Gottscheina church
The Gottscheina Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in the Gottscheina district of Leipzig . It stands in the middle of the village, slightly raised against the old Rundanger and as the southern end of the later cul-de-sac extension of the village. It is surrounded by the cemetery, which has a rammed earth wall , and is protected together with this monument .
history
The year of construction is unknown. A small window in the east wall suggests the Romanesque period . Written mentions of parishes date from the beginning of the 15th century. After Gottscheina and two neighboring villages came under the suzerainty of the University of Leipzig as so-called university villages in 1438 , the latter appointed the pastor and also introduced the Reformation .
During the Thirty Years' War the church was destroyed twice and rebuilt on the remains in the style of that time, which probably explains the survival of the medieval window. In 1763 an organ from Torgau organ builder Johann Christian Flemming was procured through donations . This was replaced in 1853 by the current one created by the Eilenburg master organ builder Nicolaus Schrickel .
At first the church had no tower and even after a renovation in the classical style in 1827, it only had a wooden roof turret , as the picture from 1840 shows. Today's interior was created in the 1860s. In 1854, a tower was built on the west side according to plans by the architect Richard Füssel, which was rebuilt and raised to its present form in 1892 following a donation from the Leipzig machine manufacturer Karl Krause . Krause married Emilie Polter (1835–1911) from Gottscheina in the church in 1857. The population averted the threat of demolition of the tower in 1969 through donations and work.
architecture
The church, a plastered quarry stone building , is a hall church about fourteen meters long and seven meters wide with a straight east end. The long sides each have three arched windows. The gable roof has a bat dormer on each side .
On the west side rises a slender tower with buttresses and four gables with spherical decorations and wrought iron gargoyles as well as a high pyramid roof . The weather vane bears the year 1892. The axis of the tower deviates from that of the nave by about 3 °. On the west side of the tower there is a sandstone portal with the inscription “Erb. 1892 ”and a clock face of the tower clock.
Furnishing
Nave with altar
Baptismal font
The nave has a flat roof and a three-sided gallery . The pulpit altar takes up the entire width of the east wall , creating a small sacristy behind it . The altar wall is decorated with carvings, Bible verses and a painted frieze .
The baptismal font, like the rest of the furnishings from around 1860, shows an artistic rocaille carving.
organ
The instrument made by Nicolaus Schrickel in 1853 has five stops on a manual and attached pedal . In 1995 the organ building company Georg Wünning carried out a thorough restoration. The disposition is as follows:
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Peal
The church in Gottscheina has three bells ringing. The older two date from 1745 and 1809 and were each donated by the grand provost of Leipzig University for the university village. The third bell was purchased in 1975.
Parish
The Gottscheina church belongs together with the churches in Göbschelwitz , Hohenheida , Plaußig , Portitz , Seehausen and Seegeritz to the parish of Plaußig-Hohenheida.
literature
- Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 236 .
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Gottscheina. 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.
- Gottscheina. In: Saxony's church gallery. The inspections: Leipzig and Grimma. Leipzig 1844, pp. 102/103. (Digitized version)
- Christoph Kühn, Heidemarie Epstein: Gottscheina, Hohenheida, Göbschelwitz. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig e. V. (ed.). Leipzig 1999.
Web links
- Ev. Parish church Gottscheina. In: architecture-blicklicht. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- Gottscheina church. In: Churches in Leipzig. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- Gottscheina church. In: Ev. Luth. Parish of Plaußig-Hohenheida. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- Church Leipzig Gottscheina. In: Churches in Saxony. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Seehausen (Leipzig) , ID number 09255992
- ↑ ProLeipzig study, p. 4.
- ↑ ProLeipzig study, pp. 14/15.
- ↑ Aerial photo GoogleMaps
- ↑ ORKASA organ database. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 32.5 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 53.2" E