Steinigtwolmsdorf Church

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Steinigtwolmsdorf Church, 2017

The Steinigtwolmsdorf Church is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in Steinigtwolmsdorf in the Saxon district of Bautzen . The current church building from 1861 is a landmark in the townscape of Steinigtwolmsdorf.

history

Between 1262 and 1655

In 1262, after the town was founded around 1250, the inhabitants built a small wooden chapel . Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1363, the congregation replaced the chapel with a church building at the current location, and the surrounding church cemetery was laid out at the same time . According to a register (list) from the episcopal archives Budissin ( Bautzen ) Steinich-Wolframsdorf with Hainspach was charged with four marks bishop's interest in 1346 . In 1442 there was the first mention of "Stenychtem Wolffersdorfe" in the literature.

The lower part of the church tower consists of natural stone masonry, on which a wooden tower was placed in 1372. After the Reformation was introduced by Patron Wolf von Haugwitz around 1558 in Steinigtwolmsdorf, the former Catholic church became an Evangelical-Lutheran.

The church collator Christian Hartmann, who was entrusted with an extensive church renovation , had the current stone church tower built using the older foundation in 1655. During this work, the cross-shaped floor plan of the extended church building was created.

From the 17th century to 1990

After 600 years, the church in 1858 decided to build a new house of worship . The state insurance inspector Götz from Bautzen made a crack in 1860 , which the church leaders accepted. The building contract was awarded to Karl August Thomas from Neusalza on April 30, 1860. The demolition of the old church began on May 14, 1860, and the foundation stone was laid on June 12, 1860 . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 8, 1860 ; the celebration held during snowstorms ended with the hymn Now, all thank God . On November 4, 1861, the church was consecrated . The construction cost a total of 16,000  thalers .

The Baroque - baptismal font of 1664 was taken as a single piece from the previous church. The altar painting of the Ascension of Christ from 1861 was not yet ready for the inauguration of the church. It comes from the history painter Johannes Zumpe from Dresden, a student of Schnorr von Carolsfeld and a friend of Ludwig Richter . The first organ was consecrated on July 27, 1862, and was replaced in 1873. The Andreas Beyer family assumed the costs as a manor.

As a result of a fire triggered by lightning in 1941 and the extinguishing water used, the second organ was also unusable. After the end of the Second World War , in 1945/46 the nave was repaired and renovated, and a new organ was installed in 1946/47 .

In 1960 the winter church was built by installing a window wall below the organ gallery, it is used by the congregation as a church service room from Advent to Easter. In 1974 the damaged tower was repaired and a new tower clock with four dials was installed. In 1981/82 the community redesigned the former boiler room as a Christian apprenticeship and confirmation room and named it Luther Room .

In 1984 the church museum was set up with Bibles, paintings and sponsorship letters collected in the community. It documents the church and local history there.

Since 1991

With the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR there was an opportunity to renovate the winter church in 1997/98, and in 2001 it was given a colored altar window. In 2006 the museum reopened after maintenance work. The hurricane Kyrill in 2007 destroyed the roof of the apse , which was re-covered of 2008.

On May 24, 2011, the big bell was taken out of the tower and placed next to the church, on June 9, 2011 the weather vane and the tower ball were removed, which were put back on October 14, 2011 after revising and reviewing the documents. In 2012 the church exterior received a complete renovation and a new roof. On October 31, 2017, a monument to Martin Luther was inaugurated on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation .

Architecture and equipment

The church, a yellow plastered quarry stone building , is a late classicist hall church with a small transept in the east. Pilaster strips and blind arches structure the facade; there are 1,600 seats in the nave: 800 seats in the galleries and 800 seats in the nave .

Tower and bell

Tower side
Altar side

The tower, structurally integrated into the entire building structure, has an octagonal hood clad with slate . The tower clock and the bell house are arranged below it. On top of the tower roof there is a lantern , on this in turn there is a tower ball, weathercock and cross.

The four church bells are located in the church tower with a square floor plan with a side length of 6.80 m and a height of around 35 m.

The first bell of the small church came from the pre-Reformation period and consisted of two bronze bells of different sizes; one of the names on the bell body was Maria . In 1701 the community had a first large bell made by Michael Weinhold , a bell caster from Dresden, and installed in the tower for 160 Thaler . This big bell broke on July 5, 1774 during a mourning ring and was then cast over by Weinhold in Dresden; she weighed 10  quintals and 69  pounds . On April 1, 1816, it shattered again at the noon ring. Now the community brought the bell parts to the bell founder Joseph Kittel in Bohemia, who cast them on November 30, 1816. She now weighed 11 quintals and 106 pounds and was raised into the tower on December 19, 1816. Since they were satisfied with this bell, the parish decided in the following year to have the other two bells re-cast by this master. In 1869 the big bell broke again at the noon toll. Now it was cast on October 26, 1869 by the bell caster Werner from the Gruhl foundry in Kleinwelka and then weighed 12 quintals and 7 3/4 pounds. The consecration of bells took place on November 26, 1869 in front of the church. The mood had changed steadily, Werner's bell sounded a sharp “F sharp”; the previous one had "G", so that the triad had become a minor chord.

