Spansberg village church

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Spansberg village church
Altar shrine of the village church Spansberg

The village church Spansberg is a listed church building in Spansberg , a district of the small town of Gröditz in the Saxon district of Meißen .

The church, which was built between 1665 and 1667 using parts of a previous medieval building that once existed here, can be found in the center of the village with an adjoining cemetery .

history

A church is said to have been in Spansberg as early as 1495. Today's Spansberg village church was built shortly after the Thirty Years War between 1665 and 1667. Parts of a medieval predecessor building that once existed here were used, which had previously been cremated in a fire in 1661.

The first known restoration took place in 1756. Among other things, the altar, the pulpit, the choir and the galleries were renewed inside the church. Further restoration followed around 1800, in the 1930s and in the early 1990s.

The church in Spansberg was a parish church of the Archdiakonat Propstei Großenhain around 1500 . It was also mentioned as a parish church in 1529 and 1555. After it was in the meantime a branch church of the church in Nieska, it later became independent again.

At present, Spansberg is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Gröditz and Nauwalde , which also includes Nieska , Frauenhain and Nauwalde .

Building description

Inside view (1914)

The Spansberg village church is a plastered quarry stone building from 1665 to 1667. The hall church has a choir and a three-sided east end. West of a pitched roof provided nave is to find a square west tower with an octagonal bell storey and copper-covered lantern. In the north of the building there is a sacristy .

The flat-roofed interior of the church is characterized by galleries that are located on three sides of the building. The design of the balustrades of the galleries was based on the castle chapel in Tiefenau . In the south there is a manorial room with simple baroque furnishings.

The church is equipped, among other things, with a wooden pulpit altar. The altar itself dates from the middle of the 18th century and resembles an altar in the church in Nieska . There is also a similarity to the altar in the Tiefenau castle chapel, which dates from the same time. An altar originally in the Spansberg church with wood carvings from around 1500 was to be restored in 1913. It was therefore handed over to the Royal Commission for the Preservation of Art Monuments that year and did not return in the following years. It is believed that it ultimately burned when Dresden was destroyed in February 1945.

Another antependium from the 16th century, measuring 290 cm × 107 cm, was in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden at the beginning of the 20th century .

  • Northwest view of the church (1914)

  • Church floor plan

  • Southeast view of the church (1914)

organ

In the church there was originally a simple instrument from 1800, for which the ceiling of the nave was specially raised at the time. The pneumatic organ in the church today, with only one manual , was created by the Bad Liebenwerda organ builder Arno Voigt in 1922.

The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicet 8th'
octave 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Drone 16 ′

Peal

The bell consists of two bronze bells, the bell cage is made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 around 1500 Bell foundry unknown 820 mm 360 kg c ″
2 1886 Bell foundry CA Bierling 620 mm 130 kg it"

Literature (selection)

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on September 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f The Spansberg village church on the homepage of the Meißen-Großenhain church district , accessed on September 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Cornelius Gurlitt: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (country) . Dresden 1914, p. 382-387 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Saxony I . 2nd Edition. 1996, ISBN 978-3-422-03043-5 , pp. 807 .
  5. ↑ entry Spannsbergs in digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony , accessed on 3 October 2017th
  6. ↑ The Spansberg Church on the homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches Gröditz, Frauenhain and Nauwalde , accessed on October 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Data sheet of the Spansberg organ on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain, accessed on October 3, 2017 (PDF).
  8. ↑ a b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: Sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 360 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 5.6 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 34.2"  E