St. Pantaleon (Frankena)

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Frankena village church

The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Pantaleon is a listed church building in Frankena , a district of the town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here is the in the middle of the 13th century created and surrounded by a cemetery monument to find in the town center.

Building description and history

Stone with checkerboard pattern at the corner tower

Today's Frankenaer Kirche is a hall building with a recessed square rectangular choir that was built in the middle of the 13th century as a stone block building. To the west of the nave is a nave-wide tower with a hipped roof , which was raised in brick with inscriptions in 1480 . The octagonal roof turret on the tower was built in 1799 and has a tail hood. A stone with a checkerboard pattern is walled up on the southwest corner of the tower. On the north side of the choir there is also a brick sacristy , which dates back to the 13th century and which was later renewed externally.

The interior of the church is characterized by a three-sided gallery , flat-covered and provided with a pointed triumphal arch . The sacristy, on the other hand, has a barrel vault .

The building underwent extensive renovations around 1884 and 1885. Among other things, the south portal of the church and the south porch were built. In addition, the windows were structurally changed. Restoration work was carried out again in 1906 and 1991.

Equipment (selection)

One of the fittings in the church is an altarpiece with twisted columns and cartilage from the late 17th century . His paintings show the Lord's Supper , the Crucifixion and the Resurrection . Created him had inscriptions once the Lübbener Michael dab . The pulpit and the gallery date from 1906. Furthermore, a richly studded medieval church case made of oak can be found in the church.

organ

The existing organ in the church dates from 1812 and was built by the Sonnewald master organ builder J. C. Schröther (1747-1822). It has a mechanical slide drawer , two manuals and twelve registers . During the 1884 renovation work taking place at the Church of Neuzeller Orgelbaumeister changed Robert UIBE the disposition of the organ. The manual comes from the Bad Liebenwerda organ building company Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt , which he also added a second manual in 1908. In 1917 the pewter pipes of the instrument had to be handed in for war purposes. The Frankfurter Richard Nitschke took in 1946 the right to repair the organ. The instrument was last reconstructed in 2006 by Markus Roth from Guhlen .

Checkerboard pieces

The chessboard stone built into the masonry of the church tower is considered a decorative element. The meaning of the chessboard pieces is largely unclear. These can be found on a large number of churches from this construction period. Its distribution area is in Niederlausitz , Märkisch-Oderland , Neumark , Barnim and Uckermark . They also still occur in Denmark , especially mainly in North Jutland . They could possibly have had some kind of protective function and entered the region through Danish builders. A written proof for this theory has not yet been proven.

In the vicinity you can also find chessboard pieces at the churches in Werenzhain and Arenzhain . It cannot be ruled out that the same stonemasons or construction huts could originally have been involved in the construction of these churches.

Dunning and remembrance

Next to the main entrance to the cemetery there is a memorial to the fallen in the form of a stele on a three-tiered base. It commemorates the inhabitants of Frankena who died in the two world wars.

Inscriptions Monument to the Fallen

Fallen memorial

World War 1:
What we lost, let us proudly mourn.
Nobody has greater love than that he gives his life for his friends.
The grateful Frankena.
The heroic death died in ...

World War II:
In memory of the victims of World War II

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 311 .
  • Parish Council of the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Frankena (ed.): The Schröther organ in the Ev. Village church St. Pantaleon zu Frankena near Doberlug-Kirchhain. Frankena 2006.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Frankena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2018.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 311 .
  3. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster, S. 60 .
  4. ^ Organ database , accessed on September 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ www.schachbrettsteine.de , accessed on September 2, 2018
  6. ↑ St. Uhlig: “Phenomenon with the chessboard” on Lausitzer Rundschau -online, November 21, 2011
  7. ↑ a b Eberhard Bönisch: "Ornament or symbol?" On www.altekirchen.de (PDF file)
  8. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on September 6, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 30.4 ″  E