Chapel (Leuchtenburg)

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The Baroque chapel on the Leuchtenburg in Seitenroda is located in the main castle of the castle and joins east of the castle keep at.

history

An inventory from 1489 provides the first written evidence of a castle chapel with an altar .

During the time of the Leuchtenburg as the administrative seat of the Wettins (1396–1705), the pastor of the village of Seitenroda at the foot of the Leuchtenburg looked after the castle chapel, as well as the prisoners of the Leuchtenburg office.

In 1658 the core castle including the chapel fell victim to the flames and only existed as a ruin for decades .

With the relocation of the Leuchtenburg office to Kahla in 1705 , the castle complex was rebuilt and used as a poor , madman and penitentiary from 1724 to 1871 . The penitentiary had its own parish office. The pastor moved into an apartment on the first floor of the main castle, where he first celebrated the services on Sundays , feast days and on the days of penance at 10:00. In addition, it had to hold morning and evening services, provide pastoral care, and instruct the prisoners. The schoolmaster , who was also cantor and sexton , was subordinate to the pastor .

The idea of ​​building a new church arose in the 1730s. In 1744 an embassy of the state government decided to build a new building while examining the project, including parts of the ruins that had been preserved. On August 7, 1746, the new chapel was consecrated as the Trinity Chapel . In 1769/70 extensive renovation took place.

When the prison was closed in 1871, the use of the church was discontinued and the inventory of the church was moved to Altenburg , although the pastor's office was retained. There were only a few church services. In the 1920s there were ideas to convert the chapel into a war memorial with a hall and courtyard. After the Second World War , the church interior was converted. From October 3, 1954, an exhibition was opened here and a museum tradition established that lasted until 2015.

In 2007 the Leuchtenburg Foundation initiated the renewed use of the Leuchtenburg chapel as a place of worship. In 2008 a service was held in the chapel for the first time. In 2013 the chapel received a new organ . At the end of 2015 the exhibition was relocated and the chapel was extensively renovated. This cost 150,000 euros from state funds. It was ecumenically consecrated on October 8, 2016 . and since then marketed as a "porcelain church".

Building history

A previous building of the chapel can be documented for the middle or second half of the 13th century. This was originally accessible via a round arched gate , which is only partially visible as it is below the current floor level of the courtyard. This was raised in the 17th and 19th centuries by padding. Remnants of this early building can be found in the cellar vault below the chapel and in the southern outer facade.

In the 15th century the building was expanded to the west and connected to the keep. The building was accessible via a wooden stair extension and a stone pointed arched gate on the upper floor. The basement level was also extended to the west, although it can be assumed that today's basement was the ground floor at the time.

The reconstruction of the chapel began in 1744. The building now extends over a floor plan of 10.90 × 21.10 m and is illuminated by six windows. Inside the new building will have a wooden gallery . Extensive renovation work takes place in the 1770s.

Furnishing

The inventory of the Leuchtenburg office shows a portrait of Mary for 1628 . During the time in prison (1724–1871) the chapel had altar devices , a pulpit , an altar , a baptismal font and an organ .

The organ was installed in 1824 for the 100th anniversary of the prison. Before that, a positive organ donated in 1770 had been used. After the penitentiary was closed in 1871, the organ was taken to the teachers' college in Altenburg. The chapel received a new organ in 2013 on the initiative of the Leuchtenburg Foundation. It is a pneumatic organ made in 1930 with six sounding registers and five couplings , divided into two manuals and pedal from the organ building workshop of Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer (Opus No. 1522), which was originally created for the Ottilien Chapel in Pfaffenhofen , district of Roth.

In 2016 the chapel received a new, modern interior design based on a design by Libeskind student Michael Brown. As part of the Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg concept , the chapel is equipped with a lamellar curtain made of technical porcelain , which extends from floor to ceiling.

Prices

The NAU2 office, in collaboration with Sven-Erik Hitzer, was awarded the Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development in 2018 for the new interior design . In the Iconic Award | Interior Architecture 2018 also received a high-level award for the design of the porcelain church.

gallery

  • View into the chapel of the Leuchtenburg (2016)

  • View from the gallery (2016)

  • Detail of the chapel of the Leuchtenburg (2016)

literature

  • Ulrike Kaiser: Church and organ guide Leuchtenburg with a contribution by Sixtus Lampl. Schlossverlag Valley, Valley 2013.
  • Christian Fritzsche, Benjamin Rudolph: The light castle near Seitenroda (Thuringia): on the building history of the main castle . In: European Burgeninstitut (Ed.): Burgen und Schlösser , 57th year, issue 2/2016.

Web links

Commons : Chapel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Kaiser: Church and Organ Guide Leuchtenburg with a contribution by Sixtus Lampl . Schlossverlag Valley, Valley 2013, p. 2 .
  2. ↑ Article of the MDR Thuringia ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  3. ↑ Press release of the Leuchtenburg Foundation on the project. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 30, 2016 ; accessed on September 30, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellanwelten-uchtenburg.de
  4. ↑ Christian Fritzsche, Benjamin Rudolph: The light castle near Seitenroda (Thuringia) - on the building history of the main castle . In: European Castle Institute (ed.): Castles and Palaces . 57th year, issue 2/2016. Braubach February 2016, p. 71-76 .
  5. ↑ Jena TV: Novelty at the Leuchtenburg: The porcelain church will be solemnly consecrated on Saturday. October 6, 2016, accessed October 7, 2016 .
  6. ^ Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development 2018. September 6, 2018, accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Iconic Award Innovative Architecture - Porcelain Church in Leuchtenburg. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 14.4 "  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 46.2"  E