Silbitz village church
The Protestant village church of Silbitz is located in the municipality of Silbitz Am Kirchberg in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish (parish area) Crossen in the church district Eisenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The place Silbitz is mentioned for the first time in 1217. At that time there was a fortification below the church to secure a ford through the White Elster . The current appearance of the location Silbitz goes back essentially to the 18th century. Under the patronage of Johann Martin von Haugk , a merchant from Leipzig, the manor (1746), rectory (1748), church (1752) and the so-called Kavaliershaus (1756) were built.
history
"According to the church building in Silbitz is absolutely necessary and has to be done, the church roof has become so damaged that rain penetrates everywhere and neither the pastor in the pulpit nor the subjects on the gallery church can stand and sit." describes the need for a new church building. The church in Silbitz was then rebuilt as a single-nave building with a retracted, almost square choir tower and an eastern sacristy of the same width in 1750–52 on the foundation walls of the previous building from the 12th century. Part of the foundation walls comes from a previous building. The high choir tower with an octagonal structure has a curved hood with an open lantern . The furnishings are from the time it was built. The choir and nave are combined by a flat ceiling with a surrounding cove. On the long sides there are two-storey galleries , to the west the ground-level patron's box with a curved prospect, including the family crypt of the von Haugk family, above the organ. The high pulpit altar in the choir is flanked by pairs of marbled columns with Corinthian capitals. Above the pulpit and the protruding cornice with attached urns lies the sun in the middle, in the center of which is the equilateral triangle with an eye as a representation of the Trinity of God. A seated boy (putto) forms the upper end. A high-quality altar crucifix and the slender, cup-shaped baptismal font with a carved desk lid, depicting a cloud and a lamb of God, are also part of the construction-time equipment.
The last comprehensive repairs and the interior color scheme of the church took place around 1933. In 1998, renovation work began. First of all, the damage to the wooden structure in the roof of the nave and the church tower had to be repaired. The interior renovation was completed in 2002 and the organ was restored to its original condition in several stages. At Christmas 2010, the completion of the exterior renovation was celebrated in a special service.
organ
The organ was built in 1827 by the brothers August and Louis Poppe from Stadtroda . The contract was worth 750 thalers. in Prussian courant. It was concluded between the organ builders, the Poppe brothers, and the patron saint at the time, Georg Rudolph von Haugk. The organ was consecrated on September 16, 1827 after a year and a half of construction. It is a mechanical organ work with originally (with side lines) 23 stops . Except for a few changes, it is a very original instrument. During the First World War, as is generally the case, the pewter prospect pipes were removed and two further stops (lull travers 8 'and sifflute 1') were removed at an unknown time.
Bells
Two of the three bells were melted down for war purposes. The bell from 1763 remained on the church . In 1983 three bells were purchased from the Dobergast church . The place Dobergast with the church had to give way to brown coal . The old bell is now in the chancel .
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
- More information about the church
- Website of the parish area of Crossen
Individual evidence
- ^ Church archive Silbitz / Seifartsdorf: Acta concerning the church building, 1749.
- ↑ Church Archives Silbitz / Seifarsdorf: Acta organ building concerning the 1826th
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 49.1 ″ E