Cämmerswalde Church
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The church Cämmerswalde is a baroque church in Cämmerswalde , a district of the community Neuhausen / Erzgeb.
history
The Romanesque church that dominates the panorama of Central Village was rebuilt in 1703. Above the entrance is written: Anno 1703 the 7th of May this church building was started with God and the 19th of July 1708 was happily completed. Today's church has an artistic coffered ceiling and an artistically valuable altarpiece. It is one of the region’s churches in the so-called “peasant baroque” style.
Age
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The age of the church is unknown; it is first mentioned in the diocese register drawn up in 1495. The oldest year can be found in a Latin inscription on the oldest of the three bells: anno doi 1499 […] ("In the year of the Lord 1499. O King of glory, come with peace. Greetings, Mary.") From the earlier wooden church three carved figures are preserved in a shrine and the altar with a crucifixion painting.
Origin and further history
The entry of Pastor Herrmann (1793 to 1838 in office) in the church book is unclear : In 1422 the church in Cämmerswalde was consecrated by Bishop Johann IV of Meißen, [...] and made suitable for the Apostles Peter and Paul. However, John IV did not become bishop until 1427. In the Erzgebirgisches Generalanzeiger of 1930 it is stated that the pastor of Cämmerswalde at the time, Jauck, interpreted the various facts differently. A church in Cämmerswalde is said to have been consecrated in 1422. There is an entry in the council archive of the city of Sayda. Johann IV. May well have carried out the consecration in 1422, namely in the capacity of Archbishop Rudolf von Planitz, as auxiliary bishop , especially since he was already planned as his successor. According to Jauck, the oldest bell bore the year 1422. It was cast for the consecration of the church. The smaller, pre-Reformation bell was melted down by Jauck's grandfather in Leipzig (GA Jauck) when it was extended to a triple chime in 1863 in the bell foundry.
In 1580 the parish of Cämmerswalde was assigned to that in Neuhausen and the pastor's seat was moved there. The proximity and influence of the lords of Purschenstein played a role in this. In 1663 Cämmerswalde got his pastor back. The dilapidated rectory had to be demolished and rebuilt. In 1703 the conversion to the present church began. Organ gallery (1726) and gallery behind the organ (1727) were built by the master carpenter Gottfried Müller from Cämmerswalde. The lower gallery behind the altar (1733), the parish prayer room, the door on the west gable (1734), the chairs around the altar, the side chairs on the north wall and the rebuilt prayer rooms between the sacristy and the main entrance (1737) also go back to him which he mostly painted himself.
organ
Probably Tobias Ender from Oberneuschönberg built the first Cämmerswalder organ in 1716 . In 1767 it had to give way to a larger one, which Johann Georg Schön began in 1764 and Adam Gottfried Oehme (1719–1789) completed by 1767. Oehme had been a student in Gottfried Silbermann's workshop since 1737 . After his death in 1753, Johann Georg Schön took over the Silbermann workshop. After Schön's death in 1764, Oehme continued to run the Freiberg workshop alone and also completed the organ for Cämmerswalde with two manuals and 18 stops. In 1937 the Oehme organ was not replaced due to the financial weakness of the parish. The organ was restored in 1967 by Wilhelm Rühle after a few minor overhauls, the delivery of 28 blind prospect pipes and repairs . The disposition is:
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- Coupling : manual slide coupling, pedal coupling (since 1822)
- Tremulant , calcareous bell
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Church bells
A church tower clock existed at the latest in the 16th century. It was replaced in 1812 by one built by Gottfried Gehmlich in Neuwernsdorf. The church in Cämmerswalde has had a church tower clock from the Hahn company in Zwickau since 1980.
The original double ring was expanded to triple in 1863. One of the pre-Reformation bells (probably from 1422) was sacrificed for this. In World War two new bells were confiscated. The same thing happened in the Second World War for the new ones procured in 1921. They were each melted down for war purposes. Since 1954, two chilled cast iron bells from the Schilling company in Apolda have been completing the ringing.
Until 1893 the church had a typical wooden shingle roof, since then a slate roof.
The church today
Extensive restoration measures have been carried out since 1978, the funds came exclusively from private donations. After 1990 the regional church of Saxony and the monument protection provided considerable funds for the preservation. In addition to the organ and the columnar altar, the baroque, well-restored wooden architecture in the church is particularly worth seeing.
The Cämmerswalder parish no longer has its own pastor, it is the sister parish of Clausnitz and Rechenberg-Bienenmühle. Services are held regularly on three Sundays a month and on all major public holidays.
Memorial stones
In the churchyard belonging to the church there is a memorial cross, consecrated in 1957, for the victims of both world wars. In 2007, for the 800th anniversary of the town, the local history association Cämmerswalde put two plaques with the names of the fallen on the church and consecrated them.
A memorial for those who died in the First World War was erected in front of the Cämmerswalder School in 1923. In 1945 the eagle was removed as a supposed National Socialist symbol and was lost. In 1973 the memorial in front of the school was removed because a well was being built and is now in the cemetery.
In the church cemetery there is also a tomb for a Soviet citizen who was deported to Germany during the Second World War and who fell victim to forced labor.
literature
- Max Rennau: On the oldest history of the church in Cämmerswalde. In: Erzgebirgischer Generalanzeiger , 1930.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ pastor Weidhas in the newspaper Freie Presse , August 18 1973rd
- ^ A b Max Rennau: On the oldest history of the church in Cämmerswalde. In: Erzgebirgischer Generalanzeiger , 1930.
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 52-53 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 32.6 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 10 ″ E