Hospital Church St. Georg (Lößnitz)
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| address | 08294 Lößnitz (Erzgebirge) Hospitalstrasse |
| Denomination | Evangelical Lutheran |
| local community | Lößnitz-Affalter parish |
| Current usage | Parish church; Cultural place |
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| start of building | 1851 |
| inauguration | September 15, 1861 |
| style | Neo-Gothic |
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The St. Georg Hospital Church is a church building in the town of Lößnitz in the Erzgebirge District at the intersection of Hospitalstrasse and Auer Strasse. It was built as the hospital chapel of the St. Georg zu Lößnitz Hospital Foundation in the 13th century. After several city fires and subsequent reconstruction, the church was reactivated as a religious foundation in 1999.
history
A chapel for the foundation of the nearby hospital was first mentioned in 1283. In the early 14th century there was probably a “leprosorium” , one of several buildings in Saxony for the reception and care of lepers . The hospital and the church bear the name of St. George .
After the Reformation , the parish became Evangelical Lutheran . A new baroque stone building in place of the previous simple building was inaugurated in 1714. The devastating city fire in 1848 destroyed the church building, so that the city and hospital administration had the current church built in the same place from 1851 to 1861, in which the first service was celebrated on September 15, 1861 . With the renovation of St. John's Church at the same time, the St. George's Church mainly serves as a winter church and a cemetery chapel , because the city cemetery, which was laid out in the 16th century, adjoins to the east.
On June 27, 1917, the bells "for the fatherland" were delivered from both churches in the city and melted down on them.
The St. Georg zu Lößnitz Hospital Foundation, which was re-established in 1999, serves diaconal tasks , in particular it finances work for the elderly, work with children, young people and the handicapped as well as support and support activities in the Lößnitz-Affalter parish .
Architecture and equipment
Naves
The church building with a rectangular floor plan is characterized by neo-Gothic style and decorative elements. It is about 24 feet long and 15 feet wide.
The building has ogival portals on three sides , each arranged in the middle of the wall. On the tower side there are two smaller pointed arch portals on the right and left, the main portal is closed with a two-wing carved door. The main portals on the long sides and on the tower side are decorated with eyelashes .
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On both sides of the portals on the long sides of the building there are two pointed arched windows that end at about the same height. The compact mezzanine floor is dominated by elongated arched windows , five on the long sides and three on the apse and the tower entrance hall. All windows have tracery . The apse is the only part of the building that deviates from the rectangular floor plan and is designed on three sides. Between all the windows and on the corners of the building there are pilasters that end in decorative turrets above the facade.
The entire nave is closed with a hipped roof. On the outside wall of the church there are some noteworthy grave tablets and grave monuments.
tower
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The church tower rises on the northeast side of the church building above a tower hall with a staircase and ends in an octagonal dome . Its floor plan is six by six meters square. The round dials of a tower clock can be seen on all four sides . Above is the bell storey with sound openings in all directions. The structural end of the tower is formed by a tower ball with a gold-plated metal cross above it.
Altar, galleries, seating and more
A picture postcard, probably from the beginning of the 20th century, shows symmetrically arranged galleries on the west and east sides. The approximately seven meter wide choir is closed with a ribbed vault . In the choir there is an altar table and a wall-high painting showing a Bible scene. The pulpit is attached to the side of the apse arch .
organ
The organ was created in the workshop of Urban Kreutzbach from Borna near Leipzig and was installed in St. Georg in 1861.
Surroundings
The communal cemetery is on the east and south sides. On it - clearly visible next to the church building - the three bells of St. John's Church were put down forever.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b Explanation board on the church building in 2014
- ↑ Medieval leprosories in today's Saxony ( memento of July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 20, 2014
- ↑ a b Chronicle on the history of the city of Lößnitz ; Retrieved May 20, 2014
- ↑ Overview of the foundations with legal capacity entered in the list of foundations at the State Office of Saxony: Kirchgemeinde Lößnitz-Affalter ( 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 on February 14, 2016.
- ↑ The floor plan dimensions have been roughly estimated using Google Earth .
- ↑ Postcard from the inside of the Hospital Church at www.akpool.de
- ↑ How it looks inside in the 21st century still has to be checked on site and photographed if necessary.
- ^ Database organs in Saxony ( memento of the original from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved May 20, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 12 ° 44 ′ 7.7 ″ E