Evangelical Church (Forchheim)

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Forchheim Church
Forchheim, George Bähr Church with pulpit altar and Silbermann organ

The Evangelical Church in Forchheim is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Forchheim , a district of the Saxon town of Pockau-Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains District .

history

As early as 1500 the place was an independent parish and retained this status even after the Reformation in 1539. 1719–1726, today's church was built on the site of the previous building based on plans by the Baroque master builder George Bähr . The construction was made possible by a legacy of the Leipzig merchant Gotthard Schubart in the amount of 1,500  thalers , of which 800 thalers went to the organ.

During restorations in the years 1964 to 1976, the renovations from the 19th century were reversed and the original baroque state was restored. In the years 1987 to 1993 the outside of the church was renewed, in 2010 the color scheme of the interior was refreshed.

The church in Forchheim is mentioned as the work of this master in the Deutsche Post stamp pad, which appeared in 2016 in memory of George Bähr.

Building description

The church is a hall church with an octagonal floor plan in the form of a Greek cross and is commonly regarded as the forerunner of the Dresden Frauenkirche .

Furnishing

A late Gothic winged altar, a life-size Christ body and Bornkinnel still come from the previous building. In addition to the order to build the organ, Gottfried Silbermann also received the order to build the altar , pulpit and baptismal font , so the church interior has a uniform baroque character.

Forchheim, George-Bähr-Church, patron's box

organ

Building history

The organ , which has largely been preserved in the original and can be played on, comes from Gottfried Silbermann and was handed over to the community on April 23, 1726. To commemorate the legacy, there is a monogram and coat of arms of the Schubart family in the crown of the organ.

Modifications and restoration

According to the organ builder Wieland Rühle , the defects that the instrument exhibited and that made restoration necessary are less due to wear and tear of some parts, hardly to material fatigue and not at all to construction defects or even sound failure, but rather to arbitrary interventions by later generations.

In 1784 the first repair took place after 58 years. Christian Friedrich Göthel from Borstendorf carried out cleaning, tuning and repairs in 1843, probably followed by cleaning and tuning by Guido Hermann Schäf in 1869 and minor repairs and bellows repair by Carl Eduard Schubert in 1883 . The first serious intervention took place in 1910: E. Lohse installed Aeoline 8 ' as a new register ; the organ should be expanded in sound. In 1917 the silent pipes of the prospectus were delivered, in 1934 silent prospect pipes were installed again. In a second serious intervention in 1936, the organ was retuned a semitone down; all keys were assigned to a different valve, the technical system ( action ) falsified. The pedal keyboard could not be adopted and has since been lost. All original pipes of the tone c 3 had to give way to a new pneumatic system and were destroyed. The internal architecture was changed. The bellows were converted, an electric wind generator was connected ; after that only one bellows was connected; the wind supply remained unsatisfactory. After 1974, the wind turbine was rebuilt again: the installation of an additional compensating bellows; the wind supply remained imperfect; the installation of a switchable pedal coupler ; partial reconstruction of the government for an additional stop. It is unclear when and why the ivory decorative buttons on the stop slides were removed. The original pedal abstracts to the main shop were cut and shortened. The shafts made of round iron for the pedal belt changed the internal architecture considerably. In 2001 the restoration of the organ by the workshop for organ building Wieland Rühle, Moritzburg, based on the original design by Silbermann, was completed. The only exception is the adoption of the pedal coupler. All subsequent purchases, e.g. B. the 22 new pipes of the tone c 3 in the manuals, were made in terms of material properties, dimensions, shapes and craftsmanship based on models from this organ.

Disposition

Major work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Quintadena 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Cornett III (from c 1 )
Pointed flute 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Oberwerk CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sifflet 1'
Pedal CD – e 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′

The pitch is a 1 = 464.8 Hz (chorus pitch ). With the temperature according to Silbermann-Sorge, it again has 8 particularly pure sounding tones . The wind pressure is 80 mm WS.

Bells

Two bells, dated 1490 and 1491, were taken from the previous building.

Web links

literature

  • Christian Rietschel, Bernd Langhof: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, p. 134 f.
  • Frank-Harald Greß : Gottfried Silbermann's organs. Sandstein, 2001, p. 86 u. ö.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e George Bähr Church in Forchheim. Ev.-Luth. Forchheim parish, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wieland Rühle: The Silbermann organ of the George Bähr Church in Forchheim / Erzgebirge. In: The Queen's Portal. orgel-information.de, archived from the original on March 18, 2017 ; accessed on March 17, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '2.2 "  N , 13 ° 16'49.1"  E