Peritz village church

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Peritz village church

The Evangelical Lutheran village church of Peritz is a listed church building in Peritz , a district of the municipality of Wülknitz in the Saxon district of Meißen .

The church, which was built in the 17th century using the remains of a previous medieval building that was once here, can be found with an adjoining cemetery a bit away from the town center.

Building and Church History

The first Peritz church was mentioned in a document as early as 1266. Their location was probably on the bottom of a destroyed pagan cult site. The church was later mentioned in a document in the Meißner bishop's register of 1495. The church was itself a parish church at times and had a branch church in the neighboring village of Colmnitz . Later she formed a common parish with Wülknitz. Peritz had suffered badly in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). The village and the church had been largely destroyed and lay desolate after the war. The church, like the village itself, was rebuilt in the period that followed.

Ground plan of the Peritz church before 1865

The list of monuments of the State of Saxony describes the Peritz church as follows: "Simply designed plastered building with octagonal roof turrets , of church and local historical importance Church: simply designed plastered building with large segmented arched windows, straight choir closure, octagonal roof turret with tent roof and slightly curved roof foot, at the entrance area and on External wall of the choir with a gable roof and beaver tail covering, otherwise a saddle roof with double beaver tail covering and bat dormers. "

In the 17th century, initially only the nave and the choir were probably built. In 1710, a former vestibule was added on the south side. The octagonal ridge turret in the west of the ship was built in 1756. The cost of this was 76 thalers and 14 groschen . Repair or renovation work was carried out in 1845, 1865, 1884, 1904 and 2000, among others.

The southern porch disappeared in the middle of the 19th century . The entrance to the church, again provided with a vestibule, was moved to the west side of the church. In addition, a sacristy was added to the east side of the choir . The Saxon art historian Cornelius Gurlitt suspected in volume 37 ( Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) ) of his 1914 book Descriptive Representation of the Older Monuments and Art of the Kingdom of Saxony that the church's confessional was once located there. Gurlitt also wrote that by this time a large stone baptism originally in the church and the historic winged altar of the church from the 16th century with the coat of arms of the Pflugk had already disappeared.

A stone altar table can be found inside the church today . The triumphal arch at the transition from the nave to the choir was designed as a basket arch. A wooden pulpit with a sound cover originally attached to it was later relocated or rebuilt behind the altar.

The Peritz Church is currently part of the Zeithain parish of the Meissen-Großenhain church district .

Dunning and remembrance

Directly at the church is the local cemetery with a monument to the fallen, also under monument protection. The monument standing on a pedestal commemorates the villagers of the Peritz community who died in the First and Second World Wars .

Literature (selection)

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Official Authority Grossenhain (Land) . Dresden 1914, p. 223-226 .
  • Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1841. p. 105

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f The village church Peritz on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  3. ^ Entry by Peritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Handbook of Church Statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony . Ramming Verlag, 1875, p.  98 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Cornelius Gurlitt: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (country) . Dresden 1914, p. 223-226 .
  6. ↑ a b Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1841. p. 105 ( online )
  7. ↑ Website of the parish of Zeithain , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on October 14, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 58 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 29 ″  E