Christ Church (Beierfeld)
The Christ Church in Beierfeld is a late 19th century in the style of Neo-Renaissance resulting Lutheran church hall in the Saxon Erzgebirge .
Building history
Due to the rapid increase in population in the course of the 19th century, the Beierfeld village church soon became too small for the residents of the parish . In the mid-1880s, a fund was therefore set up to build a new, larger church. A plot of land above the cemetery and the old church was specified as the building site, which, among other factors, resulted in the parish villages of Neuwelt and Wildenau being cleared out of the Beierfeld parish before the turn of the century. The Dresden architect Fritz Reuter was commissioned to plan the construction. For the construction and stone carvings were Schwarzenberger craftsmen involved. After the laying of the foundation stone on May 31 and the lifting ceremony on September 6, 1897, the church was solemnly consecrated on September 19 of the following year . The total construction costs amounted to 123,000 marks . In 1920 it was named Christ Church .
architecture
The stucco building has a recessed choir with a three-sided apse to the west and by gequaderte sandstone - pilasters divided and arched windows. The main entrance has a front staircase and a two-column sandstone portal. Above the architrave is a colored frit image with a standing figure of Christ. The east tower has a powerful lantern and staircases with rooflights flanked.
The bronze bells from the GA Jauck foundry in Leipzig , consecrated in 1898, weighed around three tons and were donated by a local family of spoon manufacturers. They were confiscated in 1917 for war purposes against compensation of 8,000 marks and replaced in 1919 by a steel bell from the Schilling & Lattermann foundry in Apolda . On the 110th anniversary of the consecration of the first bell in 2008, three new, bronze bells were rung. The steel bells from 1919 were placed in front of the church as a bell memorial.
inner space
The flat-roofed interior is provided with ornamentally painted central fields. A triumphal arch with a three-arched arcature leads into the neo-Romanesque choir , above which there is a monumental mural by the Dresden painter Johannes Wehle from 1899 depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. The octagonal wooden pulpit was made by Albin Baumann from Beierfeld, the parapet panels were decorated with depictions of the birth and resurrection of Christ by the Dresden history painter Ludwig Otto . The apse window by Carl August Schramm from Dresden shows in the round window Christ as King of Heaven and the apostles Peter and Paul to the side, probably as a reference to the patronage of the old church. To the north of the choir is a baptistery with a flat wooden ceiling, floor adorned with tiles and a round window depicting John the Baptist .
The organ was made by the Dresden organ builder Bruno Kircheisen (1830–1902) and installed in a prospectus by Otto Paulig. After a renovation in 1921 by the organ builder Hermann Eule from Bautzen, it has 22 registers .
Construction details
View from the southeast
View from the east-southeast
View from the cemetery (southwest)
View of the Peter-Pauls-Kirche with rectory, in the foreground the reconstructed war memorial and the steel bells from 1919
Tower clock, dome, ball and weather vane
two-pillar sandstone portal
Frit image
Detail of the left side portal
Interior around 1900
literature
- Barbara Bechter (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony II: administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 60 f.
- Gustav Beyer: Beierfeld. History of its political, economic and cultural development. Beierfeld 1923.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '41.19 " N , 12 ° 47' 12.69" E