Johanniskirche (Scheibenberg)
The Protestant Johanniskirche in Scheibenberg is a hall church in the Saxon Ore Mountains that was built in the second half of the 16th century and is dedicated to John the Baptist . The monument dominates the cityscape together with the imposing town hall with tower.
History and architecture
The large, elevated church was built from 1559 to 1571, extensively renovated from 1754 to 1756 and restored several times in the 20th century. The tower, begun in 1697 by Johann Georg Pauli and Johann Christian Oelsner, was consecrated in 1774.
The buttresses on the south side refer to the architectural style: the early Gothic . The facade is set off with yellow plaster . The choir is structurally lower than the nave (5/8 chancel ) and shows a color-contrasting corner structure. The sacristy with barrel vaults and a two-storey box extension on the north side are available as extensions. The profiled arched portal is marked with 1559 . The tower on the west side has a square floor plan, is octagonal on the upper floor and is closed by a curved copper dome and lantern .
Furnishing
The interior with a large flat ceiling is characterized by the baroque , circumferential two-storey galleries and the boxes and prayer rooms , which were built in between 1698 and 1754. Under the north gallery is the box of the mining office with two carved miners holding a double coat of arms. Various tools are depicted in gilded garlands.
The late Gothic carved winged altar from Schneeberg was created around 1485. In the middle shrine the Lamentation of Christ is depicted with many figures, on the wings the carrying of the cross and the entombment. Small figures of the evangelists can be discovered in the veil . The shrine and wing are decorated with landscape background paintings. On the back of the inner wings there are depictions of the martyrdom of John the Baptist , on the inactive wings there are panel paintings of the apostle and evangelist John and Jude Thaddäus . In the cracks under canopies there are depictions of John the Baptist, Peter and Paul , and in the excerpt a small figure of Mary or again the disciple John.
In 1709, the Scheibenberg master carpenter Johann Kaufmann made the wooden pulpit , with Christ and the evangelists painted on the basket. The column is decorated with a vegetable ornament from 1927/28. The restored baptism made of porphyry tuff was created in 1570 and has a large pewter attachment marked 1767 , a work by the local master Carl Gottlieb Müller. The wooden life-size crucifix has been in the church since 1522 and is attributed to Hans Witten or his circle.
The 21- register organ (11-5-5) was built and installed in 1885 by Richard Kreutzbach from Borna , a son of Urban Kreutzbach .
Others
Inside the church there is a of colored sandstone succinct epitaph for the pastor and chronicler Christian Lehmann (1611-1688) and his wife Euphrosyina born Kreusel (1611–1686), which are depicted as half-figures in a small box, and a mannerist , wooden epitaph for the judge and city treasurer Wolf Groschupf († 1611), which was donated in 1614 by his son Theophilus and the family of the founders in a richly carved architectural frame , Shows Jacob's battle with the angel and the resurrected. The so-called mountain or silver bell from 1522, one of the oldest mountain bells in Germany, hangs in the tower lantern.
Next to the church, in the former churchyard, is the Kellermann crypt , originally the baroque burial chapel of mountain masters, city judges, their families and subsequent generations. The small building, structured by pilaster strips, is marked 1626 above the portal , but it was not brought into its present form until 1771. On the south wall of the church there is a plaque commemorating the 800th anniversary of the reign of the House of Wettin . Another plaque to the left of the main portal commemorates the former Scheibenberg pastor Christian Lehmann.
Restoration and replacement work
The tower of St. John's Church, threatened by dry rot , was extensively renovated in 2010-2016; the construction costs were around 360,000 euros. At the same time, the chill- cast iron bells that were drawn up after the Second World War as a replacement for the war-related delivery of the earlier bronze bells were replaced by a new bronze bell (1500 kg, 1070 kg, 710 kg) cast by the Grassmayr company in Innsbruck . The consecration of bells took place on November 7, 2010. The iron bells found a place on the lawn in front of the church.
Views and details
View from the northwest
Detail: tower from the northwest with an octagonal upper floor
Portal on the west side
Kellermann's hereditary funeral
Memorial plaque on the north side of the church
Memorial plaque next to the portal
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Saxony : II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 880f.
- Stephan Schmidt bridges: The Evangelical Lutheran St. Johanniskirche Scheibenberg. Scheibenberg 2015. DNB 1079917578
- The St. Johanniskirche Scheibenberg at the time of Pastor Christian Lehmann. In: Stephan Schmidt bridges; Karsten Richter: The Erzgebirge chronist Christian Lehmann: Life and work. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft: Marienberg, 2011. pp. 247–252. ISBN 978-3-931770-96-9
- Parish of St. Johannis Scheibenberg (Ed.): Festschrift for the consecration of the bell 2010. Scheibenberg 2010. DNB 1010816667
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 23.86 " N , 12 ° 54 ′ 49.32" E