Balthasar Andreas Spitzner

Balthasar Andreas Spitzner (born May 23, 1679 in Blankenhain near Crimmitschau , † July 20, 1755 in Oberalbertsdorf near Zwickau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian . As a long-time pastor , he gave the church building in Oberalbertsdorf a new look in 1716/40.

Life and work

Balthasar Spitzner was the first child from the marriage of the Blankenhain pastor and master's degree Johann Adam Spitzner (1650–1723) with his first wife Maria Elisabeth born in Zwickau. Conradi (1655-1709). After attending grammar school in Altenburg from 1694, studying theology from 1701 at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg and taking his master's degree in April 1705 in Wittenberg, Balthasar Andreas initially taught his younger siblings in Blankenhain and was his father “preaching beyräthig”. In 1706 he was initially a substitute at St. Nikolai in Oberalbertsdorf with the branch church in Niederalbertsdorf and then acted as the successor to the deceased pastor Christian Threpte on the basis of the vocation of July 7, 1706. In contrast to his younger brother Georg Friedrich Spitzner , he followed a family tradition established at the end of the 16th century when he turned to the clergy.

Spitzner's term of office is significantly shaped by "a major change" in the internal and external appearance of the Oberalbertsdorf parish church , which is now considered "lacking in architecture" . First, in 1716, he arranged for a new pulpit and a new confessional to be installed, as well as the installation of new chairs for men and women, the renewal of the lectern and the cladding of the altar , the paving and whitening of the church and the repair of the gable . In 1728 the previous bell house was torn down and a new bell tower was built , which was placed in the middle of the church roof, which was no longer covered with shingles , but with tiles . In 1740, Spitzner, who was only able to carry out part of his extensive renovation plans, had the ceiling made, the floor largely paved with bricks and the church windows replaced.

The "numerous messages" about the pastor family Spitzner in Karl Gottlob Dietmann's description of the priesthood of Electoral Saxony are attributed to Balthasar Andreas Spitzner , who is interested in genealogy . Suffering from a "weakness of the face", he received his son Johann Andreas Spitzner (1726–1791) as a substitute in 1750. After his father's death he became a pastor in Oberalbertsdorf.

family

Balthasar Spitzner was married twice. From his marriages concluded in 1708 and 1730 with the pastors' daughters Christiane Sophie Börner (1691–1729) and Johanna Sophia Heiffel (1703–1754), who came from Ruppertsgrün , a total of 19 children emerged in Oberalbertsdorf between 1709 and 1742, including the later known as “ bees pastor "in Trebitz acting Johann Ernst Spitzner .

literature

• Spitzner, Balthasar Andreas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 295.
• Karl Gottlob Dietmann : The entire priesthood dedicated to the unchanged Augspurgische Confeßion in the Electorate of Saxony and the incorporated lands. 1st part, vol. 3, Verlag Siegismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden / Leipzig 1755, p. 1469 f. ( Digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de , accessed on August 21, 2011)
• Saxony's church gallery. Eleventh volume. The Voigtland, including the ephorias: Plauen, Reichenbach, Auerbach, Markneukirchen, Oelsnitz and Werdau. Verlag von Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1844, p. 86 f. ( SLUB Dresden , accessed on December 16, 2011)
• Richard Steche (arrangement): Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Published by the K. Saxon Antiquities Association at the expense of the K. State Government. 12. Issue: Zwickau Official Authority. CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1889, p. 43 f. ( SLUB Dresden , accessed on December 3, 2011)
• New Saxon Church Gallery. The ephoria Werdau, edited by the clergy of the ephoria. Verlag von Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 414 and 426 ( SLUB Dresden , accessed on December 16, 2011)
• Georg Erler (Ed.): The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559 - 1809. Vol. II: The matriculations from the winter semester 1634 to the summer semester 1709. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig 1909, p. 433
• Erich Weise (Hrsg.): Family chronicle of the Spitzner family. Printed and published by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1936, pp. 10 f., 32 f. and 35 f.
• Fritz Juntke (arrangement): Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger series, part 2: 1660–1710, University and State Library, Halle / Saale 1952, p. 331
• Albert Spitzner-Jahn: The Vogtland Spitzner family. Self-published, 2nd edition, Kamp-Lintfort 2011, p. 154