Gnandstein village church
The Protestant village church Gnandstein is a late Gothic church in the Gnandstein district of Frohburg in the Leipzig district in Saxony . It belongs to the Gnandstein parish in the Kohrener Land parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is a station on the Lutherweg Saxony .
History and architecture
The village church Gnandstein is a single-nave late Gothic church on a hill in the middle of the village. It was built in 1518 in place of a previous Romanesque building. The influence of a worker's hut from Rochlitz can be demonstrated using stonemason's marks. It served as a burial place for the von Einsiedel family and therefore contains numerous foundations and epitaphs . The interior was changed in 1688/89. Restorations were carried out in 1909 by Woldemar Kandler and after 1985.
The church is a plastered quarry stone building with an elongated nave and three-eighth end with color-highlighted walls and corner blocks. It is closed off by a high gable roof and shows extensions on the north and south sides at ship height with cross-pitched gable roofs. Stepped buttresses and tracery windows as well as a diamond band under the eaves structure the exterior of the church. The west tower with a square floor plan with a gable roof with high turrets and lantern accentuates the building.
The interior is characterized by the uniform, rich furnishings from the post-Reformation period. The elongated ship is completed by a high star vault on consoles. The choir adjoining by a little pronounced triumphal arch is provided with a reticulated vault. On three sides there are galleries built on bulging wooden pillars, which are painted with representations from the Old and New Testament by Tobias Pferts from the second half of the 17th century.
An artistically framed and glazed box is attached to a porphyry console on the north side of the choir and bears the coat of arms of those of Einsiedel, which is held by two putti . A profiled pointed arch door leads to the sacristy with groin vault, under which the former ossuary and on the upper floor the box room with star vault are located. Star vaults have been drawn in on the two floors of the tower, and a pointed arch portal with framework leads to the nave.
Furnishing
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The baroque pulpit altar from 1688 with an unusual two-part structure and rich profile is one of the earliest examples of its kind in Saxony. It consists of a block-like substructure with double pilasters and shows a painting with Christ and the apostles in the main field. The pulpit piercing the cornice is decorated with fruit hangings and is flanked by two putti; behind it the cube-shaped superstructure is set back. The sound cover is decorated with acanthus and fruit strings.
On the south side of the triumphal arch is the finely crafted porphyry pulpit from 1518 with a staircase showing twisted bars with fish-bubble ornaments on the basket and staircase parapet. The sandstone baptism with an octagonal dome and coat of arms reliefs on a bulged column is a work from around 1600. In the choir there are numerous epitaphs by von Einsiedel, including the artistically valuable essay of the earlier epitaph altar for Heinrich Hildebrandt von Einsiedel († 1557) on the north wall of the choir . Above the base with an inscription, the family of the founders is shown as a painting, in the main picture the resurrected and in the extract the resurrection, probably a work by Christoph Enderlein from 1559.
The artistically valuable epitaph for Johannes von Einsiedel († 1582) was probably created by Christoph Walther II and shows a richly designed architectural structure made of sandstone, marble and serpentinite . The deceased with his wife and daughter is depicted as a relief in adoration of the cross, above which there is a relief representation of baptism.
A series of thirteen sandstone epitaphs is particularly attractive. Nine artistically valuable grave slabs on the north side with depictions of the deceased in period costume or with armor were erected around 1640 on behalf of Hildebrandt III. created by Einsiedel. On the south side of the choir there are four more epitaphs from the years 1687–1736 similar to the previous epitaphs. In the tower hall there are more grave slabs that were moved here from the choir.
An evangelical confessional with rich ornamental painting and a tendril top comes from the 17th century. In the choir there are stained glass from 1518 with depictions of Anna selbdritt , St. Nicholas and the family coat of arms. The organ is a work by Schmidt & Berger from 1911 in a harmonious baroque organ case from 1696.
Peal
The bell consists of three bronze bells, the bell cage is made of steel. The following is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1964 | Bell foundry S. Schilling | 980 mm | 530 kg | G' |
| 2 | 1887 | Bell foundry Gebr. Jauck | 830 mm | 296 kg | b ′ |
| 3 | 1964 | Bell foundry S. Schilling | 640 mm | 138 kg | d ′ ′ |
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 , pp. 439–441.
- Heinrich Magirius, Hartmut Mai: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, p. 194.
- Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 300.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 300
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 300
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 59.4 " N , 12 ° 34 ′ 20.6" E