Löbnitz village church
The Protestant village church Löbnitz is a hall church with rich baroque furnishings in Löbnitz in the district of North Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Löbnitz in the parish of Torgau-Delitzsch of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The church was built in the second half of the 16th century through the rebuilding of a three-aisled Romanesque pillar basilica from the 13th century, the south aisle being demolished, the north aisle being raised to the height of the central nave and the choir being lengthened. The tower is therefore flush with the southern wall of the hall, whose clogged arcades and upper clad windows can still be seen. The decorative gables of the tower were renewed around 1900. After it was closed due to dilapidation, restoration work was carried out between 1931 and 1938, including a renewal of the gable and roof, the replacement of damaged beams, the renewal of windows, the demolition of the sacristy, the expansion of the tower room as a chapel and restoration work on the Picture ceiling made. A renewed restoration was carried out in the years 1971–1972, with a renovation of the floor, the demolition of the second gallery on the north and south walls, the removal of the pews and furnishing with chairs, the reinstallation of the east window, which was walled up in World War II, the renewal of the steeple and plastering of the nave were made. Further restoration work on the furnishings, including the picture ceiling, the pulpit, the epitaphs and the organ, took place in 2008-2016.
The church is a plastered brick building with a straight end of the choir and basket arched windows. The essentially older tower is finished with a cross roof and volute gables . The walled-up pointed arch portal in the west was probably built in the first quarter of the 13th century.
The interior is characterized by the impressive painted field ceiling, which was created around 1688–1691. On 168 painted fields it shows biblical representations from the Old and New Testaments, including portraits of the apostles, the church fathers as well as Luther and Melanchthon , framed by floral grisaille painting and depictions of angels making music. Wooden galleries are built in on three sides, the northern one with Masonic symbols from the 16th century and the western one with a dock parapet from the beginning of the 18th century. The painted patronage box in the choir stands on pillars with the coat of arms capital of those von Schönfeld from the year 1586. The box prospectus is designed with leaf ornaments and slugs , some of which are like drifting leaves .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a richly carved epitaph altar by Georg Eckhardt from Freiberg from the year 1629. The two-storey painted column structure made of wood is decorated with curved fittings , grotesques and angel heads. In the predella kneeling donor figures of the family of Hans von Schönfeld are depicted, in the main field the Last Supper as a relief in front of a painted background, flanked by the figures of Moses and John the Baptist , crowned by a crucifixion rich in figures, also in front of a painted background. On each side there are two medallions arranged one above the other, which are painted with the birth and baptism of Christ and with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and the Resurrection. The ascension of Christ is arranged in the altar extract with the flanking figures of Mark and Matthew.
The polygonal wooden pulpit is decorated with carved figures of the Evangelists and Moses and has a bell-shaped sound cover made of filigree carved scrollwork with a crowning pelican from the beginning of the 17th century.
The colored sandstone baptism from 1603 stands on a slender shaft with reliefs; the polygonal cup is decorated with angel heads on fittings. On the southern wall of the hall church there are two epitaphs with draperies painted behind them: the eastern one made of wood shows on a high column with heraldic motifs and a painted donor portrait with a knight figure as a crowning for Adolph von Schönfeld († 1707) and the western one for Hans Erig von Schönfeld († 1724) made of different colored marble with rich cartilage , vanitas symbols , heraldic motifs and carefully executed figures depicting Victoria , Justitia and Prudentia sitting on a console. Above the inscription panel are Fides and Caritas with Fama as the crowning conclusion. Other grave monuments of the von Schönfeld family from the 16th and 17th centuries are equipped with the kneeling relief figures of the deceased. An epitaph-like high relief depicting the Lord's Supper was created by Otto Richter from Berlin in the 19th century. The organ is a work by Eduard Offenhauer from 1885, which was restored in 2015/2016 by Orgelbau Reinhard Hüfken . This restoration was funded by the Orgelklang Foundation.
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 , p. 653.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Church history information on the congregation's website. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
- ^ Directory of the organs funded by the Orgelklang Foundation. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 31.2 " N , 12 ° 27 ′ 51.8" E