Dittersbach village church

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Dittersbach village church
View from the east
View from the southeast
inside view

The Protestant village church Dittersbach is a baroque hall church in the district of Dittersbach of Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Dittersbach in the parish of Dittersbach-Eschdorf in the church district of Pirna of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is best known for its well-preserved organ by Gottfried Silbermann .

History and architecture

The hall church was rebuilt after a fire in 1662 as a plastered quarry stone building with basket arched windows. On May 15, 1721, the foundation stone for a tower was laid, which was completed the following year, with the nave being extended into the tower. The choir, surrounded by buttresses, ends in a three-eighth closure . The flat-roofed interior is equipped with two-storey galleries on the north and south sides and a single-storey gallery on the west side.

In 1849 the interior of the church was redesigned. Further renovations took place in 1953 and 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1986. A fundamental interior renovation was carried out in 1992 and an exterior renovation in 2006.

Furnishing

The furnishings include a simple classical altar from 1843, a pulpit with painted representations of Peter, Christ and Paul on the basket from the middle of the 17th century and a baptism from 1859, all made of wood. Various grave monuments belonging to those of Kiesewetter should also be mentioned. In the patronage box on the north side there is a figural tombstone for Christian von Kiesewetter († 1643), behind the altar for Otto von Kiesewetter († 1647) and Christoph von Kiesewetter († 1742). Two carved coats of arms by von Kiesewetter from 1662 have been preserved at the same place. In the tower there are three simple paintings depicting Susanne Maria von Kiesewetter († 1647), a portrait of a pastor from the mid-17th century and a depiction of Noli me tangere from the 18th century.

organ

Silbermann organ in Dittersbach
Altar and baptism

The organ is a work by Gottfried Silbermann from 1726 with an unmounted, well-designed prospectus and 14 stops on a manual and pedal . The organ was tuned lower by Eduard Berger in 1893 by moving the pipework. In 1926 Hermann Eule exchanged the Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ for an Aeoline 8 ′ . In 1952 the same company restored the original disposition. In 1993 the conversion of the pipework was reversed and the organ was tuned into the choir again . The disposition is:

Manual CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Qvinta dena 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Qvinta 3 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Qvinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sifflöt 1'
Mixture III
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Trombones bass 16 ′
Remarks

Bells

The Dresden piece and bell caster Andreas Herold cast a small and medium-sized bell in 1660. Johann Gottfried Weinhold cast a big bell in Dresden in 1742, and it was cracked in 1845. The bells were removed in November 1856 and smashed in favor of new bells and melted down at Friedrich Gruhl in Kleinwelka . The transport of the new bells started on December 21 in Kleinwelka, and Christmas was rung on Christmas Eve. The small bell was melted down for war purposes in 1917. It was replaced in 1968 by a new bell from the Schilling bell foundry, Apolda .

Peal

The current bell consists of three bronze bells , the bell cage is made of steel. the bell yokes made of cast steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster material diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1856 Bell foundry EF Gruhl bronze 1247 mm 1028 kg it'
2 1856 Bell foundry EF Gruhl bronze 993 mm 513 kg G'
3 1968 Bell foundry S. Schilling bronze 873 mm 430 kg b ′

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Dittersbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the history of the church on the website of the parish Dittersbach-Eschdorf. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Frank-Harald Greß , Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 67.
  3. ^ Parish of Dittersbach: bells. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 285 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 11.6 ″  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 16.9 ″  E