Rossau village church
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The Protestant village church Rossau is an originally Romanesque, later rebuilt choir tower church in the Niederrossau district of Rossau in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It belongs to the Seifersbach parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is known for its historical organ, which is one of the oldest organs in Saxony.
history
The hall church located on a hill above the village goes back to a Romanesque foundation building from around 1200. It is characterized by a choir tower that can be seen from afar, with a slate hipped roof and a high octagonal roof turret . The choir with five-eighth end and a sacristy to the north was built at the beginning of the 16th century in place of the original apse. Some of the windows have pointed arches and tracery . In 1529 today's tower top was built and the three-lane window was added on the south side. Around 1700 the interior was redesigned, with some windows on the south side being enlarged. The two vestibules on the south side were added towards the end of the 18th century, the new sacristy dates from 1785. In 1817 the church was redesigned in line with classicism, with the windows on the north side being enlarged. The choir was redesigned with a reconstruction of the northern window in 1965, and the interior was restored in 1997.
architecture
The interior is characterized by the rich and artistically significant furnishings. The hall church with a circumferential, two-storey wooden gallery from the 18th century is closed off by a coffered ceiling with painted fields, which is painted with red acanthus tendrils and partly with sky fields with angels. Baroque wall paintings with draperies and ribbons can be found on the south windows. Above the triumphal arch there is a wall painting from the beginning of the 18th century with a representation of Christ as the judge of the world between moving clouds with a ribbon and tendril frame.
In the barrel-vaulted choir with vault and three-sided, cell-vaulted apse from the 16th century, remains of baroque wall paintings have been preserved on the walls and windows. In the apse there is a fenestella on the right and a sacrament house made of porphyry tufa with a wrought iron grille on the left, the crown of which has not been preserved.
Furnishing
The large, finely carved carved altar with double wings from 1521 shows a crescent moon Madonna in the shrine between Saints Aegidius and Wolfgang , in the predella the adoration of the kings and in a canopy-like space the crucifixion of Christ between the thieves with Maria and Johannes as well as Hieronymus and Antonius . The saints Dorothea , Apollonia as well as Ottilie and Ursula can be seen in the wings . The transformation shows the Annunciation and Visitation on the inner wings in the upper register, the birth of Christ and the death of Mary at the bottom . Saints Valentin and Rochus are depicted on the outside panels .
The pulpit dates from the beginning of the 18th century and shows Christ as Salvator mundi and the evangelists on the parapet . The baptismal font bears the year 1519 and is designed with imaginative tracery. The baptismal angel with its finely folded robe was made around 1700. The crucifixion group with figures of Mary and John dates from the beginning of the 16th century. A figure from around 1500 depicts Christ in misery , but the body with traces of the flagellation does not appear broken; the once existing wig is missing.
organ
The organ with a richly designed prospect made up of five pipe fields, pipes partly decorated by driving work and crowned by two trombone angels is the work of an unknown organ builder from the years 1660/1670 with eleven stops on a manual and pedal . The original disposition is not exactly known. A repair note from the time of the redesign of the nave with the year 1730 is painted below the keyboard. At the beginning of the 19th century, Principal 8 ′ and Flute 4 ′ were added. In 1843, the care was taken over by Christlieb Ladegast ( Friedrich Ladegast's brother ) from Geringswalde. After a repair attempt, he made various changes to the manual wind chest and replaced the bass octave of Principal 8 ′ with open wooden pipes. After a thorough investigation, the Company took Eule Orgelbau Bautzen in 1955 cleaning and waterproofing work on and replaced by wood-eating pests destroyed wooden pipes, especially Flauta major 8 'and fixed the tremulants . A Zimbelstern with four bells and in 1961 an electric centrifugal fan were also installed. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : manual pedal
Surroundings
The cemetery is almost completely enclosed with a carefully executed quarry stone wall. On the apse wall there are tombstones of pastors' graves:
- Julius Theodor Dittrich (1812-1884)
- Ernst Kurt Jahn (1911–1994)
- Johannes Fürchtegott Kretzschmar (1856–1917), sandstone with marble relief
- Gottlieb Ehrenreich Gröschen (?) (1678–1718 (?))
- old gravestone, inscription no longer legible
Several soldiers' graves and a war memorial for the fallen of the First World War in the form of a porphyry disk with an inscription plaque, iron cross and symbolic representation of flames have also been preserved. The rectory right next to the church is a four-sided courtyard from the mid-19th century.
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 , pp. 868–869.
- Heinrich Magirius, Hartmut Mai: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, p. 208.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 240-241 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 4.9 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 19.2 ″ E