Eibau Church
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The baroque Evangelical Lutheran church of Eibau is located in Eibau , a district of the municipality of Kottmar in the south of the East Saxon district of Görlitz between Zittau and Bautzen . It is considered the second largest village church in Upper Lusatia .
history
Already in the 13th century there was a church belonging to the Zittau deanery . The church patronage was exercised around 1367 by the respected Zittau citizen Johannes Hirsfeld and in 1420 by the lords of the yew tree. Since 1552 the church has been Evangelical Lutheran.
In 1702, the dilapidation of the old church caused the growing community to build a new building, the foundation stone of which was laid on June 19, 1703. The church in Bertsdorf , built from 1672 under the direction of the Dresden master builder Andreas Klengel , served as a model, the type of which can also be found in the nearby churches of Hainewalde (1705–1711), Spitzkunnersdorf (1712–1716) and Niederoderwitz (1719–1726). The church was consecrated on September 27, 1707. The interior was renovated in 1841 and 1906/07, the last of the nave and choir area being renovated in 2006 to meet the requirements of listed buildings.
The west tower, which was listed in the years 1709–1710, was so badly damaged by a lightning strike in a storm in 1751 that a complete renovation of the 50 meter high tower structure including bells and clockwork from 1711 (Christoph Maaß, Seifhennersdorf) under the direction of the architect Heinrich Priebs was necessary was.
Building description
Exterior
The outwardly unadorned building includes a spacious nave. A plastered building made of rubble stones with a five-sided choir closure shows pointed-arched tracery windows .
The west tower changes from a square floor plan with side stair towers to an octagonal bell floor. Above it is a curved hood and a double openwork lantern .
Interior
The interior is provided with a groin vault executed whose transverse arches carrying a floral decoration, wall pillars are as Tuscan Pilaster executed. On the east, south and north walls there are three-storey circumferential galleries with unadorned parapet fields. The organ gallery is on the west wall, and below it is a stately box on four consoles .
The building can accommodate 1700 visitors.
Furnishing
altar
The outstanding piece of church furnishings is the baroque altar created by Gottfried Schenderling in 1708. Six columns ending in composite capitals support a profiled cornice on a high base . The reredos shows a square painting with the motif of Christ praying in Gethsemane . On the left outside there is a statue of Moses , on the right one of John the Baptist .
Baptismal font
The baptismal font in the form of a hexagonal, chalice-shaped porphyry baptismal font is decorated with golden acanthus leaves . It dates from the end of the 18th century.
pulpit
The classicist pulpit from 1851 is attached to the right in the nave. The square pulpit bears paintings by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . The square sound cover is also richly decorated.
organ
The instrument from 1889 comes from the workshop of the Bautzen organ builder Hermann Eule (1846–1929) and is the largest mechanical cone store organ that he has survived . It has 35 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
Bells
In the 18th century, the bells consisted of a triple ring, which was cast in the middle of the 19th century by the bell founder Theodor Werner in F. Gruhl's bell foundry in Kleinwelka near Bautzen. In the two world wars, bells had to be given in 1917 and 1942. Since 1951 the church has had a four-note bell with the nominal tones c 1 - e 1 - g 1 - a 1 .
literature
- Klaus-Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4 , pp. 118f.
- Christian Rietschel, Bernd Langhof: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, p. 134.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Klaus-Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4 , pp. 118f.
- ^ A b c d Christian Rietschel, Bernd Langhof: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, p. 134
- ↑ Eibau Church in Oberlausitz ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 18, 2017
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 48.2 " N , 14 ° 39 ′ 51.2" E
