Round Church of the Prince of Peace (Klingenthal)
| Round church "To the Prince of Peace" | |
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| Type: | Round church |
| Architectural style: | Baroque |
| Height: | 45 m |
| Capacity: | 800 people |
| Denomination: | Evangelical Lutheran |
| Consecration: | September 15, 1737 |
| Organ: | baroque disposition |
| Organ builder: | Johann Gotthilf Bärmig - Werdau |
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| Pastor: | Jörg Birkenmaier & Christoph Greiling |
| Cantor: | Matthias Sandner |
| Services: | Sunday 9:30 a.m. |
| Parish office: | Ev.-Luth. Church "Zum Friedefürsten" Kirchstrasse 19 08248 Klingenthal |
| Homepage: | www.kirche-klingenthal.de |
The round church "Zum Friedefürsten" is an Evangelical-Lutheran baroque round church in Klingenthal . It has a regular octagonal floor plan and is the largest of its kind in Saxony after the Frauenkirche in Dresden . The church is the most important historical building in Klingenthal and dominates the center of the city.
Church history
prehistory
The hammer mill , built in 1591 at the confluence of the Brunndöbra and Zwota rivers , was the starting point for the foundation of the Hammerweiler Hella / Hellhammer, later called Klingenthal. The place and population were officially part of the Voigtsberg near Oelsnitz office ; spiritually, however, to Schöneck / Vogtl. , the old spiritual center of the Upper Vogtland . The parish registers are available from 1696, the first church register 1635–1695 was lost in a parsonage fire.
Because of the geographically large distance between Klingenthal and Schöneck as well as the increase in residents, due to the immigration of exiles from the Habsburg lands during the Thirty Years' War and especially afterwards, voices were heard calling for an independent parish . Thus was laid already in 1628 in Klingenthal a graveyard on. The first two to be buried were the sons of Pastors Benjamin and Josua Reich, who were expelled from Bohemia and who stayed in Klingenthal near the border. Pastor Caspar Olza (the younger) from Schöneck notes in the church book :
"So both gentlemen have brothers as exules, with their sons both sons, alda the new gods field have to weyhen"
In 1635, the manor's request was granted: Klingenthal had its own parish. Georg Christoph von Boxberg provided the young 306-strong congregation in his Hammergut with a room for holding church services . The first priest was Salomon Barth , the only son of the Austrian priest Paulus Barth. In 1646 Untersachsenberg was parish off to Klingenthal, Brunndöbra not until 1671.
The first house of God
In 1653 - five years after the end of the Thirty Years' War - the first church in Klingenthal, a simple building made of wood, was consecrated on the 12th Sunday after Trinity . The name Zum Friedefürsten was meant to express " that our house of God is a new proof of how we humans owe the highest blessings to peace ." One referred to Isa 9 : 1-6 Lut , where it says:
“1 The people who walk in the dark see a great light, and it shines brightly on those who live in the dark land. 2 You arouse loud cheers, you make great joy. Before you people will rejoice as they rejoice in the harvest, as they are happy when they distribute booty. 3 For you broke her yoke, the yoke on her shoulder, and the rod of her driver, as in the day of Midian. 4 For every boot that is thundering along, and every coat that is draped in blood, is burned and consumed by fire. 5 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us, and rulership rests on his shoulder; and it is called Miracle Council, God-Hero, Eternal Father, Peace Prince ; 6 that his reign may be great, and that peace may not end on the throne of David and in his kingdom, that he may strengthen and sustain it through justice and righteousness from now on and forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this . "
In 1655 a bell and a tower clock were installed in an extra tower next to the rectory. The bell had the inscription " Wolf Hieronymus Heroldt in Nürnberg poured me in Anno 1655" on the wreath and on the outside:
- These bells, to the Klingenthal
- Right, is poured
- At the time of Elector John George the First ,
- When I was there
- Georg Bernhard Boxberger judge
- And Salomon Barth pastor
- Verbum Dei manet in aeternum
A small organ was installed around 1685 and the second bell was purchased in 1724. From 1716, due to the dilapidation and the narrowness of the square , a new building was dealt with.
In May 1699 the miner Christoph Carl von Boxberg was buried in the church.
Construction of the round church
In 1736 the demolition of the old and done foundation stone of the present church, which on September 15, 1737 13th Sunday after Trinity , consecrated could be. The cost of construction amounted to 4,713 thalers . The organ from the old church was used. The leading craftsmen, the master mason Hans Paul Gerbeth from Gopplasgrün , the carpenter Michael Küntzel from Thomeck and the stonemason Christian Wolf , created a building of a special kind. Above the almost completely rounded octagonal shape rises the church with three galleries , crowned by one Multiple curved sloping roof , ending in an onion dome at a height of 45 meters. The church offers space for around 700 people. The painter Johann Salomon Dörfel from Oelsnitz designed the interior of the church in 1739, which was previously only white. A new clockwork has also been installed. In 1760, the organ builder Trampeli from Adorf built a new organ for 200 thalers. It had two manuals and 18 stops.
