Johanneskirche (Hoyerswerda)
The Johanneskirche (also " Wendish Church " ) is a Protestant church in the center of the old town of Hoyerswerda and is one of the oldest buildings in the city.
The name Wendish Church refers to the fact that, unlike the neighboring former German Church , preaching was done in Sorbian .
history
The late Gothic three-aisled hall construction with a reduced ambulatory choir was first mentioned in 1225. The tower was probably added in the 16th century, as a bell that used to be in the tower bore the year 1526. An Easter rider procession led to the town church until 1540 .
Originally there was a small German church from the 17th century in front of the church, but it had to be demolished in 1850.
On April 19, 1945, the tower, which the Wehrmacht used as a lookout point, was hit by a shell from the Red Army near Künicht and Bergen. After the hit, parts of the church tower fell into the nave and the church burned to the ground. The resulting fractures on the nave can still be seen today when visiting the church. The renovation began in 1951. From October 6, 1957, it was put back into service. It was named "Johanneskirche" because on the day of John the Baptist in 1540 the first Protestant service was held by the former monk Basilius Laurentius in what was then the town church , and the Hoyerswerda class became Protestant.
The church tower was rebuilt in 1984/85 based on the baroque model.
architecture
The structure is designed as a plastered structure with a semicircular choir , stepped buttresses and tracery windows . The retracted west tower on a square floor plan has an eight-sided bell storey and was crowned with a French dome and onion dome until 1851 . After that, the tower was given a high, pointed tent roof and small pointed gables in the neo-Gothic style , this subsequent change was destroyed in 1945 and the tower was rebuilt in the 1980s in a baroque appearance. It has a height of 55 m.
The gable roof is supported by eight pillars in the hall, one of which also supports the pulpit .
The sacristy is to the left of the altar and is a small, crowded room.
Bells
There is a four-bell ring on the bell floor of the tower.
| No. | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | Chime |
| 1 | 1957 | Schilling & Lattermann, Apolda | e |
| 2 | 1966 | Schilling & Lattermann, Apolda | G |
| 3 | 1957 | Schilling & Lattermann, Apolda | a |
| 4th | 1957 | Schilling & Lattermann, Apolda | H |
organ
The organ was built by the Bautzen organ building company Hermann Eule and inaugurated in Advent 1967 . It has 26 stops on three manuals and is equipped with mechanical sliding drawers.
literature
- Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4 , pp. 171-174.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Johanneskirchengemeinde Hoyerswerda
- Chronicle of the town church Hoyerswerda
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Gentz: The hall choir in the urban brick architecture of Central Europe 1350–1500. Lukas Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-93183675-7 , p. 179, limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ On the history of the Kreuzreiter procession In: st-mariae-himmelfahrt-wittichenau.de , based on a report by HA Schömmel, around 1927, edited, published in the Wittichenauer Wochenblatt, April 1990
- ^ Herbert Willems (Ed.): Theatricalization of Society - Volume 1; Sociological Theory and Diagnosis of Time, Wiesbaden, 2009, ISBN 3531914421 , p. 360. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau: When the bombs fell from the sky. Lausitzer Rundschau, April 18, 2005, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
- ^ Lausitzer Rundschau: The war came to the city 65 years ago. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
- ^ Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia. Oberlausitzer Verlag, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-28-4 , p. 171
- ↑ Klaus Theodor Henke: Church building and sacred art in Upper Lusatia , p. 172
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 17 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 34 ″ E