Old Church (Dresden-Klotzsche)
The Evangelical Lutheran Old Church is a listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Klotzsche . It was built from 1810 to 1811 after the previous building was destroyed in a fire in 1802. The old church Klotzsche is the oldest church in the district.
history
In 1321 the village of Klotzsche was allowed by Bishop Withego II of Colditz to build its own parish church. Previously there was only one wooden chapel in the village - the residents of Klotzsch had to go to the old Frauenkirche for services . From 1539 Klotzsche belonged to Wilschdorf , where the pastor's seat was located.
Klotzsch buildings were destroyed several times in fires and the church was also damaged in a fire in 1729, so the bell tower and the three bells were destroyed. In the great village fire in 1802, 60 houses in the village and the Klotzsch church went up in flames and was destroyed except for the surrounding walls. Only three wooden figures of the winged altar , created around 1500, could be saved. The appearance of the first Klotzsch church has not been documented.
A new church was built from 1810 to 1811 under the direction of the carpenter Georg Samuel Höring. The rededication of the church took place on November 3rd, 1811 in the presence of the superintendent Karl Christian Tittmann . Only in 1907 did Klotzsche receive a second church with the Christ Church.
The first restoration of the church took place in 1911, which also received its porch at that time. The interior of the church was renovated from 1961 to 1965, and another exterior renovation took place from 1965 to 1968. The interior of the church was last renewed in 2002 and the air heating system was also improved.
Building description
Exterior
The old church is a plastered quarry stone building, the nave of which has three arched windows on each of the long sides. The church ends with a steep gable roof . The central, massive roof turret is square and has a domed roof; above are the tower ball and cross. Probably the oldest core of the church comes from the original building from the 14th century.
The actual nave is connected to extensions: in the west is the stairway to the galleries and the bell tower and in the east behind the altar is the sacristy . The main access to the church is via the south side of the nave.
Interior
The interior of the classicist hall church is kept simple. The church has a flat roof; the nave is occupied in the south, west and north by simple, two-storey galleries. The church has a total of around 300 believers. In the west is the organ gallery, in the east the "artless" pulpit altar . It dates from the time the church was built, was made of wood and is in white and gold. Above the basement there are two pilasters on the sides, which delimit the five-sided pulpit; the pulpit altar is closed off by a gable that originally included vases.
The altar crucifix is 96 centimeters high. The cross is made of dark wood. The arms of the low hanging figure of Christ, which is 32 centimeters high, have broken off. The crucified one, the crucifix base and the title of the cross are made of alabaster . A skull lies at the foot of the cross. The base bears a cartouche in baroque shape, pointed cuboids can be seen on the side. The back of the footplate bears the inscription "FGM 1800", although this may only be the date of a restoration, not the date of manufacture. This put Cornelius Gurlitt carefully on the end of the 17th century found in other writings the baroque tradition of Kruzifies is noted.
In 1881 the church received a wooden baptism, which was replaced by a sandstone baptism in 1960. The church stalls with carvings come from the Dresden Lukaskirche .
Church decorations
On the north wall of the church is a modern shrine with three wooden figures of saints. They come from the winged altar of the church, which burned in 1802, and are dated to around 1500. After the church was rededicated, the figures were stored on the sacristy floor for a long time and are damaged. There are two male statues and a female figure; all three are just over 90 centimeters high. The arms and partly also the legs are cut off and the faces are damaged. Gurlitt suspected bishops in both male representations, while the female figure possibly represents Saint Rosalia . The execution shows echoes of the Freiberg school.
A memorial for the victims of the First and Second World War is located in a niche in the vestibule . The metal cross was created by the Berlin art blacksmiths Fritz and Achim Kühn .
organ
In its exterior, the organ front is matched to the pulpit altar. It consists of carved veil boards that are painted white and provided with gilding. The prospectus is crowned by a halo with a god's eye .
The old church has a pneumatic Jehmlich organ from 1913, which was expanded from 11 to 12 registers by Johannes Schubert from 1988 to 1989 . The organ has a total of 1020 pipes .
Disposition of the organ:
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- Coupling : I / P, II / I.
- Playing aids : Tremulant for Salocional
Bells
During the church fire in 1802, the church bells in the old church were also destroyed. In 1811 the church received two new bells from the Dresden bell founder Lamar, but they burst the following year. Not until 1834 did the community have enough money to order two new bells from Sigismund Schrottel in Dresden. The larger one had a maximum diameter of 89 centimeters, was 70 centimeters high and had the inscription “Cast by Sigismund Schrottel Inspector of the Königlich Sächsische Stückgiesserey in Dresden. 1834 ". It was melted down in World War II.
The preserved small bronze bell from Schrottel from 1834 has the keynote of 1 . The second, larger bronze bell comes from the Schilling bell foundry in Apolda , was cast in 1962 and has the keynote b 1 .
| order | Keynote | year | Weight (kg) | Max. Diameter (mm) | inscription | Function (selection) |
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| Big bell | b 1 | 1962 | 300 | 78 | "He is our peace" | Wedding ceremony, funeral, day of penance |
| Little bell | of the 1st | 1834 | 210 | 70 | "A strong castle is our God", "The eye of the Lord looks at those who fear him", "Holy, holy is our God, all lands are full of his honor" (ring of bells) | Day bells, children's services, baptisms, weddings, funerals |
Churchyard
The old church is slightly elevated in the middle of the former street perimeter village of Klotzsche. The churchyard was laid out around 1321 and used for burials. It is around 1500 square meters. Due to a lack of space in the churchyard, the second, now old Klotzsch cemetery was laid out in 1883 not far from the church . The churchyard is no longer used for burials. Only a few tombstones have survived.
The churchyard is surrounded by a syenite wall and can be entered from two sides. Like the memorial cross in the church, the small gate to Hendrichstrasse was created by Fritz and Achim Kühn.
literature
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments. Dresden. Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , pp. 165–166.
- Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 26. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt (Land) . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1904, pp. 43–44.
- Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, p. 74.
- Hartmut Mai: Churches in Dresden-Klotzsche . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1996.
Web links
- Website of the Klotzsche parish
- Website of the initiative for the renovation of the old church Klotzsche
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gurlitt, p. 43.
- ↑ Gurlitt, p. 44.
- ↑ May, p. 6.
- ↑ a b Dehio, p. 166.
- ↑ See kirchgemeinde-klotzsche.de
- ↑ Chime of the Old Church (pdf)
- ^ Marion Stein: Cemeteries in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000, p. 174.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 54.3 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 42.5" E