Frauenkirche (Zittau)

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Frauenkirche (Zittau)
View from the west
Women's cemetery
Epitaphs in the west wall of the church

The Protestant Frauenkirche , named after Our Lady in the Middle Ages , is a repeatedly rebuilt, originally early Gothic church in the women's cemetery outside the old town of Zittau in the Görlitz district in Saxony . It belongs to the Zittau parish in the Löbau-Zittau church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The Frauenkirche is a church that was rebuilt as an early Baroque pseudo-basilica after being destroyed several times as a result of lightning and fire . It was built around 1260-1280 under Bohemian influence. They originally belonged to the established in the first half of the 13th century St John - Coming . In 1572 the preserved eastern parts of the original church were combined into a separate building and the nave was demolished. A restoration took place in 1897, whereby the windows and the west portal were changed, the old galleries replaced and a substantial part of the furnishings were transferred to the museum.

The church is a plastered quarry stone building with a very short but wide nave with a gable roof and a small roof turret with a high, copper-clad hood , which is dated 1715. Tracery windows are still preserved on the south side . The drawn-in choir ends in a five-eighth section and is structured by ogival arcades on high pedestals . In the arcades, round arches are set in the ogival window reveals .

The plain west side shows a neo-Gothic main portal with a straight lintel and pointed gable from 1897 with a pointed arch window above. The one-bay central nave is closed with a cross vault and opens up through two high pointed arches to the southeastern two-bay side aisle with cross vaults ; the octagonal support pillar is decorated with foliage and tracery ornamentation in the capital. The north-western two-bay aisle is closed with groin vaults and has been open to the central nave through two deep wall openings since 1707. Until then it was used as a singing choir. The choir is equipped with a front yoke and ribbed vaults and shows circular services with finely crafted foliage capitals on the west wall of the choir .

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is a winged altar decorated with fittings from 1619 in Renaissance forms. In the predella it shows an inscription plaque, above a colored wooden Madonna figure from the first quarter of the 16th century, which is surrounded by two angels and a halo in the niche. In the arched niches on the inside of the wing, the Annunciation is shown with Mary on the left and the angel on the right. The evangelists are depicted on the outside of the wings, a relief with the Adoration of the Shepherds in the top and an angel figure above each of the wings.

The wooden pulpit with staircase from 1619 bears an inscription with a plastic representation of a boy above the door. The stair parapet, the basket and the sound cover are decorated with light brown and black inlays . The basket shows well-designed consoles with rusticated blind arches, the sound cover is provided with fittings and also with inlays and a trombone angel as a conclusion. Next to the pulpit stands an angel with an hourglass and shield from 1647 on a console. Large parts of the interior, especially the epitaphs , were removed from the church in 1897. The organ is a work by Orgelbau A. Schuster & Sohn from 1928 with 12 registers.

Peal

The ringing consists of a bronze bell, the belfry is made of oak, as are the yokes. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1613 Bell foundry G. Wildt 600 mm 150 kg f ″

graveyard

The church is surrounded by a cemetery with a gate from 1695 on the west wall, which shows an arched opening between two staggered pilasters and in the lintel a sandstone relief of a skull with relief depictions of two angels next to it. On the southwest side there is another gate with a square wall and arch from 1655.

Numerous grave monuments from the 17th to 20th centuries can be found on the outer walls of the church and in the cemetery. Among them is the memorial to Georg Ernst Eichner on the south wall of the church, which is dated 1703. It consists of a sandstone epitaph with a wide base on which two inscription panels are arranged, surrounded by palm trees and acanthus tendrils on the sides . In the structure, God the Father is shown in relief between two cartridges .

Two epitaphs placed in round arches on the west wall of the church have been preserved from Helleschen Crypt. On the left grave monument, probably from 1614, there is an essay with a winged skull at the end. The right grave monument is provided with a large inscription plaque, is framed by two obelisk-like pillars and shows a round-arched top with a relief of the risen Christ from 1602, which is surrounded by putti and scrollwork , above the cranked cornice .

literature

Web links

Commons : Frauenkirche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich and Helga Möbius: Sacred architecture . Union Verlag, Berlin 1963, pp. 228-229.
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the community. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  3. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 372
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 372


Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 48.7 "  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 58.2"  E