Trinity Church (Neusalza)

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Church of the Holy Trinity in Neusalza

The Evangelical Lutheran Church "To the Holy Trinity" of Neusalza in the city of Neusalza-Spremberg is a former exile church , which today belongs to the Ephorie Löbau-Zittau of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .

Political situation and particularities

With the founding in 1670 and the further expansion of the small town of Neusalza, located in the corridors of the then electoral Saxon village community Spremberg in the Upper Lusatian highlands on the Saxon-Bohemian border, a "town within a village" was created. Neu-Salza was surrounded by the mother parish and was therefore not only a novelty in the regional history of Upper Lusatia. At the same time, an independent city commune developed and, from the village of Spremberg, an independent parish - a process that did not go smoothly. The parish of the young city even became a cross-border parish through the influx of exiles from Bohemia , Moravia , Hungary and Silesia .

The reasons for the emergence and further urbanization of Neu-Salza lay in the effects of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) and the associated (Catholic) Counter-Reformation in Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary in the 17th century. The Protestant fellow believers in these countries were forcibly expelled because of their religion and sought, among other things, asylum in the Protestant Electorate of Saxony . Numerous exiles found a new home in the newly founded town of Neu-Salza, later Neusalza for short, and created a new existence here. The international character of the municipality was also reflected in the official German, in which the city council of Neu-Salzas z. B. signed in 1678 as follows: “Mayor, Rathmann together with the entire community of German, Bohemian and Hungarian nation.” Around 1700 there were 67 former exiles as city citizens of Neusalza who did not speak German and consequently did not understand the sermons .

In the absence of a church of their own, German townspeople attended services in the Spremberg church from 1670 to 1679 .

With foresight, the influential Protestant city founder, Christoph Friedrich von Salza , had drawn up the necessary documents, including those relating to church matters in Neu-Salza, for the sovereign, Elector Johann Georg II , and submitted them to the Saxon court in Dresden . The ruler signed the founding deed for the city of Neusalza on January 12, 1670, but the electoral confirmation, which also provided for the construction of a church and the appointment of clergy for the young city, did not take place until October 14, 1674 - a year and a half after his death from the city founder - and went down in local history as the “Neusaltzer Kirchen-Receß”. Despite numerous bureaucratic hurdles, the widow of the city founder, Anna Catharina von Salza (d. 1682), finally managed to implement the “Church Recess ” for Neusalza, thereby fulfilling the legacy of her husband. The not exactly well-heeled township lacked the financial means to build a church in the initial phase. That is why city shop stewards were selected whose task it was to collect “… contributions from Christian brotherly love, in all Protestant communities in Lusatia, the Meißner Land and elsewhere in the world, particularly in Sweden , Denmark and the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Lübeck , as well as others Places more ”. The higher ecclesiastical authorities of Electorate of Saxony approved these measures. With national and international financial help, it was now possible for the citizens of New Salza to build their own place of worship. Before that, from 1670 to 1679, the services were held in the Bohemian (Czech) language in a "prayer room" in the so-called "White House" on Obermarkt, which burned down in 1856. The German townspeople, on the other hand, visited the village church in neighboring Spremberg during this time .

The construction of the church building

As master builder for the future Neusalza church, Hans Sarn or Sare - spelling differently in the sources - and his assistants from Bautzen could be engaged. The architect opted for a simple tripartite church floor plan: apse - the chancel (choir) - nave (nave). The church tower and sacristy were added later. Already after Easter 1675 the first transports of building materials began with trucks to the designated place for the church building and the making of the foundations. The first preacher or pastor who voted in the young congregation, Stephan Pilarick , a native Hungarian clergyman and philosopher who spoke three languages, is said to have picked up three building blocks and spoke the words of the Bible: “In the name of the highly praised Trinity, God the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, these stones, which I am picking up here, should become a house of God. "The foundation stone for the church building took place on July 12, 1675. After four years of brisk work, the rectangular building of the Neu-Salza" Exulant Church "- with a pointed or saddle roof and a semicircular apse as a polygon to the east - architecturally finished in the simple baroque style . The nave received two pointed arch windows on its north and south sides , the chancel one each and the polygonal apse a total of three. Later (1715) the sacristy with two windows and a passage to the chancel was built on the south window of the chancel. The apse and the chancel did not merge directly with the nave, but were offset. This created a high ledge on the north-west edge up to the eaves with a width of two cubits, i.e. an ample meter (1.13 m), which gradually runs out on the church roof towards the ridge and is still visible today.

