Evangelical Church of Gröditz
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Gröditz is a listed church building in the small town of Gröditz in the Saxon district of Meißen . The neo-Romanesque style church can be found here, surrounded by the church cemetery in the center of the village.
Building history
Gröditz was originally parish in the neighboring Frauenhain , where one of the oldest church locations in the immediate vicinity is located. The oldest parts of the Frauenhain church are said to date back to the 13th century . At that time, the Bishop of Naumburg owned a mansion on the site of what would later become the Frauenhain Castle, which he used as accommodation in the region.
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The village of Gröditz, which once belonged to the Saathain rulership , developed into an industrial location through the settlement of Einsiedel's iron hammer in 1779. The place experienced great population growth. Between the years 1848 and 1890 alone, the local population increased more than fivefold. It became necessary to have its own church in the village, and the structure that still exists today was built in 1890 and 1891. Theodor Quentin (1851–1905) is given as the master builder . The architect is considered stylistically as representatives of the Gothic Revival . During his lifetime he made a name for himself in the area of sacred architecture, especially in Saxony and Thuringia .
The building was opened on December 14th, 1891. The construction costs for the Gröditz church came to 35,854 Reichsmarks .
In 1950 the interior of the church was changed. In addition, an extensive renovation of the building was carried out, in the course of which, among other things, the painting of the interior was changed and damaged windows were replaced. Furthermore, the church got an electric heating, which replaced the originally existing stoves. In 1990 extensive restoration work was carried out on the building. Further renovation work in the outdoor area was carried out in 2014.
Building description
The Protestant church in Gröditz is a brick building from the 19th century in the neo-Romanesque style . The hall church is on a quarry stone base and has a gable roof . To the east is a rectangular tower 29.64 meters high with an octagonal, slate roof. The choir side and the two long sides of the nave are divided by windows and pilaster strips . Underneath the eaves there is a three-dimensional cube frieze.
The interior of the church is characterized by a flat ceiling and a west gallery. The choir has a triumphal arch that separates it from the rest of the nave . The church organ can also be found on the west gallery.
Furnishing
A large wrought iron chandelier can be found as a defining element in the interior of the church . The sacred building is equipped with a three-part stone altar with a central group of wooden figures. This group of figures depicts Jesus on the cross and a family in an adoring posture. Furthermore, a wooden pulpit and a baptismal font can be found in the church . Both come from the Meißner carpentry and are a foundation of the Kommerzienrat Ludwig Albert Julius Niethammer (1833–1908), who founded the Gröditzer pulp mill in 1883 .
organ
The organ in the Gröditz Church today was created in 1891 by the Dresden organ builder Bruno Kircheisen . The Schmeisser company expanded the instrument with a mechanical cone chest in 1961 to include a Rückpositiv with a sliding chest. It has 12 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The last major overhaul was carried out in 2016. The instrument has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Tombs and memorials
The church cemetery is immediately adjacent to the Gröditzer church. The cemetery offers space for around 700 grave sites. Of these, around 180 are currently occupied.
Community grave complex
Evangelical cemetery
Water well in the cemetery
On the opposite side of the street from the building you can find the Central Monument Square, where a memorial is erected, which commemorates the inhabitants of the place who died in the two world wars. In 1994 the square was redesigned.
Memorial place
In the summer of 2016, a community grave was created in the form of a roundabout with a diameter of ten meters in the neighboring church cemetery. The parish had invested around 6,500 euros in the facility, the outer circle of which is made of granite stones.
Web links
- The Ev.-Luth. Parishes of Gröditz and Nauwalde on the homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Gröditz, Frauenhain and Nauwalde
- The Gröditzer church on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain
- Organ index of the Gröditz organ on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain (pdf) on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The Frauenhain Church on the homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Gröditz ( memento from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 2, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h The Gröditz Church on the homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Gröditz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 2, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler - I axes . 2nd Edition. 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 414 .
- ↑ a b c d e f The Gröditzer Church on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on September 2, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Organ index of the Gröditzer Orgel (pdf) on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on September 2, 2017.
- ↑ As of November 2016.
- ↑ a b Rest in the roundabout. In: Saxon newspaper . 23rd November 2016.
- ↑ The Central Monument Square on the municipal website , accessed on September 2, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 23.7 ″ E