Skäßchen village church

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The Evangelical Lutheran village church of Skäßchen is a listed church building in Skäßchen , a district of the northern Saxon large district town of Großenhain in the district of Meißen . Here you can find it with an adjacent cemetery on the village green in the center of the village.

Building description and history

Previous buildings

A first church in Skäßchen, first mentioned in a document in 1322, was mentioned in 1495. At the location of today's church there is said to have been a chapel dedicated to Saints Fabian and Sebastian . In 1670 the dilapidated tower of the building was demolished and rebuilt. In 1716 further construction work was carried out on the chapel, during which the roof was removed and the wall increased. A new organ was installed in the following year.

The Saxon art historian Cornelius Gurlitt published a description of the old church in Skäßchen in volume 37 ( Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) ) of his 1914 publication Descriptive Representation of the Older Architectural and Artistic Monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony :

“The old church was an apparently vaulted building closed with three sides of an octagon, in front of the west side of which stood the tower crowned by a slim dome. Buttresses were placed at the corners. On the north side there were two narrow, probably still Romanesque windows. "

In 1834 repairs were carried out on the structure. At the turn of the century, however, the church had become so dilapidated that it was demolished in 1903.

Today's church

Today's church was built in 1904, like the one built a year later in Nauwalde , 15 kilometers north-west , according to plans by Leipzig architect Paul Lange (1853-1932) in Art Nouveau style. The church is a plastered hall building. The rectangular nave is provided with a 5/8 end. The view of the long sides of the ship is determined by the middle group of windows extending into the roof as a wave gable. In the west of the building there is a recessed church tower with an almost square floor plan. This is equipped with a curved hood and lantern .

The interior of the church has a barrel vault and is characterized by uniform Art Nouveau forms. The vault is crossed by needle caps that cut into the central axis. The furnishings include a carved crucifix from the 16th century .

The church suffered severe damage towards the end of World War II . Concrete and extensive restoration work on and in the church was not carried out until the fall of the Wall . The renovation of the interior of the structure was completed by 2010 . Furthermore, facade work was carried out, the glazing was renewed and the organ was overhauled.

The Skäßchen parish, which is located in the Großenhain church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony , has included the churches in Oelsnitz and Strauch since 2005 in addition to Skäßchen .

organ

In the church today is a 1904 from Bautzen organ builder Hermann Eule created (1846-1929) organ . It was repaired in 1996. The instrument has seventeen registers and two manuals, the first manual being equipped with a pneumatic pocket drawer and the second manual with a pneumatic cone drawer.

The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Viola di gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
7th Gemshorn 4 ′
8th. Cornett III 2 2 ⁄ 3  '
II Manual C – f 3
9. Violin principal 8th'
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Aeoline 8th'
12. Reed flute 4 ′
Pedals C – d 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Principal bass 8th'
15th cello 8th'

Peal

The ringing consists of three chilled cast iron bells. The belfry consists of a wooden structure. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1949 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann 1300 mm 750 kg G'
2 1949 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermannl 980 mm 350 kg H'
3 1949 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann 820 mm 200 kg d ″

Tombs

Portrait of the pastor's family von Skäßchen near Großenhain in 1599. It was created after the marriage of the pastor's daughter Sarah to the painter of the picture, Adam Schilling.

There are three children's tombstones inside the choir. Several historical grave monuments have also been preserved in the adjacent cemetery. One is the monument of Johann Friedrich Mirus († 1753) carved in sandstone .

Another monument in the form of an oil painting with the dimensions 103 × 129 cm is kept by the parish. It commemorates the family of the pastor Clemens Coswig (1542–1629) and shows them against the background of the holy city of Jerusalem as well as the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon and was sometimes mistaken for a tomb. In addition, in addition to the painter, a Finsterwalder pastor's son, the picture presumably also shows the future pastor of Skäßchen Johann Coswig (1577–1658).

Literature (selection)

  • The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . tape 7 . Schmidt, Dresden 1841, p. 146-148 . ( Digitized version )
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Official Authority Grossenhain (Land) . Dresden 1914, p. 378-382 .
  • Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 , p. 86-87 .
  • Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 359.

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on November 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Cornelius Gurlitt: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (country) . Dresden 1914, p. 392-398 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 , pp. 86-87 .
  4. ↑ a b c The Skäßchen village church on the homepage of the Meißen-Großenhain church district , accessed on November 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Saxony I . 2nd Edition. 1996, ISBN 978-3-422-03043-5 , pp. 802 .
  6. ↑ The parish areas of the Meißen-Großenhain church district on its homepage , accessed on November 25, 2017.
  7. ^ Entry Skäßchen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on November 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Data sheet of the Eule Organ in Skäßchen (PDF file) on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain, accessed on November 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: Sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 359 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23.3 "  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 6.9"  E