Waltersdorf village church (Großschönau)
The Protestant village church in Waltersdorf is a baroque hall church in the Waltersdorf district of Großschönau in the Görlitz district in Saxony . It belongs to the parish Großschönau in the parish of Löbau-Zittau of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The church was built in 1648–1657 using a tower from 1553. In 1713 the structure was extended to the west and then the tower was built from 1726 to 1729. Renewals and restorations took place in 1839, 1883, 1892 and 1929.
The structure is a plastered building with a rectangular end to the east and a gable roof. The tower made of unplastered sandstone blocks has a two-story, square substructure and an octagonal bell-shaped storey and is closed off with a hood and lantern . The building is accessed through a portal in the west.
The interior is characterized by the galleries and the coffered ceiling , the altar stands in a semicircular niche. The galleries are single-storey on the west and two-storey on the north and south sides. On the lower galleries, scenes from the Bible are depicted in grisaille painting , on the north and south sides eight depictions of the Lord's Prayer , on the north side additional emblematic depictions.
Furnishing
The wooden church furnishings mainly consist of an altar , a baptism and an organ case . The baroque altar from around 1700 is adorned with a painting from 1892 by Conrad Arthur Thomas showing Christ blessing. The altar extract from 1814 was replaced in 1893. The hexagonal baroque pulpit by the Waltersdorf master carpenter Schneider with its three-quarter pillars comes from the time it was built; the pulpit stairs were changed in 1826.
The epitaph of the Bohemian exile pastor Jary († 1757) is set up under the southern pore .
organ
The organ is a work by Johann Gottlieb Tamitius from 1765 with 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The three-part prospectus has richly carved rococo ornaments and two trumpet angels as a crown and was also made by Schneider.
Maintenance and repair work on the organ was carried out in 1768, 1823 and 1835. In 1894, the company Orgelbau A. Schuster & Sohn installed a rocker coupler instead of the manual slide coupler. In 1912, the same company made a change in disposition. In 1917 the prospect pipes were given up for war purposes. In 1951 the company Eule Orgelbau restored the original disposition. The prospectus was restored in 1997/1998. The disposition is:
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Coupling : manual coupling, pedal coupling
- Tremulant , calcant call
Surroundings
The oldest tombstone in the cemetery dates from before 1700. The tomb of Johann Friedrich Kämmel († 1798) and his wife Anna Leonore († 1778), which was erected by their sons, is noteworthy. The empire tomb is provided with a fluted column that stands in a niche on the base. A rose branch is placed around the column, on the column stands a weeping angel with a skull, in front of the pedestal of the column is a winged satyr's head with an hourglass and scythe.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 842.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 268-270 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 3 ″ E