Pressel village church

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Pressel village church

The village church in the Pressel district of the municipality Laussig ( district of northern Saxony in the Free State of Saxony ) is a church building of the Evangelical Church in central Germany .

The building in its current form, which is assigned to historicism , was built in 1857 on the site of a previous building and can be found in the center of the village, surrounded by the local cemetery . Today it is a listed building .

history

Northeast view of the church

Originally there was a smaller church in Pressel, which was first mentioned in a document in 1434. Around 1500 the parish church in Pressel belonged to the Archdiakonat Propstei Wurzen , where it was part of the sedes Düben .

It was its own parish church until 1529. Then it became a branch church of Authausen. From 1925 to 2001 Pressel had its own parish. Since then, Pressel has belonged to Authausen again.

According to Schumann's Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony in 1821, preaching took place every fortnight in the church originally in Pressel . At that time the church was still considered to be well built. It had three bells but no organ . The single Hopfgarten house , the Neumühle , two kilometers to the east, and the Presseler windmill were included in the parish .

The building was demolished in 1856 because it was in disrepair. The carved Gothic altar of this old church can be seen today in the Gothic vault of the Moritzburg Art Museum in the Moritzburg in Halle / Saale . It was purchased for the collections there in 1917.

The structure that can be seen today was built at the site in the period that followed. In 1905, lightning struck the church tower and started a fire. This caused severe damage to the roof structure of the tower and the tower clock , which was replaced two years later.

Restoration work took place in 1972. The church tower roof was also re-covered during the work. The building was restored shortly after the fall of the Wall in 1994 and 1995 with the support of ABM forces . The nave got a new roof, which was made with beaver tail covering and provided with bat dormers. The renovation of the church tower roof was completed in October 2004. It ended with the crowning of a golden ball and a golden cross on October 30, 2004.

Building description

Steeple

The church in Pressel is a brick building with a semicircular apse in the east. In the west of the nave there is a tower with a square floor plan. It has an octagonal bell-shaped bullet, a lantern and a pointed helmet . The building and the red brick enclosure, most of which is plastered, are now under monument protection. Its architectural style is assigned to historicism .

The interior of the church has a flat roof and is shaped by a horseshoe gallery. There is a baptismal font here, the date of which is dated to the 16th century.

organ

Originally there was an organ in the church , which was created in 1827 by the Halle organ builder Wäldner. Initially built in the old church, it was incorporated into the new building built in 1857. When a fire caused by lightning in 1905 severely damaged the church tower, the bells and probably the organ, a new instrument was necessary.

The instrument seen in the church today is an organ with a late romantic prospect , which was created in 1910 by the Zörbig organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann (1842–1922) (op. 321). A few years later the organ pipes made of tin , which were originally in the front, had to be handed in for war purposes during the First World War. They were replaced by pipes made from zinc .

In 2014 the instrument was restored on the initiative of the local organist Christian Schmidt. The five-month work was undertaken by the Zittau Ogelbaubetrieb A. Schuster & Son , of the organ builder since 1994 Benjamin Welde is performed. The renovation, which cost a few thousand euros, was only possible after a longstanding fundraising campaign. Since then, the instrument has, among other things, returned to its former tin pipes ; all other pipes of the instrument were cleaned.

The organ has a pneumatic cone chest , two manuals and twelve stops .

The disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
octave 4 ′
Mixture IV 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flauto amabile 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'

Rectory

The former rectory, which was built in 1780 and is now a listed building, can be found in the immediate vicinity. It is a two-storey plastered building with a crooked hip roof .

Dunning and remembrance

Memorial of the Fallen Pressel

Not far from the church and the rectory, on Eilenburger Strasse, there is a memorial to the fallen in honor of the residents of Pressel who died in the First and Second World Wars . It was built in 1921.

The monument consists of an upwardly tapering Stele of porphyry a slightly raised platform made of granite slabs . While the top is a laurel wreath and helmet, an iron cross and a garland are carved out on the front . In the base area, nameplates and a granite inscription plaque are attached on all sides . To the left and right of the monument there are two more granite name plaques.

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on October 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c The St.-Johannes-Kirche Pressel on www.architektur-blicklicht.de , accessed on October 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Entry by Pressel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on October 23, 2017.
  4. ^ Parish area Authausen on the website of the church district Torgau-Delitzsch .
  5. ↑ August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony . tape 8 . Zwickau 1821, p. 560-561 .
  6. ↑ The exhibition Middle Ages & Early Modern Times. On the homepage of the Moritzburg Foundation, accessed on October 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c d Die Presseler Kirche on the homepage of the community Laußig. Accessed on October 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b c d e The Church of Pressel on the homepage of the Authausen parish, accessed on October 26, 2017
  9. ^ Organ database , accessed on October 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ a b c The Rühlmann organ Pressel. On the website of the Rühlmann Organ Building Institute, accessed on October 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ a b Steffen Brost: 110 year old Rühlmann organ put back into operation after renovation. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ Kathrin Kabelitz: Organs in the parish of Authausen - 32-year-old Presseler has big plans. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, November 18, 2016.
  13. ↑ The history of Orgelbau Schuster & Sohn on the company's homepage , accessed on October 27, 2017.
  14. ↑ Opus list of organ-building institution of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig (PDF file), page 20. Stand: June 24, 2017th
  15. ↑ Opus list of organ-building institution of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig. On the website of the Rühlmann Organ Building Institute, accessed on October 27, 2017.
  16. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on October 26, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 43.7 "  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 14.5"  E