St. Nicolai Andreas (bending)
The church of St. Nicolai Andreas zu Biegen was probably built around 1270, as massive churches were built around ten to twenty years after the town was founded. The village of Bigyn was founded in 1253 and is now called Biegen , a district of the municipality of Briesen (Mark) , Oder-Spree district .
Buildings and history
The church is made of hewn granite boulders , with small window and door openings typical for the time it was built; the window openings were kept as narrow as possible, as glass was very valuable at the time. The walls are 90 cm thick, "real" fortified churches from southern Germany, which were built on the national borders, even have wall thicknesses of 120 cm and more, but the church could also serve to protect the villagers in troubled times, as the double-shell construction of the field stone walls and the height required corresponding wall thicknesses. The east-west orientation of the church corresponds to the old belief that Jerusalem was generally in the east. The first building line of the new church to be built was aligned on the day of the patronage (saint's patronage ) to the point of sunrise. If the church had two titular saints, either the angles were averaged or the north and south walls of the nave were oriented differently. In early Christian times, places of worship where a martyr or his relics were buried were named after him and consecrated to him. Two bags with relics of the Holy Eucharius were found in Biegen during the restoration of the altar in 1958.
After the Reformation , the priest's portal was walled up, a wooden horseshoe gallery was installed and the pulpit was moved near the triumphal arch , after which a new one had to be installed, as the previous one was destroyed in the Seven Years' War . After the fire in 1794 , the church tower was given a brick top , the windows were rebuilt and given basket arches, and the choir was extended by an extension. In the upper part of the tower there are sound openings and the suspension for two bells. The tower was provided with a tent roof and a weather vane. Around 1900 there is a tower clock in the tower. The bells came from the 14th and 15th centuries, the "younger" had to be delivered in 1917. It was later replaced, but stolen to be melted down in 1944. 80% of the church was destroyed by shelling in 1945 and the old bell from the 14th century burst. After the war the church is rebuilt and the stolen bell returns from the bell cemetery . A second one, from Hasselbusch (Niesporowice), Soldin district , today Poland , replaces the broken one. It is from 1670, cast by Lorenz Kökeritz from Stettin . An important church in the region received extensive renovation work in the period that followed.
Furnishing
The late Renaissance altar is unique in the region due to the particularly sculptural passion story made from sandstone; it has the structure of a winged altar and is a listed building.
In the predella : Jesus' great supper on Maundy Thursday, further scenes of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane , here he prays with his disciples the night before his arrest, the master from Nazareth is mocked and whipped, the crown of thorns is placed on him by the Roman soldiers , Jesus collapses under the weight of the cross , scene of the crossing, you can see Mary , the mother of Jesus, and the disciple whom Jesus loved, presumably John , but there are also interpretations that infer Peter. The cross stands on a skull, symbol of the place Golgotha (translated: skull). The crucified, resurrected one has deprived death of the last liability - power. The four coats of arms of the patronage families von Röbel , von Krummensee , von Biesenbrow and von Mörner can be seen. By Mörner had the privilege of Brandenburg since 1351 Kelpfennige and stettinische Vinke eyes to beat.
Paintings from around 1400 can be seen on the walls of the church, with scenes of the Passion ( Last Supper , Judas kiss , arrest in Getsemani ), figures of saints : Andrew , Catherine and Hedwig , coats of arms and consecration crosses , a world judgment Christ in the mandorla , a trumpet angel and the painted one Triumphal arch .
An epitaph from 1601 shows one of the owners, Hans von Gelnitz, in full life size.
The baptism is from the first half of the 18th century.
organ
The Sauer organ Opus 1503 was installed around 1936, probably in the existing case of an older organ. The organ, looted in 1945, was repaired by the Sauer company in 1950 and the layout changed. In 1960 it was fitted with a new pewter brochure . The organ was cleaned in 1999 by Christian Scheffler from the organ building workshop in Sieversdorf .
Equipment: Pneumatic pocket shop .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P,
- Playing aids : Tutti , 2 unlabeled register rockers, possibly octave coupling
- V = vacant
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Schulze; Wolf Bergelt (Ed.): Organ Manual Brandenburg, Vol. 5: Oder-Spree . Freimut & Selbst Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937378-11-4 , p. 76.
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 52.1 ″ E