Fraureuth village church

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Fraureuth village church
organ

The Protestant village church Fraureuth is located in Fraureuth in the district of Zwickau in Saxony . It belongs to the Fraureuth parish in the Greiz parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is particularly known for Gottfried Silbermann's well-preserved organ from the years 1739–1742.

History and architecture

The stately baroque hall church located in the upper part of the village was built in 1733 through extensive reconstruction of a church structure built around 1570. The western vestibule for the organ bellows chamber was added in 1742. Restorations took place in 1952 and 1988–1991.

The church is a plastered building with pilaster strips and oval windows lying above flat arch and rectangular windows. A tower on a square floor plan with an octagonal bell storey and a curved dome with a lantern emphasizes the building. The interior has a flat ceiling and is characterized by the uniform late Baroque furnishings and galleries on wooden pilaster pillars on three sides. The parapet fields were painted in Rococo in 1755. The galleries are two-story on the north and south sides, the patron's box is on the north side.

Furnishing

A stately pulpit altar from 1738 forms the main part of the furnishings. It is decorated with column architecture and gilded acanthus and bandwork decoration and bears the Reussian coat of arms of the older line above the cafeteria . The pulpit is three-sided and shows a figure of the risen man on the sound cover. The wooden baptism is marked 1734 on the baptismal bowl and decorated with lambrequins .

A baroque painting epitaph for pastor Andreas Mylius († 1687) is framed by winding columns and is adorned with rich acanthus decorations. In the main section it shows a representation of the Ascension of Elijah and below it portraits of the deceased and his family.

organ

In 1739 the Saxon organ builder Gottfried Silbermann built an organ in the town church in the nearby town of Greiz , but it has not been preserved. The faithful and citizens of Fraureuth seized the opportunity and won Silbermann to build an organ in Fraureuth as well. However, it should be built in playable by September 29, 1742. On December 2nd, 1742 this organ was inaugurated during a festive service. The instrument with 20  registers on two manuals and pedal shows a well-proportioned prospect and has hardly been changed so far. Repairs were carried out in 1850 and 1862. In the years 1928 and 1978 the organ was revised by the Jehmlich company , whereby the concert pitch was created by changing the tone mechanism and the missing low C was added. A comprehensive restoration and the restoration of the original pitch took place in 2018/2019 by Christoph Rühle . The disposition is:

Major work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Rohrflöthe 8th'
Qvintadena 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Cornet III (from c 1 )
mixture IV
Oberwerk CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Qvinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sufflet 1'
Sesqvialtera ( 4 ⁄ 5 ′, from c 1 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′)
Cymbal II
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Trumpets. bass 16 ′

Subsidiary register

  • Tremulant
  • Sliding coupler II / I (actuation additionally - not original - by two steps)
  • Ped-coppel (I / P)
  • bell

Remarks

  • Pitch: Chorton, a 1 : 441.9 Hz
  • Mood: currently equal
  • Wind pressure: approx. 78 mm WS

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Fraureuth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 254.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 112.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  E