Gröba Church (Riesa)
 Groeba Church |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Evangelical Lutheran |
| place | Gröba , Germany |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Baroque , Romanesque |
| Furnishing style | Baroque |
| 51 ° 19 '18.5 " N , 13 ° 17' 13.3" E | |
The Church of Gröba is a Romanesque church with baroque interior design in what is now the district of Riesa of the same name . In addition to the Trinity Church , the monastery church and the Weida church, it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Riesa. The church is now a listed building.
history
A Slavic ring wall has been on the site since the 10th century at the latest , the remains of which are now almost completely leveled and built over, but are still recognizable.
The forerunner of the church in this area was a Burgwart church . In the 12th century at the latest, a massive stone building can be detected at the current location and in 1168 it was first mentioned in the written sources as the Church of Groben . Presumably, it is the second oldest church in Riesa after the monastery church. With the inclusion of the north and south walls of the Romanesque predecessor building, today's baroque building was erected between 1720 and 1734.
Furnishing
In 1734 the tower and the interior furnishings with wood carvings (including carved acanthus leaf tendrils on the prayer rooms) by the Dresden sculptor Ludwig Lücke (around 1705–1780) were completed.
In 1795 the church received an organ made by Johann Georg Friedlieb Zöllner in Hubertusburg , which was donated by the castle owner of Gröba, Johann Carl Benedict von Wacker. This mechanical organ was replaced in 1905 by a new pneumatic one made by the Dresden organ builder Johann Jahn . The three bronze bells that had been melted down during the Second World War were replaced in 1957 by iron bells produced by the Schilling bell foundry in Apolda . The tower was extensively restored in 1988 and the entire church building from 1992 to 1994. Between 1996 and 1999 the baroque painting of the church interior, which had been painted over in 1857, was restored by the Dresden restorers Peter Taubert, Hans Riedel and Hilke Frach-Renner.
Peal
The ringing consists of three chilled cast iron bells , the bell cage and the bell yokes are made of steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1380 mm | 1153 kg | f sharp ′ |
| 2 | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1150 mm | 682 kg | a ′ |
| 3 | 1956 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1020 mm | 430 kg | H' |
Grave slabs of those from Nitzschwitz
In the course of the renovation of the damage caused by the floods in 2002 , seven grave slabs of the noble families von Nitzschwitz and Vitzthum von Apolda , which date from the 16th and 17th centuries, were found. In July and August 2004 the State Office for Archeology of Saxony carried out excavations in the interior of the church of Riesa-Gröba. Due to conservation reasons, the panels remained in the ground. So that visitors can still get an idea of the graves, large-format photographs of the finds were placed on panels in the church.
graveyard
The cemetery around the church houses the graves of some owners of the manor and the Gröba castle , etc. a. Members of the von Altrock and von Kommerstädt families, as well as several former pastors. Three graves are particularly striking: The magnificent grave of Maria Elisabeth Rüssing, b. Pfeiffer (1748-1828), which was originally located in the nearby park of the palace and then moved to the church cemetery, the grave of Martin Hammitzsch's parents , the builder of the Dresden Yenidze and husband of Adolf Hitler's half-sister Angela , and the grave of Carl Gottfried Schneider (1807–1853), the builder of the Oberau tunnel . In addition, in 1922 a memorial was erected in front of the church tower for the 174 people from Riesa who fell during the First World War .
Maria Elisabeth Rüssing
Heinrich and Anna Hammitzsch
Carl Gottfried Schneider
Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
At the northwest corner of the cemetery wall there are still small remnants of the Slavic ramparts, which were built in the 10th century and converted into Burgward after the German conquest. The now German castle was mentioned in writing in 1046, when King Heinrich III. she gave it to his wife Agnes .
