Zipsendorf village church
The listed Evangelical Lutheran village church Zipsendorf is in the Zipsendorf district of the city of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish area Meuselwitz-Lucka in the church district Altenburger Land of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The church was built in 1407. The building was completely destroyed in a fire in 1480 and rebuilt between 1505 and 1511 in the late Gothic style. Martin Luther is said to have preached here in 1542. In the years 1661 to 1663 the church tower was given a dome with a lantern . A restoration took place in 1988/1989.
The building consists of a three-bay nave with a retracted, polygonal closing choir. A square tower with a concluding octagonal storey and dome is attached to the south side, next to it a two-bay vestibule. The choir and the nave are closed with various, richly formed star vaults. Round ornamental stones with relief are attached at the intersection of the ribs. The side rooms of the church are closed off with ribbed vaults. Tracery windows illuminate the room, and a rose window from the 19th century is built into the west wall. Galleries are built into the south and west sides of the nave.
Furnishing
The late Gothic furnishings include the stone pulpit on the north wall of the nave with the year 1512, a framed sacrament niche in the choir polygon, two console-like, stone holy water basins next to the door to the nave, parts of a choir stalls with carved, flat tendril friezes and three cast between 1505 and 1508 Bells received. A four-zone altarpiece from 1625 shows valuable paintings on wooden panels. The predella shows the Lord's Supper, the crucifixion in the main field and the resurrection and ascension of Christ on the smaller panels above. The architectural frame is formed by columns and cranked beams, with rich cartilage on the sides . Next to the three paintings above, prophets, apostles and evangelists are arranged in pairs; the upper pair is missing. The paintings on the altarpiece signed and dated on the reverse are by Jakob Wendelmuth from Pegau, the sculptures by Wolf Zinck. A second stone pulpit with a carved sound cover was created in 1658. A stone baptismal font dates from the 17th century, the organ with a carved front from 1780, the work has been renewed. Several tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries have also been preserved.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 1423.
Individual evidence
- ^ Church district Altenburger Land: Evang.-Luth. Parish area Meuselwitz-Lucka. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ^ City of Meuselwitz: Churches. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 12 ° 16 ′ 54.2 ″ E