Göbschelwitz Church

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The Göbschelwitz Church (2014)

The Göbschelwitz Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in the Göbschelwitz district of Leipzig . It is a listed building .

history

The church around 1840

The time when a church was first built in Göbschelwitz is not known. A small Romanesque window in the tower indicates that it was built in the High Middle Ages . Around 1500 and in the following years Göbschelwitz was a subsidiary church of Podelwitz .

In 1747 the church was reported to have been completely repaired, the tower of which now had three bells. In 1765 the church burned down almost completely together with the village. After it was rebuilt, it should have looked like the picture from 1840. The high octagonal spire is striking.

In 1857 the church, except for the tower, was demolished and the hall and interior were built in the neo-Gothic style in the form that still exists today . In 1859 Eduard Offenhauer from Delitzsch built an organ with eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal , which can no longer be used today and is being replaced by an electronic instrument.

In 1902 the church received a three-ring bell made by the Jauck bell foundry in Leipzig , of which two bells had to be melted down for war purposes. In 1952, the Leipzig artist Max Alfred Brumme created the altarpiece and new church windows, for which the community had collected donations.

From 1990 to 1992 the exterior of the church, which was in dire need of repair, was restored and the tower was shortened to its present height. The interior renovation was completed in 1998

Location and architecture

War memorial east of the church

The church stands in the cemetery in the center of the village, which, in addition to the private gravestones, contains a memorial for 14 Göbschelwitzer who died in the First World War .

The Göbschelwitz Church is a choir tower church . The almost square tower in the east is a plastered, almost windowless stone building except for the sound holes , which tapers slightly towards the top. It has a slate-covered pyramid roof , which is decorated with a tower ball and a weather vane . Towing dormer windows facing north and south once contained the dials of the tower clock, which in 1844 was praised as an “excellent work”.

To the west of the tower is a 15-meter-long hall building with neo-Gothic pointed arched windows, which overhangs the tower by about 1.5 meters in width. Its gable roof is tiled. The portal in the west has a profiled wall .

The interior has a flat ceiling and a gallery on three sides . The chancel is on the ground floor of the tower and is connected to the hall via a tapering choir arch .

Furnishing

  • East side with chancel

The interior of the church is simple. The altarpiece is a picture by the Leipzig painter Max Alfred Brumme. It shows Jesus at the Last Supper with the twelve apostles. These bear the faces of the pastor at the time, former parishioners and in between that of Albert Schweitzers .

Above the choir arch is emblazoned the slogan “And the godly secret is great”. It is the beginning of 1st Timothy 3, verse 16, the continuation of which Brumme designed in six colored glass windows. The first (birth) and the last (resurrection) are pictorial, the other four with ornamentation and writing.

The pulpit from the 19th century is designed in a neo-Gothic style. Lectern and baptismal font are modern.

Parish

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

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Göbschelwitz. 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. 29.
  • Goebschelwitz. In: Saxony's church gallery. The inspections: Leipzig and Grimma. Leipzig 1844, p. 87 (digitized version)
  • Christoph Kühn, Heidemarie Epstein: Gottscheina, Hohenheida, Göbschelwitz. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig e. V. (ed.). Leipzig 1999.

Web links

Commons : Göbschelwitz Church  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Seehausen (Leipzig) , ID number 09256059
  2. ↑ Gottscheina, Hohenheida, Göbschelwitz. A historical and urban study. P. 42
  3. ↑ Saxony's church gallery
  4. ↑ 1 Timothy 3:16. In: BibelText. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 16.4 ″  E