On February 4, 1679, the new church “To the Holy Trinity” was consecrated. The sermon was given by the then Superintendent Dr. Andreas Kühn from Bischofswerda . This made the young city an independent parish and parish out of the parent community Spremberg. The construction of the first Neusalza church was also connected to the construction of the church, which was located south of the church - today a meadow area. In 1817 this was relieved of its purpose and leveled with the construction of a new one on the Lindenberg . The cemetery wall, which was built at that time and completed around 1720, was also removed.

The first baptism took place in the year of inauguration: It was Constantin Knöchel, the son of the first schoolmaster and organist of the city of Bohemian origin Matthias Knöchel. The first couple to be married here was the master baker Bartholomäus Grohmann and his wife Barbara von Rodewitz. The first burial took place on July 27, 1679, the tailor Gottfried Nachtigall was buried.

The newly built stone church building, the pointed roof of which was covered with shingles, did not have a massive tower at that time, but only a small wooden belfry with two bells as ridge turrets in the middle of the church roof. Inside the church, near the altar, the stately crypt in the form of a vault must also have been integrated at the time, as there is evidence that three members of the founding family of Salza were buried here: Anna Catharina von Salza, the widow of the city's founder (1682), the son Job Friedrich von Salza (1677) and the daughter Lucretia Hedwig von Salza, married Countess von Nostiz and von Gersdorf (1701). The crypt has not been found until today, although the city chronicler and later mayor Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld noted in his "Historical Report" (1768) that the nobles "... were buried in the local church near the altar in a vault made for this purpose". The city's founder, Christoph Friedrich von Salza, found his final resting place in the family's hereditary burial in Ebersbach near Görlitz (1673). However, according to Cornelius Gurlitt (1910, p. 420f), there is a monument to Mrs. Lucretia Hedwig von Gersdorf, widowed von Nostiz, born in the tower porch of the Trinity Church in Neusalza . von Salza in the form of a sandstone slab (88 × 173 cm) with the coats of arms of the noble families von Salza, von Röder and von Sommerfeldt at the corners. The oval of writing in the middle of the plate, framed by a laurel wreath, bears the inscription: “Here in Lord / Jesus rests gently and happily and awaits / the joyous rise of the Weyl. / Well-born woman / Mrs. Lucretia / Hedwig von Gersdorff bored from Saltza out of the house Ebersbach, was born d. 16 Martij 1664, died in Budissin, d. January 11th / Anno 1701. After her Christian age ... etc. / the soul / wants to be gracious to God. "

The first repairs were made over the next twenty-five years. In 1705, the wooden tower top (roof turret) had to be replaced by a new one that was covered with sheet metal. This work was carried out by master carpenter Hans Knote from Berthelsdorf with his journeymen. In connection with this, the roof rider received on April 24, 1706 a clock made by the mechanic and clockmaker Christoph Matthes from Seifhennersdorf , which cost 44 thalers. The clock face of the church tower clock came from Rumburg in northern Bohemia . This tower clock performed its services for 271 years until 1977. Since the number of parishioners grew steadily and the nave with only chairs (stools) was no longer sufficient for church services, the wealthy townspeople Hans Christoph Müller and Michael Nitzschke, both merchants, made it possible during the year 1705 the installation of galleries .

