Fördergersdorf Church

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Cemetery and church from the southeast

The church Fördergersdorf am Tharandter Wald is also the parish church for the surrounding places Kurort Hartha , Pohrsdorf (since 1959) and Spechtshausen . It is located in the district of the same name in the town of Tharandt in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony . The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony has listed this building, including the rectory and cemetery, as a cultural monument .

origin

Parts with a Romanesque grave stone in the old Toten- or funeral parlor de Boriwo Tarant be associated

The origins of the village church in Fördergersdorf go back to the time when the village was founded. According to legend, after the turn of the millennium there was a pilgrimage chapel on a pilgrimage route ( Way of the St. James pilgrims or Holy Way ). It is more likely, however, that the church was built around 1205 as a Romanesque hall church with the Waldhufendorf village, almost in its current size .

The Pfarrgasse is still today with the deeply cut ravine a testimony of the old pilgrimage and trade routes. From the 16th century onwards, the path was the Fürsten- or Herrenweg to Grillenburg , where a hunting palace or pilgrims' hospice with a tavern and carter station was located at the latest by the middle of the 13th century. According to the latest findings, the church in the village of Fördergersdorf may also have been the burial place of the Tharandt castle administrator Boriwo de Tarant , who is said to have come from the Döbeln castle team . The originally Markmeißnische border castle Tharandt was first mentioned in 1216 and the oldest connection route from Tharandt to Meißen and to Castle Pohrsdorf led via Fördergersdorf. Tharandt (then grenades) was parish in Fördergersdorf until 1555. The Fördergersdorfer church was first mentioned in a document in 1346 in the Meißner diocese register . The parish of Fördergersdorf, to which, apart from Tharandt, initially only Hintergersdorf belonged until 1555 and, according to a no longer verifiable church document from 1307, Warnsdorf in the Tharandt forest , was reformed in 1539 according to Evangelical Lutheran principles. After 1540 the Zeidler community Hartha and from 1568 Spechtshausen were added. In 1581 there is also a report of the construction of a new rectory and the pastor had the right to brew, but was not allowed to pour anything himself. The first school building was also built for the Fördergersdorf parish during this time.

The reconstruction of the church in 1995/96 provided further information on the history of the first church building. It turned out that in the current village church there are still significant parts of the Romanesque hall church from the 13th century. These include the entrance portal in the vestibule, two window frames and parts of the north wall, the east gable and parts of the south wall.

Furthermore, murals ( Noah and Moses cycle) in the wall painting and fresco technique from this time were found in the interior as early as 1868 , which extend over all Romanesque components. The remainder of an exterior mural was even discovered on the Romanesque plaster layer on the north outer wall , which is now protected by the sacristy canopy . In the rectory there were fragments of a Romanesque grave slab used as a pavement fortification, which are now stored in the old funeral hall and are associated with Boriwo de Tarant as well as resemblance to probably more recent grave slabs in the churches of Höckendorf , Ottendorf near Pirna , Struppen (now Pirna City Museum) , Neschwitz and Rochlitz .

  • Romanesque portal made of Grillenburg sandstone in the entrance hall

  • Romanesque window in the attic above the entrance hall

  • Remains of a medieval mural on the former outer wall in the attic above the sacristy

Building history

North-east view with sacristy, entrance hall and ossuary

The simple Romanesque hall church with its rectangular floor plan and its Romanesque entrance portal on the north facade was probably plundered and partly destroyed (west facade) in the Hussite Wars in 1429/30 and in the subsequent Saxon Fratricidal Wars in 1447/50 . Since the community could not raise the money for a new building, a small interim chapel in the form of a double chapel was added to the north wall of the destroyed church in 1480 . It consists of two barrel vaults on top of each other, the lower one being used as an ossuary and the upper one being used for worship. The late Gothic entrance portal of the chapel, made up of Romanesque components, with a wrought-iron door still leads into the room that serves as the sacristy . It was not until 1517 that the church, which had been rebuilt using the Romanesque outer walls that had still been preserved, was used again for services. The restoration investigations carried out in 1994 to clarify the spatial arrangement (especially the sections of the wall painting that were uncovered and restored in 1929) showed that the presumably original fresco wall painting was a high-quality spatial program (picture Bible) on all three from the time the church was built obtained wall surfaces. This painting was probably whitewashed after the partial destruction or at the latest in the course of the Reformation. After the roof renovation in 1995–96, the facade was also renewed and the masonry drained in 2011–12.

