Kayna Church

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Church from the southeast
Interior to the east

The Kayna Church is the village church of Kayna , a district of the city of Zeitz in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . It has no patron saint and is therefore nameless. The hall church has a west tower and a five-eighth end in the east .

history

The church was probably built from 1705 to 1710 on the site of a previous building. The pastor at the time was Kaspar List. The tower was completed on October 1, 1709. A document in the tower button describes the burdens of the population in the Northern War (1700–1721) through the special taxes of Charles XII.

In 1751 the church was painted. An arch crowned with a little Mary's head under the choir is said to come from a pilgrimage altar in the old church.

In 1862 some old figures and an ornate convertible altar from the 13th century were attached to the altar wall . This shows St. Anna on a gold background, on the two doors a martyr and St. Sebastian. The pulpit was created by Jakob Werner from Altenburg and received 78 old shock for it . The pulpit fields carry the figures of Christ and the evangelists.

The chandelier from 1817 is shown as a gift from the youth. The altarpiece was painted in 1859. In 1886 a lightning rod was bought for 450 marks .

In 1868 the flour dealer Gottlieb Bräutigam gave the church a stylish baptismal font made of red sandstone for the chancel. A Mr. Weber from the neighboring village of Würchwitz bequeathed a church window to the church in 1893. After the battle of Königgrätz (1866), the Wimmel family gave a silver host box to the church as thanks for the safe return of their son from the battle.

The church tower bells were cast in 1867, the oldest bore the inscription St. Ottomar 1494 , so it probably came from the previous church. The clockmaker Kirsten from Dürrenberg made a tower clock in 1869.

From July to September 1891 the church was extensively renovated and repainted by the Wetzel family of painters from Kayna, followed by a roof renovation in 1892. The financial means of 2,564.48 marks were raised by a 750-mark grant from the parish , a concert of the teachers' association brought 87.50 marks, 1,660.28 marks brought a trip to church , the organ was repaired for 300 marks from the kindergarten capital.

Through further private donations, the church received 80 bronze candelabra, the altar clothing, the altar Bible, the Luther bust and the iron altar parapets. The inauguration of the renovated church took place on September 20, 1891.

The parish building from 1731 was rebuilt and expanded in 1752.

The church belongs to the Protestant parish Zeitz .

architecture

South choir window
tower

The plastered east-facing hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built in the center of the village. It has a west tower and an indented five-eighth end, the base area of ​​which is unplastered. The nave and choir are covered by a red gable roof with a ridge of the same height . On the long sides and in the choir, three large windows with arched arches illuminate the interior, which is accessed in the south and north through central portals.

The lower part of the solidly bricked-up west tower on a square floor plan probably originates from the previous Gothic building. The eastern gate to the nave shows late Gothic cross bars. In the north and south, extensions bring the ground floor to the width of the nave. Their pent roofs reach the height of the eaves of the nave. A high rectangular door is let into the south side of the tower annex. Surrounding cornices structure the individual tower floors, which merge into an octagonal structure above the ridge height of the nave. The storeys are illuminated through openings with arched arches, four oval openings are let in below the eaves. The tower structure dates from the baroque period. The eight-sided curved hood has an open lantern and a small Welsche hood . It is crowned by a tower knob and a weather vane.

Furnishing

Late Gothic carved altar
Baroque pulpit altar

The interior of the church is closed off by a flat ceiling. The stucco has geometric shapes and originally framed the paintings that have not survived. Two longitudinal beams are supported by square posts, the lowest of which are rounded. The posts include the three-sided circumferential wooden galleries, which are two-story on the long sides. The lower gallery has coffered parapet fields with painted flowers in shades of gray, the upper decking with small openings. The convex west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. Behind the pulpit altar is a choir gallery, the four coffered parapet fields on the outside show a cross in a wreath and inside a chalice and a wafer in a wreath.

The wooden pulpit altar from the construction period integrates older parts. Behind the block-shaped cafeteria with a small altar cross, the predella bears the inscription “Glory to God in the height” ( Lk 2,14a  LUT ), which is framed by rocailles and flanked by two angel heads. The polygonal pulpit is richly decorated in the late Renaissance style. The middle pulpit shows the Salvator mundi , the side the four evangelists under round arches (around 1600). The pulpit is flanked by two pilasters with sweeping curved cheeks. The superstructure with four crowning vases rests on an architrave . The figure of the risen man, which was probably made in Gothic times, sits enthroned above a wreath-shaped cloud glory.

The high quality pre-Reformation carved altar, which is placed on the south side of the choir, dates from the 1510s. The triptych is attributed to Leonhardt Herrgott from Zwickau. In the middle, Anna herself is surrounded by Jakobus the Elder and Wolfgang von Regensburg . On the side wings, Dionysius is depicted on the left and St. Sebastian on the right . The figures with openwork tendrils wear blue and gold robes. In the southeast corner there are four figures of saints from around 1500 on consoles: Wolfgang, Nikolaus , Anna selbdritt and a female saint. Like the large wooden late Gothic crucifix, they are attributed to the environment of Matthias Plauener from Zeitz.

In the northeast corner is the early Renaissance epitaph for G. von Ende († 1527), which depicts the deceased kneeling in front of the crucifix, framed by flat pilasters. The tombstones of a late couple and a young knight date from the second half of the 16th century. A tombstone for a gentleman from the end of 1629. Under the organ gallery, a memorial plaque under a cantilever arch with a pointed arch reminds of the fallen in 1870.

organ

Poppe organ

The organ was built in the 18th century, probably around 1780, by the Poppe organ building workshop , probably by Christian Friedrich I. Poppe. The instrument cost “315 old shock”. During the installation of the organ in the choir, the entrance on the west side of the tower had to be walled up. The instrument has been rebuilt over time. Today it has 17 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I Manual CD – c 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Viola da gamba 8th'
3. Drone 8th'
4th Quntadena 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Smalled up 4 ′
7th Forest flute 2 ′
8th. Mixture III
II Manual CD-c 3
9. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
10. Principal 4 ′
11. Gemshorn 4 ′
12. Octave 2 ′
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Cornett III
Pedals CD – c 1
15th Violon 16 ′
16. Sub-bass 16 ′
17th Octave bass 8th'

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I. 2002.
  2. ^ The organ in the Evangelical Church in Kayna , accessed on May 19, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Church in Kayna (Zeitz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 8.5 ″  E