St. Jakobus (Ortrand)

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Jakobskirche in the cemetery

The Jakobskirche is a listed church in the southern Brandenburg town of Ortrand in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . The church dedicated to the Apostle James the Elder is the oldest building in the city and is located in the cemetery. Today it is used by the Roman Catholic community and together with Christ the King in Lauchhammer , Sorrowful Mother in Elsterwerda and St. Matthias in Hohenleipisch, it forms the parish of St. Hedwig in the deanery of Torgau ( Diocese of Magdeburg ). In the register of monuments in Brandenburg it is entered under no. 09120205 as the “cemetery chapel”.

history

The former parish church was located on a hill in front of the city and was thus spared from the great city fires in the outskirts. It was built in the 13th century and was a stop on the Way of St. James , the pilgrimage route to the grave of the patron saint James the Elder in Santiago de Compostela .

It was first mentioned in a document in 1432 when Margrave Friedrich von Meißen donated a new altar to the citizens and the town of Ortrand to replace the one that was destroyed in the Hussite Wars . The bell tower originally stood in front of the church at the cemetery entrance on Forstgartenstraße. As a result of the Reformation , the church first became a Protestant parish church and then a funeral church. After 1555 a roof turret was placed on the west gable. This was renewed in 1771 in a reduced form with a weather vane during a repair. The windows were renewed in the Advent season in 1597.

Church services for the Roman Catholic community have been held in the Jakobskirche since 1947.

Building description and interior fittings

The church is a Romanesque hall church with flat arched windows. The choir is bevelled at the corners and has three arched niches inside. The tabernacle is set up in the smaller one . The west gable with a Gothic gate is made of rubble stones. Here pots are set into the wall above the ground, the meaning of which has not been clarified. Behind this gate was a shed into which city prisoners were taken to listen to the service. The views provided for this have been preserved. On the north side of the church there is a crypt chapel, which was built in 1836. It has been used as a morgue since 1902. At the corners it is decorated with a base and a capital with strips of wall that protrude like pillars. The south entrance is walled up, here is the tombstone for Christian Heinrich Schreyer (1751–1823). Schreyer was a pastor and homeland researcher in Ortrand.

The Gothic winged altar dates from 1432. Inside there is an epitaph from 1543 for Heinrich and Margarete von Lüttichau as well as a crypt slab for the former mayor Andreas Petermann with an iron ring. The plate bears the inscription HAS URNAS SIBJ ET SUIS JN JESU REQUIESCENTIBUS EXSTRUXIT ANDREAS PETERMANUS (Andreas Petermann laid this tomb for himself and his loved ones who found their rest in Jesus)

Web links

Commons : Jakobskirche (Ortrand)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Otto Hauptvogel : Architectural monuments of the city of Ortrand, in 750 years of Ortrand 1238–1988 . Ortrand City Council and Ortrand City History Museum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ gis-bldam-brandenburg.de , accessed on December 3, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 26.4 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 25.3"  E