Kahlehöhenkirche
The Bald Hill church was in the Middle Ages built church, which is close to at 568.8 meters above sea level rising Bald Hill in the district Reichstädt the city Dippoldiswalde in Saxony Osterzgebirge (25 kilometers south of Dresden has been) and was pulled down the 1,872th
Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
In a period up to the end of the late Middle Ages and before the introduction of the Reformation in Saxony , the Kahlehöhenkirche was a regionally known pilgrimage church as part of the Holy Way and consecrated to the Fourteen Holy Helpers , which is why it was also called the Church of the Holy Helpers before the Reformation. The pilgrimages took place on the name days of the helpers and on Ascension Day.
The oldest known representation of the Kahlehöhenkirche is on a lithograph from Saxony's church gallery from 1835. Due to its simplicity and the few windows, the natural stone construction indicates that the church is very old. The roof with its baroque dome, on the other hand, is more recent and was built between 1790 and 1793 at the instigation of the then church patron Adam Rudolph von Schönberg .
Today's chapel
In addition to the location of the Kahlehöhenkirche, which can only be recognized by a slight elevation in the ground, there is now a crypt of those von Schönberg built in 1902 with a chapel above . This place is surrounded by a small grove . The outlines of the demolished Kahlehöhenkirche are clearly visible. Within this floor plan there is a memorial stone that the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Reichstädt set up in 1874 to commemorate this place of worship and whose inscription reads:
- (Front) Here, where the Word of God has resounded for centuries, Here, where many a Hallelujah God was sung. Here where the peace of God wafted around thousands. Where many a heart pleaded to God in heaven: Here you also say: How holy is this place! And pray that the peace of God may also be with you!
- (Back) In memory of that here centuries seasoned and broken in 1872 Bald Hill church to the Fourteen Holy Helpers this monument erected in 1874 to the parish Reichstädt.
Every year on Whit Monday there is a service at the Kahler Höhe.
Sacred objects
A number of furnishings of this church have been preserved:
- In 1968, the Dresden monument protector Gerhard Ebeling (1899–1981) rediscovered the former Romanesque font of the church during a foray through Röthenbach near Pretzschendorf .
- The oldest church bell is in the roof turret of a former school building in Reichstädt. As a bell ornament in the written form of the minuscule it contains the inscription Maria and I am a language of consolation . The bell was cast between the end of the 13th century and the 14th century at the latest .
- The second bell was cast in 1507 and is one of the rare medieval bells marked with a T. It weighs 467 kilograms, has a diameter of 94 cm at the lower edge and today fulfills its bell ringing obligations in the Martin Luther Church in Sornzig near Döbeln .
- The altarpiece of the Kahlehöhenkirche has been preserved from the Baroque period and was put into service by the church on November 3, 1726. Today it adorns the choir of the Lower Church in Reichstädt.
The portraits or figures of the Fourteen Holy Helpers that belonged to every Church of the Holy Helper in the Middle Ages have been lost and were mostly set up as a group of figures in the area of the altar. Various sources have speculated where they got to. The different traditions range from a removal by Bohemian Catholics in the course of the Reformation to the loss of the figures during the Thirty Years' War to the also unproven tradition that the pictures were only after the battle of Kesselsdorf at the end of the Second Silesian War brought to Bohemia on December 15, 1745 by fleeing Austrian troops or robbed in the Seven Years War (1756–1763).
literature
- Arthur Klengel : The Church of the Fourteen Helpers in Need on the Kahlen Höhe near Reichstädt , in: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Mitteilungen, Volume XI / 1922, Issue 4–6, p. 101 ff.
- Ulrich Schulte am Hülse: Memorials built over people ... The former Kahlehöhenkirche between Reichstädt, Sadisdorf and Hennersdorf , in: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Mitteilungen, issue 2/2006, p. 42 ff.
- Ulrich Schulte am Hülse: Churches in Reichstädt - Contributions to the medieval and modern history of Reichstadt in the Eastern Ore Mountains , Berlin, Dippoldiswalde 2011.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 54.4 " N , 13 ° 36 ′ 36.88" E