19th century changes
In 1837 the interior of the church was renovated. A font adapted to the octagon of the church was set up. In 1861 two new bells were raised. Since the old organ no longer corresponded to the romantic taste in music at the time, master organ builder Johann Gotthilf Bärmig from Werdau built a new organ in 1872. It comprised two manuals, a pedal unit, 23 registers and 1461 pipes. The upper work of the old organ was partly used again. A new clock with three dials was installed in the church tower in 1874 for 1511 marks, and the third bell was bought in 1883. In 1895 the church was renovated again. Among other things, the prayer rooms on the second gallery were removed and steam heating was installed.
20th century history
A new bell cage with three new bronze bells was installed in 1912. After the First World War , four appropriately designed lead glass windows were installed in 1922 as a reminder and in memory of the fallen. But the Second World War was not long in coming and so in 1942 the large and medium bells were confiscated for war purposes and melted down. After the war, three steel bells were ceremoniously purchased from the bell foundry in Morgenröthe in 1952 and brought up to the tower.
Further renovations followed. In 1961 the church roof was re-covered, in 1966 an electrical bell system was installed and in 1967 the interior of the church was renovated and gilded by the restorers Helmar Helas (Dresden) and Pitzschler (Crimmitschau). In doing so, the original colors were used again, as far as they appeared at the time.
Since the organ was in great need of renovation, the Rühle company from Moritzburg overhauled and expanded it by two registers in 1982 . Shortly before the fall of the Wall, in 1988, a new movement and new dials were installed. In October 1989 the church was the center of the non-violent demonstrations in Klingenthal. The demonstrators gathered both in and in front of the church because the building could not contain the large number of people.
After the unification of Germany , the exterior of the church was renovated from 1991 to 1993. The heating was switched to natural gas. In 1996 the altar was cleaned. In this context, the old lead glass windows were restored from 1996 to 1999 and provided with protective windows. For administrative reasons, the four parishes of the valley merged in 1999 to form a sister church. Extensive renovation work took place in 2003/2004. The wood damage in the lower area of the eight gallery columns as well as the church roof, the ceiling of the second gallery and in the porches were renovated. The bars had to be replaced, the electrics completely renewed, the entrances renovated and the galleries cleaned. After examining the color of the ceiling, revealing an ornament, the ceiling was redesigned in its original color.
The clergy
The first pastor was the already mentioned Salomon Barth in 1635, who took office at the age of 31. When he died is not known, he was mentioned for the last time in 1672. His successor was his son Friedrich Barth, who gave his trial sermon in 1666 and remained pastor until his death on July 23, 1695. He was followed by Nicolaus Spranger from Unterwürschnitz . After working as a pastor in Wohlbach from 1691 , he came to Klingenthal in 1696 and remained there until 1733. His successor was Johann Bernhard Croll, previously pastor in Schwand (Vogtland) , who looked after Klingenthal from 1734 to 1745. The following pastors were:
- 1734–1745: Heinrich Schulze
- 1788–1807: Johann Haun
- 1808–1826: Ernst Richter
- 1826–1835: Friedrich Treibmann
- 1835–1868: Karl Wolf (wrote the "Wolf Chronicle")
- 1868–1873: Friedrich Kummer
- 1874-1882: Robert Arnold
- 1882–1892: Karl Otto Scheer
- 1893–1904: Ernst Cesar
- 1905–1910: Friedrich Doerne
- 1911–1915: Dr. Walter Flade
- 1916-1922: Michael Ranft
- 1922–1924: Johann König
- 1924–1932: Franz Schwan
- 1933–1940: Walter Schwarze
- 1940–1955: Friedrich Wallmann
- 1955–1979: Erich Kölbel
- 1979–1984: Dr. Hans-Joachim Kandler
- 1986–1993: Frank Meinel
- 1994–1997: Hubert Schierl
- 1998–2011: Stephan Zeibig
- since November 2012: Andreas and Imola Virginas
architecture
The peculiarity of the church is its octagonal floor plan. The aim was to illustrate the fellowship of Christians who gathered around the altar on Sunday. Similar churches are the Trinitatiskirche in Carlsfeld and the Seiffener Kirche . Until the completion of the Bährschen Frauenkirche in Dresden, the round church Zum Friedefürsten was the largest structure of its kind in Saxony. The architectural style can be classified in the peasant baroque , as baroque style elements are present, but not as pronounced. Compared to other baroque buildings, the building can be described as simple. The bell-shaped roof of the round church tapers upwards in the shape of an onion after the bell tower. There is a gold-plated pommel at the top. During the repair of the roof, old writings, instruments and products from the time of church building were found there. The extensions at the entrances were added later. The name of the builder of the round church is not mentioned in any file. However, the master mason Paul Gerbeth from Gopplasgrün, the master carpenter Adam Kanzel from Thomeck and the stone carver Christian Wolf are named.
