Johann Kleych

Johann Kleych (born November 14, 1723 in Zittau ; † April 17, 1801 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman and fifth pastor of the parish of the small Saxon town of Neu-Salza .

Life

Born in Zittau in 1723 Johann Kleych was the son of a Bohemian exiles -Ehepaares. In the six towns of Zittau - since the beginning of the Counter Reformation a Saxon center for the reception of exiles from Bohemia , Moravia , Hungary and Silesia - the parents had been able to build a new existence after fleeing their Bohemian homeland. Since Kleych's parents were Protestants , the boy's upbringing was also Protestant. These were the prerequisites for Johann Kleych to receive spiritual training after his youth and school days in Zittau, which enabled him to work as a Protestant clergyman after his ordination and to head his own parish as a pastor .

When, after the death of Pastor Christoph Gottlob Richter, the pastoral position of the Trinity Church in Neusalza became vacant in 1751 because no suitable bilingual candidate could be found, the senior consistory in Dresden and the then landlord and church patron of Spremberg and Neusalza, Carl Gotthelf Graf von Hoym , saw each other together in duty. The suitable ecclesiastical successor for the cross-border, German-Czech parish of Neusalza was both in the person of Johann Kleych. In the course of 1752 Kleych was introduced to his ministry at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Neusalza in the presence of Superintendent Klötzel .

Act

During his tenure in Neusalza, which lasted until 1798, the massive church tower was built from 1769 to 1770, replacing the old wooden roof turret in its current form. The energetic Pastor Kleych was the initiator and, so to speak, the builder of the tower. After overcoming many bureaucratic obstacles and tough disputes with the subsequent landlord and church patron of Spremberg and Neusalza, the Electoral Saxon House Marshal Peter August von Schönberg , he quickly implemented the construction process, so that the inauguration of the new tower on September 23, 1770 the 100th anniversary of the city could take place.

With 46 years of service, Johann Kleych was the longest-serving pastor at the Neusalza Church and at the same time the penultimate clergyman who preached in Czech and German. In addition to his pastoral duties, he revealed a strong social commitment by supporting poor students financially. "Students who use the name Kleych, but in their absence other poor students who have attended the grammar school in Zittau , enjoy a scholarship, whose founder, Mr. Johann Kleych, was pastor of Neusalza ... and which was made through the deputation of the mild foundations in Zittau is awarded. ”His portrait is in the former exile church. The successor to Johann Kleych, who returned to Zittau in 1798, was Johann August Knaut , the last of the Neusalza clergymen to preach bilingually.

literature

• Eduard Herrmann Volkmar Ficker : News about Neusalza from its foundation to the year 1829 . [Handwritten manuscript dated October 5, 1839]. Typed copy of a copy of October 31, 1917, written by Ms. Anne Britsche, Neusalza-Spremberg, on December 3, 1997, 35 pp.
• Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld: 100 years of the city of Neu-Salza. Historical report. Transferred and edited by Siegfried Seifert. Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2002
• Lutz Mohr : Personalities in local history: Johann Kleych (around 1725–1801) . In: Official journal of the administrative community for the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with the district Friedersdorf and the communities Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach, 19/2014/1, pp. 7–8.
• August Adolph Tuchatsch (ed.): Historical news about the city of Neu-Salza on the basis of historical documents and traditions. Ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the city of Neusalza. Neusalza: Reinhold Oeser 1870. Photomechanical reprint. Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2000

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Convictorium and the grants of the University of Leipzig. [...] Special print for the patriotic friends. Leipzig: Literarisches Museum 1831, p. 45