Schweikershain village church

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Schweikershain village church

The Protestant village church Schweikershain is a small baroque hall church in the Schweikershain district of Erlau in the district of central Saxony in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Erlau in the Rochlitz church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is best known for its small organ, which is attributed to Gottfried Silbermann .

History and architecture

The small hall church with a rectangular floor plan was built in 1719 using parts of a previous medieval building. The church is a quarry stone building with a straight end and a surrounding eaves cornice, a hipped roof and a squat polygonal roof turret with a hood and lantern . Restorations were carried out in 1889 and 1990, with the latter restoring new stalls.

A single-storey circumferential gallery, an organ gallery in the west and a manorial box in the east are built into the flat-roofed interior. On the north side the box was probably built in, today the sacristy is located there.

On the south side there is an ogival sacraments niche made of Rochlitz porphyry from the 15th century with bulging profiles and small circular ornaments at the corners. An original door with crossed iron bands has been preserved.

Furnishing

The pulpit altar with its architectural structure, the gallery and the ceiling date from 1808. Three baroque inscription stones made of Rochlitz porphyry have been preserved from the 17th century. The wooden death shields of the Nostitz-Wallwitz family date from the 18th or early 19th century .

organ

The organ is a work from around 1734 with six stops on a manual and pedal. The organ is attributed to Gottfried Silbermann according to tradition and because of the characteristic style of his workshop. The organ is said to have initially served as an interim organ in the Dresden Court Church and did not come to Schweikershain until 1759, but this is doubted because of the choir tuning of this organ and the concert pitch that was already common in Dresden at that time . A repair by Alfred Schmeisser took place in 1923, when the Cimbel II register was replaced by Aeoline 8 ′ . In 1955 the organ was moved from its original location to the west gallery by the Eule company and the change in layout was reversed by reconstructing the cymbal. Between 1986 and 1990 the organ was tempered unevenly and the original casing was exposed. The disposition is:

Manual CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Octava 2 ′
Qvinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Cimbel II
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Remarks

  • Pitch: currently a 1 = 460.4 Hz
  • Mood : well tempered since 1990 (Neidhardt I)
  • Wind pressure: 55 mm water column

Peal

The ringing consists of a bronze bell, the belfry is made of steel. The following is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1934 Bell foundry S. Schilling 530 mm 100 kg f ″

Surroundings

The former manor is a complex from the end of the 18th century that surrounds a large courtyard on four sides and consists of two-storey plastered buildings with a crooked hipped roof . The system was later extensively remodeled.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Schweikershain  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank-Harald Greß, Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 99.
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: Sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 357 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 47.7 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 0.5 ″  E