Rechenberg-Bienenmühle church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rechenberg is a neo-Gothic hall church in the municipality of Rechenberg-Bienenmühle in the Eastern Ore Mountains .
The chapel
Around 1270, Rechenberg was recorded with the construction of the border and Geleitenburg. In Nassauer death register a funeral is a document of a Wolff Rentzner to 1601 occupied. This older chapel or church was located on the southern slope of the left bank of the Freiberg Mulde . A new cemetery was laid out after the Reformation around 1540. The parish was a branch church of Nassau. A chapel was mentioned in a document in 1577. This was no longer used after the Reformation and lay fallow. The testator acquired the property as an endowment.
The previous church
In the years 1615 to 1618 a new church was built on behalf of the squire Heinrich von Schönberg . Due to the events of the Thirty Years' War , the church was not consecrated until 1619. A single-nave church with a centrally seated roof turret and bell tower was built . The choir spanned the full width of the nave and was closed on three sides. The spacious interior was kept simple and finished with a wooden coffered ceiling . The church was 17.5 meters long and 7.5 meters wide, the interior was 6.30 meters high. The total height was 23 meters. The church had 360 seats, 160 in the nave and 200 in the galleries . The altar and the pulpit were kept very simple. The church had four long, narrow, arched windows on each long side. In the years 1713, 1782, 1840 and 1868 extensive repair work and structural renovations took place. Due to the growing population, the community decided to build a new church around 1887. On April 1, 1896, the branch congregation became an independent congregation with its own pastor and parsonage.
The bell
First a small bell was purchased. This was procured in Freiberg in 1667 from Hillinger, a bell founder . Around 1800 a new bell had to be used. This was cast by the Dresden bell founder Heinrich August Weinhold. The bell with a round relief image of the Saxon Elector and later King Friedrich August sounded the tone c. Around 1841, a somewhat larger bell was added by the bell founder Johann Gotthelf Große from Dresden , which sounded in the tone d. This bell got a crack when it was ringing at noon on January 22nd, 1899 and was immediately taken out of service. The chime consists of three bronze bells. The belfry is made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008 | Bell foundry Lauchhammer | 1167 mm | 939 kg | f´ |
| 2 | 1899 | Bell founder CABierling | 953 mm | 450 kg | as' |
| 3 | 2008 | Bell foundry Lauchhammer | 819 mm | 360 kg | c´´ |
The organ
A house organ was installed as a musical instrument in 1676 . In 1780 a new organ from the organ builder Weisse from Gablenz was installed. This was very susceptible to repairs and was sold to Wreschen near Teplitz when the new church was built in 1899 for 100 marks .
The new church building
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Due to a severe flood at the end of July 1897, the planned start of construction was postponed; the new parish church in neo-Gothic style was built from 1899 to 1901. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 25, 1899, the laying of the foundation stone on October 17, 1899 and the lifting festival on September 18, 1900 . The architect was the church builder Theodor Quentin from Pirna, known in Saxony . The construction was carried out by the Schäfer construction company from Copitz near Pirna.
Quentin created a neo-Gothic design with a 45 meter high church tower tapering upwards over eight corners at the southeast corner. Between the tower and the ambulatory there is the sacristy . The exterior of the church is made of sandstone facing masonry . The cost of the shell was 34,000 marks. The large nave was designed with galleries on the long sides and offered 500 seats. After an interior renovation, the folding benches were removed, resulting in a capacity of 400 seats. Four large, three-part pointed arch windows interrupted in the gallery area on the long sides ensure that the interior is sufficiently bright. The ambulatory is provided with three two-part windows. The roof consists of a combined steel-wood construction that carries a slate covering on wooden formwork, which also extends to the tower dome and ambulatory. The roofing of the tower was carried out from November 14th to 30th, 1900 by the slater Hampel from Clausnitz . On November 12, 1900, the tower cross was assembled by master locksmith Zedow from Neuhausen . The weathercock , made of copper, was made by the Ernst Hahn ornamentation workshop in Dresden and installed by master plumber Franz Michel from Bienenmühle. The gilding was done by the Dresden company August Müller for an amount of 130 marks. The interior decoration and decoration was carried out by the painter Thiele from Meißen. The solemn church consecration took place on October 21, 1901 . Theodor Quentin as the architect handed the key over to the senior consistorial councilor Lotschius from Dresden, who handed it over to the local pastor Haucke.
