Johanniskirche (Plauen)
The Johanniskirche in Plauen is the main Protestant church in the city. The consecration certificate of the previous church in 1122 is also the first written mention of Plauen. The oldest parts of today's church come from a three-aisled basilica that began around 1224. In the northeast corner of the church is the chapel of the bailiffs, which was first mentioned in 1322. The son of Heinrich III the Tall One and his wife Agnes von Schwarzburg were buried in a crypt under the chapel .
The church with two 52 meter high towers was converted into a Gothic hall church after several fires . In another fundamental renovation of the church in 1815, the remains of the interior fittings that had been preserved up to that point were removed, so that the church has almost no original fittings. The outer shape was changed in 1885/86, but the changes were largely reversed during the reconstruction of the church, which was badly damaged in World War II, from 1951 to 1963. The last complete renovation took place between 1991 and 2002. Today's furnishings include an altar from a church in Neustädtel , a pulpit from the Görlitz Church of St. Nicholas and various sculptures and paintings, primarily from the holdings of the Plauen Vogtland Museum . The organ, which was rebuilt in 1965, was extensively renovated from 1991 to 1996.
The church is used by the Protestant St. Johannis parish of Plauen. This belongs to the Plauen church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .
history
Count Adalbert von Everstein (also Eberstein) founded the church on a hill where the east and south flanks of a mountain slope that descends steeply to the valley of the White Elster meet. In 1122 the church was consecrated by Bishop Dietrich I of Naumburg "in honor of Almighty God, the blissful Mother of God, Mary and St. John the Baptist ". Count Everstein endowed the church with a hoof in today's Chrieschwitz district , inhabited by four Smurden, Slavic unfree who were employed as farmers , with forest, meadows, farmsteads and half the yield of a mill on the White Elster. In favor of the church, the bishop renounced his tithe in Dobnagau . For this he secured the right to fill the parish . The Sprengel formed the southernmost part of the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz and bordered in the south on the diocese of Regensburg , in the west on the diocese of Bamberg . There is no reliable information about how the first church building was constructed. In some sources it is assumed that only a small mission chapel was made of wood or half-timbering . However, this seems very unlikely, since the church had the function of the Gau church. 1991 was just a few meters southwest of the church in a Kirchnerei -building a Romanesque sandstone capitals found dating from around 1180, which also speaks for it that the church was larger.
The St. Johannis Basilica (13th-16th centuries)
The Teutonic Order probably settled in Plauen in 1214. In 1224 Vogt Heinrich IV., The Middle , donated the parish church and Dobnagau with all rights and goods to the order, which he later joined himself. In 1244 the bailiff acquired church patronage and had it confirmed by Pope Martin IV in 1281 .
The German order evolved in Plauen by other gifts within a short time to one of the most powerful coming in the Bailiwick of Thuringia . From 1224 the order probably had a new church built, from which the remaining Romanesque parts probably come. The towers with coupled arched windows have late Romanesque shapes, so that they may have been started as early as 1230. However, the rest of the building dragged on for several decades, so that early Gothic forms are also recognizable. The square crossing was connected to the transept in the north and south , the nave and the double tower front in the west and the rectangular choir in the east . The nave was relatively short and the apses were missing in the choir and in the two cross arms . But the choir already had buttress extensions , which indicates a completion after 1240, as in Germany Gothic buttresses were not common until the middle of the 13th century.
On the hill with the parish church and the actual convent buildings, the order built an upper Komturhof and at the foot of the rock a farmyard, the lower Komturhof. According to a document from 1244, in which it is referred to as the curia inferior (lower court), this had to be expanded. This shows how quickly the Kommende Plauen grew. The upper courtyard formed the south-east corner of the city and was part of the city fortifications, while the lower courtyard was part of the fortification of the new town.
The transept and choir of the church were built around 1250. The choir vault consisted of six parts, the grooved ribs of which rested on consoles and ended in a large closing ring. This suggests that they were installed or renewed later, as these shapes were introduced later.
In 1264 a chapel of John the Evangelist and in 1265 a Chapel of Mary were described. Their exact location has not yet been clearly clarified. In the southern corner of the church between the transept and the choir is a square two-storey extension, which was built after the choir, as evidenced by a buttress built into the east wall. In the basement of this extension, which serves as a sacristy , there is a two- bay cross vault , which indicates that the building could be the Lady Chapel.
