Seehausen Church (Leipzig)

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Seehausen Church (2010)

The Seehausen Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in the Seehausen district of Leipzig . She enjoys monument protection .

history

The church around 1840

It is assumed that the 13th century was the time when the Seehausen church was built; it is therefore part of the Romanesque period . Changed by numerous renovations, only the lower parts of the tower from this time are probably left.

Around 1500 the Romanesque windows were replaced by larger ones with pointed arches and Gothic tracery, which were later changed again, and the church received an altar with figures of saints. The current altar was built around 1700. The hall was rebuilt in the early 18th century.

When the New Year's bell from 1867 broke the big bell from 1428 and was cast together with the smaller bell from 1744 in the Ulrich brothers' bell foundry in Apolda .

The last major renovation, in which the western vestibule with the main entrance and the sacristy were created, was carried out from 1876 to 1878 by the Leipzig architect Hugo Altendorff .

At the beginning of the 1990s, the interior of the church was extensively restored, followed in 2008 by the roof and tower, including the reconstruction of the historic belfry.

Location and architecture

The Church from the East

The church stands in a small cemetery in the center of the former village. This is the remainder of the formerly larger Angers of the place founded as a street green village.

The church is a plastered quarry stone building with arched windows. It is a choir tower church , that is, the tower stands in the east of the building and contains the altar area. To the west is a hall building that is wider than the tower to the north, so that the altar is not positioned in the middle of the hall. The building is closed off to the west by an entrance building that is smaller in height and width than the hall building. A small sacristy annex adjoins the tower to the north.

The tower has a slate hipped roof , the edges of which are broken. At the ends of the short roof ridge in east-west direction are two weather vanes. To the east and west, the clock faces of the tower clock can be seen under dormers . The gable roofs of the hall and entrance building are tiled. On the north side, they are slightly angled over the width of the tower at the point where they protrude.

The hall has a flat ceiling and is surrounded on three sides by a gallery with flower basket elements. A star vault adorns the altar area .

Furnishing

  • The altar area

  • Image in the predella

  • Sacrament niche

The altar of the Seehausen church is a pulpit altar . It was made by the Leipzig council carpenter Johann Christian Senckeisen (1670–1729). It is designed in baroque style. The pulpit is flanked by two pillars with the risen Christ enthroned on top, accompanied by two putti on the sides . The Last Supper is depicted in a panel in the predella of the altar . To the right and left of it is the coat of arms of Carl Caesar von Bose , the manor owner in Seegeritz , who donated the altar as the patron saint at the time .

On the north side of the choir there is a barred sacrament niche from 1455, adorned with a Luther rose . The font dates from 1854 and came back to the church in the early 1990s after a long stay in a front garden.

organ

The organ dates from 1872 by the Delitzsch master organ builder Eduard Offenhauer (1825–1904). It has twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal . Your disposition is as follows:

The Offenhauer organ
I Manual C–
1. Principal 8th'
2. Gedackt (from c) 8th'
3. Gamba (from c) 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Hollow flute 4 ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Cornett III (from c 1 )
II Manual C–
8th. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
9. Flauto traverso 8th'
10. Flauto amabile 4 ′
Pedal C–
11. Sub bass 16 ′
12. Violon bass 08th'

Parish

The Seehausen Church, together with the churches in Gottscheina , Göbschelwitz , Hohenheida , Plaussig , Portitz and Seegeritz, belong to the Plaußig-Hohenheida parish.

literature

  • Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 236 .
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Seehausen. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 125.
  • Seehausen. In: Saxony's church gallery. The inspections: Leipzig and Grimma. Leipzig 1844, p. 229 (digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Church Seehausen  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Seehausen (Leipzig) , ID number 09256077
  2. ↑ Seehausen Church. In: Seehausen local council. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ev. Seehausen parish church. In: architecture-blicklicht. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ORKASA organ database. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 54.9 ″  E