St. Nikolai Church (Uebigau)
The listed Protestant parish church St. Nikolai is located west of the market in the center of the Uebigau district of the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in southern Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish Uebigau in the parish of Bad Liebenwerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
Building description and history
The church probably dates back to the 11th century, but its core dates back to the 13th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1251. At that time it was a branch church of the Patronage Altbelgern , which was subordinate to the nunnery “Marienthron” in Torgau. In 1298 a people priest was mentioned in a document ("dominus plebanus in Ubegowe"). His name Albertus appears in another document a year later.
The St. Nikolai Church in Uebigau is an elongated, plastered brick building with a gable roof. The square tower adjoining the nave with a flat wooden ceiling to the west has an octagonal upper floor and a slate-covered tail hood with a lantern .
With a barrel vault provided sacristy of the church was built in the 16th century. In addition, the patron's box was added at this time and the early Gothic eastern part of the church was raised. In 1681 the church fell victim to a devastating city fire, in which it suffered severe damage. The later reconstruction took place from 1684 to 1698. During this time the windows and portals of the building were changed and the tower, which has a groin vault on the ground floor , was given a new tower end. Inside the church, some changes have remained visible to the present day. While the current pulpit altar was erected in 1819, the pulpit itself probably dates from 1690. The wooden hexagonal baptism dates from 1695. It was donated by the pastor's widow Hendel. In the following year the (today's) north gallery was built , the parapet of which is richly painted.
Restorations on the building were carried out in 1881, 1895/96 and from 1926 to 1933, during which the first electric church heating system for the Liebenwerda district was installed in Uebigau in 1927 . In addition, roof repairs were carried out in 1929, during which the dome was covered with new slate and the star of the weather vane was gilded.
The current bell of the church dates from 1921. It was cast in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry .
organ
A first organ was mentioned in the Uebigau church in 1640. After the great city fire in 1681, the church is said to have received a used work from another church in 1690. The instrument, which has been preserved to the present day, was built in 1895 by the Eilenburg organ builder Conrad Geißler (1825–1897). The organ has a late Classicist front and has been preserved almost true to the original except for the front pipes that were lost in the First World War . The instrument is used regularly for various concerts that take place here. In the meantime, the “concert cycle in the Uebigauer Land” has established itself, within the framework of which musical events take place in all churches of the Protestant parish area.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
- Playing aids: bell pull
Recordings of the Geissler organ
- Christopher Lichtenstein: Central German organ romanticism. 2017.
- Organ music on the YouTube channel of the Evangelical Church Community of St. Nikolai Uebigau
Cemetery and tombs
The St. Nikolai Church is surrounded by the site of the former Uebigau cemetery. In 1874 this was closed and a new one was built not far on Herzberger Strasse. Immediately south of the church is the stele of a war memorial erected in 1922, which is intended to commemorate the 73 Uebigau residents who died in World War I , as well as 2 residents of Bomsdorf and Munich . There is also a memorial to the west of the church dedicated to those who died in World War II .
The family grave of the Chladni family is on the east wall of the church. One of its best-known members was Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni , who in the 18th century developed, among other things, modern acoustics and the meteorite theory. Further gravestones from the 18th century can be found on the south wall of the nave. The tomb of the Reiniger family (1795) is located on the first floor of the tower. A tombstone for PMGE Caldermann from 1638 was inserted under the pulpit altar as a substructure .
Bell Susanna
The legend of the miraculous Susanna bell is said to have originated in the Thirty Years War . She tells about the bell to Susanna. This bell is said to be on a tower next to the nave of the church “St. Nikolai ”and developed miraculous powers. So it began to ring by itself when the city was threatened by fire and is said to have even had the power to contain fires. During the big fire in the town in 1681, the tower was destroyed and the bell finally melted in the embers.
Rectory
The rectory built in 1782 with a half-hip roof is also under monument protection . The half-timbered building, which adjoins the church immediately to the north, has a later added basement with a barrel vault as a ceiling on the north side of the house. The north gable was provided with a beaver tail cladding.
literature
- Hans Lehmann: "Uebigau city history (s)" . Ed .: City of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück. Uebigau-Wahrenbrück 2003.
- Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1998, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3 , p. 330 to 333 .
- Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (publisher): Elbe-Elster organ landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 56/57 .
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ a b List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
- ^ Website of the church district .
- ↑ a b c “Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities” . 1st edition. Stadtbuchverlag W + I Zeuthen, 1996, p. 9 (brochure).
- ↑ a b c Hans Lehmann: "Uebigauer Stadtgeschichte (n)" . Ed .: City of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück. Uebigau-Wahrenbrück 2003.
- ↑ Central German organ romanticism . In: Central German organ romanticism . ( vkjk.de [accessed on May 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Evangelical parish of St. Nikolai Uebigau. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen. Fallen Memorials online project, Lawrenceville, USA, accessed March 29, 2009 .
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 42.3 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 51.2" E