During the First World War , in 1917, the medium and large bells had to be delivered for war purposes , the farewell ceremony was on June 24, 1917. On the following day, master locksmith Zosel smashed both bells before loading. Only the small bell remained on the tower. The tin organ pipes also had to be delivered in 1917. In 1920/1921 the church received a new three-bell bronze bell. The small bell was donated by Lothar von Ponickau , the owner of the manor and church patron at the time . During the Second World War, the larger two bells again had to be sacrificed for war. This time, too, only the little bell remained.

The big bell has stood next to the church since 2011.

In 1949 the Steinigtwolmsdorf church received a new four-part chime made of hard-cast steel bells by Schilling & Lattermann from Apolda , cast in Morgenröthe :

  • first bell 410 kg, tone h, inscription: Jesus go first
  • Third bell 700 kg, tone G sharp , inscription: Order our course
  • second bell 1460 kg, tone e, inscription: Shall we go hard
  • big bell: 2550 kg, tone c sharp, inscription: Straighten our mind

Main nave

The apse with the chancel is a pentagonal extension with a radius of 5.60 m, the roof height of which ends with the eaves height of the main building. The floor plan of the nave and the shortened transepts form a typical Greek cross , the length from west to east is 36 m, the width across the transepts 25 m. However, the church interior is only 19 m wide. The foundations are equipped with six high arched windows on both long sides. The window panes are achromatic and allow sufficient daylight into the prayer room. The main entrance to the church is on the west side directly under the tower.

Interior

On both sides of the room there is a gallery on which the organ stands. There are grave slabs to the right of the chancel for Pastor Adam Grund and to the left of the chancel for Pastor Immanuel Gottfried Mönchmeyer. Pastor Eduard Ochernal, during whose time in office the church was built, lies in the crypt of the altar in Oberdorf. The manor owner Baron Oppen von Huldenberg lies in the crypt on the Niederdorf side.

The organ in the church is the third instrument, it dates from 1946 and was built by the organ builder A. Schuster & Sohn . It is an electro-pneumatic instrument with 38 registers on 3 manuals and a pedal .

Parish

Since January 1, 2020, the church territory reform has been in effect in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony with greater regional responsibilities.

The rectory belonging to the parish has been in the Niederdorf area since 1618 , which also includes a parish.

Pastor of the Steinigtwolmsdorf Church

  • 1550: Rösler, Jakob
  • 1558–1559: Rave (also written Ramm, Rarve or Raue) , Johannes; Transferred to another parish in 1559
  • 1559: Bochshamer, Michael
  • 1562: Prisel, Johann
  • 1562: Mild, Tobias
  • 1569: Lißke, Gregor
  • 1593: Spanseil, Jonas
  • 1606: Gudeborn, Valentin
  • 1606: Strong, Johann
  • 1610: Bachmann, Christian
  • 1614: Fischer, Johann Moritz
  • 1617: Reinecke, Joachim
  • 1623: Kettner, Johann
  • 1636: Nitzschmann, Christoph
  • 1663: Schulze, Christoph
  • 1680: Weise, Johann Michael
  • 1693: reason, Adam
  • 1742: Münchmeyer, Immanuel Gottfried or Mönchmeyer
  • 1754: Ochernal, Karl Heinrich Daniel
  • 1803: Ochernal, Daniel Gottlieb , son of the aforementioned pastor
  • 1842: Ochernal, Karl Eduard Reinhold , son of the aforementioned pastor and grandson of the aforementioned pastor; During his time in office, the current church building was built in 1861; he has his final resting place in a church crypt.
  • 1877: Pache, Alfred Emil Immanuel
  • 1889: Zeißler, Karl August Hermann
  • 1900: Berg, Walter Theodor
  • 1901: Mütze, Max * Alfred
  • 1912: Schanz, Andreas * Johannes
  • 1919: Michaelis, * Fritz Oskar
  • 1928: Voigt, Otto * Martin
  • 1934: Schleißing, Robert Max Alfred
  • 1938: Wille, Karlheinz Franz Hermann
  • 1942: Köhler, Erich
  • 1977: Conzendorf, Joachim
  • 1999: Ramsch, Maria

The “Ochernal Period” at Steinigtwolmsdorf Church lasted 122 years, from 1754 to 1876: Father, son and grandson Ochernal were pastors for the parish for three generations.

Partner municipality

The Steinigtwolmsdorf parish has been in partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther parish in Lauenbrück for many years .

Web links

Commons : Steinigtwolmsdorf Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Church chronicle on the website of the local congregation , accessed on April 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ All dimensions were roughly determined with the Google Earth tool .
  3. ↑ Bell foundry in Kleinwelka: illustration, photo from 1962 , accessed on April 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Church history at Neukirch Church , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Works by the organ builder Welde , accessed on March 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ See grave slab in the chancel for Pastor Grund.
  7. ↑ See grave slab in the chancel for Pastor Mönchmeyer.
  8. ^ Pfarrbuch Sachsen, DG Ochernal , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  9. ^ Pfarrbuch Sachsen, KER Ochernal , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  10. ^ See crypt for Pastor Eduard Ochernal.
  11. ^ Parish register of Saxony, position 1615 , accessed on March 8, 2020
  12. ↑ Church partnership , accessed on March 8, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '46.9 "  N , 14 ° 20' 46.1"  E