Evangelical main church Koenigsbrück
The Evangelical Main Church is the town church of the city of Königsbrück in Saxony .
history
Königsbrück is first mentioned in a document in 1248. 1346 is in the Meißner diocese register of a "plebanus" (pastor). So there was already a church at that time, which probably also served as a fortified church . In 1431 the church burned down with the city in the Hussite War . Shortly afterwards, a new parish church in Gothic style, probably a three-aisled hall church , was built. Some sources refer to the church as St. Mary's Church, but the Marian patronage cannot be clearly proven.
The roof was covered with shingles, a roof turret sitting on it carried the bells. Ascension Day 1513 the roof structure burned down and was rebuilt shortly afterwards. The Kamenz stonemason Wolff Hrobisch could have been consulted for the reconstruction of the church, which was damaged in the fire, because from 1510 he can be found on the construction site of the Nikolaikirche in neighboring Pulsnitz, as his stonemason's mark is on a buttress on the choir of the Pulsnitz church.
In 1535 Donat Pfeiffer , who was expelled from Kamenz, held a Protestant service for the first time. Then the Reformation was introduced in Königsbrück . In 1631 the church burned down in a town fire, and ten years later it was rebuilt as an emergency church. In the meantime, the Hospital Church probably served as the town church.
On November 5, 1682, the foundation stone for today's parish church was laid. Christoph Gottschick from Pirna managed the construction. The building was inaugurated on August 13, 1689 under Baron Maximilian von Schellendorff. In 1891, under the direction of the architect Adolph Canzler, the church interior was rebuilt in the historicism style. Most of the room is still presented in this design today.
Building description
The building is a simple, plastered hall church with a three-sided end and a tower that is converted into an octagonal bell floor with a walkway and is closed with a curved dome and lantern . The spacious interior is provided with single-storey galleries on the north, west and south sides and finished off with a flat ceiling with a cove .
altar
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The altar was consecrated in 1692. It comes from the workshops of the Bautzen painter Sigismund Heinrich Kauderbach and the carpenter Joachim Stöckel. All carvings were created by the wood sculptors Gerber and Götzelt from Bautzen.
The inscription in the predella names the gentleman Maximilian von Schellendorff as the donor of the altar. Above the predella is a depiction of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday. To the side of the picture are two cherubim ; next to them the evangelists Matthew and Mark .
The middle part of the altar is divided into three parts: in the center a picture of the crucifixion of Jesus , next to each a column with an acanthus capital , to the right of the crucifixion the picture of the burial of Christ , on the left the devotion of Jesus in the oil garden . Above the crucifixion there is a blown arched gable with an angel's head. Above it is a painting of the resurrection , flanked by the evangelists John and Luke . The structure is crowned by a monogram with the intertwined letters JESVS in a laurel wreath with a crown.
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Further equipment
- two Gothic panel paintings ( Flagellation and Mary's Death ) from 1475 (?) from the destroyed village church in Krakow (Saxony)
- two Gothic candlesticks, early 16th century
- Baptismal font, around 1600, with rich Renaissance ornamentation
- two-manual Jehmlich organ (1949) with free pipe prospect
- Relief "Blessed are those who are called to the Lord's Supper" in the western vestibule (1891)
- Large epitaph of Maximilian von Schellendorf († 1703) with an iconographically interesting composition of allegorical figures (sculptor: Paul Heermann )
- Baroque bust of Paul from Krakow (Saxony)
- two baroque paintings on canvas ( Holy Night and Mary's Death ) on the north wall above the gallery
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 493-494.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Königsbrück. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 90.
- Ernst Theodor Edmund Wauer: The parish Königsbrück. In: New Saxon Church Gallery: Diöcesen Bautzen and Kamenz. Strauch, Leipzig 1905,
Digital copy (Part II: The Diocese of Kamenz ), columns 351-426.
- Andreas Schlotterbeck: Churches between Königsbrück and Weißenberg. Lusatia-Verlag, Bautzen 2011, ISBN 978-3-936758-75-7 , pp. 22-23.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 50 " N , 13 ° 54 ′ 2.1" E