Taltitz Church

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Taltitz Church (2014)
Baroque corner tower - rebuilt in 2003
Historic water supply Taltitz

The Taltitz Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Taltitz , a district of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. in Saxony .

history

The church history of Taltitz goes back to the 12th century. Erich Wild writes in the history and folk life of the Vogtland in sources from 700 years : "Already around 1200 Oelsnitz, Taltitz, Kürbitz and Leubnitz [...] small bells rang about young German village settlements." Already around 1200 a village parish and in Sources also mention a Lady Chapel . This is probably destroyed around 1300. It is not known when exactly the church that was built afterwards was built. Otto Flor dates it to the 14th century. In 1343 a pastor from Taltitz named Cunrad is mentioned for the first time. Between 1633 and 1744 members of the Zürner family were active as pastors of Taltitz. As early as 1677, the bailiff of Plauen, Wolfgang Ferber, acquired the Taltitz manor and thus also became the church's collator. In 1682 the tower of the church was built. The foundation stone was laid on April 3, 1682, and the button was installed in August. In 1683 the church nave was rebuilt and expanded under Pastor Nicolaus Zürner. In the course of the renovation, a new high altar was erected, a new organ was purchased and coats of arms and paintings about the life of Jesus Christ were attached to the church ceiling and the galleries. The work was completed on July 27, 1683. A year later the baptismal font with a baptismal bowl was purchased. More than 30 years later, in 1716, the nave was extended by adding a choir and building a hereditary burial on behalf of bailiff Christian Wilhelm Grae. The church had received its first tower clock the year before. In 1723, a sundial with numbers painted on the plaster was attached to the south-south-west side of the tower . In 1749 the parsonage was completely destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by 1751. In 1758, during the Seven Years' War , the rectory was temporarily the headquarters of the Prussian High Command under Prince Heinrich of Prussia .

In 1830, pastor Ferdinand Klemm carried out extensive renovation work on the church at his own expense. The high altar was abolished and a table altar with the painting Christ Carrying the Cross was purchased instead . The pulpit, supported by four columns, was moved to the south-east wall, where it is still located today. The decorations and paintings on the vaults and galleries from 1683 have been removed. On June 25, 1830, the church was consecrated again.

In 1831 the organ was restored by the organ builder Wolf from Plauen . In 1876, under pastor Karl Gustav Ritter, a new organ was installed by master organ builder Opitz from Dobra near Altenburg. In 1895 the new altarpiece Christ in Gethsemane is erected. 19 years later, the outside of the church building was also renovated. Three years later, the rectory was renovated in 1907.

On March 19, 1945, the church and the rectory were badly damaged in a bomb attack on Taltitz. In October 1950 the tower was re-covered. Tower knob and weather vane were removed and restored. The sacristy on the south side of the nave was demolished. In the same year the church in Taltiz got its bell back, which had to be delivered during the Second World War . Two years later, the home parlor was set up in the former manor box in the church tower. In 1962 the church received a second, smaller bell. In the following years, the church was extensively modernized: lightning protection, new rows of seats, heating and new plaster inside. The altarpiece, inaugurated in 1895, had to be removed in 1965 due to its dilapidated condition. In 1974 the rest of the altar table was also demolished. The new altar was inaugurated on the second Advent of the same year. In 1984 the organ was again completely overhauled. From 1997 to 1998 and 2012 major security and renovation work was carried out on the church.

In the home parlor in the tower room, which was set up in the former knight's lodge in 1952 and redesigned around 2000, there are finds from the Bronze Age and objects relating to the history of Taltitz.

sundial

After the first sundial was installed on the southeast side of the tower in 1723, it fell into disrepair over the next 250 years. During the renovation work from 1997 to 1999, the remains were removed and a new installation failed due to a lack of financial resources. It was not until November 10, 2006, after a donation from the former valley resident Karl-Friedrich Friedel, that a new sundial was purchased and installed in the original location.

Bells

The bell of the Taltitz church consists of three bells, the oldest of which seems to be from the early years around 1200. It bears the inscription "o rex gloriae veni nobis cum pace o sanna in excelsis amen" ( German  O King of glory come to us with peace. Hosanna on high. Amen ) In contrast, Richard Steche describes the bell as "the 14th to 15th . Belonging to the century ".

The big bell dates from 1582 and was cast in Nuremberg . It bears the inscription “God's word endures forever, believe that with deed, be happy; Christoph, bell founder in Nuremberg, poured me ” . It was delivered during the Second World War as a vital metal for the manufacture of cannons. In 1950 they were found again in the so-called bell cemetery for bells in Hamburg . In 1952 she came back to Taltitz via Ilsenburg and Chemnitz .

The smallest of the three bells from 1826 was also delivered as essential for the war effort and was lost.

On December 2, 1962, a new bell, known as the baptismal bell, was consecrated from Lüptitz near Wurzen . It bears the inscription "NICKEL LERCZ - THE PARENT HAS CAST ME TO LEIPZIG, ANNO DOMINI 1581" .

Baroque corner tower

The area of ​​the Taltitz Church closes on the south side with an octagonal tower, which dates from 1683. It was completely rebuilt in 2003 due to its lack of load-bearing capacity. The octagon tower, like the church, is now a listed building.

Historic water supply

There is a stone trough in front of the church. Spring water runs into these from a drainage system installed in the 17th century, which at the time served to supply the manor with water. In 2006 the wooden pipelines were repaired so that water has been filling the trough again since then.

literature

  • Heinz Mocker : Register for parish registers 1 to 5 of the Taltitz parish 1574–1800. Copy of the manuscript . Plauen 1987. 1131 families, according to inventory part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 497
  • Wolfgang Seffner: The manor of the Vogtland, their fate in the 20th century and the manor Taltitz. Vogtland-Verlag, Plauen 2002.
  • Richard Steche : Taltitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 10th booklet: Oelsnitz official administration . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1888, p. 22.
  • Ferdinand Klemm: Das Dorf Taltitz , in: Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie, Eleventh Volume, Voigtland, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1844, pp. 84–86 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
  • Otto Flor: Ephorie Taltitz , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1913, Volume 14, Sp. 531 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
  • Jana Penzel, Albin Buchholz : Taltitz, a village in the times 1225–2000 , local history
  • Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in the Vogtland, Taltitz 2012 digitized

Web links

Commons : Kirche Taltitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in the Vogtland, Taltitz 2012, unpag. (P. 8) digitized version, with publications cited there: Erich Wild: Geschichte und Volksleben des Vogtlandes in sources from 700 years , Plauen 1936, p. 380 and Unser Vogtland , Leipzig, 1929, p. 14
  2. ↑ quoted in Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in Vogtland, Taltitz 2012, unpag. (P. 8) Digitized
  3. ^ A b Ferdinand Klemm: The village of Taltitz , in: Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie , eleventh volume. Voigtland, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1844, p. 84 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
  4. ↑ a b Otto Flor: Ephorie Taltitz , in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1913, Volume 14, Sp. 534 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
  5. ↑ Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in Vogtland, Taltitz 2012, unpag. (P. 45ff.) Digitized
  6. ↑ Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in Vogtland, Taltitz 2012, unpag. (P. 35) Digitized
  7. ^ Richard Steche : Taltitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 10th booklet: Oelsnitz official administration . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1888, p. 22.
  8. ↑ a b c Werner Friedel: The church in the village of Taltitz . From the history of one of the first village parishes in Vogtland, Taltitz 2012, unpag. (P. 36) Digitized

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '15.9 "  N , 12 ° 7' 4.8"  E