Kipsdorf mountain church
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The Evangelical Lutheran mountain church Kipsdorf is located in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and belongs to the parish of Dippoldiswalde - Schmiedeberg . It is located in the district on the wooded slope of the valley of the Rote Weißeritz , Otto-Schmidt-Straße 3.Kipsdorf is a district of the city of Altenberg and lies on the B 170 .
history
Until 1908
In 1551, a documentary is Waldhufendorf called nine residents who manorial exercised the manor Bärenstein from. Parish in Sadisdorf from 1539 and 1840 and since 1908 branch church of Schmiedeberg . In 2001 it belonged to the Schmiedeberg parish and from 2002 a branch church to Dippoldiswalde . The residents of Kipsdorf, today's Oberkipsdorf, had to go to Sadisdorf to worship in wind and weather, heat and cold. The memory of the deceased also required the same path. Already in 1346 it is documented that there was a church in Sadisdorf and in 1437 there was an outbuilding. Reading services were later held in a classroom at the Kipsdorf school. In 1883, Kipsdorf got the railway connection and thus a steadily increasing number of summer visitors . So that all people could be treated in a pastoral manner, the forest services were carried out in the village, which became more and more popular and visited by numerous tourists . Up to 500 people took part in the services in the open air.
New church building
On December 9, 1893, the town council decided to build a church. The search for a suitable site to build a church caused some difficulties. The commissioned Dresden architects William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne had already designed a new church building with a cost estimate of 41,000 marks and were in charge of the construction. On April 6, 1894, it was possible to agree on a square at Mittelstrasse 3 (today Otto-Schmidt-Strasse) and to visit it. On October 23, 1908, the purchase with the Saxon State Treasury was completed. In the meantime, the collection and other collection bins in the hotels were used to finance the new church building. The foundation stone was laid on July 17, 1907. The local pastor of Schmiedeberg gave the speech in front of 400 residents and guests on the festively decorated building site. The official builder from Dippoldiswalde Ernst Otto Schmidt executed the symbolic three hammer blows. The Dippoldiswald company Fritsch took over all civil engineering work, plus the main construction services, i.e. bricklaying, plastering, stonemasonry, steel construction, carpentry and roofing work. The church was expanded by local craftsmen and companies from Dresden. The total cost at the end was around 76,500 marks. On September 22, 1908, the church was solemnly consecrated as Kirche am Wald . Pastor Opel from Altenberg held the ceremonial speech , he recalled the many forest services and the church events in the classroom of the school in Kipsdorf over the past 15 years.
After 1945
The church survived the Second World War unscathed, although on the morning of April 18, 1945, a low-flying attack with four bombs was carried out, without causing any major damage except for shattered window panes. The place was crammed with wounded, refugees, bombed out from Dresden and displaced persons . Armored units of the Red Army , Marshal Konjew's armored guard, moved from the direction of Dippoldiswalde and Reichstädt on Reichsstrasse 170 through Kipsdorf to Altenberg. The troops that followed looted and robbed the town, and women were brutally raped. Between 1958 and 1960 the church was renovated both inside and out by Willy Richter from Schmiedeberg. The somewhat gloomy and mystical colors were made lighter and more friendly. In addition, the pulpit received new pulpit fields with the symbols of the four evangelists by the wood sculptor Siegfried Urbank from Geising . The solemn consecration of the renovated church in 1960 was also the reason for the new name of the church: Bergkirche Kipsdorf . In 1965, Schmiedeberger PGH Aufbau und Technik installed an electric heater. Another renovation of the mountain church took place between 1988 and 1990. Among other things, the plaster and the roof were repaired and repairs were carried out on the roof structure and tower. The interior renovation was carried out by the Schmiedeberger company Siegfried Malke.
