Rabenau Church

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The Rabenau Church

The Rabenau Church , a Gothic-style hall church on the market square of Rabenau in the Saxon district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , belongs to the Kreischa-Seifersdorf parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

history

View from the market

The first place of worship was the castle chapel of Rabenau Castle, which is located directly next to it, in the 12th century. With the growth of the population and the granting of town charter, the construction of a new chapel dedicated to St. Egidius began in 1488 on behalf of the owner Sigismund von Miltitz the Elder .

In 1495 the church was named Dippoldiswalde as a Gau of the Archdiaconate Nisan in the archpriesthood. A pastor George was the last Catholic to preach, and the Reformation took place in 1539.

An older testimony in the interior of the church is the tombstone of eleven-year-old Casper, son of the lord of the castle Heinrich von Miltitz, from 1559.

The chapel burned down in the Thirty Years War, except for parts of the choir and the south side, and was re-consecrated in 1642.

The altar, a gift from Caspar Barthel, the owner of the Eckersdorf manor, consisted of two wooden frames with an inner altarpiece. It was dismantled in 1967 when the interior was redesigned and the picture hung over the front entrance door. The picture shows Mary and the favorite disciple Johannes under the cross.

Entrance portal

The pulpit and galleries date from before 1642, the baptismal font from 1737.

The inscription above the large entrance gate under the keystone from 1640: "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is a power of God that makes all who believe in it happy" was renewed in 2014.

On the west side there is a staircase with an entrance that was added in 1882. In the same year, boxes with independent stairs were installed from the cemetery, which were dismantled in the choir room in 1924 (see also Rabenau (Saxony) ).

The exterior of the church is adorned with the church gate with a cross, the churchyard wall with relics of the old cemetery, today's cemetery was laid out in 1870 on Obernaunder Strasse with a cemetery chapel built in historicizing style. Below the church there was once the parish, which was replaced by the current one after 1876. In the middle of the parish fields on Marktsteig there is the parish linden tree from 1885, which was planted by Ferdinand Grellmann from Rabenau.

On May 30, 1670, the first clockwork was attached to the tower, which was replaced around 1800 by the one that still exists today. The new organ was created by the Jehmlich company in 1993 , it replaces the organ that was installed here from the Johanneskirche in Dresden at Easter 1860.

To the church in 1488 the villages were: Obernaundorf , Eckersdorf, and Kleinoelsa gepfarrt, in 1555 is Eckersdorf according Somsdorf, 1913 Small Oelsa to Great Oelsa gepfarrt, since 1930 is Lübau and Specht Ritz was the parish.

The bells hang in the octagonal turret on the church roof which bears the dates 1642, 1783 and 1842 inside. The weather vane was made in 1842.

Bells

A first bell is mentioned in 1575, the former lord of the castle Heinrich von Miltitz took the bell, but had to return it in the same year.

Another chime consisted of a bell cast by Michael Weinhold in Dresden in 1653 and 1655. In 1689/90 the bell cage was repaired because it could not carry the big bell. In the years 1723 and 1773, today's 250 and 550 kg bells were cast by Michael and Johann Gottfried Weinhold in Dresden, and in 2015 the bell cage and bells were repaired because the existing steel structure had damaged the church.

Tombstones

On old gravestones in the old church cemetery stands Carl August Brünnel † 16.10.1806 and his wife † 13.07.1790, from the Rabenau district forester, and in the choir room the gravestones left of the valet and landowner of Rabenau, -Erbichter on Unterrabenau: Johann Christian Knaust † 14.06 .1713 and his wife, right by Pastor Kornelius Christian Weigelt † 1762 and his wife.

Pastor

  • 1539–1546 Onophrius Paschmann
  • 1546–1547 Kasper Schaller

Web links

Commons : Kirche Rabenau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gau and Archdiakonat Nisan in the Margraviate of Meissen. In: Page 4. google Book, 1876, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Renewed Andencken those Rabenauischen Pastorum of 1539. biting 1741. In: Page 20 1741, accessed on 29 March 2020 .
  3. ↑ Parish Rabenau: Rabenau - St. Egidien. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Parish of Rabenau: History of the Rabenau Church. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Anja Ehrhartsmann: It's a good place to sit here. Sächssiche Zeitung, July 26, 2019, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ Johann Christian Hasche: Magazine of Saxon History. google book, 1785, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Spechtritz. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  8. ↑ By Annett Heyse: Rabenau's bells are back soon. Sächsische Zeitung, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
  9. ^ Parish of Rabenau: History of the Rabenau Church. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Magister Georg Friedrich Hammer: Renewed Andencken derer Rabenauischen Pastorum from 1539. to 1741. 1741, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Privy Council: Church Fathers to Rabenau [sö. Tharandt] submissively supplicate a bell in their church . Ed .: State Archives Dresden. 10024 Privy Council, No. Loc. 09902/02. Dresden 1641.
  12. ^ Building and Art Monuments Office Dresden. In: Pages 111–112. SLUB Dresden, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  13. ↑ K. Grüttner: From the history of the St. Egidien Church Rabenau. In: Page 11 February 12, 2016, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  14. ^ Parish register of Saxony. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 46.9 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 27.9"  E