Katharinenkirche (Seegeritz)

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The Katharinenkirche Seegeritz (2012)

The St. Catherine's Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Tauchaer district Seegeritz . It is consecrated to Saint Catherine . The church building and the cemetery with the funeral hall are listed as historical monuments .

history

The first construction of the church is assumed for the 15th century. In 1580 it became a branch church of Plaussig . The patron saint for both churches was the manor owner von Seegeritz.

The church around 1840

In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Russian-Imperial General Marshal Gotthard Johann Graf Manteuffel , commander of a Cossack brigade , used the church hill, which was not overgrown at the time, as a general hill on October 17, 1813 and then stayed in the patron s lodge. Seriously wounded in a battle the next day, he died in Taucha.

In 1868 the church was badly damaged by a lightning strike . The money that had been collected for a tower planned for the same year was used to restore it. As the comparison with the picture from 1840 shows, the church was restored in the same way and remained without a tower.

In 2006 the church was extensively renovated.

Location and architecture

  • Funeral hall

  • Church stairs

The church is located on the heights of a terminal moraine about ten meters above the old center of the village on the Parthe . It is surrounded by the cemetery, which also has a small mortuary . In addition to driveways, it can be reached via a footpath with stairs.

The towerless Katharinenkirche is a hall building with a three-eighth end to the east. There is a blind and two open arched windows on it. There are two short buttresses on the edges . The south side has two entrances via porches. The north side has three arched windows and a small sacristy with access.

Furnishing

The altar area

The altar area is slightly raised in the simply furnished hall. It contains baptismal font, lectern and altar table on a two-step pedestal. The area is dominated by a large crucifix that was made around 1500 and is believed to have been made by a Leipzig woodcarver.

The Eilenburg organ builder Nicolaus Schrickel created an organ with seven registers on manual and pedal in 1859 . An electronic organ was used after it failed in the 1950s.

The bell installed in the attic was cast in 1910 by the Franz Schilling company in Apolda . Two small bells for the half-hour and the hour strike come from the former Seegeritz manor, which burned down after the Second World War , and are around 300 years old.

Parish

The Seegeritz church belongs together with the churches in Gottscheina , Göbschelwitz , Hohenheida , Plaussig, Portitz and Seehausen to the parish of Plaußig-Hohenheida.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Seegeritz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 124.
  • Seegeritz. In: Saxony's church gallery. The inspections: Leipzig and Grimma. Leipzig 1844, p. 3 (digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Katharinenkirche Seegeritz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Taucha , ID number 09257059
  2. ^ Seegeritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ^ Rehabilitation of the church in Seegeritz b. Leipzig. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ORKASA organ database. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 44.8 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 46.5"  E