Lindenau Castle Church (Upper Lusatia)

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Lindenau Castle Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Castle Church Lindenau is a listed church building in the municipality of Lindenau in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

Here is the largely in its present form in the 17th century resulting structure in the area of local castle to find the east of the property is also listed gatehouse, which they most westerly church in the area of Upper Lausitz is.

Building description and history

West gable of the castle church
Main entrance

There is already documentary evidence of the end of the 15th century in Lindenau, as it is mentioned in the Meißner bishop's register of 1495.

The castle church that can be seen in Lindenau today is a massive field stone and brick building. The church is dated to the year 1668, although it cannot be ruled out that remnants or parts of an originally existing previous building were also used in the construction. The castle itself was under the rule of the von Minckwitz family at that time . Loth Gotthard von Minkwitz (1611–1678) had the predecessor of today's moated castle built in 1584.

The nave has a three-sided east end. To the west of the ship , the structure has a tower in the shape of an octagonal ridge with a tail hood, lantern and weather vane. In the north there is a box extension built or raised in the 19th century , which is used as a sacristy on the lower floor . An extension at this point can already be seen on a map from 1735.

Equipment (selection)

The interior of the church is flat. It is characterized by pre-baroque furnishings. A gallery is located on the south side, as well as in the west, but here it serves as an organ gallery. Patronage boxes can be found to the side of the chancel. The patron s box in the north is arranged above the sacristy. This was intended for the former tenants of the Lindenau estate. The two-storey patron s lodge on the southern side served the Lindenau lords of the castle and manors.

The castle church has an altarpiece with an inscription from 1670 and thus from the time of construction. In the middle is a crucified figure of Christ surrounded by four angels. The predella, main field and upper part of the altar are decorated with pious sayings. It is decorated on both sides by columns of vine leaves.

The figure of Christ and the angels in the main field had meanwhile been broken out in 1843 and replaced by a painting. After they were found in the attic in the early 1960s , a reconstruction of the altar followed, and since 1965 these figures have been completing the altar again.

Another piece of equipment is a baptism with volute feet and fittings from the year 1635. The pulpit of the church also comes from the same year, which has a polygonal basket that is located on a vine leaf column and in whose parapets paintings of the evangelists can be seen.

There is an organ on the west gallery. She came to the church during restoration work in 1841 and 1842. The instrument, equipped with a manual , nine registers and a mechanical sliding drawer , was created by the organ builder Friedrich Wilhelm Pfützner in Meissen . The organ front with vase attachments dates back to around 1800.

Tombs (selection)

A number of tombs and epitaphs can be found in the church. In the southeast corner of the choir is the church's most remarkable tomb . The epitaph was erected in 1709 for Caspar Ehrenreich von Minckwitz and two of his sons. It was once donated with inscription by Carl Christian von Minckwitz, another son of Caspar Ehrenreich von Minckwitz († 1707), whose actual grave is not said to be in the Lindenau Castle Church, but in the Jakobskirche in the outskirts .

Another five tombstones are from the 17th century. Two of them are in the ground in the west of the structure. There should be a total of 15 tombs in the church.

  • Tomb for Peter von Hellwigsdorf († 1631)
  • Children's grave stone of Maria von Gersdorf († 1652)
  • Tomb for Loth Gotthard von Minkwitz († 1678)
  • Two tombstones for L. and U. von Minkwitz († 1678)
  • Tomb for Georg Rudolph von Minkwitz († 1697)
  • Tomb for Caspar Ehrenreich von Minckwitz and two of his sons (1709)

Parish district Lindenau-Kroppen

The Lindenau Castle Church has always served as a village church. Today Lindenau forms the parish district Lindenau-Kroppen with four other places . In addition to Lindenau and Kroppen , Tettau (since 1530), Frauendorf and Schraden (since 1973) belong to the parish. The parish has belonged to the superintendent of Hoyerswerda again since the dissolution of the superintendent of Ruhland in 1998 .

  • Other sacred buildings in the Lindenau-Kroppen parish district

  • Kroppen village church

  • Martin Luther Chapel in Tettau (2014)

  • Schraden Church (2017)

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 628 .
  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): 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 : Schlosskirche (Lindenau in der Oberlausitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b 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 October 21, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 965 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): 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 , pp. 199-203 .
  4. ↑ Other sources give the year 1688 as the year the church was built.
  5. ^ Family von Minckwitz: Loth Gotthard. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): 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 , pp. 202 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Annette Siemer: “Paradise on the doorstep” on www.lr-online.de, July 22, 2006
  8. ^ Felix Friedrich, Dieter Voigt, Markus Voigt: Contributions to organ building in eastern Central Germany on the occasion of July 2005: 100 years of Central German organ building A. Voigt Bad Liebenwerda and 150 years of organ building in Bad Liebenwerda . Kunstblatt-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-938706-00-8 , p. 19 .
  9. ↑ a b G. Haffner: Chronicle of the city of Ortrand . 1852, p. 22 .
  10. ↑ Internet presence of the Lindenau-Kroppen parish , accessed on October 22, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '59.9 "  N , 13 ° 42' 57.2"  E