In 1266 a Dominican monastery was founded in Leipzig next to the Komturhof. In addition, a rule house of the sisters of the third rule of the penance of St. Dominic was in the immediate vicinity until the Reformation . The name Nonnenturm for the only remaining tower of the old city fortifications is derived from this facility , although strictly speaking the sisters were not nuns.
In a document from 1322, the first reference to the chapel of the bailiffs can be found in the corner between the choir and the north transept.
When the Hussites devastated the city of Plauen in 1430 , the church was also partially destroyed. In 1473 the north tower partially collapsed. In 1480 the Plauen city council asked the city council of Eger for a foreman to restore the two church towers. The repair of the towers is attested for 1530.
Little is known about the furnishings of the basilica. A document from 1357 shows that the order had to look after 16 altars , although not all of them may have been in the church. However, some of the church's altars are attested in other documents. In 1263 an altar of St. Michael and in 1266 an altar of St. George are mentioned. The Calender brotherhoods , which are documented in 1298, had an altar of Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian until the Reformation . In 1320 there was an altar of the Holy Cross and in 1323 an altar of Mary . An altar of Saints Anne and Saint Catherine were also mentioned. None of the altars mentioned has survived.
The town church of St. Johannis since the 16th century
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The Reformation was introduced in Plauen between 1529 and 1533 . The last Komtur Georg Eulner is said to have worked in Luther's favor as early as 1521. In 1529 he was appointed superintendent and finally in 1533 appointed senior superintendent in Vogtland and in the upper district in Meißen. This makes Plauen the first superintendent in Saxony .
The city council had already asked Martin Luther in 1525 about the dissolution of the Dominican monastery and since then it has only served as a residential building. In 1544 the German House, which until then had been formally independent, was secularized . In 1552 a church ordinance was issued. By then, Burgrave Heinrich IV had defended all claims of the Teutonic Order and also of the last Catholic Bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, Julius von Pflug , and founded a consistory in 1548 to enforce his sovereign church regime.
In the great city fire of 1548, the church was badly damaged and had to be rebuilt, with major changes being made to the structure. By connecting the nave and transept and increasing the aisle walls, the church was rebuilt as a three-aisled hall church .
On September 16, the Plauen carpenter Erhard Pener received the order for the carpentry work. An old account for day laborers shows that during the construction work disruptive walls and pillars of the old church were torn down and the new pillars were erected in 1553. In the same year the floor was also bricked. In 1556 the star vault was installed , which is supported by the four new octagonal pillars and the wall pillars. The spaces between the wall pillars were included in the overall vault without vaulting separate transverse barrels. This resulted in a greater standardization of the room parts. A year later, in 1557, the received Schleizer Slater Cuntz Dhaller and the master carpenter Matthes Roth to cover the roof with slate commissioned. A new ridge turret was placed on the roof , the towers were given steep hipped roofs, and the previous turret of the church building was installed on the north tower before 1596.
From 1571 the galleries were built in and panel paintings were attached to the gallery balustrades .
The town fire of 1635 damaged the church again. When the towers were rebuilt, they were given octagonal attachments with slipped French domes and open lanterns . It took more than ten years to build; it was directed by the Thossfell master carpenter Hans Schössing.
Since the north tower was in danger of collapsing again in 1775, the city council obtained various reports. Following the advice of master builder Christian Friedrich Exner , the north-west corner was reinforced and supported.
In 1815 the church was repaired under the direction of the superintendent Tischer. The focus was on the interior. In keeping with the zeitgeist of the time, all handicraft elements were removed and old paintings were painted over. Among other things, an epitaph painted by Wolfgang Krodel in 1562 for the burgrave Heinrich IV , which had been erected in 1567, was removed. A reduced copy used to be in Burgk Castle and is now kept in the Vogtland Museum Plauen. The copy is 85 centimeters high and 75 centimeters wide and shows the praying burgrave in the middle, kneeling in front of the south side of the city of Plauen. It is the oldest surviving representation of the city. The copy also shows the carved frame of the epitaph with coat of arms and Renaissance fillings as well as an inscription tablet. A classical pulpit was installed in the south-west corner of the choir . An earlier pulpit from 1640 contained carvings by the Schneeberg sculptor Johann Böhme . The altar and baptismal font were also replaced. Friedrich Matthäi created the painting of the institution of the Last Supper for the new picture altar.
