City parish church Sonnewalde
The Protestant parish church Sonnewalde (also called Stadtkirche Sonnewalde ) is a hall church in Sonnewalde , a town in the Elbe-Elster district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . The building was erected as a parish church and has been the city church of Sonnewalde since the Reformation .
location
The federal road 96 leads as Luckauer Straße coming from the east to the historic village center. There it branches off leading to the south. The church stands north of the junction and south of the castle on an area that is not fenced .
history
The sacred building was built at the end of the 14th or first half of the 15th century. At the beginning of the 18th century the structure was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in 1734. In the 20th century, craftsmen restored parts of the church tower .
Building description
The building was built from brick , which was then plastered . The choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth closing . It is stabilized by a triple stepped buttress on each side. On three of the choir sides is a large pointed arched window with a white plastered reveal . To the southeast, a small, rectangular sacristy adjoins the remaining field . On each of the three accessible sides there is a barred, high rectangular window.
On the northern side of the rectangular nave there is a large, ogival portal in the eastern area. In the past, there was the main entrance with a flight of stairs . The remaining five fields are stabilized with additional buttresses, with pointed arched windows in between, as in the choir. There are five more windows on the south side; two from the west and three from the east. In between is a small, rectangular gate with a raised window. The simple gable roof is covered with beaver tail ; there are two bat dormers on each side .
The western front is dominated by a large, ogival screen ; therein a pressed, ogival gate. Above it is a small, high rectangular opening slightly off-center to the left. The gable is separated by a surrounding haunch . There is another opening in the middle. Above is a spire that was built from half-timbered houses . There are two each on the west and east sides and a sound arcade on the other sides . The tower ends with a pyramid roof , tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The church furnishings were largely renewed after the fire in 1735. The altar retable between Corinthian columns shows the crucifixion of Jesus in the altar panel and is based on the works of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo . There is a tondo on it , which was probably added around 1900. The top is crowned by a radiant sun. The pulpit probably dates from the end of the 17th century and consists of a polygonal pulpit on whose fields the evangelists are depicted. A baroque figure made of sandstone shows John the Baptist with a shell-shaped baptismal bowl. Additional equipment includes a stove plate that comes from the castle. It was cast in 1732 and shows a view of the city.
The prospectus of the organ created Matthew Claunigk in 1742; it was restored in 1910. It stands on a horseshoe gallery in front of an intermediate wall that was drawn in when the church tower was rebuilt. The southern gallery is shortened; north is a patronage box . An epitaph commemorates Agnes von Solms, who died in 1587; another one to Cornelius Crispinis von Meulegracht, who died in 1611, and a third tombstone to Johann Friedrich von Solms, who died in 1654. A children's grave stone shows Maria Magdalena Beutnitz, who died in 1611, in a high relief. There is also another tombstone from the beginning of the 17th century, which is damaged.
To the east of the building, a memorial commemorates those who died in the Wars of Liberation .
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 13 ° 38 ′ 42.4 ″ E