St. Josef (Bloischdorf)
The village church St. Josef (also village church St. Joseph ) in Bloischdorf is a Roman Catholic church and belongs to the parish of St. Benno Spremberg in the diocese of Görlitz . The medieval building is the oldest church in the old district of Spremberg and is considered the only Catholic medieval village church in the state of Brandenburg. It is the destination of a regional pilgrimage every year on Ascension Day .
Architecture and equipment
The village church of St. Josef is a simple hall building from the late Gothic period with a three-sided east end made of field stone masonry. The choir and the north wall of the sacred building have ogival windows. Inside the church has a west gallery and a beamed ceiling. The church was furnished by the canons of the Augustinian canons of Sagan from 1728–1730 with inventory that did not originally belong together. The early Baroque altarpiece dates from the 17th century, although the altarpiece was renewed in the 19th century. The wooden pulpit also dates from the 17th century. In the north wall there is a gravestone from 1590 for Th. Gode. The bell in the western half-timbered tower, which hides the late Gothic entrance gate, which is walled up inside, bears the year 1663. It was cast in Frankfurt (Oder) by Franz Sebastian Voillard .
history
In the registers of the diocese of Meißen from 1495, the parish Bloischdorf is mentioned with a reference to the year 1346 and at that time belonged to the archpriest's seat ( deanery ) Spremberg . In 1540 the Reformation was finally introduced in Spremberg and the surrounding parishes , after the new teaching had already found its way in 1532. Through the resolutions of the Peace of Westphalia , Bloischdorf came under the influence of the Bohemian crown again as part of the Duchy of Sagan and the church became Catholic again in 1668. The principle of cuius regio, eius religio applied to the rule , but the population of the village remained Protestant. From then on, the Bloischdorf community was looked after in Graustein . The concern for the Church rekatholisierte fell by the Catholic parish priest of Gräfenhain (literally attached mother), whose parish Bloischdorf as mater adjuncta was buried assigns. 1857, for those in Muskau a pastor of Bloischdorf appointed based in Muskau again resulting Catholic community. Muskau was established as a parish in 1861 and the Bloischdorf church remained mater adjuncta of Muskau until 1999. Bloischdorf has officially been a branch church of the Spremberg parish since 2000 , even if the Spremberg community has long been responsible for the maintenance and care of the church. In 2017 and 2018, church and public funding made extensive maintenance work on the tower, roof and interior possible.
Pilgrimage
The church has been the destination of an annual pilgrimage since 1947. Originally, this was initiated by Heinrich Theissing, the youth pastor of the Archbishopric of Görlitz, as a regional youth pilgrimage on Ascension Day , but quickly developed into a family pilgrimage, as the earlier participants of this pilgrimage also remained loyal in later years. Ascension Day was chosen because the responsible pastor of Bad Muskau was legally obliged to celebrate Holy Mass once a year in Bloischdorf, and that always happened on Ascension Day. After the day of Ascension Day was abolished in the GDR, the pilgrimage took place on the following Sunday from 1968 to 1989. Since then, it has been celebrated again on Ascension Day. Vehicles have been blessed after this service since 1962 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of the 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. 94.
- ^ Lehmann, Rudolf: History of the Margraviate Niederlausitz, Dresden 1937.
- ↑ https://www.kath-spremberg.de/bloischdorf/chronologie.html
- ↑ Chronology. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 12.5 " N , 14 ° 28 ′ 47.2" E