Furnishing

Medieval wall paintings with Romanesque window fragments above the pulpit
Late Gothic sacristy portal made of Romanesque components
Baptismal font and altar from the 16th century.

The carved altar of the church was built between 1515 and 1520 in the " Freiberg workshop of the apostle master or his successor", as were the altars in Ruppendorf and Seifersdorf . In the middle it shows Mary with the child, next to St. Nicholas on the one hand and the Apostle John on the other. Two child angels hover above them, holding a crown over Mary's head. Two painted reliefs can be seen in each of the wings. They show the Annunciation , the birth of Christ , a presentation in the temple and the death of Mary . On the back of each wing of the altar there is a tempera painting, one with a depiction of St. Catherine and the other with St. Margaretha . In the predella , a carving shows the adoration of the kings.

A bell, the so-called old middle one , was also taken over from the Romanesque church building. It existed until 1851 and is described in 1836 as bulky and bulky, without any inscription. It was linked to the legend that it was said to have been excavated by wild boars in the Tharandt forest near the former village of Warnsdorf , not far from the Warnsdorf spring. According to legend, Warnsdorf sank in 1007 because of the godless life of its inhabitants. Archaeological excavations in 1983 showed that this settlement only existed for a short time from the 12th to the 14th century. Of the two bells newly cast by Martin Hilliger in 1517 , only the large Mary or Peace Bell remained . It was part of the church bells until 1922 and has been ringing in the belfry of Kurort Hartha am Waldpark on Hartheberg since 1933 .

Furthermore, the chalice-shaped baptismal font made of sandstone with inscriptions from 1583 has been preserved. A private prayer room (1670) belonging to the owners of the Hintergersdorf tower courtyard on the south wall of the church and the cemetery wall from 1679 have been preserved from the 17th century to this day . In 1678 the first organ installation is reported. The simple pulpit with two carved angels' heads on the lectern, the sound hood of which was removed in 1856, is dated to around 1700. At that time, the current rectory (keystone from 1701) was built on older foundation walls (16th century), and its outbuildings after a fire In 1797 it was rebuilt in its current form. A new organ was set up as early as 1734 and the galleries are likely to have been built during this time. The first evidence of the roof turret church tower is from the year 1744. It was covered with wooden shingles until 1834 and got its present shape in 1851.

The coffered ceiling, painted with biblical scenes, disappears in 1814 and the galleries were also painted in one color. A technical rarity is the hand-forged and still functional tower clock by Christlieb Funcke from Hintergersdorf (today Kurort Hartha) from 1783. The carved altar had to lead a shadowy existence in a niche on the south wall from 1821 to 1929 and was represented by an altarpiece Christ in Gethsemane by the sculptor Herrmann (grandson of the Fördergersdorf pastor J. G. Herrmann, 1755–84) from St. Petersburg replaced. It is still in the church today.

In the 19th century, on the south wall of the church, there were also the prayer rooms of the royal forest masters from Spechtshausen and the owners of the Hintergersdorfer hereditary court (only access via the east gable) from the Kurort Hartha and the east staircase, which now serves as a storage room , with external access A third gallery, which is no longer used today, was built. The neo-Gothic funeral hall was built in 1854 over the crypt of the Kreß forestry master family and the cemetery was expanded to the east in 1863. When the church was rebuilt in 1856, the floor of the church was raised, the altar area was tiled and the current reed ceiling was installed.

The biggest structural intervention, however, was the expansion of the church by four meters to the west for the installation of a new organ in 1897 by Eule Orgelbau Bautzen , whereby the vestibule of the church, the west brick gable (now plastered) and the western staircase, which has since been removed, were created instead of the forester's lodge . The new organ got a Biedermeier prospect and the galleries were equipped with columns made of cast iron (today clad with wood).