The interior of the church
The nave is arranged around the altar. The entrances are on both sides of the ship. The church has three galleries, which used to have glazed prayer booths. The supporting pillars provided by the neighboring community in the eight corners of the church each consist of a whole fir trunk that extends from the floor of the nave to the roof structure. They testify to the giant trees that have stood in this region. The interior has a clear width of 18 m and a clear height of 12 m.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar on the east side of the church is made of wood and is the work of the sculptor Zimmermann from Schönbach in Bohemia . The typically Protestant pulpit altar of the Baroque period expresses the unity of word and sacrament in an excellent way . To deepen this idea can be seen behind the altar plate, a painting which the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples represents. The pulpit rises above the altar made of field stones, each flanked by a marbled wooden column . On the right, Aaron with the censer , on the left, Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments . The pulpit is covered by a canopy on the underside of which the dove of the Holy Spirit hovers. Above, standing in a niche, surrounded by tendrils, clouds and putti , the risen One . The entire structure is crowned by a halo, in the middle of which the Hebrew name of God can be read in the symbolic triangle : יהוה .
The oldest work of art preserved church is the altar over, above the memorial book for the fallen soldiers of World War II hanging crucifix , which is reported that it had brought exiles from their homeland with the new Klingenthal as a sign of their trust in God.
Another baroque piece of equipment is the baptismal angel attached to the column near the baptismal font , which, originally holding a baptismal bowl , is now equipped with two candle holders.
The stained glass windows to the right and left of the altar serve to commemorate those who died in the First World War .
organ
The original old Orgelwerklein followed in 1760 an organ of Adorfer organ builder Johann Paul Trampeli . In 1872 this was replaced by the current organ, which has been restored several times in the meantime, by the Werzeit organ builder Johann Gotthilf Bärmig . In 1981/82 the instrument received new prospectus (organ) | prospectus pipes made of tin, which replace the prospectus pipes released in 1918. The organ is with sliderchest provided with mechanical stop and key and includes 1461 pipes , two manuals , 25 Register , Tremulant , manual and pedal coupling . Due to its baroque disposition with unevenly floating mood, its sound pattern corresponds to the ideal from the time the church was built.
The organ has the following disposition:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
Bells
Nothing remained of the original bell . Since 1952, the E major chime made of chilled iron, cast in the Morgenröthe bell foundry in Vogtland, has been ringing . The weight of the three bells were 1549 kg, 754 kg and 433 kg, respectively. Their inscriptions are:
- Christ is victor!
- O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!
- Let the children come to me.
On October 1, 2012, the last, the big bell, was removed to make room for the new bell. The Klingenthaler Rundkirche received three new bronze bells on December 4th, 2012 from the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck. These were consecrated on September 1, 2012, on the occasion of the 275th Kirchweih anniversary, on the market square in Klingenthal. The large bell weighs 730 kilograms, the middle one 432 kilograms and the small one 274 kilograms.
Culture
In addition to services on Sundays and public holidays, community activities, baptisms and weddings , concerts with sacred content take place at certain intervals .
literature
- Kurt Erich Dörfel: History of the places of the district of Klingenthal. Publishing house Gustav Bergmann, Klingenthal 1930.
- Arthur Müller: Look into Klingenthal's past . In the commission publishing house of Brückner & Niemann, Leipzig 1897.
- Pastor Karl August Wolf: Historical news about the Klingenthal parish. On commission from Eduard Eisenach, Leipzig 1837 (1st issue).
- Pastor Karl August Wolf: Historical news about the Klingenthal parish . On commission from FA Hofmann, Eibenstock 1862 (2nd issue).
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- ↑ Certainly from the sermon at that time - according to Manfred Gäbler
- ^ Karl August Wolf: Historical news about the Klingenthal parish. On commission from Eduard Eisenach, Leipzig 1837 (1st issue).
- ↑ He studied between 1679 and 1686 in Rostock, Kiel and Leipzig, and worked as a teacher in Hamburg for a while.
- ↑ a b Burkhard Meischein: Klingenthal: Church to the Prince of Peace . In: Inventory of the organs in Saxony. 2007, accessed September 16, 2017 .
Web links
- Description of the altar by Pf. Zeibig (PDF file; 48 kB)
- Official website of the parishes in Klingenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 28 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 2 ″ E