A fundamental renovation in 1885 and 1886 also changed the external appearance of the church. The architect Carl Emil Löwe (1843–1904) from Plauen planned and directed the renovation. The gable of the choir was raised and the choir and nave were combined under one roof ridge . The transept was extended by 3.50 meters on both sides and also raised to the common ridge height. The gables of the transept were fitted with neo-Gothic rose windows . During the construction work, the many external annexes and the multi-storey wooden boxes and galleries inside were also dismantled and the profiled spiers on the octagonal pillars were removed. The entrance portal from the 14th century between the towers on the western front was replaced by a neo-Gothic portal. In 1912/13 the interior was renovated again under the direction of the City Planning Officer Wilhelm Goette, with Otto Gussmann designing the color scheme. Up to this time lived towers on the north tower. The pulpit from 1815 was replaced by a neo-Gothic one during the renewed renovation.
Plauen developed into the largest Protestant parish in the Kingdom of Saxony by the end of the 19th century . This meant that were established since 1893, five other parishes in Plauen city area ( Luther parish , St Paul's , St. Mark's congregation , Christ congregation and Michaelis community).
The church was badly damaged in the bombing of Plauen during World War II in 1945. The roof was completely destroyed, the south tower burned out. Immediately after the war, the first security measures began and in 1951 reconstruction began under the direction of the architect Johannes Höra from Bad Elster . With the support of the Institute for Monument Preservation, the changes made in 1885/86 were largely reversed. The heights of the ridge were staggered again, the neo-Gothic decor was removed, the walled-up east window of the choir was reopened and fitted with early Gothic tracery . The transept extensions were retained, but the transept gables received pointed arched windows with brick tracery. The portals were also provided with Gothic profiles. Inside, the colored design was removed and replaced with a white paint. The choir received a few color structures. The chapel of the bailiffs was largely restored to its old condition, with the windows also being fitted with tracery. In 1959 the church was rededicated. However, the work was not yet completed at this point. It was not until 1963 that the dome of the south tower was put back on and the renovation was completed.
During the fall of the Wall in 1989/90, central peace devotions took place in the church. The then Superintendent Thomas Küttler was largely responsible for ensuring that the first large-scale demonstration in Plauen on October 7, 1989 was largely peaceful. For his commitment, he was awarded Plauen honorary citizenship in 1990 .
From 1991 to 2002, the church was again fundamentally refurbished, repairing it inside and out. In 2006 the general overhaul of the altar followed.
Building description
church
The Johanniskirche is a Gothic hall church that was built in the usual orientation with the chancel facing east.
The basic dimensions of the building are based on a cubit of about 54 centimeters. The sides of the square crossing are 15 cubits (8.10 meters) long. In addition, there is a wall thickness of 2 cubits (1.08 meters), so that the outside dimension of the choir is 19 cubits (10.26 meters). The interior of the longship is around 28 meters long and around 24 meters wide. The transept was originally only about 4 meters wider, but was extended by an additional 3.50 meters during the renovation in 1885. The height of the interior is about 12 meters and is relatively low compared to comparable churches.
The star vault rests on four octagonal pillars , which appear quite massive, as the sides are not fluted . It develops from a square star to an octagonal star without any rib intersection or curve ribs. The ribs themselves consist of shaped bricks with a late Gothic profile. The galleries are each stretched with two arches between the pillars and are additionally supported by half-height pillars with capitals . On the underside of the gallery there are double-fluted ribs made of shaped bricks. Small round arched windows and high pointed arched windows above them are placed under the galleries.
The towers are approximately square with a base area of 8.30 × 8.80 meters and have octagonal attachments and slated Welsche hoods with open lanterns . The wall thickness is about 2.30 meters at the bottom and gradually decreases towards the top. Up to the main ledge, the towers have a height of about 32 meters, with a total height of 52 meters. The south tower dates from the basilica era, while the north tower was rebuilt later. There is a star vault between the towers.