It may seem strange that the executioners (executioners) who lived in Neu-Salza and worked as such had their own church estate in order to be isolated from the other churchgoers. The Neu-Salza executioner Hanß Friedrich Ötte, the fourth in the local history, was no longer satisfied with the status assigned to his justice . He therefore had it torn down in 1706, relocated to the wall under the gallery and organ and fitted with a grating. It was not until 1715 that the sacristy - covered with a cross vault and provided with a round arched door - could be built, as the wealthy Neu-Salza brothers and merchants Friedrich and Michael Priebs financed the construction privately. A year later (1716) the neo-Gothic hall was added in front of the church door on the north side, the cost of which was borne by councilor Christian Hohlfeld. The hall, which was only repaired in 1829, had to be rebuilt in 1839. This vestibule no longer exists today, but the former entrance door, which is no longer in use. In the previous years (1836/37) the sacristy was provided with floorboards and part of the church roof was re-covered.

The construction of the church tower

Over a hundred years after the city was founded (1670), the Exulantenkirche did not have a massive church tower. In 1768 the wooden roof turret had become so dilapidated that it had to be demolished. At the end of September / beginning of October 1768 the demolition work was carried out with the salvage of the two bells by the master carpenter Johann Gottlieb Noack and journeymen. Pastor Johann Kleych from Zittau , who headed the Neusalza parish from 1752 to 1798, was the initiator of the new tower. With 46 years of service, he was the longest-serving ecclesiastical incumbent in the city of Neusalza. In tough struggles with the then Neusalza property, court and church patron Peter August von Schönberg , Kleych was finally able to enforce the building and ensure that the manor financed it on the condition that the community performed the manual and tensioning services . That happened too.

The master mason Wendler from Taubenheim / Spree took over the work on the Neusalza church tower with his assistants. The Taubenheim rule under Mr. von Zezschwitz had even "sent 9 farmers from the neighborhood for free [to Neusalza] to drive wood for a day" in advance on May 2nd, 1769 ". The foundation stone was laid on July 3, 1769 and a lead box was walled in, which contained documents, gold and silver coins from 1768. The tower was added in the middle of the west side of the nave. The building was given three windows on the north side (including the bell cage) above the entrance door, and one window each in the bell cage on the east, south and west sides.

After a good year of construction, the new church tower was inaugurated on September 23, 1770 - on the occasion of the 100th year of the town's foundation. The clapboard-covered tower was finished with a hood in the shape of half an onion. The tower button got a large metal cross visible from afar. The celebratory speech and acceptance speech for the inauguration of the church tower was held by the then mayor Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld, who headed the municipal municipality from 1751 to 1784. The consecration festival turned out to be an impressive regional church music celebration with trumpets and drum sounds. A month earlier, on August 18, 1770, the bells found their place in the new tower. Until 1800/01 the pastors in the Neusalza Church preached in both German and Czech, after that only in German. Johann Kleych and Johann August Knaut (1798–1800) were the last two pastors of Neusalza who also preached in Czech.

Organ building fund and organ

Since until the year 1754 the church choir and the congregation only used one positive , i.e. H. a small organ without a pedal, a solid organ from the community of Oybin , which served in the Neusalza church until 1859, was purchased for 30 thalers . Pastor Adolph Köhler, who headed the parish from 1844 to 1847, set up an organ building fund to buy a new organ on the advice of his former students Julius and August Prätorius. After Pastor Köhler's resignation, this was continued by the long-time cantor and teacher Carl Gottlob Richter, who later became an honorary citizen of the city (1859). After twelve years (1856) the organ building fund had grown to around 1244 thalers. Financially nothing stood in the way of buying a new organ. On August 16, 1858, the master organ builder Leopold Kohl in Leipzig, later Bautzen, was commissioned to build a new organ. Kohl was the predecessor of the later Bautzen organ building company Eule . The production cost 1125 thalers. After the necessary renovation work inside the church, as described below, the masterpiece was installed. During the sound test, the Dresden court organist and composer Johann Gottlob Schneider jun. (1789–1864) the organ work for good. It was renewed in 1905 by the Bautzen organ builder, Eule, who changed it significantly from the original. Before the turn of 1989 “... the Neusalza church got an organ motor to generate the wind. The bellower who had held this office until then was no longer needed. "

Today's arrangement of the organ: 19 stops , 2 manuals , pedal , slide box and electric action .