After 1989
Thanks to donations, it was possible to renovate the colored windows in the 1990s and install additional protective glass against mechanical damage. A special occasion was the 100th anniversary of the church, which was celebrated on September 28, 2008 with a festival week and a festival service. Regular services, thanksgiving, and cultural events are held in the church. A special highlight is the Kipsdorf sermon summer. Seniors have been organizing the event on a voluntary basis for eleven years and have invited pastors emeritus to the Kipsdorf mountain church. In 2016 the company Glock Klingeanlagenbau from Heidenau installed a new bell ringing system. Necessary repairs to the bell frame and bell yokes (bearing shells) were also carried out. In the cemetery there is a memorial stone for the victims of National Socialism, the memorial stone in the spa park was washed away with the August flood in 2002. There are also graves of people who were killed in a plane crash in 1942.
architecture
The small hall church made of natural stone and fired bricks with plastered facades is located on a hillside, so that terraced access paths are required. A flight of stairs leads to the main portal. Next to the stairs is a war memorial by the Dresden sculptor Paul Polte . The solemn consecration of the monument took place on June 24, 1923. Adapted to the weather conditions, the entrance is protected by a spacious canopy. There are three stained glass windows of the organ box above the canopy. The tower rises to the left of the entrance and houses the bell and the tower clock . The tower clock was supplied by the Meißen company Otto Fischer, owner J. Hummel. The four-sided tower dome is crowned with a cross. The roof is supported by a wooden truss and is covered with burnt beaver tails. The long sides are structured with four rectangular high windows each. A special feature is that the gable and keystone above the right entrance were not carved for reasons of cost.
Furnishing
The Dresden painter Wilhelm Hartz and the Schmiedeberg master painter Gustav Malke took care of the decorative interior design in Art Nouveau style . The organ loft and the loft on the west side of the church and the visible roof structure and the stalls were made of oak . The company Gustav Hofmann from Dresden took over the glazing work and also produced the windows covered with stained glass . The chancel has no windows and is characterized by an altarpiece . This was donated by the regional consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church from the estate of the painter Professor Theodor Gotthold Thieme, who died in 1901. The picture shows a crucifixion scene. In the foreground is a group of people:
- the crucified Christ,
- Mother Mary kneeling before the cross of Christ;
- Mary Magdalene ,
- as well as the evangelist John .
A landscape background was dispensed with in order to focus on the people. The motif is taken from a picture in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie by the Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden . The altar refers to the altarpiece with the carved sentence: I am the bread of life . In the center of the church there is a large, beautiful, carved round chandelier decorated with a symbolic crown of thorns , carved by wood carvers from Seiffen . The painted glass windows on the south side mean:
- Blessed by grace, only by faith;
- Love never stops;
- Hope in the Lord, he will fix it;
- Your word is the lamp of my feet.
The baptistery was located in the left anteroom of the church ; it is currently used for general and personal prayer and serves as a preparation room and sacristy .
organ
In 1908 the Dresden organ builder Jehmlich installed an organ with ten stops on two manuals and one pedal and consecrated it with the church . In 1938 the organ was expanded to 17 stops by the same company. The solemn consecration of the organ took place on December 21, 1938. In 1970 a general overhaul was carried out by the builder company.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling:
- Playing aids : Fixed combination Tutti; two free combinations; Trigger; Cresendo off
Peal
The Dresden company C. Albert Bierling made the first ring of three bronze bells for 3,137.50 marks and was consecrated with the church consecration.
| No. | Surname | Casting date | Caster | diameter
(mm) |
Dimensions
(kg) |
Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little bell | 1908 | Bierling bell foundry in Dresden | approx. 245 | e` | |
| 2 | Medium bell | 1908 | Bierling bell foundry in Dresden | 400 | a` | |
| 3 | Big bell | 1908 | Bierling bell foundry in Dresden | 800 | f` |
On June 18, 1917, the two large bronze bells had to be surrendered without compensation for armament purposes. Only the small bronze bell was to remain as an alarm bell. It took until 1922 before the Dresden bell foundry Bruno Pietzel received the order for a new bronze bell. Three new bronze bells were made, the remaining small bell from the old peal was traded in at the bell founder.