The chapel of the bailiffs
The chapel of the bailiffs is an extension of the main church. The chapel, designed as a heptagonal polygon , is located on the northeast corner and can be entered via the choir. It was first mentioned in 1322 when Vogt Heinrich III., The Tall One and his sons donated an altar. It has a seven-part star vault , the single-fluted ribs of which terminate in the corners of the wall in semicircular services and simple cup-shaped capitals . The keystone is decorated with stylized foliage and mythical animals. During excavations in 1953, a crypt was uncovered under the chapel , which was subsequently built in in the 1340s. When it was discovered, it showed gross disturbances; it contained a sandstone head or pillow stone with the inscriptions (above): REQUIESCANT IN P (AC) E , (left): HENR (ICUS) FILI (US) LONGI ADVOCATI and (right): AGNES COMETISSA DE SWARZBURG . As a result, the son of Heinrich III, the Tall One, and his wife Agnes von Schwarzburg were buried there. The stone is now in the Vogtland Museum Plauen.
When the church was rebuilt after the Second World War, two sandstone reliefs were placed in the chapel, which may previously have been part of an altar. One relief shows the Annunciation to Mary, the other the birth of Jesus.
Furnishing
The old furnishings, which had grown since the Middle Ages, were completely removed when the interior was renovated in 1815, so that there is no longer any original furnishings in the church. Most of the existing equipment was brought in during the reconstruction after the Second World War.
altar
Most of the late Gothic carvings on the altar from the early 16th century come from the church in Neustädtel . They were placed in a new case together with a relief of the Entombment of Christ by an unknown master. It is a winged altar in the left wing of which the Annunciation to Mary is depicted above and the birth of Jesus below. In the center shrine there is a crescent Madonna , flanked on the left by a statue of John the Baptist and on the right by a figure of Mary Magdalene . On the right wing there is the depiction of the Visitation of Mary at the top and that of the Adoration of the Magi at the bottom . In the predella under the central shrine the relief of the Entombment of Christ is incorporated, which can be closed separately from the wings of the altar with an unadorned flap. In 2005 the altar was restored.
Until it was redesigned in 1815, there was a stone altar in the church by Freiberg artist Andreas Lorentz from before 1569. Two sandstone reliefs, today in the chapel of the bailiffs, could have come from this altar. From 1816, a painting by the director of the Dresden Academy of Arts , Johann Friedrich Matthäi, served as an altarpiece depicting the institution of Holy Communion .
Under the altar area there is a crypt in which Burgrave Heinrich IV is buried. The wife of his son Heinrich V , Dorothea Katharina von Brandenburg-Ansbach, has also been buried there since 1607 . Although she died in 1604, she was reburied at the instigation of her great cousin, Elector Christian II . Two young sons were buried with her.
pulpit
The pulpit on a pillar in the northeast central nave comes from the Nikolaikirche Görlitz and was extensively restored before it was installed in the Johanniskirche. The baroque work was probably created by the Görlitz sculptor Caspar Gottlob von Rodewitz between 1717 and 1721. The octagonal basket is carried by a standing angel with his right hand over his head. In his left hand he is holding a sign with the Easter lamb . The angel itself stands on a low square base. Five white angels with golden Israelite trumpets float on the sound cover on blue clouds so that only the upper body is visible. Above them stands another angel with two trumpets on a blue cloud, to which two more white angel heads are attached to the right and left. On the underside of the sound cover there is a dove with a halo above the preacher. The ascent to the pulpit is closed by a door, above which the words Soli Deo Gloria (Only God to Glory) are placed in a baroque ornament .
Paintings and sculptures
In the church there are two baroque figures by the Elsterberg sculptor Christian Preller. One represents Moses , the other Paul . Like the late Gothic crucifix by an unknown artist that is attached to the southern wall of the choir, the figures come from the holdings of the Plauen Vogtland Museum.
A painting in the chapel of the bailiffs from around 1725 shows the baptism of Jesus . The scene was moved to a view of the city of Plauen. Above the city, God the Father is depicted in the form of a white-haired, bearded man and the Holy Spirit as a dove in a cloud. The painting is one of the few surviving works of art in St. John's Church.
