Steinbach Church (Bad Lausick)
The Evangelical Church Steinbach is a late Gothic, Baroque-style hall church in the Steinbach district of Bad Lausick in the Leipzig district in Saxony . It belongs to the Bad Lausick-Etzoldsheim parish in the Leipziger Land church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and deserves attention thanks to its largely preserved baroque organ.
History and architecture
The sizeable hall church was created in 1717 through the baroque reconstruction of a late Gothic hall church from around 1400, which in turn replaced a wooden previous building from around 1170. A restoration took place in the years 1974–1989. The structure is a plastered building with corner pilaster strips and a three-sided end. The west tower is built over a rectangular substructure the width of the hall and is closed off by an octagonal attachment with a curved hood and an open lantern .
The interior is a uniform, bright hall with window niches at room height. A hollow vault with stucco work and delicate tendril decoration, which bears a coat of arms of Christoph Friedrich Pflugk from 1722 in the middle, completes the room. In the east there is a magnificent gallery swinging back to the sides on columns, the capitals of which are decorated with angels' heads. In the west a glazed patronage box from 1717 is arranged over a wide arch .
Furnishing
The pulpit is flanked by columns with a blown gable. A well-designed, carved reading baptism in the form of a baroque vase with a putto as a desk holder dates from around 1720. A neo-Gothic sandstone baptism was taken from the church in the abandoned village of Breunsdorf . Two carved figures show God the Father and a Madonna, which come from a coronation of Mary from around 1430. A late baroque, wooden epitaph for Christoph Friedrich Pflugk († 1725) is framed by trophies. A grave monument of Dorothea von Zehmen († 1690) is decorated with foliage and flowers.
organ
The organ with a richly decorated front is a work by Johann Ernst Hähnel from Meißen from 1724 with 14 stops on two manuals and pedal . Hähnel's authorship is secured by repair invoices from 1771. In 1727 the organist from Borna made repairs, in 1747/1748 repairs were carried out by Hähnel or one of his journeymen. In 1770 the bellows were repaired, in 1771 they were cleaned and overhauled by Hähnel and Johann George Friedrich Zöllner. Other minor repairs were carried out in 1777 and 1796, and a major one in 1797. Another minor repair has been reported for 1831. In 1917 the prospect pipes had to be handed in for war purposes. In 1922, Alfred Schmeisser installed a zinc brochure based on a cost estimate from 1921, replaced missing or defective metal pipes and installed a new blower. In 1938 the organ was restored in style by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen . In 1961 Reinhard Schmeisser installed an electric fan. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : manual slide coupling, pedal main unit.
- Playing aid : Kalkantenklingel
Peal
The chime consists of two chilled cast iron bells and a bronze bell. The belfry consists of a steel structure. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | material | Chime |
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| 1 | 1957 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | Chilled iron | 820 mm | 250 kg | d ″ |
| 2 | 1857 | Bell foundry Gebr. Ulrich | bronze | 530 mm | 70 kg | f ″ |
| 3 | 1957 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | Chilled iron | 660 mm | 120 kg | G" |
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 919.
- 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. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 360.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 257-258 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: Sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 360 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 10.3 " N , 12 ° 35 ′ 57.5" E