Wendish Church (Senftenberg)

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West side
East side with sgraffito on the choir
inside view

The Wendish Church in Senftenberg is a listed church building that is used today as a community center for church services, concerts, lectures and celebrations. The church is located between Steindamm and Baderstraße. The name is a demarcation to the German Church , which is located in the immediate vicinity.

history

After the Reformation , a wooden church was built for the Sorbian (Wendish) population in 1540 . A new building was requested as early as 1555, as the original construction was very simple. The church was located at the northern exit of Burglehnstrasse, which is part of today's Altstadtring. The big fire on August 15, 1641 destroyed the church, a new building was built by the master carpenter Michael Großer from 1652 to 1655. Another city fire in 1670 destroyed this building too.

The newly built church was built at the current location. A stone foundation was laid over an alder grate. The church consecration was on Pentecost Tuesday, June 6th, 1682. The altar and pulpit were created in 1682 by Abraham Jäger from Finsterwalde for 60 thalers. The altar and pulpit were added after the church was consecrated. Painter Lehmann from Kamenz repainted the altar in 1686, Georg Schramm from Sonnewalde the pulpit in 1694. After another city fire in 1717 the collapse of the building was to be feared. So it was decided to build a new building for 1742, but it was not carried out until 1749. The construction was carried out by Johannes Müller . On April 17th the alder stakes for the grate were set and on April 22nd the foundation stone was laid by Senator Samuel Meier. The church consecration took place on December 21, 1749. In 1834, the services had to be stopped because the church was in disrepair. In the following years the sacred building was renovated several times.

The last service in Sorbian for the time being was held in 1881. The church was redesigned as a parish hall in 1934. After it fell into disrepair, it was to be demolished in 1993. However, it was placed under monument protection and initially renovated from the outside. The interior was then renovated and, for 400,000 euros, it was converted into a social and cultural meeting center, which was inaugurated on March 28, 2003.

The church is a large hall building with a three-sided end. The west side is divided by two pilasters . On the eastern gable wall of the choir is a sgraffito by the Senftenberg artist Günter Wendt from 1934, which depicts Jesus on the cross. The sgraffito is damaged by bullet holes from the Second World War , which have been preserved as a warning.

Parts of the former baroque altar by Abraham Jähger are now in the Peter-Paul-Kirche .

On August 15, 2010, preaching in Lower Sorbian was held for the first time in 129 years in the Wendish Church as part of a bilingual service .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9
  • Isolde Rösler (arrangement): Alt-Senftenberg . A picture chronicle. Ed .: Senftenberg District Museum . 1st edition. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-89264-731-3 (3rd edition 2004).
  • Werner Forkert , Steffen Rasche (photos): Historical forays . Monuments of the city of Senftenberg. Ed .: City of Senftenberg, Association " Black Elster ". City of Senftenberg, Senftenberg 2003.
  • Senftenberg city guide . Senftenberg District Office, 1991

Web links

Commons : Wendish Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ News EXTRA SHEET No. 10 / June 2003
  3. ↑ The main roads used to be signposted in two languages: Günter Paulisch organizes services in Sorbian / Wendish. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , August 16, 2010 (based on the almost identical text announcement in the Senftenberg regional edition of August 12, 2010).

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 11.7 "  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 21.9"  E