Mountain Church (Oberneuschönberg)

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Mountain church Oberneuschönberg
The church's barrel vault with wood paneling with the chandelier
The church bells before installation in 2012
Church stalls
Church pew on the organ gallery
Chancel on Christmas Eve
Carved Christmas crib of the Oberneuschönberg church
Thanksgiving in the mountain church
historical postcard from Brück & Sohn

The Evangelical-Lutheran mountain church Oberneuschönberg in Olbernhau - Oberneuschönberg was built in 1659 as a church for exiles . The wooden furnishings of the church were made at the end of the 17th century and are largely still preserved.

Church building

Immediately after the Thirty Years' War , numerous evangelical refugees, the so-called exiles , settled on the historical border between Bohemia and the Electorate of Saxony . Triggered by edicts of Emperor Ferdinand III. In the spring of 1651, eight Protestant families from the Dux lordship settled against the Protestants in Saxony , and in 1659 they began to build a wooden church on the Hainberg as a branch church of the Dörnthal parish . The wood for the church and the first altar was donated by Caspar von Schönberg . The church was on the fourth Sunday after Easter, cantata 1661 consecrated . As early as 1663 a separate pastor, Nikolaus Thimmig, was introduced.

Construction of a larger, massive church began just 30 years later. The wood necessary for the construction was provided by the widow Caspar von Schönberg. The single-aisled hall church covered with wooden shingles with a straight east end with a wooden barrel vault was built by Christian Schupp from Nossen and George Creer from Schönfeld . The 24 m long and 15.50 m wide church was built from rubble stones that are now plastered. The church was consecrated in November 1694 .

The building was affected by numerous storms (1764/65) and lightning strikes (1775/1776) in the 18th century , so that the roof had to be reconstructed as early as 1783 and the entire church from 1811 to 1814.

The high hipped roof , which has been covered with slate since 1871 , is crowned in the center by a square roof turret with a curved copper hood , which was manufactured in the neighboring copper smelter of the Saigerhütte Grünthal in 1871 . On the north side of the church there is a ridge-high extension with a pointed gable in which the sacristy is housed.

The entrance portal in front of the church and the wrought-iron external staircase were added in the 19th century. There is a coat of arms above the entrance portal showing the Schönberg lion .

A first small rectory was set up in 1664. It was replaced by a new rectory between 1839 and 1841, which was built at Kirchweg 28.

Originally the church had a ringing of two bells , which had to be cast in 1735 and 1764 respectively. In 1881 the church received three new bells that were cast in Dresden . The inscriptions on the church bells read: Come, for everything is ready (Luc. 14,7); Happy those who put their hope in the Lord (Psalm 40: 5) and give thanks to the Lord and preach his name (Psalm 105: 1). In 1917 the two large bells of the church were dismantled and melted down as part of the metal donation from the German people . The two large bells installed as replacements in 1936 were confiscated in 1942 and also melted down. Only the small deathdrop remained in the church. On April 24, 1960, the new bell , consisting of three steel bells cast by the Schilling company from Apolda , was installed. In 2012 the steel bells were replaced. The bell was cast in the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck on September 21, 2012 . The brass bells weigh between 130 and 250  kilograms . The largest of the bells has a c sharp face and a diameter of 67 centimeters.

In 1987 the outside facade of the church was plastered again. In 2013 the roof of the church was re-covered with old German cover by an Olbernhau roofing company.

Furnishing

The cladding of the barrel ceiling, mainly made of untreated wood, the church stalls , pulpit and the altar and choir galleries have largely been preserved in the original. The oldest pieces of furniture include the colored wooden font and the ambo , which have been preserved from the old church. The carved pulpit was made at the end of the 17th century. The large crucifix near the pulpit dates from 1707. In addition to the large crucifix, the church also had an alabaster crucifix and an iron crucifix , which were donated in 1715 and 1848 respectively.

An organ with mechanical manuals by the Thuringian organ builders Ernst and Adolf Poppe from Stadtroda was built in the organ gallery in 1874 . In 2015 the Poppe organ was restored by Orgelbau Peiter from Lengefeld for just under € 100,000. The organ prospectus was revised and the organ pipes worked up.

Opposite the organ gallery, behind the altar, the entire width of the church is taken up by a closed box . Above the entrance to the sacristy there is another closed box made of wood: the former stately prayer room .

The largely original floor of the church consists of hand-made bricks . The church is mainly lit by a gold bronze and Czech glass chandelier from 1896. The chancel was illuminated by two bronze candelabra donated in the same year.

The three altarpieces for the baroque altar were created in 1673 by the Swedish painter Andreas Nordling . They show the cycle of the Last Supper - Crucifixion - Resurrection . They were restored in 2004 in the Peter Taubert workshop in Dresden, together with the carved altar, which is over 300 years old . The restored altar was consecrated on Pentecost Sunday 2005.

  • Poppe organ

  • Church pulpit

  • Altar on Christmas Eve

  • Pew Sign (1821)

Todays situation

Since 2001 the church has belonged to the Olbernhau-Oberneuschönberg parish. Church services in the Ore Mountains dialect have also been held in the church since 2005 .

literature

  • Richard Steche : Oberneuschönberg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 3. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Freiberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1884, p. 113.
  • Oberneuschönberg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 7th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1820, pp. 627-630.
  • Gustav Starke: The village of Oberneuschönberg , in: Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie , 13th vol. The Schönburgische Receßherrschaften together with the ephorias Annaberg, Marienberg , Dresden 1845, pp. 205–208
  • The Oberneuschönberg Parish. in: Georg Buchwald (Ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, Sp. 197-214

Web links

Commons : Oberneuschönberg Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Parish Oberneuschönberg. in: G. Buchwald (Ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, Sp. 199
  2. ^ Rolf Morgenstern: Chronicle of Olbernhau for the 750th anniversary . Stadtverwaltung Olbernhau (ed.), Olbernhau 2010, p. 147.
  3. ↑ Barbara Bechter (ed.): Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kulturdenkmäler, Saxony , Volume 2, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1998, p. 769ff.
  4. ↑ Photo archive Photo Marburg: floor plan , photo 1951 , accessed on November 22, 2015
  5. ↑ The Parish Oberneuschönberg. In: G. Buchwald (ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, column 204
  6. ↑ Photo archive Photo Marburg: North view , photo 1951 , accessed on November 22, 2015
  7. ↑ The Parish Oberneuschönberg. in: G. Buchwald (Ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, Sp. 205
  8. ^ Rolf Morgenstern: Chronicle of Olbernhau for the 750th anniversary . Stadtverwaltung Olbernhau (ed.), Olbernhau 2010, p. 148.
  9. ↑ freiepresse.de: New bells for the church arrived , October 30, 2012 , accessed on November 20, 2015
  10. ↑ blick.de: Church has a new bell , November 3, 2011 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blick.de
  11. ↑ The Parish Oberneuschönberg. in: G. Buchwald (Ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, column 207
  12. ↑ kirchspiel-olbernhau.de: Oberneuschönberg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 18, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchspiel-olbernhau.de
  13. ↑ Photo Marburg: chandelier , accessed on November 22, 2015
  14. ↑ The Parish Oberneuschönberg. in: G. Buchwald (Ed.): New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Freiberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1901, column 207
  15. ↑ News from the Erzgebirgszweigverein , In: Erzgebirgischer Generalanzeiger, No. 8, 2005, p. 5

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 7 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 14 ″  E