Schmannewitz Church

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Schmannewitz church and rectory (center)

The Schmannewitz Church - also popularly known as the George Bähr Church Schmannewitz because of its builder - is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in Schmannewitz , a district of Dahlen , in the Saxon district of Northern Saxony . The baroque church was built in 1732 according to plans by George Bähr .

Shape and development

Side view

The baroque village church was built in 1731–1732 as a single-nave sacred building. The octagonal church tower and the interior fittings with the galleries date from the end of the 18th century.

The fact that the church had a special master builder was only discovered in 1962 when the church tower was being rebuilt: An eight-page document came to light, from which it emerged that the design for the Schmannewitz Church was by George Bähr, the master builder of the Frauenkirche in Dresden came from. The church is a listed building and has been restored according to the historical plans.

In 2000 there was an extensive external renovation, during which the plaster was mostly renewed and damaged sandstone walls of the windows were repaired. The church was also completely painted.

The structural features typical of George Bähr can also be found on and in this building: Just like the Frauenkirche in Dresden , it is also more of a central building . The church tower is not in a westerly or completely easterly orientation; rather, at the eastern end it has moved a little towards the middle of the nave . The pulpit altar with the pulpit above the altar is also typical . The basic shape of the church is a cross .

Interior design

Pulpit altar
Baptismal harvest , rare combination of baptismal font and lectern

During the renovation of the interior, the lead-glazed windows typical of the Baroque era were used and the sandstone in the chancel and corridor was renewed. The rounded, self-supporting gallery is supported by two iron pillars for safety.

The original wall patterns and colors were renewed by the painter Taubert. The facade of the pulpit altar reveals the rural baroque style of the original era. The artistic painting of simple wood should give the appearance of a high-quality and noble equipment with marble columns, velvet curtains and gold tassels.

Also worth seeing is the baptismal harvest - a rare combination of baptismal font and lectern - which is not part of the original equipment . Discovered in poor condition by Pastor Gerhard Hemmann and restored by the studio group Rosi Schwabe and Stephan Türmer from Dresden, it has been on view in its original form since spring 2008.

The second gallery on the north side of the church (where the stove is) did not originally exist. It comes from the church in Cröbern near Leipzig; it fell victim to open- cast lignite mining during the GDR era , for which the entire town was excavated.

organ

Prospectus of the Rühle organ

The organ, based on the baroque ideal of sound, was created in 1977 by the organ builder C. Rühle from Moritzburg. It has 17 registers , two manuals and a pedal .

The organ (key action: mechanical, nature of wind loading: Shaper , key action : mechanical, voice pitch: 440 Hz) has, according to the organ database ORKASA following disposition :

I Manual
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 0
II manual
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Zimbel III 0
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Cantus Firmus III 0
trombone 16 ′
Dulcian 08th'
  • Coupling : manual coupling, pedal coupling I, pedal coupling II, tremulant

Peal

The church Schmannewitz had three bronze - church bells . The middle bell with the tone as and the small bell with the tone c had to be given up in the Second World War and were melted down .

The church has had the following complete ringing since 1955: The first bell with the tone f sharp ′ weighs 680 kg and dates from 1440. The second bell a ' weighs 361 kg and was cast by the Schilling family of bell-founders from Apolda in 1952 from bronze scrap from the Hamburg bell cemetery been. This bronze scrap was assigned to the parish by the Saxon regional church office. According to the files, it bears the year 1952 and the inscription " SOLI DEO GLORIA ". The third bell, tuned to the tone d ″, weighs 172 kg and dates from 1907 (also Schilling sons) - until 1955 it was the small bell of the Terpitz church .

sundial

sundial

A special feature is the historical sundial attached to the nave with the four years 1830, 1904, 1963 and 2000. It is a vertical sundial .

Parish

Altar detail

The Schmannewitz parish no longer has its own pastoral office since January 2018.

The pastors of the Schmannewitz Church:

  • 1550: Tungel, Johannes
  • 1567: Schreiber, Valentin
  • 1568: Thimmig, Abraham
  • 1596: Lönick, Georg
  • 1596: Thimmig, Christian
  • 1626: Calbitz, Georg
  • 1638: Lorenz, Johann
  • 1663: Kreisel, Christian
  • 1692: Kreisel, Johann Tobias
  • 1707: Bratring, Markus
  • 1741: Lossius, Johann David
  • 1790: Forbriger, Christian Friedrich
  • 1832: Schoch, Friedrich August
  • 1844: Engler, Johann Friedrich Traugott
  • 1877: Hartlich, August Hermann
  • 1888: Hanitzsch, Martin Theodor
  • 1889: Weicker, Gotthold
  • 1902: Hühn, Georg Adolf
  • 1928: male, Rudolf Eduard
  • 1949–1978: Fischer, Gerhard
  • 1979: Hemmann, Gerhard
  • 2018: Mette, Kathrin

photos

  • Pulpit altar

  • Altar crown with God's eye

  • Baptismal font, not original

  • Organ and gallery

  • Church portal from the inside

  • Church portal from the outside

Others

Stove in the church, fired with wood

The Schmannewitz Church is still (as of February 2020) heated by a wood-fired stove that is freestanding on the left side of the nave.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Schmannewitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Schmannewitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 28th booklet: Oschatz Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1905, p. 270.
  • Saxony's Church Gallery - The Inspection Oschatz. Third volume, fourth division. Dresden 1840

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The George-Baehr-Kirche zu Schmannewitz on the web portal outdooractive.com , accessed on January 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ of the Schmannewitz Church on the web portal evlks.de , accessed on February 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony - sound between heaven and earth . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office of Saxony. 2nd updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 354 .
  4. ↑ The Schmannewitz Church on the web portal kirche-an-der-dahlener-heide.de , accessed on January 31, 2020.
  5. ^ A b Jana Brechlin: Pastor Kathrin Mette is bid farewell in Schmannewitz. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, January 9, 2018. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Information from the web portal pfarrerbuch.de , accessed on February 10, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '52.5 "  N , 12 ° 59' 4.9"  E