Schönefeld Memorial Church
The Schönefeld Memorial Church is a Protestant-Lutheran sacred building that is located in the Schönefeld district of Leipzig , Ossietzkystraße 39. The former village church was rebuilt as a classical hall church from 1816 to 1820 .
history
The first church in Schönefeld was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century. It burned down in 1526 and was rebuilt by 1527. In 1753, major construction work followed with the renovation and expansion of the church, which was completed in 1776. On October 18, 1813, the Schönfeld Church was destroyed by fire during the Battle of the Nations .
According to plans by the Leipzig master carpenter Walter Friedrich, the construction of the new church began in 1816 together with the Schönefeld master mason Carl Friedrich Kind. From 1817 the Leipzig master mason Wagner and Adam Gottlob Lindner from Seegeritz collaborated. The church was consecrated on April 16, 1820, with work on the tower being completed at the end of the year and new bells not being consecrated until August 25, 1839. The furnishings of the church, including a marble altar that was no longer in existence , silver candlesticks and sacrificial implements , were donated by 27 Leipzig residents, mostly merchants. In 1870, Clara Hedwig von Eberstein donated a baptismal table made in Jerusalem (olive wood with a silver basin) to the church on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the rebuilding of the church.
In 1880 the parish of Schönefeld had almost 40,000 members. After a large number of the parish villages had built their own churches in 1900 the number of parishioners was around 11,500.
The parish was one of the richest in Saxony and was therefore able to carry out changes to the interior of the church in 1869, 1895 and 1915/1916. In 1869, in addition to the installation of steam heating and gas lighting, the pulpit was moved from the center to the south side and a five-meter-high cross was placed instead. Gustav Jäger painted a cycle of four pictures ( Moses and Abraham , David with the four prophets, the four evangelists and Christ as king) . Key messages were also placed around the chancel.
The renovation in 1895 included equipping the sacristy with an altar table; the wall opposite the ascent to the pulpit received three portraits of the parish priests. Major renovations followed in 1915/1916 under the direction of the architect Fritz Drechsler . A gallery staircase was added to each side of the tower and the organ gallery was moved forward. The entrance hall was redesigned as a memorial for those who fell in the Franco-German War and the First World War . In memory of the Battle of Nations, the ceiling was decorated with an iron cross framed by oak leaves. On March 19, 1916, the church was re-consecrated under the name “Gedächtniskirche”.
The church survived the Second World War without any significant damage. The roof and windows were only slightly damaged by bombs in the vicinity, but the organ and the round ceiling painting by Gustav Jäger suffered from penetrating water, as the damage could not be repaired in time. Today's bells were consecrated in 1958. As part of a comprehensive renovation, the interior was restored in 1970/1971 based on the shape of 1820. The ceiling paintings by Jäger were removed. The facade was renovated between 1988 and 1993, whereby the tower hood was covered with copper sheet instead of slate .
On September 12, 1840, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married in the Schönefeld church.
architecture
The interior of the spacious classical hall church has a two-storey gallery all around , which around the altar area are expanded to form glazed “chapels” with Ionic pilasters arranged in between . In the center of the church, behind the altar, is the pulpit, opposite the organ gallery. The 50 meter high church tower has a hood in baroque shapes.
Rectory and church
Look at the choir
View to the gallery
Baptismal table
Altar and pulpit
Organs
- Main organ
The organ from 1820 was a gift from Christoph Heinrich Ploß and Siegfried Leberecht Crusius . It cost 1,400 thalers and had two manuals and twenty sounding parts . It was built by Johann Gottlob Mende , on behalf of his master Karl Albrecht von Knoblauch, Halle. In 1883 Gottfried Hildebrand repaired and rebuilt it.
In 1898, Chamberlain Arnold Woldemar von Frege-Weltzien donated a new building to commemorate his wife, who died in 1897. This was done by the master organ builder Richard Kreutzbach from Borna with two manuals and 24 sounding voices. The cost was about 9,000 marks.
The last new building dates from 1974 by the company Eule from Bautzen with 29 registers on two manuals and pedal . She has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free preparations, hand register off, tongue register off, trigger
- positive
In the Memorial Church there is a positive which was built in the early 1970s by Cantor Schuricht (Taucha) using individual parts (pipes, keyboards and organ bench) from the Kreutzbach (Borna) organ that was damaged in World War II.
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Manuals C – f 3
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| 1. | Dumped | 8th' | |
| 2. | Reed flute | 4 ′ | |
| 3. | Principal | 2 ′ | |
| 4th | Sif flute | 1' | |
| 5. | Third discant | ||
Temperature according to Joh. G. Neidhardt "big city" 1724 - 442 Hz / 18 ° C
Surroundings
The cemetery was used until 1854 as a graveyard . In 1883, Clara Hedwig von Eberstein had a burial place built for herself and her family in the southern part . The crypt is characterized by a low, wide base on which a pyramid stands. North of the church is a sandstone tomb of the chamberlain and banker Christoph Heinrich Ploß, who lived in Schönefeld and died in 1838. The two-storey, seven-axle rectory dates from 1823.
literature
- Matthias Gretzschel , Hartmut Mai: Churches in Leipzig. ( Writings of the Leipzig History Association, New Series, Vol. 2), Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1993, ISBN 3-930076-02-0 .
- Albert Stöckel: The Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Schönefeld from its beginnings until today. Arwed Strauch publishing house, Leipzig 1912.
Web links
- Matthaeusgemeinde-Leipzig.de: Gedächtniskirche Leipzig Schönefeld accessed on December 6, 2015
- Schönefeld Memorial Church from kirche-leipzig.de accessed on March 12, 2020
- Ev. Schönefeld Memorial Church (City of Leipzig) from architektur-blicklicht.de accessed on March 12, 2020
- The organs of the Schönefeld Memorial Church on matthaeusgemeinde-leipzig.de accessed on March 13, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burkhard Meischein: Leipzig-Schoenefeld: Memorial Church. In: Inventory of the organs in Saxony. 2007, accessed September 18, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 34 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 32.6" E