| No. | Surname | Casting date | Caster | diameter
(mm) |
Dimensions
(kg) |
Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little bell | 1922 | Bruno Pietzel bell foundry in Dresden | 782 | 252 | e` |
| 2 | Medium bell | 1922 | Bruno Pietzel bell foundry in Dresden | 930 | 422 | g` |
| 3 | Big bell | 1922 | Bruno Pietzel bell foundry in Dresden | 1171 | 845 | it` |
In the autumn of 1941 an electric bell ringer was installed by the company Bokelmann & Kuhlo. As during the First World War , on March 4, 1942, the bell for armaments purposes had to be given without compensation. On September 17, 1956, the district church office approved the purchase of a new bell. For this purpose, the bell foundry Otto Schilling & Gottfried Lattermann in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz in the Vogtland (company headquarters in Apolda ) was commissioned to manufacture bells from chilled steel for the new chimes. At the same time, new cranked bell yokes and cast steel clappers were created for the cast steel bells in order to relieve the bell cage and the masonry of the tower from the vibrating forces .
The cast steel bells manufactured in 1956 for 5,240.60 GDR marks:
| No. | Surname | Casting date | Caster | diameter
(mm) |
Dimensions
(kg) |
Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little bell | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 950 | 360 | c` |
| 2 | Medium bell | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1080 | 522 | b` |
| 3 | Big bell | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1300 | 910 | g` |
The remaining small bell was sold to Schwarzbach , Rochlitz district , following a resolution by the church council on July 2, 1956 . In 1959, the PGH "Gloria" from Bad Wilsnack installed a new, fully automatic bell ringing system.
literature
- Church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Dippoldiswalde-Schmiedeberg. Community Letter August / September 2008
- Heimatverein Kipsdorf, Dr. Siegfried Gerhard; Chronicle Bergkirche Kurort Kipsdorf; Alinea Dikitaldruck Dresden; P. 32.
- Heimatverein Kipsdorf, working group Dr. Siegfried Gerhard; Kurort Kipsdorf and surroundings Volume 3; Stoba-Druck GmbH Lampertswalde; hbS. 131
- Otto Voigt: Newspaper Bote vom Geising. 1908, no.282.
- Ingrid Berg: Foray on the little train; Media center of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg , 2003, ISBN 3000116613 , p. 78ff
- Heimatverein Kipsdorf, working group Dr. Siegfried Gerhard; Kurort Kipsdorf and surroundings Volume 2; Alinea Dikitaldruck Dresden;
- Wolfgang Fleischer : The end of the war in Saxony 1945. Podzun Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 2004, p. 146ff.
- Heimatverein Kipsdorf, Dr. Siegfried Gerhard; Small Chronicle Kipsdorf; Witzschdorf: Image publ. Böttcher, 2007; P. 31.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://hov.isgv.de/Kipsdorf,_Kurort
- ↑ Starke, Johann Gottlieb: Sachsen Kirchen-Galerie, Die Inspection Pirna, Altenberg and Dippoldiswalde, Verlag von Hermann Schmidt, Volume 4, 1840, p. 123
- ↑ http://hov.isgv.de/Sadisdorf
- ↑ home club Kipsdorf, workgroup Dr.Siegfried Gerhard; Kurort Kipsdorf and surroundings Volume 3;
- ^ Ingrid Berg: Foray with the tourist train; Media center of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
- ↑ Wolfgang Fleischer: The end of the war in Saxony 1945. [s. Literature]
- ↑ Heimatverein Kipsdorf, Dr. Siegfried Gerhard; Small Chronicle Kipsdorf; Witzschdorf: Image publ. Böttcher, 2007; P. 31.
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ home club Kipsdorf, workgroup Dr.Siegfried Gerhard; Kurort Kipsdorf and surroundings Volume 3;
- ^ Church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Dippoldiswalde-Schmiedeberg. Community Letter August / September 2008
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ home club Kipsdorf, workgroup Dr.Siegfried Gerhard; Kurort Kipsdorf and surroundings Volume 2;
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ Church Archives, Dr. Walfried Walter
- ↑ Heimatverein Kipsdorf; Health resort Kipsdorf and surroundings; Alinea Dikitaldruck Dresden; P. 173.
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 15.8 " N , 13 ° 40 ′ 37.1" E