The portrait of the superintendent Gustav Landmann , which was created in 1896 by the Dresden artist Robert Sterl , also comes from the inventory of the Johanniskirche .
organ
As early as the 16th century there was an organ that was replaced several times. In 1651 an instrument by Jacob Schedtlich from Joachimsthal was installed. It had 24 registers and eight bellows . It was replaced from 1814 to 1816 by an organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Trampeli from Adorf . EF Walcker & Co. from Ludwigsburg built a new organ in 1886.
The current organ was built in 1965 by the organ builder Jehmlich from Dresden, who renovated it from 1991 to 1996. It is equipped with three manuals , swell box and pedal and has 48 registers.
Since 1996 the organ has the following disposition :
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, | I / P, II / P, III / P.
- Super octave coupling: II / I, III / II.
- Sub-octave coupling: III / II.
- General coupling
- Game aids : 4 free preparations
- Zimbelstern
Bells
There are only a few traditions about the bells of the St. John's Church. A total of four bells are mentioned, only one of which has been preserved in the original.
The town fire on May 1st, 1635 is reported in a chronicle by Fiedler. The fire also damaged the towers and bells of St. John's Church. The towers were rebuilt by 1644 and two new bells were consecrated in 1649. The molten metal that was destroyed in 1635 was used to make the two new bells. The casting was done in the courtyard of the Everstein Castle (today Malzhaus) by Jean de Lapais and Jean Maillard from Lorraine. The two bells weighed 30 and 45 hundredweight respectively and one of the bells contained the inscription "Toutes soneres doit louer le bon dieu a jamais" (for example: All sound should praise the dear God forever).
In 1638, Elector Johann Georg I gave the community an 18 quintals heavy Mary's bell from 1497. The original origin of this bell is not clear. In 1782 this bell was cast and finally removed completely around 1900.
Another bell was purchased in 1756. The 60 centimeter high, non- chiselled bell is provided with decorative friezes and bears the inscription: "Christoph Salomon Graulich gos me to court" in Latin capital letters .
Before the First World War, three bronze bells rang (probably) with the disposition b 0 –d 1 –f 1 , a B flat major triad. During the First World War, bell II (presumably in strike tone d 1 ) had to be delivered and melted down, whereby the bells I from the foundry CA Bierling (Dresden) from 1907 with the strike tone b 0 and III from the foundry Gebr. Ulrich (Apolda) from 1782 with strike note f 1 were preserved. A new one made of cast steel from 1922 from the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry served as a replacement for the loss of Bell II . In 1943, to secure the metal reserve in the Second World War, the remaining bronze bells I and III suffered the same fate of being destroyed for metal extraction. After the war, in 1959 Schilling & Lattermann (Apolda, Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz) ordered a replacement for the losses of these bronze predecessors with two made of chilled iron, whereby the cast steel bell from 1922 is now the lowest in clay (listed as bell I): the bells II and III made of chilled iron sound in the striking notes f 1 and a 1 . Together, the three bells make up the disposition d 1 –f 1 –a 1 , a D minor triad. Since all three bells are made of replacement material that has meanwhile been worn out and shows signs of corrosion, especially on the two chilled cast iron bells, a renewal of the bells was planned for the 900th anniversary of the parish fair in 2022. On October 14, 2011, an investigation by Christian Schumann, who was responsible for the bells of the regional church, and the church building officer Gabriel Püschmann found that the damage was greater than assumed. Cracks were found in the bell yoke of the two smaller bells . Since problems were also found with the big bell, the entire ringing was stopped immediately. After a renovation, the big bell was temporarily put back into operation. In the meantime, however, all the bells have been removed from the bell tower. On June 21, 2013, three new bronze bells were cast in the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck. The artistic design of the new bells was carried out by the metal artist Peter Luban from Plauen according to the content of the church council. The total costs for the tower renovation and bell casting are around 430,000 euros. In mid-October, the Saxon regional bishop Jochen Bohl consecrated the bells.
use
Today the church is used for worship by the St. John's parish of the Saxon regional church. Concerts take place there regularly. Thus, the musical was in 1999 Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber listed there the first time worldwide in a church. The church is also used again and again for central festival events in the city, for example for the festival concert on the occasion of the inauguration of the Wende monument in the city center.
people
- Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698–1756), cantor from 1727 to 1756
literature
- Walter Bachmann: The old Plauen . 2nd Edition. Vogtländischer Heimatverlag Neupert, Plauen 1994, ISBN 3-929039-43-5 .