Bells and bell building funds

The Neusalza church initially had two bells. One of them, the first and smallest from 1678, survived the storms of time and still exists today. However, it is no longer in the Neusalza cemetery chapel on the Lindenberg, but is specially kept. It bears the inscription: G. M. A. H. (Goß mich Andreas Herold). The Dresden bell caster Andreas Herold lived from 1623 to 1696. When one of the two bells, weighing 76.5 kg, broke in 1716, it was cast over by the Dresden caster Michael Weinhold (1662–1732) and another (third) was purchased. The large bell weighed 150.7 kg, the smaller 50.37 kg. There the following inscriptions were poured in: "From a voluntary collection of E. E. Raths- and surety to Neusalza, also some good friends, both of us were poured by Michael Weinhold, piece caster in Dresden". On the other side was: “At the time, the liege was Mr. Carl Heinrich Graf von Hoym . M. (Magister) Wenzeslaus Niederwerfer , pastor. "Above it was noted:" SOLI DEO GLORIA. (i.e. "God alone for the glory") Anno 1716 ". As noted earlier, further donations made it possible for the community to have a third bell poured for 140 thalers. The third bell contained the following inscription: "Oh, if you, dear Christian, hear these bells ringing, let their sound penetrate your heart at the same time". Above it read: "Poured me Michael Weinhold in Dresden 1716". However, in 1732 it had to be cast due to a material defect. Seventy years later - in 1802 - the parish commissioned the Bohemian piece caster Joseph Kittel in Herrnhübel to cast a bell for the peal. To cover the costs, it was possible to fall back on the legacy of Pastor Kleych, which he bequeathed to the parish in the amount of 100 thalers before his death in 1801.

A lightning strike in the church tower on August 15, 1859 damaged the rafters in the bell tower, the interior of the church ceiling and many of the tin organ pipes. The damage was estimated at around 128 thalers, which the "Landes-Immobilar-Brandversicherungskasse" paid for. As a result, the church was now fitted with lightning rods and the old tower button was replaced by a new one. In total, these construction and repair costs amounted to over 3000 thalers. The inauguration ceremony took place on October 2, 1859.

In advance of this, on October 15, 1855, a “bell building fund” was launched for the Neusalza Church, which ten years later (1865) amounted to 730 thalers. On May 10, 1865, a contract was signed with the well-known G. A. Jauck bell foundry in Leipzig to produce a harmonious ringing of three bells in the tones f a c for 1200 thalers, offsetting the value of the old bells of 200 thalers. The big bell (“Faith”) weighed 684.75 kg, the middle one (“Love”) 365 kg and the small one (“Hope”) 207.5 kg. The new bells had the following inscriptions: 1. “In heaven I float, to heaven I lift up the heart of man. I consecrate life, I lend sounds for joy and pain ”(The Great). 2. “I wake you up during the day, and in the evening I wave for a gentle rest. I greet the baby, I bring love to the altar ”(The middle one). 3. “For help I ring the bell, for prayer I invite the Christian choir. At death I lament, I carry prayers up to God ”(The little one). The construction costs amounted to 1,800 thalers. The first and smallest bell with the year 1678 was placed in the church tower above the new bell. Later, as noted, the bell from the founding period ended up in the roof turret of the chapel built in 1899 of the new municipal cemetery on the Lindenberg, which had been created since 1817. In the course of the First World War (1914–1918) the peal of bells had to be delivered for armament purposes. The small historical bell from 1678 was hung from the Neusalza cemetery chapel in the bell tower of the Neusalza church.

