All Saints Church (Raschau)
The All Saints Church in Raschau is a small hall church in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
General
The church in the Raschau-Markersbacher district of Raschau on the northern slope of the Großer Mittweidatals goes back in its current baroque appearance to a renovation from 1698. After the foundations of a previous building were uncovered during excavation work inside the church in 2008 and wall paintings were discovered, it is assumed that the church has existed since the beginning of the settlement of the Ore Mountains . It is one of the oldest church buildings in the area.
Time of origin
Because of dry rot infestation , extensive renovation work was necessary both indoors and outdoors. When working on the ground, archaeologists uncovered remains of the wall, which were initially dated to around 1200. The former chancel had a semicircular floor plan, was later provided with an extension and was closed off by an arched vault.
In the further course of the renovation work, scaffolding timber was also found in the masonry, which was examined dendrochronologically . One of the woods comes from a tree that was felled in winter 1205/1206. The earliest construction time of the church is therefore the year 1206. The exact time of construction cannot be determined exactly (possibly decades later). In the area of the gallery wall paintings were uncovered, the final date of which is still pending.
While the finds speak for an origin around 1200, written sources only speak of a Raschau church around 1460. In the Zwickau Franciscan terminology book, Raschau is referred to as a branch of the Markersbacher Church . It is possible that this was built on the foundations of a Romanesque chapel . Raschau was still a parish in its own right during the Catholic period. According to Kreyssig and Schöttgen, there was a church in honor of all the saints in the village as early as 1496 : “Raschow, hodie Raschau… templum iam a. 1496 habuit in honorem OO.SS. “It is possible that the middle of the old church bells, which originated in the 15th century, was cast for a new building or an extension of the Raschau church.
architecture
Little is known about the earlier appearance of the Raschau Church. The foundation walls uncovered in June 2008 indicate a 12.1 m long and 10.0 m wide Romanesque building with a 7.5 m wide apse , which originally had a portal on the south side. At the end of the Middle Ages or the early modern period, the width of the building was expanded to include a choir to the east, on the north side of which a sacristy was built. During a further renovation in 1698, the church received its present shape.
A file in the parish archives shows that on June 5, 1601 the tower was demolished and rebuilt with a button on June 20 of the same year and repaired in 1673. In 1698 the church was extensively expanded and rebuilt in the Baroque style. In 1738 half the roof including the tower was repaired, the button was removed and it was put back on. After a lightning strike in 1787, the tower was renewed in 1790 after lengthy negotiations between the municipality, the Grünhain office and the responsible officials in Dresden . Today the church appears as a plastered quarry stone building with a straight east end and elongated arched windows. The high pitched roof is covered with dormers . The roof turret from 1790 has moved slightly to the west.
inner space
23 of the 52 coffered ceiling panels on which angels are depicted date from the first half of the 17th century and were painted over with today's motifs in the course of the expansion of the building in 1698. The two-storey gallery on the north side, which was built at the same time and was renewed in the 1960s, is decorated with baroque carvings and marbled in the middle . The organ gallery is on the west side. The altar painting from 1916 was made by Johannes Heinrich Mogk (1868–1921) from Dresden and depicts Christ who shows the blind man the way in front of the local topography including the Raschau church. The baptismal font was purchased in 1830, the pulpit was built in 1849. The stained glass windows are out the workshop of the Zittau glass painter Richard Schlein were used in the 1920s.
The 1.2 meter high shrine, initially provided with wings in 1496, received baroque decorations in 1626. In the course of time it was replaced by an altar of unknown shape, initially stored and sold at the end of the 19th century. Today it is in a Zwickau museum.
organ
On August 19, 1849, the organ was consecrated by Grünhain's master organ builder Christian Gottlob Steinmüller (1792–1862). The community had raised 950 thalers for the new building. The old Dressel organ including the singing choir was dismantled on April 30th. In the course of the construction of the new organ, a new, larger singing choir was installed, which meant that the man stalls below had to be removed. Instead, a double row of men's seats was set up next to the altar, after the pulpit was removed and made smaller and lower above the altar, which had to be removed and rebuilt.
Peal
The peal consists of three bronze bells , the belfry is made of oak as well as the Glockenjoche sgefertigt, and were renewed in 2003 The following is a summary of the data peal:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | material | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1517 | Bell foundry Unknown | bronze | 880 mm | 412 kg | H' |
| 2 | around 1300 | Bell foundry Unknown | bronze | 670 mm | 214 kg | e ″ |
| 3 | around 1400 | Bell foundry Unknown | bronze | 440 mm | 55 kg | f ″ |
Outdoor area
There is a cemetery around the church, which is surrounded by an old quarry stone wall. At the lower entrance to the cemetery there is a small complex built in 1915 in honor of the fallen soldiers of Raschau. The reconstruction of a war memorial inaugurated in 1931 is located on the memorial square set up south of the church. In the rear area, the names of those who died in the two world wars are noted on several boards. On the cemetery wall there is a small obelisk in memory of the Germans and the Franco-Prussian War , two memorial plaques for teachers of the Raschau schools and a cross in honor of Gustav Friedrich Dinter .
Rectory
To the east of the church, separated from the cemetery area by a small street, is the rectory built in 1823. The half-timbered house built on a natural stone terrace has a massive, plastered ground floor with porphyry window and door walls . The upper floor in half-timbered construction has a grooved ledge and sloping wood in the corners. There are five standing dormers on the half-hip roof . Today the parsonage houses the pastor's apartment, the rectory and a parish hall.
Views and details
View from the northwest (1907)
View from the southeast (2005)
Roof turrets and dormer: view from the south (2008)
north and organ gallery, altar (2005)
Church and rectory (2005)
Church and rectory (2008)
Rectory (2005)
War memorial in front of the south side (2008)
Church, rectory and school: view from the B101 (2008)
literature
- Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 347 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
- Jonny Hielscher: All Saints Church Raschau. 800 years of church history. Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-8442-1647-9
- Yves Hoffmann: The construction of the Romanesque church in Raschau and the time of rural colonization in the Upper Ore Mountains. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 59 (2013) 3, pp. 253–261. ISSN 0486-8234
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Saxony : II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 832f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freie Presse , Schwarzenberg edition, June 25, 2008
- ↑ Freie Presse, Schwarzenberg edition, August 27, 2008
- ↑ Diplomataria Et Scriptores Historiae Germanicae Medii Aevi: Cvm Sigillis Aeri Incisis / Opera Et Stvdio Christiani Schoettgenii Rect. Scholae Ad D. Crvcis Dresden. Et M. Georgii Christophori Kreysigii . Volume 2, “Accedit praefatio Christiani Gottlieb Buderi de itineribus eruditorum virorum rei historicae fructuosis”. Altenburg: Richter, 1755. In it: “XVII. HISTORIA DIPLOMATICA ABBATIAE GRVNHAINENSIS ORDINIS CISTERTIENSIS DIOECESIS NVMBVRGENSIS ”.
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 305 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '58.38 " N , 12 ° 49' 57.32" E