Johanneskirche (Meißen-Cölln)
The Protestant Johanneskirche is a neo-Gothic , cross-shaped, central church building in the district of Cölln von Meißen in the district of the same name in Saxony . It belongs to the Johanneskirche congregation Meißen-Cölln in the Evangelical Lutheran church district Meißen-Großenhain of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony and is one of the most important church buildings of historicism in Saxony, which in its pictorial program, the spatial arrangement and the artistic equipment as a model for the simultaneous Evangelical church building worked in Saxony.
History and architecture
The building was built in the years 1895–1898 according to plans by Theodor Quentin . In 1974 the roof turret was removed from the crossing . In the years 1979–1985 the roof was renewed, whereby the original pattern of the roof was not restored. Between 1985 and 1986 the interior and the windows were renovated.
The exterior is made of the native purple granite, yellowish and stone-gray sandstone and light red porphyry . The cross-shaped floor plan is clearly visible on the outside. The choir and the sides of the transept are each closed on three sides. A steeply proportioned square tower with a high stone helmet and finial is in front of the west, with polygonal stair towers arranged on both sides. The building is closed by saddle roofs, which are hipped at the polygons. Wide lancet windows with tracery illuminate the interior, which is accessed by portals on the west side and the ends of the transept. The main portal is highlighted by a painting with weatherproof colors on clay in the tympanum with the theme of the first coming of the Apostle John ( Jn 1 EU ).
Inside, the structure is completed by groin vaults above the plan of the Greek cross with a central structure-like effect. The choir is accompanied by flat side chapels that form an ambulatory. The baptistery is located in the northern corner of the choir and transept, and the sacristy in the southern. The stairs to the galleries are located in the ends of the transept. In the interior there are single-storey galleries on three sides, the stalls are decorated with flat carvings. The large glass paintings are of great luminosity and designed with a rich program of images. The choir windows show christological themes, the side windows the wording of the Beatitudes and the matching plant ornaments. All windows were made in the Türcke & Schlein courtyard glass factory in Zittau. A wall painting by Sascha Schneider with the triumph of the cross in the Last Judgment according to Jn 3,16 EU is arranged on the triumphal arch .
Furnishing
According to the local characteristics, the furnishings are strongly influenced by the products of ceramic art. The altar and pulpit are made of clay using majolica paint, a crucifixion group on the altar without the use of paint. Like the one at the entrance portal, the altar painting was executed as a painting in clay and shows the goal of all coming to Jesus. Both paintings were made from drawings by Erhard Ludewig Winterstein . The pulpit takes up the theme from the urban church in Meißen-Cölln . The evangelists , John the Baptist , Moses , Aaron and the brazen serpent are depicted on painted clay reliefs , in the middle the healing of the blind born, with the representation of Africans and Indians in the crowd as a symbol of proselytizing.
The font is made from polished granite and French limestone. The valuable pewter baptismal font from 1642 comes from the Urbanskirche and bears the Meissner inspection mark; On the curved edge, four angels are engraved in arched niches with a saying, the donor's name and the year. A large wooden crucifix from the 15th century also comes from the Urbanskirche. The late Gothic altarpiece is again placed in the Urbanskirche.
On the west wall of the church there is a painting by Sascha Schneider depicting the curse of Jeremiah. The organ is a work by Jehmlich from 1898 with a neo-Gothic prospect, which was later changed in sound and restored in 2016 by the Groß Orgelbau company. It has 31 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 602-604.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the church district of Meißen. Retrieved November 18, 1019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 33.7 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 11.2 ″ E