Cunewalde village church
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The church in Cunewalde is a baroque church building in Cunewalde in the Bautzen district of the Free State of Saxony . The parish of Cunewalde belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . The building is considered the largest village church in Germany and can accommodate 2632 people.
The church stands in a valley of the Lusatian mountains south of the Czorneboh and north of the Bieleboh in the middle of the village of Cunewalde, which is characterized by half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries.
history
As early as 1222, Bishop Bruno II of Meißen transferred the village of Cunewalde with all the benefices contained therein to the cathedral monastery in Bautzen , at that time there was a first church in the village. Between the 14th and 19th centuries, many different noble families held the patronage of the Cunewalder Church, such as those of Nostitz , von Polenz , von Ziegler and Klipphausen and von Könneritz . In 1588 the existing church building had become dilapidated, on July 16, 1633 lightning struck the church tower and caused further damage. The church at that time had a gallery, was painted inside and a new altar was donated to it in 1640. After the Thirty Years' War the population increased and in 1693 a choir was built above the sacristy , in which in 1719 the first organ was installed.
After the church patronage, the aristocrats belonging to the parish and the community representatives had passed a resolution, the foundation stone for a new church building was laid on January 5, 1780. However, there were financial bottlenecks during the entire seven-year construction period, which were averted, among other things, by lotteries . Took place only on 3 Advent 1793, after completion of the interior, the inauguration of the church.
architecture
Structure
The walls form a plastered quarry stone building on a rectangular floor plan. The straight end of the choir in the east shows beveled corners, with the axes separated by colored pilaster strips . On the long sides of the building, the walls are pierced by high arched windows. The hipped roof has bat dormers on the sides .
The church tower attached to the west with a height of 62 m is also divided by pilaster strips. On the lower floor the tower stands on a square floor plan, on the bell floor on an octagonal floor plan, it is closed by a hood with a lantern , which is dated 1887-1893. There are simple entrance portals on the tower and south wall of the hall.
inner space
The Emporensaal is shaped by the changes of the 19th century, which were carried out in the course of a redesign in 1887–1893 by Christian Friedrich Arnold . It shows a wooden ceiling decorated with geometric and floral ornaments. Three-storey galleries on the north and south sides use the entire height of the room. Fluted , Ionic pilasters are facing the wooden pillars towards the interior . On the west side there is a simple organ gallery. Two three-storey boxes protruding into the room separate a semicircular closed altar area, on the east wall you can see two wall paintings depicting the baptism of the Jordan and one of the crucifixion by Erhard Ludewig Winterstein .
On the pillars of the north and south pores you can see six figures of the apostles, under the organ gallery the figures of St. Nicholas and St. Mary from a late Gothic altar, dating from around 1450 and newly painted in 1909.
On the first floor of the southern box there is a 19th century tiled stove.
Furnishing
altar
The altarpiece by Karl Gottlob Schönherr represents the Ascension of Christ . Above it there is a cranked cornice and a triangular gable, to the side of which there are wooden figures of the apostles Peter and Paul. The altar is in the classical style, the architectural structure also comes from Christian Friedrich Arnold.
baptism
Large, polygonal granite baptism in chalice form from the 15th century.
pulpit
The pulpit with wooden fittings is taken from the previous building and is accessible from the gallery. Its polygonal end protrudes far into the room, on the pulpit there are oil paintings depicting Christ and the evangelists, dated 1656, which were recast in 1887.
organ
history
The organ was completed in 1840 by the organ builders Gottfried Müller and Christian Friedrich Reiss from Neugersdorf . It comprises 3 manuals, 36 sounding registers and 2,229 pipes with a mechanical action .
Disposition
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- Coupling : III / I, II / I, II / P
Churchyard
There are several gravestones on the churchyard wall, including the one for Johanna Elisabeth von Riedinger († 1696) depicting a girl in a 17th century costume. Also to be mentioned is the crypt house of the von Ziegler and Klipphausen family , later Polenz , which was built in 1802. It is a simple building with a round arched portal made of sandstone and corner pilaster strips.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony I, Dresden District.
- Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4 , pp. 69-71.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '58.4 " N , 14 ° 30' 9.2" E