List of pastors
| Pastor | Term of office | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Bandorf (Bartorf?) | 1540 to 1548 | from Graefenthal; was previously Kirchner in Gröba, then pastor in Linz | |
| Sylvester Treuteler | 1548 to 1549 | from Großenhain , d. 1597; previously cloth maker, then pastor in Niederschöna | |
| Blasius Hofmann | 1549 | born 1524 (?) In Oschatz | |
| Jonas Vopel | 1581 to 1588 | born 1546 in Halle , d. 1588; previously pastor in Reinsberg | |
| Simon Seidendorf (Seydendorff) | 1588 to 1620 | born 1537 in Leisnig , died September 3, 1620 in Gröba; previously pastor in Merkwitz | |
| Paul Leutritz | 1620 | born 1558 in Großenhain | |
| Elias Raffs | 1638 to 1649 | born 1612 in Pirna , d. 1649 | |
| David Kaiser (Kayser) | 1649 to 1654 | born 1616 in Oschatz; previously pastor in Oschatz, then in Riesa | |
| Christian Bertram | 1654 to 1659 | born 1624 (?) In Kamenz , d. 1663 | |
| Johann Buchwald | 1659 | born 1633 in Ortrand , d. 1710 | |
| Christian Schilling | 1710 | born 1670 in Pegau | |
| Christoph Sigismund Martius | 1729 | born 1699 in Langenbernsdorf | |
| Adam Gottfried Hunger | 1738 | born 1708 in Wittenberg | |
| Johann Immanuel Lehmann | 1775 | born 1744 in Döbeln | |
| Johann August Lehmann | 1806 | born 1777 in Gröba | |
| Johann Gotthelf Heinicke | 1827 to 1837 | born 1797 in Gohrisch near Mühlberg | |
| Friedrich Valentin Rösel | 1857 to 1875 | born 1820 in Münchenbernsdorf , died 1888; previously a deacon in Reichenbach in Vogtland , then in pastor in Kiebitz | |
| Bernhard Graf | 1876 | born 1846 in Meissen | |
| Theodor Reinhold Werner | 1886 | born 1851 in Reichenbach in Vogtland | |
| Paul Arthur Burkhardt | 1905 | born 1865 in Frohburg , d. 1922 | |
| Heinrich Rudolf stamp | 1923 to 1934 | born 1879 in Pulsnitz , died in Leipzig as a result of the torture suffered in 1934 in the Hohnstein concentration camp | |
| Vacant | |||
| Gustav Alfred Schille | 1937 | born 1889 in Fuchshain , died 1956 | |
| ? | |||
| Friedrich Grossmann | Dieter Kröhnert | 2004 until today | born 1956 in Schlegel |
literature
- Christiane Donath, Matthias Donath : Grave slabs of the 16th and 17th centuries in the church of Gröba, City of Riesa , in: Work and research reports on Saxon soil monument preservation, 47 (2007), pp. 255–280.
- Heinrich Christian Gehe: A sermon at the inauguration of the organ at Gröba, about the great value of chants in worship , Leipzig 1795.
- Friedrich Großmann: The church of Riesa-Gröba risen again as a baroque gem after restoration , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 1999, Issue 4, S, 234–237.
- Reinhold Grünberg: Sächsisches Pfarrerbuch , Volume 1, 1940 Freiberg, p. 557 f.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) , Dresden 1914, pp. 75–87.
- Museum Association Riesa e. V., Heike Berthold, Annelies Wendt: Gröba - Eine Chronik , Riesa 1996, pp. 20–24.
- Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 349 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
Web links
- Riesa-Gröba church on www.kirche-riesa.de
- Cooperation between the state office and the Evangelical Lutheran parish enables documentation of the grave slabs of those from Nitzschwitz in the Riesa-Gröba church on June 23, 2005 (accessed on November 30, 2012)
- Documentation of the grave slabs from the Riesa-Gröba church (PDF; 1.6 MB)
Remarks
- ↑ Bruno Herrmann: Die Herrschaft des Hochstifts Naumburg on the Middle Elbe , Cologne, Vienna, Böhlau Verlag, 1970, p. 11.
- ↑ In said document of March 16, 1168, Udo, Bishop of Naumburg , donated the Riesa monastery and the Gröba church to the Bosau monastery.
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. Leipzig 1983, p. 312 (only biographical cornerstones from Zöllner).
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 349 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
- ↑ Cooperation between the State Office and the Evangelical Lutheran parish enables documentation of the von Nitzschwitz grave slabs in the Riesa-Gröba church from June 23, 2005.