Tharandt mountain church
The Protestant Mountain Church (also: Church of the Holy Cross ) is a hall church of the 17th century in Tharandt in District Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony . It belongs to the Tharandt parish in the Freiberg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The large hall church with pre-western tower is visible on a high mountain ridge overlooking the valley of Weißeritz located and was on the site of the razed lower castle of Burg Tharandt built using older buildings in the years 1626-1630. After a fire of 1807, the interior and the tower were renewed. Restorations took place in 1927 (inside), 1979/1980 (outside and inside).
The structure is a plastered quarry stone building with corner stones and a high, steep gable roof. The straight east end is provided with two pressed pointed arch windows, on the two-zone pointed gable there are pointed arch panels. The square west tower is harmoniously integrated into the west facade, which is designed with small arched and round windows, the bell storey is beveled on the sides, and is finished with a hood and pyramid. A star vault has been installed in the tower hall. The striking, non-uniformly worked late Romanesque west portal made of sandstone is provided with rich Corinthian capitals and foliage at the base of the arch and probably comes from the castle from the second quarter of the 13th century.
The interior has a flat roof and appears strikingly wide due to the unusual location of the two-storey galleries in the west and north, which were renovated in 1840/1841. In the east is the single-storey organ gallery, which is closed underneath by built-ins (probably from 1927). The sacristy on the north side with its barrel vault and pointed arched window is the oldest part of the church.
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a simple classical columnar altar from around 1800. In the middle there were originally two paintings, these were replaced by a carved crucifixion group from around 1510 (probably the former triumphal cross group) on a high pedestal. The work, which is remarkable in expression and in the treatment of the garment, was probably created by a Dresden master of south-west German origin.
The simple wooden pulpit with painted evangelists was created in the 17th century. The chalice-shaped, ornamental, partly colored sandstone baptism was created by the Freiberg Johannes Fritzsche and is dated 1635. On the south wall there is a life-size crucifix with a horsehair wig, probably from the late 15th century (similar to the Vesper picture in Freiberg Cathedral ). Two figural grave monuments made of sandstone can be found in the tower vestibule. One is reminiscent of Philippina Nitzsche († 1634) and is colored with loving detail. The twenty-two-year-old is shown in festive clothes with lace cuffs and lace collar and is attributed to Sebastian Walther . The second monument, also in color, was placed for Pastor M. Adam Schneider († 1667).
The organ with a well-designed classicist prospectus by Johann Christian Kayser from 1810 originally contained 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The present work by Wilhelm Rühle dates from 1969.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 831-832.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 262-263 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 59.7 " N , 13 ° 34 ′ 56.9" E