Klitzschen village church
The Protestant village church Klitzschen is a Romanesque hall church in the Klitzschen district of Mockrehna in the northern Saxony district of Saxony . It belongs to the Audenhain parish in the Torgau-Delitzsch parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The well-preserved Romanesque hall church was built around 1200 and in the 14./15. Century provided with a vault in the choir. Restorations took place in 1965 and 1993. The building is a quarry stone building using lawn iron stone . The three-part staggering in hall, choir and apse is clearly pronounced. The building is completed by a gable roof with beaver tail covering, which is covered in the west by an octagonal wooden roof turret with a curved hood from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century is crowned. The sacristy with a sloping roof is built on the north side . The windows on the north side, the central apse window and the walled-up arched portal on the south side are almost in their original Romanesque state, the other windows have been enlarged, are provided with arched arches and some with three-pass tracery.
Inside, the hall is closed off by a field ceiling with depictions of prophets, apostles, reformers , trees and the dove of the Holy Spirit from the end of the 17th century in grisaille painting . The choir with groin vault connects to the nave with a round arch. In the nave there are galleries on three sides and a patronage box on the north side from the end of the 17th century; the parapets in the south and west are marbled, in the north and on the front of the lodge, coats of arms with the year 1730 are painted. In 1965 remains of medieval wall paintings were uncovered in the apse, possibly from the 15th century. You can see scenes from the Last Judgment framed with a red-brown ribbon and an inscription in Gothic minuscule .
Furnishing
A three-storey altar from 1690 shows the Lord's Supper in the predella , the resurrection in the central panel, framed by twisted columns and cartilage , the ascension of Christ can be seen in the altar extension . The simple, ornamentally painted pulpit and its sound cover with carved crown date from the end of the 17th century. There is also a simple wooden baptism . In the apse there is a late Gothic sacrament niche from the end of the 15th century, which is framed with a keel arch with crabs and finial . A dugout chest with iron fittings, which was restored in 1995, dates from the Romanesque period.
On the outer wall is a large niche grave of Christiane Friderike Baronin auf Klitzschen († 1737) with a set sarcophagus and a finely crafted figure of Caritas . Three baroque inscription tombstones date from the 18th century.
organ
The organ is a work by Johann Christian Friedrich Flemming from around 1780 with originally ten (today nine) stops on a manual and pedal . The pedal is permanently linked to the manual. The disposition is:
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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. 27-28.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 170 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 56.2 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 20.9 ″ E