Mockrehna Church
The Mockrehna Church is a sacred building of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in the center of Mockrehna near Torgau in the northern Saxony district . It belongs to the Audenhain parish area and is a listed building . It is - also because of the allegedly by Pumphut thrown into the spire Breitbeils - the landmark of the town.
story
The Mockrehna church was built around the year 1208. Until the first Lutheran church visitation in 1525, this included a separate pastoral office, which then went to the larger Wildenhain . From 1925 to 2001 Mockrehna was again an independent parish. Catholic services have also been held in the church since 1945.
In 1705 the church was fundamentally rebuilt. The tower was demolished to a height of six meters, and the new construction was given its current baroque appearance. The doors on the north and south sides gave way to a sandstone portal on the west gable, which was later replaced by an extension. The church was completely plastered. The interior of the church received its present form. The ax from the Pumphut legend was first attached to the tower as a wooden one, which was replaced by an iron one in 1835.
In 1956 the apse and tower were stripped of the plaster, but this was reattached to the tower gables in the 2010s. In 1976/77 the weather vane, tower ball and hatchet were renewed and the slate covering of the hood was replaced by sheet copper. The church received its tower clock in 1982.
architecture
The church is a Romanesque choir tower church made of field stones , about 24 m long and 10 m wide. The shaft of the rectangular tower and the adjoining round apse with a conical roof are exposed to stone. The tower has a gable roof running in north-south direction with two dwarf houses with ox eyes . The gables on the tower and the nave are plastered.
The tower has a copper-clad baroque hood with an octagonal lantern and ends with the tip in which the pump-hat ax is stuck, the tower ball and the weather vane. The gables of the tower show a clock face of the tower clock to the north and south. The bell storey of the tower has round-arched twin windows with a central column, two on the broad side to the east and one on the narrow sides.
The nave has arched windows, the high position of which is determined by the gallery inside. A shortening of the gallery on the south side enables a larger window there. Arched segment windows at ground level mark earlier, partly bricked-up doors. The door and window frames are made of lawn iron stone .
Access to the church is through an extension with a hipped roof on the west side, which also contains the stairs to the gallery.
Interior
The interior has a flat, dark wooden beam ceiling. The triumphal arches to the chancel under the tower and to the apse are Romanesque with side fighters . The three-sided galleries are light gray and the entire room is kept in plain white.
The altar stands in the apse and shows a crucifixion scene as an altarpiece between carved columns, surrounded by irregularly framed angels. In the center of the choir is the sandstone baptismal font. The pulpit is made of wood. On her basket she shows the pictures of the evangelists and on her ascent Jacob with the ladder to heaven .
The church has three bells, the oldest from 1662. One of the same age, also bronze, had to be given in for armament purposes during the First World War and was replaced in 1922 by a steel bell with the inscription "Glory to God in the height". Finally, in 1985, a third donation was made from a private donation, labeled “Dona nobis pacem”.
graveyard
The church is surrounded by the historic cemetery, which includes a. a sandstone tombstone of the former landlord contains: a classicist fluted column on a stepped base, on the column a medallion with a weathered inscription, a heavily profiled top and an amphora with a heavily weathered flower relief on the east side.
The cemetery enclosure is a quarry stone and field stone wall, partly plastered, with a beaver tail cover. The street-side entrance gate has square sandstone gateposts with a pyramidal end.
Pumphuts hatchet in the church tower
According to legend, sat also known as Warlock Oberlausitz known Martin Pumphut one evening as a journeyman in a Mockrehnaer Tavern teased the farmers and the miller showed tricks with his ax until a newly added guest exclaimed: "This is the wizard, he is with the devil in league, take his magic ax from him! ”Pumphut jumped out, ran to the cemetery. And when the crowd pursuing him tried to grab him, he swung his ax and let it fly with a hiss and crash to the top of the church tower, where it got stuck. Everyone looked afterwards, and the pump hat disappeared under a large stone. After that, he was never seen again.
Another representation of the legend can be found in a record that was found in the button of the church tower in 1902 :
“Pumphut was a miller's boy of great strength, but a bully who often used the ax. (The millers had the right to carry axes in the 17th century.) The hatchet should now be removed, but with the words: 'Before you get it, put it in your tower as an eternal memory!' he threw it into the then wooden spire, where it got stuck. It is still there today, to the amazement of many travelers who pass by here by train. "
The ax, which has been attached to the tower, has been renewed and carefully maintained since the 18th century, is a landmark of the place, keeps the Pumphut legend alive and even made it into the town's coat of arms. For several years there has also been a 1.80 meter high bronze figure of the throwing pump hat by the Bad Schmiedeberg sculptor Gert Büttner. The primary school in Mockrehna also bears the name Pumphuts because of the legend.
Web links
- Mockrehna parish church. In: architektur-blicklicht.de. Retrieved July 17, 2021 .
- Mockrehna. In: website of the place. Retrieved July 17, 2021 .
- Mockrehna church and churchyard. In: Detailed memorial text. Retrieved July 17, 2021 .
- Information boards. Retrieved July 16, 2021 .
- Mockrehna cultural and homeland association. Retrieved July 17, 2021 (with pictures from inside the church).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audenhain. In: Torgau-Delitzsch church district. Retrieved July 16, 2021 .
- ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Saxony for monument ID 08966509 (PDF, including map excerpt). Retrieved July 16, 2021.
- ^ Mockrehna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ Friedemann Steiger : A legendary story between the Elbe and the Mulde , Weimar 2006, pp. 112–115 (digitized in Sachsen -lesen)
- ↑ The ax in the top of the church tower. In: Linzer Volksblatt , September 12, 1902, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Christian Wendt: Monument with a step error. In: Torgauer Zeitung. May 7, 2018, accessed July 16, 2021 .
- ^ Pumphut elementary school. Retrieved July 27, 2021 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 12 ° 48 ′ 54.1 ″ E