The total costs for the construction of the new church amounted to 115,567.17 marks and were borne by the community; however, a loan of 84,000 marks had to be taken out from the Saxon State Insurance Institute. Items of equipment were carried over from the second to the third church, e.g. B. the altar, the pulpit, the font and the lectern.
The nave was restored between 2010 and 2012. The original painting of the walls from 1901 was restored and the ceiling surfaces artistically upgraded with a sky view.
The bell
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The Dresden foundry Bierling took on the order for the production of a new bell. In addition, the two old bells with a total weight of 159.5 kilograms were taken in payment at a price of 199.37 marks, the costs for the new bells amounted to 5,800 marks. The bell, consisting of three bells, was initially installed in a temporary bell structure next to the construction site. The consecration of bells took place on May 25, 1899 . After construction progressed quickly, the bells could be moved into the tower on May 15, 1901. The solemn consecration of the bells took place on May 19, 1901.
In 1942, of the three bronze bells from 1899, the two larger ones had to be donated as metal for armament purposes. It was not until 1950 that these were replaced by cast steel bells . In 2008 the belfry was renovated; three new bronze bells were installed. The bell was cast in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry . On November 4th, 2008 the ceremonial bell consecration took place.
The organ
Between November 12 and 21, 1901, the Kreutzbach company from Borna near Leipzig installed a new organ with 2 manuals and 26 stops for 8,498 marks. The instrument has a pneumatic action , roll sill and cone chest. The master carpenter Büttig from Pirna made the organ prospectus for 1000 marks.
The rectory
Despite the debts for the new church, it was decided to build an independent rectory. Until then, the pastor's family lived in the school building for rent. In 1902 the valley road was redrawn, creating new building land. The parish bought a piece of land for 1,000 marks and began construction in the spring of 1903. A two-story villa-like building with a loft was created. The entrance was on the side of the mezzanine floor and was offset from the building line to the rear. A balcony was placed above this. At this corner of the building there is a tower with a four-sided view. The building is made of brick with sandstone walls on the windows and doors with a plastered facade. The construction of the roof structure is made of wood, the roofing consists of slate on wooden boarding, as with the church.
The parish office, the parish rooms and the pastor's apartment were located in the house, as well as the diakonia on the top floor. In October 1903 Pastor Haucke and his family moved into the house. The planned construction costs of 21,000 marks were exceeded by 2500 marks.
Web links
- Freiberg church district
- Rechenberg-Bienenmühle - a local portrait
- Local history association Rechenberg-Bienenmühle
literature
- Heinz Lohse, local history association Rechenberg-Bienenmühle (ed.): Festschrift 800 years Clausnitz. Festival week from June 26th to July 5th, 2010.
- Gustav Adolf Naumann: Chronicle of the communities Rechenberg-Bienenmühle and Holzhau in the Ore Mountains. Publishing house CL Geißler, Frauenstein im Erzgebirge 1935.
- Richard Steche : Rechenberg. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 2. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde. CC Meinhold, Dresden 1883, p. 69.
- Adolf Hermann Terne: Saxony's Church Gallery. Twelfth volume. The Schönburgische Receßherrschaft along with the ephorias Annaberg, Marienberg and Frauenstein. Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1837 ff., P. 176.
- Free Press from April 1, 2008 (article about the church bells)
- Free press of May 4, 2008 (article about the consecration of bells)
- Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 366.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 347
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 347
- ↑ The R. Kreuzbachorgel in Rechenberg on musicmangitarre.de, accessed on November 2, 2015
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 14.4 " N , 13 ° 33 ′ 20.3" E