Two years after the end of the war - in the year of the unification of the city of Neusalza with the village community of Spremberg to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg on February 15, 1920 - it was possible for the church community of Neusalza (the church union with Spremberg did not take place until 1937) to ring three bells in bronze acquire. The bell foundry Franz Schilling & Sons in Apolda carried out the bell casting . It oriented itself to the ideas of the parish to create a similar one based on the example of G. A. Jauck. The big one, called "Belief Bell", weighed 1,094 kg, (tone: e), showed a cross and the word: "There is no salvation in any other ..." The middle one, called "Bell of love", weighed 552 kg, ( Tone: g sharp). She revealed a flaming heart and the saying: "But stay now ...". The little one, the “bell of hope” weighed 308 kg, (sound: h); it contained an anchor and the saying: "Praise be to God and the Father ...". The bells of Schilling's chimes contained the same Bible verses as inscriptions as the three bells by Jauck. But the bells of 1920 suffered a similar fate. They fell victim to the German armaments madness and melted down at the beginning of the Second World War (1939–1945). Only the small historical bell from 1678 remained.

In 1965, during the GDR era, a new bronze bell weighing 300 kg, 82 cm in diameter, nominal tone B, could be purchased from the community of Gauernitz ( Meißen district ) for the Neusalza church . It bears the inscription: "A pleasure for the people." In 1979 - on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the parish fair - the ringing was completed by two more bronze bells, which were manufactured in the Apolda bell foundry and on December 18, 1978 in the tones G and C were delivered. The larger bell weighs 450 kg and has a diameter of 95 cm, the smaller one weighs 180 kg and a diameter of 69 cm. Their inscriptions read: “Glory to God on high! Cast for the glory of God 1678 - 1920 - 1978. - Peace on earth! Melted down by human will in 1914 and 1939 ”.

The Neusalza church now has a complete and harmonious sounding bronze bell again. The Neusalza-Spremberg master upholsterer and saddler Willy Kuntzsche provided the necessary financial means totaling 6,650.60  marks . The price of the two bells was 4,831.60 marks; Projection, transport, inscriptions, fittings and ancillary costs came to 1819.00 marks. On January 4, 1979, the elevator, installation and commissioning of the electric bell took place. The bells were consecrated on January 14th of the same year.

Construction and renovation measures in the 19th and 20th centuries

Between the years 1770 and 1822 there were no major structural complaints. In 1823, however, the church roof and the tower had to be repaired and a new tower button had to be put on. In connection with this, a new ceiling was installed in the nave and the two-story galleries were painted. The installation of a larger organ required major modifications to the nave in the 1950s . These began on April 27, 1859 and lasted five months. Responsible for this was the master bricklayer from Neusalza, who was also a member of the council, Carl Thomaß in collaboration with the local carpenter Curt Henke and the carpenter August Hünlich. The latter made the new altar and the pulpit according to his own drawing. The interior work, which had been done in stages, was completely removed. This led to painful losses, including the valuable winged altar that the church got at the time of the first pastor Stephan Pilarick. He has not been found since 1859. New pews were also installed. However, from the notes of the mayor and city chronicler August Adolph Tuchatsch (1870/72, p. 45) it can be concluded that the lordly crypt of Salza was walled up during the extensive renovation work on the interior of the church in the course of 1859.

According to research by Uwe Herzog (2010), at the end of the 19th century there was a chimney on the south side of the church that led through the roof. This means that the Neusalza church could be heated in the colder season with a stove that was located near the sacristy. This fact is in accordance with a drawing from around 1900, which is in the building archives of the City Council of Neusalza-Spremberg and which includes a chimney installation from that time. In the 1920s, the church received gas heating, which was replaced by electric heating during the fall of the GDR in 1989/90. The chimney, which was used to discharge the exhaust gases with the installation of the gas heating, was completely removed when the roof was re-covered. The easily heated and smaller Neusalza church is therefore preferably used as a winter church. The simple exterior of the church was changed in 1859 and again in 1896/97. Before that, in 1891 and 1901, the two decorative windows made of lead glass were installed in the apse, showing the two reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . The pointed arched windows received plastered battlement stones and keystones with plastered tracery.

