Nassau village church

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Nassau village church
View from the west

The Protestant village church in Nassau is a simple hall church from the 16th century in the Nassau district of Frauenstein in the district of central Saxony in Saxony . It belongs to the parish Nassau in the parish Frauenstein in the church district Freiberg of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The village church of Nassau was built around 1526 as a plastered quarry stone building with a drawn-in, three-sided closed choir with buttresses. A renovation was carried out between 1855 and 1858. Restorations took place in 1974 and since 1993. A slate-covered hipped roof with a ridge turret with a Welscher hood completes the structure, which is structured by arched windows. A three-story porch with a simple basket arch portal and open staircase is built on the west side. The interior has a flat roof and is surrounded by two-story circumferential galleries with several boxes in the choir.

Furnishing

The furnishings include a pulpit altar , which was assembled from different parts in 1857 and whose basket from 1683 is structured with small twisted columns. There are two short cast iron bars in front of the altar. A wooden baptismal angel from 1729 belongs to the chalice-shaped sandstone baptism from 1816. Finally, a white wooden lectern from 1750 should be mentioned.

organ

The church is known for its largely original organ by Gottfried Silbermann from 1748. With a well-proportioned prospectus, 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal , it is on the west gallery.

Due to the effects of the Second Silesian War, the municipality was only able to afford the organ with difficulty. Information about repairs is only handed down from the late 19th century. In 1929 an employee of the Johannes Jahn company carried out work on examining and tuning the organ. The instrument has been looked after by the Jehmlich company since 1939 . In 1960 the wind pressure was reduced to 70 mm water column as recommended by experts  , but soon afterwards increased again to 76 mm water column due to gusty wind. The organ received a pedal coupler . In 1998 a restoration was carried out according to monument conservation criteria. The original disposition is:

I main work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Qvintadena 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Spitz flute 4 ′
Qvinta 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Cornet (from c 1 ) V
Mixture IV
II Hinterwerk CD – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Qvinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sufflet 1'
Sesqvialtera 4 ⁄ 5 ′ (from c 1 : 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′)
Cimbel II
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Trombone bass 16 ′
Remarks
  • Pitch: currently a 1 = 469 Hz
  • Mood : since 1998 reconstruction of Silbermann's well-tempered mood
  • Wind pressure: about 85 mm water column

Peal

The bell consists of three bronze bells , the bell frame is made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster material diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1681 A. Herold bell foundry bronze 1225 mm 1100 kg e ′
2 1619 Bell foundry J. Hilliger bronze 1020 mm 620 kg G'
3 1577 Bell foundry W. Hilliger bronze 920 mm 510 kg a ′

Surroundings

A two-storey, partially slated parsonage with an upper storey made of half-timbered houses still contains some groin vaults. The associated single-storey farm buildings also date from the end of the 18th century.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank-Harald Greß , Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 117.
  2. ^ 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. 333 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 40.7 "  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 47.8"  E