Hope Church (Leipzig)

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The Hope Church

The Hope Church is the house of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Leipzig-Knauthain.

location

The church is located at Seumestraße 129 in the Leipzig district of Knauthain , a former village with manor on the Elsteraue . In its beginnings, the church was probably built on the edge of a round building that is no longer recognizable today .

The construction

The building of the Church of Hope consists of an octagonal main body with a flat tent roof , with a square tower in front of it to the west. This reaches a height of 21 meters and has a flat pyramid roof . In the east, the counterpart of the tower adjoins the main body but without its height. The arched windows and the surrounding arched frieze are reminiscent of the Romanesque . The handicapped accessible main entrance is on the tower, a side entrance on the north side.

The interior is kept simple and adorned with modern brass installations by Matthias Klemm (1981). The benches are lined up symmetrically around the font in the middle of the room. The organ is a Rückpositiv from 1965 supplemented with parts of a pedal .

history

Nothing is known about the beginnings of the church, except for the fact that the preserved parts of the portal of the church, which existed until the middle of the 19th century, date back to the 12th century. These parts can still be seen at the side entrance on the north side of today's church. The addition of a choir to the previously simple hall building is assumed for the 16th century, and the carved altar that existed until the 20th century was probably also set up. In Saxony's church gallery it is further stated that the tower of the church had to be demolished in the first half of the 19th century due to disrepair. On October 20, 1844, the last service was held in this church before it was broken off to make way for a new one.

The new church was consecrated in 1846. The architect Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher created a building that roughly corresponds to the current one, except for the tower, which was 40 meters high and had an octagonal structure with eight decorative gables and a pointed tent roof. The interior was designed in a classical style, with galleries running around. For the church, Zocher partly took over the dimensions and shapes of the octagonal church in Lichtenberg (Lausitz) , which had been built five years earlier by Christian Gottlieb Ziller according to plans by the Dresden architect Ernst Hermann Arndt and was considered a model for a preacher's church. The old carved altar, which is described in detail by the art historian Gurlitt , was also taken over into the new church . The oldest bell in the church comes from this year, from the foundry GA Jauck in Leipzig, which sounds on the strike note f ′. In 1886 the foundry Gebr. Jauck delivered a bell with the strike tone d ′.

After fire damage had already occurred in the winter of 1937, the church burned down completely on February 22, 1944 after an air raid . Only a picture (now an altarpiece) and a tapestry could be saved from the furnishings. Until 1950 only the foundation walls were standing. 1951–1955 the reconstruction took place roughly in the form of 1846, with the exception of the tower, which was only restored in the now shortened version in 1971. With the bronze bells from 1846 and 1886, preserved over the two world wars, the ringing was extended to a D minor triad with a third bell from the bell foundry F. Schilling Söhne zu Apolda in the strike tone A ′. After the fall of the Wall , the sacred furniture (altar, lectern and baptismal font) could be replaced with new ones, the entrance area was expanded to be handicapped accessible, the church ceiling redesigned in 2008 and the interior renovated.

  • The Knauthain Church until 1844

  • The Knauthain Church from 1846

  • The former carved altar (16th century)

  • North door with parts from the 12th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stephanie von Aretin, Thomas Klemm, Nikolaus Müller: Leipzig and his churches , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02366-5
  2. ↑ a b Saxony's church gallery . Volume: Inspections Leipzig and Grimma ; Dresden 1844
  3. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , Issue 17/18 City of Leipzig , Dresden 1894
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth , Leipzig 2011, p. 321
  5. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth , Leipzig 2011, p. 321
  6. ^ Parish website

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 30.2 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 44.5"  E