During the First World War , which is also remembered by a memorial on the north wall of the church, the bells cast in 1857 had to be handed in and were only replaced by a new bell in 1922. This was lost in the Second World War and was replaced by sound steel bells in 1956. The current bronze bells after the original chime from 1517 to 1917 rang for the first time shortly before Christmas 2008. The three steel bells were erected as monuments at the Spritzenhaus Pohrsdorf , at the entrance to the church and at the parish hall of the Kurort Hartha. The plaques in the vestibule and the soldiers' graves on the cemetery wall to the parsonage commemorate the fallen of the Second World War. The murals, rediscovered in 1868 and partially exposed and restored by the restorer Max Helas in 1929, had to be saved and conserved at great expense in 1995/96.

  • Former crypt house as an old funeral or funeral hall

  • World War I memorial and middle bell from 1956 at the entrance

  • Stone of calm on Kirchweg

Todays use

Today the village of Pohrsdorf and the districts of Kurort Hartha (until 1926/33 Hartha and Hintergersdorf), Spechtshausen and Fördergersdorf of the Kurort Hartha belong to the parish of Fördergersdorf. The sister church is Tharandt with Großopitz and Grillenburg. A parish hall and a forest prayer area of ​​the parish are located in Kurort Hartha, where the services alternate or depending on the weather. Not far from the Fördergersdorf church one encounters three other contemporary witnesses, the stone of calm from 1780 (former porter exchange stone for the pallbearers on Kirchweg to Kurort Hartha), the hunting column erected in 1737 from Fürstenweg on the village square and the Reformation and Wetting memorial stone from 1817/89 on Entrance to the rectory.

literature

  • André Kaiser: "What the forester said in the evening by the fireplace" - legends from the Tharandt forest. Sächsische Zeitung (ed.), Regionalverlag Freital (brochure, 32 pages, no year, approx. 1996)
  • André Kaiser: The Harthaer Glocke, its résumé and the legends of Warnsdorf. In: Harthaer Gemeindeblätt'l. Official journal of Kurort Hartha, December 1992
  • Manfred Hammer: Structurally and historically valuable village complexes in the Weißeritz district. In: Farmhouses, Farms, Villages in Saxon counties. Vol. 4, published by the Association of Ländliche Bauwerte in Sachsen eV, Dresden 2006, pp. 33–34.
  • André Kaiser: The Fördergersdorfer Church and its bells. Published by Kirchgemeinde Fördergersdorf, Fördergersdorf 2007
  • Lars-Arne Dannenberg , Vincenz Kaiser: Wilsdruff in the High Middle Ages. Considerations for the settlement of the Wilsdruffer Land and the development of the city with special consideration of the Jakobikirche. In: New archive for Saxon history. 80th volume (2009), Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, ISBN 978-3-87707-769-6 .
  • Ulrike Oettel: The Marien Altar from Fördergersdorf. In: Country calendar book for Saxon Switzerland and the Eastern Ore Mountains 2012. 5th year, SEW-Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-936203-16-5 , p. 51 ff.
  • Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2nd edition, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 206 ff.
  • Rainer Thümmel, Roy Kreß, Christian Schumann: When the bells moved into the field ... , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-05203-5 , pp. 191 and 233
  • Frank Schmidt: 500 years old altarpiece in the Fördergersdorf church. In: Wegweiser , Kirchgemeinden Tharandt and Fördergersdorf (eds.), Issues No. 113, pp. 20–24, and No. 114, pp. 20–21, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Kirche Fördergersdorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Private homepage for atonement crosses and mordestones and Horst Torke: stone crosses, forest boundary stones and other cultural-historical objects , National Park Administration Sächsische Schweiz 2011, 2nd edition December 2012, p. 8
  2. ↑ http://www.aw-bunke.de/index.php/projektwahl/kirchen/kirche-foerdergersdorf Workshop for architecture and structural engineering
  3. ^ I. Sandner: Late medieval panel painting in Saxony. Verlag der Kunst 1993

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 34.2 ″  E