Hope Church (Freital)
The Hope Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Freital . It is located in the Hainsberg district .
history
In July 1900, the Protestant Christians of the Hainsberg community laid the foundation stone for their new church. Considerations about this had been given in the Hainsberg municipal council since 1897. The 58 m high structure was completed in almost 16 months and consecrated on November 11, 1901. The place, which saw a strong increase in population in the course of industrialization in the region, separated from the church of Somsdorf's Georgenkirche .
The first three Bronze - bells from the bell foundry C. Albert Bierstadt Ling in Dresden donated Commerce Romans and his wife Ida Romans born Bienert in memory of her prematurely deceased sons, as well as the pneumatic organ - one of the Art Nouveau adapted instrument with oak cabinet from the Dresden court organ builder Jehmlich . The bells were cast on December 2, 1899 in the presence of around 30 Hainsberg community members.
On November 25, 1917, the church spire with the cross fell on the forecourt in a heavy storm during the service, and people were not harmed. In the summer of 1918, repairs were carried out in this regard.
Since 1934 the bell has been moved by an electric bell system, which was replaced by a newer one in 1999.
During the Second World War, the large and medium bronze bells fell victim to the metal collections in favor of the armaments industry. On March 26, 1942, they were taken from the tower and later melted down. After the war, the community hoped to find them again in the Hamburg bell cemetery. However, the search was unsuccessful. In 1955 the chime received three new chill- cast iron bells , donated by Richard Dämming and Erwin Schäfer, since then the chime has consisted of four bells and sounds in the tones e ′, f sharp ′, b ′, h ′.
Between 1985 and 1990 the interior of the church was renovated and the nave was given a new roof in 2005. The congregation took the many images of hope inside the church as an opportunity to name the church on November 11, 1990, the Church of Hope .
On January 1, 1999, the parishes of the Hoffnungskirche Hainsberg, the Emmauskirche Potschappel , the Lutherkirche Döhlen , the Christ Church Deuben and the Georgenkirche Somsdorf founded the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Freital. On January 1, 2014, the parish merged to form the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Freital.
architecture
The floor plan of the building is cruciform with a centralizing character and deviates from the usual orientation of the altar to the east. The architect Richard Friedrich Reuter shaped the exterior architecture through neo-Romanesque style elements. The heavy entrance portal in the northeast is supported by columns with fighters made of red sandstone ( Roter Mainsandstein ). The capitals and fighters are decorated with geometric-floral Art Nouveau ornaments. The Hainsberg coat of arms is located under the gable of the entrance hall with its arched main portal: the Hainsberg beech.
The masonry consists of quarry stone : Monzonite from the Plauen reason and granodiorite from Demitz-Thumitz (so-called Lusatian granite ), which is divided by elements made of light-colored Cotta sandstone .
The sacristy with a small apse is added to the southwest . The enlarged transept has moved into the middle of the nave and accommodates the two lateral galleries . It is architecturally supported by the elevation of the ceiling at the intersection of the two ships.
Furnishing
The monumental, decorative design in Art Nouveau is closely linked to the furnishings and was carried out by Otto Gußmann . It is a characteristic example of the turning away from neo-Gothic and history painting of the 19th century.
The stained glass of the windows was made by the Liebert brothers from Gußmann's cardboard boxes; together with the monumental paintings of the apse , the triumphal arch and the crossing dome , they form a sophisticated iconographic program according to Mt 20.18 LUT . On the triumphal arch, the entry of Christ into Jerusalem, the earthly Jerusalem and in the crown the cross framed by angels (1911) are depicted against a background executed in brown tones. The Passion story is continued in two scenes in the two windows on the left and right, in which Christ is shown tied up in the house of execution and receiving the chalice of suffering in the garden of Gethsemane. Above the group of windows in the apse with the blue-green images of the apostles, the Ascension of Christ can be seen in a heather landscape in the spherical blue of the Konche. In the flat dome, the heavenly Jerusalem is depicted as a walled city guarded by twelve cherubim with the cross and the Lamb of God in the middle. Vegetable ornaments can be seen below the wall ring, in the spandrels tondi with depictions of the evangelists. The windows in the transept show in shades of brown and yellow the Christian festivals of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost and the essential elements of the divine service: Baptism of Christ , the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Supper.
The altar and the baptism are made of sandstone, the pulpit is made of wood in a very simple Art Nouveau style. The organ is a work by the Jehmlich company from 1901 with 31 stops on two manuals and a pedal that has been tonally changed.
Tower clock
The tower clock comes from the Meißner tower clock factory Otto Fischer. It is currently being serviced by the trained precision mechanic and watch technician Andreas Vogler.
Web links
- Information about the Hope Church on the Ev.-Luth website. Parish Freital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 346-348.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '50.3 " N , 13 ° 38' 0.8" E