Elstra Church
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The Protestant Church Elstra (also: Michaelskirche ) is a baroque hall church in Elstra in the Bautzen district in Saxony . It belongs to the Elstra parish in the Bautzen parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The hall church was rebuilt from 1726 to 1756 on the site of a medieval predecessor building, including older parts such as the tower and sacristy . In 1828 a gallery was built; the tower dome dates from 1902. Restorations took place in 1902 and from 1987 to 1993.
The rectangular nave is followed by the choir with a three-eighth end in the east and the square tower with a baroque dome in the west. The plastered facade is provided with an elaborate window architecture in sandstone . The central windows are combined with the basket arch portals below .
In the three-aisled interior, the spatial effect is determined by the cross vaults between wide belt arches over the four pillars . Two-story galleries with wooden parapets are built between the pillars. On the north side of the choir is the mansion box with a curved prospect with cartouches and coat of arms decoration. Opposite the richly profiled door leads to the sacristy, a porch with segmental arch roofing and vases .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is the stately altar made of sandstone and wood, which was created between 1733 and 1735. A column architecture with a richly moved gable end structure the structure. The paintings show the Last Supper in the predella , above the Descent from the Cross, and were painted by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich from Dresden based on Rubens . The sculptures were created according to the inscription by Andreas Böhmer and show Moses and John next to the column bases as well as God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit between angels in the gable.
A magnificent sandstone pulpit has a foot, instead of the Moses figure popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, a strongly moving angel and allegorical figures on the basket, which were probably also made by Andreas Böhmer in 1734. The sandstone baptism in the shape of a vase is provided with reliefs , the wooden lid with a depiction of the pelican as a symbol was only added after 1745. High-quality sandstone pastor's tombs from the 18th century are placed on the southern outer wall.
organ
The organ with its richly carved organ front is a work by Abraham Strohbach from the years 1751 to 1755. It has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The instrument was repeatedly repaired and revised, first in the years from 1781 to 1787, then in 1838 and 1887. In 1917 the prospect pipes were given for war purposes. According to a report by Hermann Eule , only 13 of 16 registers were left in 1926. Afterwards the organ was renovated by Johannes Jahn in 1927 . In 1952, the Eule Orgelbau company carried out a renovation in which only a small part of the pipework could be reused, so that in addition to the case, action and wind chests , 5 to 6 registers are still original. In 1992 a partial restoration was carried out by Ekkehart Groß. From 2014 to 2016 a restoration was carried out by the Jehmlich company on the initiative of Matthias Eisenberg with the support of a Strohbachorgel support group . The disposition is (status 1952–1992, then reconstruction):
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- Coupling : manual coupling, pedal coupling
- Tremulant , Zimbelstern , check valve, bell
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 337–338.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 98-99 .
- ↑ Information about the history on the website of the sponsorship group. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 14 ° 7 ′ 55.1 ″ E