Lieberose town church

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Lieberose City Church (2012)

The Evangelical town church Lieberose is a hall church from the 15th century in Lieberose , a town in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . The building is after severe damage in the Second World War, a ruin .

location

The church stands in the south-eastern area of ​​the central market square, which is spanned by the street market . To the west of the building is the Lieberose country church . The church property is not fenced .

history

The exact construction history of the church is not yet known. It is certain that the church tower was built around 1400. The nave was added in the third quarter of the 15th century . On November 11, 1519, the brothers Jakob and Richard von der Schulenburg from Altmark bought the place. Joachim II von der Schulenburg had both Lieberose Castle and the church rebuilt from 1550 . The work was carried out by the Italian builder Thaddäus Paglion . In 1593, under the influence of the Parler School, he built a three- bay parlor choir , under which an extensive crypt was dug. This created a grave church for the von Schulenburg. Experts suspect that there had been a fire in the church beforehand, which for von der Schulenburg should have been "at least a welcome occasion for a building according to his ideas". Paglion also commissioned the brothers Michael and Jonas Grünberger, students of the Lorentz family of sculptors in Freiberg, to create an epitaph out of sandstone . It was intended to commemorate Joachim II, who had since died in 1594. The work, created in 1597, is rated in the Dehio manual as an “excellent work of Saxon sculpture” and, after the church was destroyed, it ended up in the country church, where it has served as an altar since 1948 . The epitaph included some full figures of the schulenburg family, which were stored in 2019. Of the original facade, only the southern porch with a baroque sandstone portal remained, which goes back to a work by Tobias Wilhelmi from Magdeburg from 1688.

In April 1945 a Soviet aerial bomb destroyed the nave . Much of the church furnishings were preserved and could be moved to the barely damaged country church. The ruins, on the other hand, remained exposed to the weather for many decades. In the 1970s there were considerations for a demolition, but this was never realized. It was not cleared and secured until the mid-1990s. The building has been restored since 1993; In 2000 an emergency roof was put on. During the renovation work, the pastor at the time, Tilmann Kuhn, campaigned not only to preserve the ruins, but also to make them accessible to the public. The city church should equally be a place of encounter, history, relaxation, inspiration and faith. A specific usage concept is to be drawn up in 2019.

Building description

West Tower (2009)

The three-bay nave was essentially made of reddish bricks . The design was based on the Upper Church of St. Nikolai in Cottbus . Mighty buttresses stabilized the walls of the nave and the polygonal ambulatory . In the western area, bricks that were noticeably lighter and not so badly weathered were used, while in the eastern area dark red and poorly fired bricks were used. The southern wall of the nave is dominated by a large porch. Experts found out that there must have been such a portal on the north side of the nave. It had baroque shapes with a segmented gable and came from Wilhelmi's workshop. However, craftsmen refrained from rebuilding and completely reconstructing the southern portal. Instead of the mighty round arch that originally existed, in 1994 they only created a small tower with a triangular gable. In the interior, remains of the octagonal pillars have been preserved. They were connected by arcades and had a star vault in the central nave; in the side aisles a cross vault.

The west tower remained largely undamaged in the Second World War. When it was built around 1400, craftsmen used unhewn and non-layered field stones in the lower area , as well as masonry stones in the corners and in the two upper floors . The entrance is from the west via a large walled portal. The bell storey is decorated with rich panels ; therein ogival arcades of sound . At the transition to the polygonal tower spire with clock and tower ball is a crenellated wreath.

In 2019, there are still a total of 13 coffins with members of the von Schulenburg family from the 17th and 18th centuries in the crypts. In addition to an anteroom, the crypt consists of a large and two smaller, elongated burial chambers.

On the south side there is a memorial for those who died in the First World War . The inscription reads: "1914/1918 / Lieberose / Moved out of our community for the fatherland / fight and death", followed by the names of the fallen.

Furnishing

Postcard from Lieberose around 1898, top right interior of the town church

Due to the destruction in World War II, a statement about the originally existing furnishings can only be made on the basis of the preserved church furnishings and old illustrations. Before a renovation in the years 1890 to 1893, there were galleries in the building that extended over two levels. In the east they stood opposite the abandoned altar from 1593, which occupied the lower area of ​​the choir and, according to tradition, closed it off "like a wall". In the second north arcade from the east was the epitaph of Joachim, which will be in the country church in 2019. The tomb was probably illuminated through the opposite window in the south aisle and thus probably had a special effect. Opposite him was the pulpit in the middle of the nave. The interior was spanned by a groin vault that rested on simple consoles. The vault caps were decorated with star-like or net-like false ribs. Their design was based on the caps in the Torgau Palace Chapel .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Lieberose  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV (Ed.): Church of the Month July 2019 - Lieberose (Dahme-Spreewald district) , Info letter 06/19 - June 1, 2019, p. 9
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Badstübner and Dirk Schumann: Hall ambulatory choirs in Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931836-06-1 , p. 395–.
  3. ↑ Katrin Kunipatz: Lieberoser Stadtkirche a jewel even as a ruin . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 3, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Lieberose (city church), Dahme-Spreewald district, Brandenburg , website of the online project Gefallendenkmäler, accessed on July 7, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 58.6 ″  E