- Frank Weiß: Plauen main church St. Johannis . 2nd Edition. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-6063-8 .
- Parish council of St. Johannis under the direction of Ernst Pietsch (Ed.): Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the St. Johannis Church in Plauen . Printed and commissioned by Franz Neupert, Plauen 1922.
- A. Neupert sen. (Ed.): Small Chronicle of the City of Plauen i. Vogtland from 1122 until the end of the 19th century . 2nd Edition. Commission publisher Rud. Neupert jr, Plauen 1908, ISBN 3-929039-23-0 ( reprint ).
- Walther Ludwig: A walk through Alt-Plauen . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Vogtlandmuseum, Plauen 1993 ( Vogtlandmuseum Plauen. Series 60, ZDB -ID 12916-1 ).
- Horst Fröhlich, Frank Weiß and others: Plauen - The old town . A tour of the historical monuments. Ed .: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Vogtland Museum Plauen eV 1st edition. Kerchensteiner Verlag, Lappersdorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-931954-20-8 , pp. 92 (19th and 20th annual journal of the association for the years 2008/2009).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 4
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 75
- ↑ a b Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 8
- ↑ a b Neupert, Small Chronicle of the City of Plauen , page 1
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 72
- ↑ a b c Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 77
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 73
- ↑ a b Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 11
- ↑ a b c Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 80
- ↑ Pietsch, Festschrift for the 800th anniversary celebration of St. Johannis Church , page 10
- ↑ a b Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 6
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 93
- ↑ a b Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 12
- ↑ Weiß, Plauen Main Church St. Johannis , page 14
- ↑ a b Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , p. 105.
- ↑ a b c Weiß, Plauen main church St. Johannis , page 16
- ^ Emil Löwe in Stadtwiki Dresden
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 98
- ↑ Thomas Küttler: The turning point in Plauen . Ed .: Jean Curt Röder. Neupert, Plauen 1991, ISBN 3-929039-15-X .
- ↑ Rolf Schwanitz: moral courage . The peaceful revolution in Plauen based on Stasi files as well as retrospectives on the events in autumn 1989. Ed .: Curt Röder. Neupert, Plauen 1998, ISBN 3-929039-65-6 .
- ↑ Thomas Küttler's honorary citizenship at www.plauen.de. Retrieved May 4, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 102
- ^ Page of the city of Plauen with the description of the Johanniskirche. Retrieved November 4, 2010 .
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 78
- ↑ Fröhlich, Weiß u. a., Plauen - The Old Town , page 36
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 106
- ↑ Berthold Schmidt : Burgrave Heinrich IV of Meißen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtlande . Gera 1888. , page 399
- ↑ Fröhlich, Weiß u. a., Plauen - The Old Town , page 37
- ↑ a b c Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 96
- ^ Pietsch, Festschrift for the 800th anniversary celebration of the St. Johannis Church , page 12
- ↑ Bachmann, Das Alte Plauen , page 107
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sounds between heaven and earth. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 . Page 405.
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sounds between heaven and earth. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 . Page 343.
- ↑ Tino Beyer: Johanniskirche needs new bells. January 28, 2011, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on November 23, 2019 (original website no longer available).
- ↑ Tino Beye: The bells of St. John's Church must be silent from now on. October 14, 2011, archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; accessed on November 23, 2019 (original website no longer available).
- ^ Donations for new bells in the Johanniskirche. In: Vogtland online magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
- ↑ Bells of the Johanniskirche Plauen are ringing again. In: Vogtland online magazine. October 22, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013 .
- ↑ musical. THE MUSICAL Aug / Sept. 1999 issue 78 - Plauen Theater / Johanniskirche - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Frank Zacher, accessed November 9, 2010 (blog).
- ^ Report on the gala concert for the inauguration of the Wende monument. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 20, 2010 ; Retrieved November 9, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 8 ′ 15.7" E