On September 9, 1894, a noteworthy event took place in the Neusalza Church: On this day, the daughter of the American entrepreneur and inventor Thomas Alva Edison , then 20-year-old Marion Estelle Edison, received the adult baptism here for the son of the city , Lieutenant, later Colonel, to be able to marry Oscar Oeser. Their wedding took place a year later in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden . Marion Estelle Edison-Oeser remains the most famous personality who ever came to Neusalza from overseas and found a second home there for a short time.

With the establishment and commissioning of an electricity plant in Neusalza in 1897, the first in Upper Lusatia, the Neusalza church also received its electrical lighting system, which replaced traditional candle lighting. More recently, in 1958, with the plastering of the Neusalza Church by master builder Hansel, extensive renovation work began on the listed buildings of the parish. In connection with this, the ramshackle neo-Gothic vestibule from 1716 and the morgue built in 1851 on the south-west side of the tower were torn down. In 1970 - for the 300th anniversary of the city's foundation - the interior of the church was repainted. On June 27, 1977 the Neusalza church tower clock from 1706 struck its final hour after 271 "years of service". It was expanded and replaced by a new one on an electric-automatic basis. The new and modern tower clock was a gift from the Neusalza-Spremberg parish member Opitz. The historic clock from Seifhennersdorf is lost after it was removed and relocated. In the years 1987 to 1990 extensive preparations began for the necessary re-roofing of the entire church and tower roof, including the sacristy. After the old slate and the underlying double clapboard were torn down, the tower was re-covered with copper and the church roof with asbestos-free fulgurite slate, which looks like real slate , in 1990 . The artificial slate flooring was a gift from the Evangelical Aid Organization and the partner community in Garßen . Both churches in the city received a bell system in those years.

The interior of the church has hardly changed since the previous renovations. It is currently architecturally as follows: “The rectangular nave with a flat ceiling merges into a somewhat narrower choir without a triumphal arch . The fillings of the two-storey galleries with tooth-cut decorations are framed in gold and painted green. The pulpit altar, framed by Ionic pilasters, and the oval baptismal table show classicist forms . ”At the bottom in the middle of the nave there is a wide arched window and at the north-west and south-west corner (outside) a buttress as corner reinforcement. The nave ceiling (with the year 1826) and the two galleries rest on simple wooden pillars. The simple prayer room built into the gallery is behind the altar.

As part of the urban redevelopment in 1996/97, the parish received funding. "The content of this was the draining of the masonry ...", so did not refer to the outer shell. On the east wall of the apse (outside) there is a memorial stone (approx. 100 × 200 cm) with the names of the citizens of Neusalza who died as soldiers in the First World War (1914–1918).

The former exile church in Neusalza, today Neusalza-Spremberg, does not embody a monumental sacred building from the outside with ostentatious inventory inside, but captivates with its clear design and simplicity as well as its rich and at times international history.

Survey of the Neusalza church

Drawings or sketches for the construction project for the Neusalza Church (1675 to 1679) by master builder Hans Sarn from Bautzen have unfortunately not survived, nor have any documents on the construction of the massive church tower from 1769/70, which master mason Wendler from Taubenheim / Spree carried out. The documents could have been lost as a result of the effects of the war, outsourcing or short-sighted actions. The dimensions of the church building could only be determined recently, for example by Cornelius Gurlitt (1910), who published a floor plan and recorded the length from the end of the apse (east) to the transverse wall of the nave (west) as 35 cubits. He was certainly based on the Dresden yardstick , which was binding for Saxony. Since this cubit corresponds to around 0.566 m, the Neusalza church building with nave, chancel and apse would be a total of 19.81 m long, whereas the western wall would be 21 cubits wide, i.e. 11.89 m. The inner longitudinal axis, however, is 31.5 cubits or 17.83 m, of which the apse accounts for 4 cubits (= 2.65 m), the sanctuary 8 cubits (= 4.53 m) and the nave or nave 19 cubits ( = 10.75 m). It can also be deduced from this that the tower was built square with 9 cubits in length and width (= 5.09 × 5.09) and covers an area of ​​26 m². The sacristy, which is also square, with the dimensions of 8 × 8 cubits (= 4.52 m × 4.52 m) therefore has an area of ​​20.43 m². The wall thickness, however, is around 1.8 cubits, i.e. 1.01 m. The specified dimensions are external dimensions. The height of the nave and the tower are nowhere recorded.

