists and the cardinal virtues were placed in the pendentives . The Beatitudes were painted in the vaults of the nave in the second quarter of the 18th century.
The main altar from 1730 depicts the crucifixion of Christ with the kneeling Maria Magdalena in a figure-rich structure made of stucco marble and wood with winding columns and was attributed to JW Hennevogel. To the side in front of the pairs of pillars are life-size sculptures of Maria and Johannes as well as of St. Bernard and a bishop with a book. On the pediments there are angels with the tools of the Passion and above the cross the dove of the Holy Spirit. Between the rotated columns, there are two reliefs in the manner of Matthias Bernhard Braun , which form the climax of a passion cycle that begins on the parapet of the northern gallery and continues on the southern pore. It shows scenes from the history of salvation with the resurrection, ascension and Pentecost. On the side of the altar are two apse-like sedile niches made of stucco marble from 1734.
The pulpit, which can be wheeled and steered for use in processions, is older than the church and dates from the second half of the 17th century. The octagonal basket is carried by a kneeling angel figure with the seven seals of the Apocalypse ; on the parapet there are reliefs of Aegidius with the church fathers .
The curved west gallery with balusters bears the organ prospect by Johann Gottlieb Tamitius from the year 1730. The interior comes from the Neuzell master organ builder Robert Uibe and was rebuilt in 1958 by the Sauer company. The instrument has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal (cone chest). The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.
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There are three bronze bells hanging on the two bell towers. The small and large bells were cast by the Lauchhammer bell foundry in 2008. The middle bell is historic. The bells ring in every Saturday at 6 p.m. together with the bells of the Catholic collegiate church on Sunday.
The stalls and four inlaid wall cupboards were created in the mid-18th century. A wooden representation of the Coronation of Mary from the first half of the 18th century has also been preserved. The liturgical vessels include silver-gilt chalices, one from 1758 and a second from roughly the same period.
On the south side of the church there are two tombstones for J. Burnet († 1715) and M. Proche († 1713). Two tombs for J. Hampel († 1819) and F. Birnbach († 1880) are to be mentioned in the cemetery.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 725–726.
- Heinrich Trost, Beate Becker, Horst Büttner, Ilse Schröder, Christa Stepansky: The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Frankfurt / Oder district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, pp. 185–186.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg: Renovation of the Kreuz-Kirche in Neuzelle completed , May 9, 2017.
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 726 .
- ^ Organ in Neuzelle , accessed on December 30, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 21.8 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 15.3 ″ E