Schrotholzkirche

A scrap wood church is a wooden church made from scrap wood. This design with a deeply drawn-down and protruding roof, sometimes with a compressed side handle, is a construction technique known mainly from Silesia , which is implemented in various types of construction.

Examples

A particularly large scrap wood church is located in the Upper Silesian town of Gliwice (Gleiwitz).

The church in Pniów from 1506 burned down in 1956 and was replaced by a brick one.

The scrap wood church in Poniszowice ( Ponischowitz ; 1936–45: Muldenau OS ) is said to have been built in 1175 according to visitation protocols from 1687 and 1987 and was thoroughly renovated in 1404 (visitation report from 1679). Next to the church is a bell tower from 1520, also made of scrap wood.

The scrap wood church of St. Nikolaus in Wilcza goes back to a previous building from 1480. The current building dates from the first half of the 18th century. The outer walls of the church are made of beams and, like the roof, covered with shingles. In addition, the nave is crowned by a roof turret with an onion hood.

A church from the 17th century still stands in Stare Olesno (German: Alt-Rosenberg) in the Opole district.

The oldest preserved scrap wood church in the Czech Moravian-Silesian District, the Corpus Christi Church in Guty, built in 1563, was completely destroyed by fire in 2017. Their reconstruction is planned.

In Germany there are Schrotholzkirchen in Wespen (Börde) and in Sprey (Oberlausitz).

Picture gallery

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  Church of the Assumption of Mary in Gliwice (Gleiwitz)

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  St. Josef in Baborów (Bauerwitz)

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  Schrotholzkirche in Polish Krawarn (1900)

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  St. Laurentius from Knurów , since 1936 in Chorzów (Königshütte)

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  Wasp Church (Börde)

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  Church in Sprey (Oberlausitz)

See also

• List of scrap wood churches in Upper Silesia
• List of scrap wood churches in Lower Silesia
• List of scrap wood churches in Austrian Silesia

literature

• Wolfgang Halfar, Die Oberschlesischen Schrotholzkirchen: a contribution to timber construction in Silesia , Delp 1990, 159 S. ISBN 3768901815
• Herbert Dienwiebel, Oberschlesische Schrotholzkirchen , Breslau: Heydebrand, 1938, 154 pp.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcel Fiolka: History of the parish Ponischowitz , Tost 1925. Photo of this church there
2. ↑ Description of the Wilcza wooden church (Polish) ( Memento from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Joseph Gabzdyl: Dvěma dospělým a mladistvému hrozí za zkázu kostela až 15 let . iDNES.cz, August 4, 2017, accessed August 7, 2017.

Web links

• List of the scrap wood churches in Upper Silesia 1871 with photo gallery