A survey was carried out on April 16, 2013, which resulted in the following measurements: height of the church tower with cross 24.00 m, height to the tower ball 20 m, ridge height of the nave 13.80 m. The tower base has the dimensions of 5.50 m × 5.43 m, which results in a floor area of ​​29.86 m².

analogy

In terms of architecture and size, especially the church tower, the Neusalza Trinity Church in the city of Neusalza-Spremberg is very similar to the former village church of Pritzen near Altdöbern , which had to give way to the Lusatian lignite mine in 1988 and was transported dismantled to the southern Brandenburg town of Spremberg and rebuilt there. As a copy of the Pritzen church, it was inaugurated on April 4, 1994 as the Evangelical Resurrection Church Spremberg . The towers of the Trinity Church in Neusalza and the Church of the Resurrection in Spremberg, which were added to the church buildings almost simultaneously during the Baroque period , suggest that the same builder was at work. Minimal structural differences are that the entrance and church tower clock of the Trinity Church Neusalza are on the north side and that of the Resurrection Church in Spremberg in southern Brandenburg is on the west side, and the Spremberg tower dome is less arched.

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Comments or individual references

  1. ↑ Gustav Hermann Schulze 1917, p. 25
  2. ↑ August Adolph Tuchatsch (Ed.) 1870/72, p. 29 ff
  3. ↑ August Adolph Tuchatsch, p. 37
  4. ^ Eduard Herrmann Volkmar Ficker 1839, copy 1997, p. 2
  5. ↑ a b E.HV Ficker, p. 3
  6. ↑ Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld 1768, revised by Siegfried Seifert 2002, p. 7
  7. ↑ CG Hohlfeld, p. 39f
  8. ↑ Hohlfeld, p. 40
  9. ↑ EHV Ficker 1839, copy 1997, p. 10
  10. ↑ CG Hohlfeld, p. 45
  11. ↑ a b August Adolph Tuchatsch, p. 44
  12. ↑ August Adolph Tuchatsch, p. 43 ff
  13. ↑ a b c According to written communication from Mr. Kantor i. R. Siegfried Seifert, Lawalde, from January 16, 2013 to Lutz Mohr
  14. ^ Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Spitzkunnersdorf: Oberlausitzer Verlag Frank Nürnberger 2011, Kirchenort Neusalza-Spremberg, p. 77 (75-78).
  15. ↑ According to Ernst Seidel et al. Herbert Körner 1931, p. 23.
  16. ↑ a b August Adolph Tuchatsch, p. 47f
  17. ↑ According to E. Seidel et al. H. Körner 1931, p. 23. The weight given here of the Great Bell, cast by Schilling in 1920, of 1,094 kg (that is an ample ton), is doubtful, as it was in no relation to the others and so certainly the stability of the Neusalzaer Glockenstuhls would have endangered
  18. ↑ A short history of the Neusalza bells. In: Text-picture portfolio of the ev.-luth. Parish of Neusalza-Spremberg on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Neusalza Church "To the Holy Trinity" (1679–1979). Neusalza-Spremberg: Jochen Liebers 1979
  19. ↑ August Adolph Tuchatsch, p. 45
  20. ↑ According to a written notification from the head of the building authority of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg, Mr. Albrecht Gubsch, on January 8, 2013 (by email)
  21. ↑ C. Gurlitt 1910, p. 418
  22. ↑ Gunther Leupolt 1999, p. 75ff
  23. ↑ G. Leupolt 1992, p. 39
  24. ↑ Theodor Schütze (Ed.) 1974, p. 146
  25. ↑ C. Gurlitt 1910, p. 417f
  26. ↑ The conversion in m / cm was done by Lutz Mohr
  27. ↑ Torsten Richter: Saved church at a symbolic place in Spremberg. ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 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. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, issue of April 4, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lr-online.de

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