Seifersdorf Church
The Seifersdorf church near Dippoldiswalde is a single-nave, Romanesque-Baroque church and is located in the middle of the village of the same name. It belongs to the parish of Kreischa-Seifersdorf in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .
history
The church was first mentioned in Seifersdorf's founding deed of July 4, 1282, when the Burggrave Otto II von Dohna took Freiberg pound for his ancestors resting in Altzella in the annual soul mass . On July 20, 1312 the same burgrave donated the church loan to the Altzella monastery , in 1346 the church is mentioned among the 17 parishes of the parish of Dippoldiswalde in the parish of Nisan.
The baptismal font, decorated with Romanesque ornaments and late Gothic frescoes from the 14th-15th centuries are from the early phase of the church . Century on the inside walls of the nave. The choir is separated from the nave by a mighty choir arch. The year 1451 preserved in the choir is considered to be the time when the Elector of Saxony had the building restored to its present state.
The altar bears the year 1518 and was created by the Dippoldiswald artist Mol-Jurge for the then large church. The sister of the Vorwerk owner Heinrich von Miltitz in Malter , Maria von Miltitz, was buried in a crypt in the chancel in 1593. In 1639 parts of the church were set on fire by the Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War; in 1658 it was consecrated again.
The pulpit , decorated with images of the four evangelists and richly carved, was made in the Baroque style between 1570 and 1770. The baptismal font cover with its carving dates from 1749, the baptismal font from 1743. Among other things, the church has a picture of Pastor Carl Gotthelf Hardtmann from 1838, whose grave is to the right of the entrance. Two chandeliers donated in 1850 decorate and illuminate the interior.
In the years 1868–1871 new ceiling paintings and the installation of a new organ were carried out by the Dippoldiswald master organ builder Karl Traugott Stöckel , who, contrary to the trend of his time, built his instruments essentially based on the organ building art of the Baroque period. It has 16 registers, 2 manuals and a mechanical action .
The ringing of the bell consists of a small, medium and large bronze bells, which were cast in 2003 and consecrated in the same year after the belfry was renewed. A small bell was consecrated to the church as early as 1500, this was followed by a medium and large bronze bell that the Dresden bell founder Michael Weinhold created in 1697 and 1724. Both of the larger older bells were melted down during World War I , and the oldest found its place in another church. Three bells consecrated in 1922 were melted down during World War II, followed by three iron bells in 1948, which were obsolete in 2003.
Peal
The bell consists of three bronze bells, the bell cage was renewed in 2003 and is made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2003 | Bell foundry R. Perner | 833 mm | 389 kg | b ′ |
| 2 | 2003 | Bell foundry R. Perner | 720 mm | 253 kg | of" |
| 3 | 2003 | Bell foundry R. Perner | 676 mm | 223 kg | it" |
The mechanical church tower clock was created by F. Wheels in 1834. A sundial on the outside wall of the church once indicated the times. The entrance halls each have an entrance door which, in the rear, has a simple frame with a round arch and an attached stone crown with a surrounding stone crown, in the front a raised frame with an attached stone cross with an ivy image. Around the church there is the old churchyard , the community cemetery . This is where the war memorial stands for the inhabitants of the place, in the First World War have fallen. Opposite the church is the parsonage from 1848, next to it the tenant house built in 1892 and the servant house with the barn from 1817. These buildings form the community center.
Web links
- Description of the church on the parish website
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 358 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 13 ° 38 ′ 27.6 ″ E