Koselitz village church

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Koselitz village church

The evangelical village church Koselitz is a listed church building in the district Koselitz in the municipality Röderaue in the Saxon district of Meißen . Here the church can be found surrounded by the Koselitz local cemetery in the center of the village.

history

In 1547 an older church building was mentioned in Koselitz. This structure burned down during the Thirty Years War . The Koselitz church records do not begin again until 1661. Another fire in 1854 was followed by a complete renovation of the building in 1892.

In the 1980s there was an extensive restoration of the Koselitz church, which was completed after the fall of the Wall . In addition, an extension was added to the church on the west side of the tower , which serves as the parish hall . The former rectory, which was previously used for this, was subsequently sold.

The place was an independent parish until 1923. From the following year it was a branch church of Frauenhain . At the present time Koselitz belongs to the parish of Gröditz .

Architecture and equipment (selection)

More views of the church
Northeast view
Southern view
Steeple
Church tower with parish hall

The Koselitz Church is a plastered hall building with a choir closed on three sides and a gable roof from the second half of the 17th century. To the west of the nave is a square tower with an octagonal upper floor and slate roof , and a sacristy is added to the south .

The interior of the church is characterized by a flat ceiling and a triumphal arch between the nave and the choir . Furthermore, there are single-storey galleries on three sides . The pulpit built into the choir wall dates from after 1854, the wooden baptism of the church was built around 1800.

In the church there is also the 2.4 meter wide altarpiece from 1800, The Three Marys at the Grave by Johann Carl Rößler (1775–1845). It is currently considered the main work of the former Dresden Academy professor, who also became known as a portrait painter .

organ

The first organ in the Koselitz Church was probably already in the 18th century. At the beginning of the 20th century there were still remains of it. In 1998 a new organ was purchased for the church. This is the first work from 1957 by the Leipzig organ builder Hermann Lahmann . This instrument was originally in the Leipzig University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" , where it served as a practice organ. It was redesigned by the cantor of the parish, Frauenhainer Helmut Schröer, himself a full-time organ builder. On July 19, 1998, the organ was consecrated as part of a festive service. It has a mechanical sliding drawer , two manuals and seven registers . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture III
II Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Peasant pipe 2 ′ (vac.)

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d The Koselitz village church on the homepage of the Röderaue community website , accessed on November 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Saxony I . 2nd Edition. 1996, ISBN 978-3-422-03043-5 , pp. 503 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Koselitz village church on the homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Gröditz ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 8, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xn--kirche-grditz-qmb.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g The Koselitz Church on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on November 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Dorfkirche Koselitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on November 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Internet presence of the church district of Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on November 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ on canvas in oil
  8. ↑ Website of the Saxon Biography , accessed on November 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ Organ file of the Koselitz organ (pdf) on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on November 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 49.6 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 31.9"  E