Parish Church of St. Marien (Kirchhain)
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The Protestant parish church “St. Marien ” is a listed church building in the small town of Doberlug-Kirchhain in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It is recorded in the local monument register under registration number 09135066. The church, which was built in the 13th century , is one of the oldest buildings in the Kirchhain district, which was an independent town until 1950 and has had town charter since the 15th century.
Building description and history
The church is a medieval three-aisled brick building with a five-sided choir that was built in the 13th century. In the west of the central nave there is a late Romanesque slightly retracted west transverse tower, which probably once belonged to a single-nave village church that originally existed here and is crowned by two pointed helmets. In the course of time, after several changes, a late Gothic brick basilica was built. Originally the church had three towers, which, however, had to be demolished in 1590 due to disrepair and replaced by today's two pointed helmets. In 1899 the building was extensively restored.
Equipment (selection)
The interior of the church is characterized by a painted wooden barrel vault. Here is an altarpiece from 1743 by JN Schneider and JH Löwe. The altar shows a plastic crucifixion group in front of a painted landscape and is framed by Corinthian columns. While there are figures of Moses and John the Baptist to the side, a picture of the Lord's Supper can be seen in the predella . On the entablature there are putti and between them a god's eye in a halo . The pulpit of the church dates from the 18th century . Paintings of the four evangelists can be seen in the parapets of the polygonal basket. A wooden baptism created around 1600 is on loan from the holdings of works of art found in the Berlin Cathedral Crypt during the Second World War . Another chalice-shaped baptism dates from the 17th century.
Other pieces of equipment include a life-size wooden crucifix from 1597, a small crucifix (1733), an epitaph painting showing the Protestant princes with the reformers sharing the Lord's Supper (16th century), and three historical pastor portraits.
In the church there is also an organ created in 1921 by the Bad Liebenwerda organ building company Voigt (op. 68). This organ has a pneumatic cone chest , three manuals and 34 stops on an independent pedal.
Interior of the church
The Voigt organ from 1921
The magnificent barrel vault of the church
Tombs
Inside the church there are numerous figural tombstones and epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a large double tombstone for Heinrich von Gersdorf († 1557) and his wife († 1554). There are also two iron tombstones from Gersdorff's crypt (16th century), two tombstones with full-length relief representations (1572 and 1619) and a figure tombstone of Sibilla von Hersfelt (16th century). There are also several historical sandstone tombs from the 17th and 18th centuries on the southern outer wall.
- Historical views
City parish church of St. Nikolai in 1891
The town of Kirchhain in 1891
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Literature (selection)
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 253 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d 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 was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 25, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 253 .
- ↑ a b Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District, Bad Liebenwerda District Museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Elbe-Elster Organ Landscape . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 34-35 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 25.4 " N , 13 ° 33 ′ 38.4" E