Höckendorf village church (Laußnitz)

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Höckendorf village church (Laußnitz)
Northeast view
South side with access to the patronage box

The evangelical village church Höckendorf is a medieval hall church in the district Höckendorf of Laußnitz in the district of Bautzen in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Königsbrück of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The medieval church was extended to the west in 1671 and furnished with valuable furnishings. A restoration was carried out in 1935.

The elongated plastered structure ends in a three- eighth closure and is finished with a gable roof with an octagonal roof turret and pyramid point. It shows arched windows; on the south side, the former patron s lodge is accessed via a ramp-like staircase.

The flat-roofed hall is closed on the inside by a coffered ceiling with ornamental painting. Galleries on the north, west and west south sides are suspended from the ceiling and structured with profiled parapet and foot beams. Painted scenes from the Old and New Testaments are depicted on the fields of the parapets, with painted scrollwork ornaments in between. In particular, the painting of the organ gallery with angel heads, birds and flowers deserves attention. These paintings were supposedly made by Paul Konrad from Dresden in 1616.

Furnishing

The wooden altar from 1615 shows a carved relief depicting the Lord's Supper in a wide frame adorned with diamond blocks and flanked by columns that support an uncranked cornice. The final crucifix and the lateral bulges were not added until 1673.

The wooden pulpit from 1615 shows painted parapets with depictions of Aaron , Moses , Salvator mundi and Ecclesia . The corresponding sound cover is decorated with a painted dove.

The cube-like baptismal font made of wood shows depictions of the baptism of Christ and Christ, blessing the children with scrollwork ornaments , the corresponding lid a top carried by eight docks . Several sandstone tombs from the 17th and 18th centuries are provided with figurative representations. In the southeast corner there are grave monuments of the Uschner family from 1648 and 1656.

organ

The baroque organ with ten stops on a manual and pedal is a work by Andreas Mager and Johann Christoph Pfützner from 1754/1755. Numerous minor repairs, especially the bellows, have been handed down from the 19th century. In 1911, the organ building company Julius Jahn & Sohn carried out cleaning and tuning work. In 1917 the prospect pipes had to be handed in. In 1935, an appraisal by the Bautzen cathedral organist Horst Schneider revealed a state of neglect. In 1936, during a repair by the company Eule Orgelbau Bautzen, 4 ′ tin pipes were installed in the Gedackt register instead of the wooden pipes destroyed by woodworm infestation and the bellows were moved. In 1956, the Jehmlich company lowered the pitch by a semitone by relocating the action , so that the low C in the manual and pedal was omitted. In addition, a magazine bellows with a centrifugal fan was installed.

In 1991 the central tower was shortened and new veil boards were made and installed. In 2014 the organ was overhauled again.

The disposition is:

I Manual CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Flauto 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III 1'
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal bass 08th'

Peal

The ringing consists of two bronze bells , the bell frame is made of oak like the bell yokes . Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster material diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1590 Bell foundry M. Hilliger II bronze 788 mm 310 kg c ″
2 1798 Bell foundry JJ Kittel bronze 625 mm 150 kg e ″

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Höckendorf (Laußnitz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 154-155 .
  2. ↑ Profile of the organ on the website of the regional church of Saxony. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b 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. 305 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '23.2 "  N , 13 ° 54' 58.8"  E