Hohnstädt Church

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Hohnstädt Church

The Hohnstädt Church is a sacred building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Hohnstädt , a district of Grimma in the Saxon district of Leipzig . It stands prominently above the valley of the Mulde on a mountain peak and towers above the village.

Architecture and history

The Hohnstädt Church is a Romanesque choir tower church from the 13th century. The late Gothic chapel with ribbed vault from 1480 serves as a sacristy : It has a marble relief altar, a pulpit made of Rochlitz porphyry and a baptismal font from 1661. The tower was raised in 1896 by 17 meters. The choir with apse is delimited from the nave by two triumphal arches on battlements .

The chancel of the church dates from the 12th century, the nave is medieval and was expanded from 1857 to 1858. A three-sided gallery is built into the hall church . The steeple was completely renewed in 2009-2010.

The current rectory was built in 1910 in the Saxon homeland style and the exterior was renovated in 2019.

organ

The Kreutzbach organ

In 1858 the organ was installed by Urban Kreutzbach (1796–1868) from Borna - it was completely restored in 1993 by organ builder Georg Wünning from Großolbersdorf.

The organ with 15 (8-5-2) registers , two manuals and pedal currently (as of 2018) has the following disposition :

1. Manual Hauptwerk
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola di gamba 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Cornett III
8th. Mixture III
2. Manual upper work
9. Double flute 8th'
10. Salicional 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Reed flute 4 ′
13. Gemshorn 2 ′
Pedal C – e 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Principal bass 8th'
  • Coupling : Manual coupler II-I, pedal coupler, Kalkant bell

Bells

The church bells have two church bells made of bronze , cast by the traditional bell foundry Ulrich in Apolda in 1857:

  • Bell with strike tone ges' with a diameter of 104 centimeters and a weight of 658 kg
  • Bell with striking note b ', 84 centimeters in diameter and 375 kilograms in weight

present

In 1999 the Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Hohnstädt and Beiersdorf merged to form the parish Hohenstädt-Beiersdorf - it has a sister church relationship with the parish of Grimma , parish Nerchau and parish Döben-Höfgen. Markus Wendland has been the pastor since 2012.

photos

  • Hohnstädt Church

  • View from the gallery to the altar

  • Baptismal font, altar and pulpit

  • Baptismal font with an artistic essay

Varia

literature

Web links

Commons : Hohnstädt Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/hohnstaedt-kirche-grimma-leipzig/
  2. ↑ Frank Prenzel: Historical find: Hohnstädter parsonage reveals a secret - During the current external renovation of the parsonage in the Grimma district of Hohnstädt, a worker found the walled-in box of the laying of the foundation stone. The content also told the parish when the house was built. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, June 22, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ According to information from the ORKASA organ database https://www.evlks.de/fiegen/kirchenmusik/orgeln/ - there is a link to the guest access, accessed on December 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rainer Thümmel in: Bells in Saxony - Sound between heaven and earth. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 310.
  5. ↑ http://www.grimma.de/kulturbildung_kirchen/?SHC=1#.W1Rhn5MyXIU
  6. ↑ Grimmaic ECCE. 20 (1899), pages 58 -65; see also Johann Friedrich Anthing

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 4.2 "  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 48.2"  E