Höckendorf village church (Klingenberg)

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Höckendorf village church (Klingenberg)
View from the northeast
inside view
altar
organ
Epitaph on the outside wall

The evangelical village church Höckendorf is a medieval hall church in the district Höckendorf of Klingenberg in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony . It belongs to the parish Höckendorf in the church district Freiberg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The hall church is provided with a slightly retracted choir and three-eighth end of plastered ashlar masonry. The hall with round arch frieze dates from around 1200, the choir with buttresses from the late 15th century. In the 18th and 19th centuries, new windows were installed and several extensions were added. The sacristy is on the north side of the choir, the square tower on the west. A roof turret was broken off in 1845. Restorations were made in 1825, 1843, 1907 and 1957.

The hall is closed by a wooden coffered ceiling, the choir with a ribbed vault with single grooved ribs and rich plant painting, the sacristy and the tower hall with groin vaults. The interior is characterized by the two-storey gallery. On the north side of the choir, the lower gallery is painted with six pictures from the New Testament, the other galleries with a simple field structure.

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is a winged altar by a Freiberg master from around 1515. In the three-part predella and in the side wings, scenes from the life of the Virgin are shown. In the shrine there are sculptures of five saints, in the middle Mary Magdalene , flanked by Katharina and Peter on the left and John the Baptist and Paul on the right. The sprinkling was redesigned in 1911 by Friedrich Burghardt in the Art Nouveau style using original wooden figures, similar to the one in the Nikolaikirche in Dippoldiswalde . In the middle you can see the levitation of Mary Magdalene , flanked by St. Christopher on the left and St. George on the right. Painted scenes from the Passion of Christ as well as the Man of Sorrows and the Mother of Sorrows are depicted on the back of the movable wings and on the inactive wings .

The painted wooden pulpit dates from the end of the 16th century, the sandstone baptism from the end of the 15th century.

Numerous tombstones, some of which are very well preserved, are also to be mentioned. In the choir you can find the coat of arms tombstones of Caspar von Theler († 1515) and his wife Margarethe von Bolberitz († 1497); Gravestones painted in the sacristy of Ulrich von Theler († 1527) and his wife Mechthildis from the first half of the 16th century. In the southern vestibule is the tombstone of Conrad von Theler († 1361), which was set at the end of the 15th century and shows the deceased praying and in full armor. In the tower hall there are two sandstone slabs decorated with crosses and circles from the end of the 13th century, on the outer walls there are further tombstones from the 18th century and on the west side a tombstone of Margarethe von Theler († 1578).

organ

The organ is a work by Johann Christian Kayser with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal , which has been preserved in a modified form. It was rebuilt in the years 1789-1793 in place of a single-manual instrument with twelve registers from 1650. Several changes from the 19th century have survived. In 1881 changes were made to the disposition by EL Lohse . In 1917 the prospect pipes were delivered for war purposes. In 1939 the Barth and Boscher company converted to tube pneumatics , so that only part of the original pipework in a modified form and the housing are preserved. The original disposition is:

I main work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Qvintadena 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Qvinta 3 ′ ( 2 23 ′)
Octava 2 ′
Cornet IV (from c 1 ) 8th'
Mixture IV 1 13
II Hinterwerk CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Tertia 2 ′ ( 1 35 ′)
Qvinta 1 12
Flageolettgen 1'
Mixture III 1'
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Trombone bass 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 450–451.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Höckendorf (Klingenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 154-155 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 33.6 "  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 14.9"  E