St. Martin (Hornow)

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St. Martin village church

The Protestant village church of St. Martin is a listed church building in Hornow , a district of the town of Spremberg in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

Architecture and building history

A first church building in Hornow was mentioned in the Meißner diocese articles from 1346. The current village church of St. Martin was built at the beginning of the 15th century as a rectangular hall with mixed masonry made of field stone and brick .

The village church was renovated around the 18th century . Approximately in the middle of the 19th century the windows were stichbogig expanded and renewed the east gable of the church. The rectangular steeple was added in 1902. To the north there is a sacristy extension with a mansion box in the baroque style.

In the parish of Hornow, in addition to the parish of Hornow, the villages of Bohsdorf , Klein Loitz , Reuthen and Wadelsdorf are parish. She belongs to the church district Cottbus in the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . Until its dissolution on January 1, 2020, the church belonged to the parish of Senftenberg-Spremberg .

Furnishing

Entrance portal

The altar of the church dates from 1588, the wooden altarpiece is seven years older. The altar is an architectural structure with fittings and side columns. On the altar are three paintings of the Last Supper , the Crucifixion of Jesus and the Resurrection . In the side niches he has paintings of the Annunciation and the birth of Christ . Halved eagles similar to those in the Spremberger Kreuzkirche serve as the cheeks of the altar .

The baroque wooden baptism comes from the polished village church of Wolkenberg . The wooden baptismal angel dates from 1736 and is a listed building. It was revised in 2007.

On the north and south sides of the church there is a manorial gallery from the 18th century.

organ

The organ was made in 1883 by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer from Frankfurt (Oder) . The disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'

Commemoration

The entire entrance hall of the church was designed in honor of the fallen residents of Hornow. The names of the fallen soldiers from Hornow, Wadelsdorf and Bohnsdorf are painted on several coats of arms and banners.

To the left of the altar there are memorial plaques for those who died in the German-Danish War , the German War and the Franco-German War .

In the cemetery near the church there is a memorial in honor of the Hornow residents who were killed in World War II . The inscription reads:

WE COMMEMORATE THE MEN WOMEN AND
CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH GAME Hornow THE
VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II
WERE

WE COMMEMORATE THE MEN FROM
ALL PARTS OF GERMANY COMING
HERE YOUR LAST RESTING FOUND

ON THIS GRAVES FIELD SUSPENSION 1
FRENCH AND 86 GERMAN
SOLDIERS BETWEEN 13.4 AND
18.4. 1945 LOST LIFE
IN THE HORNOW ROOM.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Hornow)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The St. Martin Church in Hornow. In: hornow-wadelsdorf.de. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum (village church) , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 491.
  4. ↑ Ev. Hornow parish , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  5. ^ Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (Taufengel) , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ St. Martin Hornow in the organ database , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ St. Martin Hornow in the online project Gefallendenkmäler , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ Hornow in the online project Gefallenenkkmäler , accessed on November 11, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 54.8 ″  E