Church of Collm

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Church of Collm
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The Church of Collm is a Romanesque hall church in Collm , a district of the municipality of Wermsdorf in the district of North Saxony in Saxony . The Protestant church Collm part of the church district Leisnig-Oschatz the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

history

The Romanesque hall church was first mentioned in 1350, with a semicircular vaulted apse, a flat-roofed chancel and a west tower from 1864. The plastered quarry stone building, which was heavily modified in the same year, has received its Romanesque staggering of hall, choir and apse .

In 2000 the Collmer church was restored. In addition to interior painting and repairs to the slate roof and facade, a new tower clock was installed and the top of the tower redesigned with a larger tower ball and the weather vane. The 400-year-old tower ball and the tower cross are kept in the church. The belfry was renewed in 2002.

Interior

Baptismal font

The font is made of sandstone and is 104 cm high and 56 cm in diameter. It stands on a square plate, has the shape of an urn and dates from the end of the 18th century.

painting

The crucifixion was depicted here by Lucas Cranach the Elder . Mary Magdalene has sunk down at the feet of the central cross placed in front of a red flaming sky . Next to it is Maria in a black robe and a white headscarf and Johannes in a white robe.

On the pedestal is written: Morte mihi vitam mortva vita dedit. ( His death gave us eternal life ) On the occasion of the 2nd Saxon State Exhibition in 2004 at Hartenfels Castle in Torgau, the 30 × 40 cm work was restored.

organ

The organ was built in 1890 by the organ building company Keller from Ostrau , has a manual and pedal, 5 registers (4-1) and is still played in the original mechanical design.

According to the organ database ORKASA, the organ (action mechanism: mechanical, type of wind chests: sliding chest, stop action mechanism: mechanical, pitch: 440 Hz) has the following disposition:

manual
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′

Peal

The bells of the church to Collm one of the few oldest preserved and in Saxony cast bronze - church bells - ensembles from around 1200. It is sounding testimony of more than 700-year tradition of bell-making in Saxony. Ringing with three bells was common in Saxon village churches. So there was the possibility to ring the motif Te Deum or Gloria . During the Thirty Years' War , the bells were hidden in the so-called Trift west of the Collm in the forest. Due to their age and their associated historical value, the bells escaped the state-ordered “ metal donation ” campaigns during World War I and World War II .

The ringing consists of the following three bells: The large bell (keynote g sharp +/- 0) is 91.5 cm wide and 82 cm high, weighs 476 kilograms and has a slim rib, without decoration or inscription. The middle bell (keynote a sharp '+2) is 72 cm wide and 70 cm high, weighs 222 kilograms, has a slim rib and bears the inscription: O. rex. glory. vem (!) i.evn (!) pace.an (!) en . This means: O rex gloriae veni cum pace translated: (O King of Honor, come with peace!). The small bell (root fis "+1) is 50 cm wide, 36 cm high and weighs 85 kg. The written form of the capital letters found no words. It is believed that it is these in order starting with one or more awards.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Collm. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 27. Booklet: Oschatz Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1905, p. 76.
  • Rainer Thümmel : Bell casting in Saxony. (PDF) In: Museumskurier, issue 17th Chemnitz Industrial Museum, August 2006, accessed on February 19, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Reichel: Heimatfreund and local writer Siegfried Reichel on the place Collm on the occasion of the first mention 820 years ago (part 2). Leipziger Volkszeitung, Oschatzer Allgemeine, Oschatz, July 19, 2005, p. 17
  2. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 1029.
  3. ^ Siegfried Reichel: Heimatfreund and local writer Siegfried Reichel on the place Collm on the occasion of the first mention 820 years ago (part 2). Leipziger Volkszeitung, Oschatzer Allgemeine, Oschatz, July 19, 2005, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Collm. in: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden, 1905, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Author collective: Chronicle. Collm in Saxony. Heimatverein Bergtreue eV Collm, 2005. k. A.
  6. ↑ https://www.evlks.de/fiegen/kirchenmusik/orgeln/ , there under the heading ORKASA , accessed on 19 February 2020
  7. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bell casting in Saxony. (PDF) Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Author collective: Chronicle. Collm in Saxony. Heimatverein Bergtreue eV Collm, 2005. k. A.
  9. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Collm. in: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden, 1905, p. 76.
  10. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office of Saxony. Second, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 282 .

Web links

Commons : Church Collm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 10.6 ″  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 6.6 ″  E