St. Nikolai (Fürstenberg on the Oder)
The Protestant town church St. Nikolai is a late Gothic brick church in the Fürstenberg (Oder) district of Eisenhüttenstadt in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Evangelical Nikolaikirchengemeinde Eisenhüttenstadt in the Evangelical Church District Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and is also known as the Nikolaikirche Eisenhüttenstadt . It stands on the high west bank of the Oder , dominates the silhouette of the old town of Fürstenberg and can be visited upon registration.
History and architecture
The stately late Gothic brick building was probably started after 1370. He was in the Second World War destroyed in 1945 with all the equipment by arson. The reconstruction of the exterior was carried out between 1952 and 1963 and came to a standstill after the side aisles were vaulted. The final restoration of the interior began in 1992 with the new covering of the roof and included the vaulting of the central nave of the church until 1999, the renovation of the tower parapet and the churchyard wall. With the new roofing of the steeple in copper in 2006, the reconstruction was completed.
The town church is a three-aisled, four-bay hall church made of brick masonry with the structurally elaborate hall choir . The floor plan has been shifted to the north in a highly irregular manner, which is attributed to the available building site. The ambulatory choir shows a four-sided end in the central nave, while the outer end is six-sided. The lower part of the massive west tower, which is square in plan, still originates from the late Gothic building, was raised in 1565 by an attachment with a rich panel structure and beveled corners on the upper part and received a stone spire at the end.
The pressed, ogival west portal is relatively small. On the north side a two-storey vaulted extension with a screen gable was built between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, which contains the sacristy and an open vestibule with the main entrance in the basement and a chapel open to the north aisle on the upper floor. The pressed interior of the church is characterized by the sturdy octagonal pillars on a high round base (which is missing in the western pair of pillars) and the rich star vaults. The shapes of the vaults are similar to those of the churches in Mittenwalde and Bernau . Mostly two-part, relatively narrow pointed arch windows illuminate the interior of the church.
Furnishing
Until it was destroyed, the furnishings consisted of a baroque altar from 1689 and an organ front from 1701, two-storey baroque organ lofts and a late medieval triumphal cross group. The pulpit and the baptism are from the 17th century. An epitaph by C. Jänich († 1703) was also of historical value.
After the restoration of the interior, an organ from Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen with 29 registers on two manuals and a pedal was installed in 1999 . The windows were also decorated with stained glass by Annelie Grund in 1999 .
The liturgical equipment consists of three chalices, one of which was made of tin at the end of the 17th century, another silver-gilt around 1700 and a third made of silver in Art Nouveau forms around 1900. A pair of brass candlesticks was created in 1613.
literature
- Götz Eckardt (Hrsg.): Fates of German monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 175.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 261-263.
- Heinrich Trost, Beate Becker, Horst Büttner, Ilse Schröder, Christa Stepansky: The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Frankfurt / Oder district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 192.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the Nikolaikirchengemeinde Eisenhüttenstadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
- ^ History of Fürstenberg on the pages of the Bürgerervereinigung Fürstenberg eV Retrieved on October 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 37.7 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 20.4" E