Castle Church (Cottbus)

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Cottbus Castle Church

The castle church is a historic church building in the old town of Cottbus . It is currently used by the Cottbus Jewish Community.

history

As early as 1419, the small St. Catherine's Chapel and cemetery was located on the site, but it was badly damaged by two city fires in 1600 and 1671 and the Thirty Years' War . Around 1701, numerous Huguenots , who had been expelled from their homeland, settled in the region and finally, in 1705, acquired permission to rebuild the area with the remains of the chapel. The church building for the French Reformed parish was built between 1707 and 1714. From 1714 the German Reformed community was also allowed to use the building. In 1757 both communities were finally united.

In the GDR , the church was profaned , but reopened after reunification. In 2003 the west wall of the church was restored. On September 18, 2014, it was given to the Jewish community for the establishment of a synagogue .

Building description

The church is a single-nave plastered building with a hipped roof and a low, rectangular sacristy on the east side. The side entrances on each side were bricked up during the reconstruction in 1855. On the long sides of the ship , the windows are arranged in two rows and separated by a plaster tape ; The upper ones have a round arch and the lower ones a flat arch. The towering tower , built in 1870, cuts deep into the nave , as the building line on Spremberger Strasse was not allowed to be crossed. With the building of the tower, the west side of the church received its stepped gable divided by blind arch niches .

The pillarless interior from 1856 is vaulted with three segment-arched wooden barrels and painted uniformly white. Opposite the entrance is the white pulpit integrated into the east wall , which is crowned with a golden wooden cross. There is a cross of nails on the right. The organ gallery from the 19th century has been glazed since 1972.

Current usage

The church is owned by the local Jewish community and is the first synagogue in Brandenburg to be used as such since the Second World War .

The building is a listed building.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schlosskirche (Cottbus)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New synagogue: The Jewish heart in Cottbus beats again. In: Niederlausitz currently. January 28, 2015, accessed May 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 204.
  3. ↑ From the castle church to the synagogue. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg , accessed on May 9, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 1.7 ″  E