Little monastery cell

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Monastery church (south side)

Zelle Abbey is a former Augustinian canons - monastery in Aue bath Schlemaer local area cell in Saxony . It is a listed building .

history

Near the confluence of the Zwickauer Mulde and Schwarzwasser in the western Ore Mountains , the Meinheringer founded the Augustinian canons of Zell an der Mulde in the diocese of Naumburg ("Cellam [...] iuxta fluvium Mulda") in the second half of the 12th century . On May 7, 1173 authenticated Emperor Frederick I in the imperial city of Goslar , at the request Margrave Otto of Meissen , Meinhers I of Advertising and Dudos of Meineweh the founding of the Saint Andrew - and - a St. Andrew's cross adorns the coat of arms of My Heringer Holy Trinity consecrated Monastery. It received 60 by the founder Neubruch - hooves in Pleissenland . While the emperor transferred the donated hooves to the monastery for free, the bishop of Naumburg waived the bishop's tithing. This means that the 60 Hufen can be located in the villages of Schlema , Aue, Bockau and Lauter , in which the monastery later held parish rights.

Because it did not get beyond the humble beginnings, the monastery was mostly called "Klösterlein". After the Grünhain Monastery was founded in 1230, it took a back seat. It was looted during the German Peasants' War in 1525. The following is known about it: while Ernst II von Schönburg (1484–1534) was on the way to the battle of Frankenhausen as commander in chief of the troops of Duke George of Saxony in the fight against the peasant armies , there were peasant revolts in Schönburg. On May 6, 1525, around 3,000 farmers camped between Zwickau and Stollberg. On May 7th, they set out for Grünhain Abbey. Other farmers joined them, including from Tilgen, Wildbach, Langenbach and Beutha. The two monasteries in Grünhain and the smaller cella in the Aue were stormed

In 1527 the monastery was dissolved in the course of the Reformation and sold to the Saxon elector for 800 guilders. Since then it has served as a manor .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1994, a development association was founded that has set itself the task of maintaining and renovating the monastery church.

After the dissolution of the monastery, the monastery church with the parish villages cell and Niederschlema and the newly created manor in 1533 became a branch church of Oberschlema. After 324 years, this subsidiary relationship was dissolved in 1857 and a new one was entered into with the Aue parish. Due to the strong increase in population in the second half of the 19th century, the desire arose in Zell to become an independent parish. On the first Sunday of Advent in 1879, the first Evangelical Lutheran pastor from Klösterlein-Cell was introduced to his office. After Zell was incorporated into Aue in 1897 and the population had risen sharply again, the former monastery church became too small. When the newly built Friedenskirche was inaugurated in 1914, it lost its function as a parish church in Zell and has been used as a burial chapel ever since.

Monastery church

Monastery church with the outline of the plaster scratch painting on the east side

The former monastery church was structurally changed several times and is the only remaining monastery building. It was originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary .

Building history

The church replaced a previous wooden building and has been used as the parish church of the community since the monastery was dissolved. The building got its current appearance after a major renovation in 1758, when it was lengthened and raised. The church was restored several times up to 1900 and has been used as a burial church since it was replaced by the new Zeller Friedenskirche in 1914. In 1948 a parentation hall was set up under the organ gallery . In 1998 the roof, turret and bell cage were completely renovated. The new weather vane is marked SOLI DEO GLORIA / 1173 * 1998 . After the reconstruction of all doors and windows in 1999, the outer facade was renovated from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to 2004 the interior was completely renewed. From 2005 to 2006 the organ and chandelier were overhauled.

Architecture and equipment

The plastered building with a straight east end is covered with a hipped roof. The roof turret has a baroque hood . The wooden ceiling inside is flat. There are galleries on three sides. The east wall has a niche, which is probably painted with late Romanesque figures on the side, and remains of wall paintings. A possibly Romanesque host cabinet is painted with a checkerboard pattern. On the north side there is a baroque patronage box . The richly profiled parapet is decorated with twelve painted representations from the life of Christ. The altarpiece and the carved pulpit from the 2nd half of the 17th century were combined to form a pulpit altar in the 19th century. The pulpit is decorated with relief figures of Christ and the Evangelists. On the sound cover crowned with the Redeemer there are carved angel figures. The panels are laterally provided with depictions from the passion story. In the past, the large painting of the Crucifixion probably hung on the back of the pulpit altar instead of the pulpit.

In front of the altar there are two oval marble grave slabs decorated with ears of corn for the manor owner Carl Erdmann von Brandenstein and his wife from the 1820s. To the northeast under the choir is the entrance to a painted crypt from the 18th century. On the narrow side in the north there is an angel figure, opposite a goblet, side draperies .

The small 14-register organ by Johann Gotthilf Bärmig (1814–1899) was initially installed in the old St. Nicholas' Church in Au and was sold in 1895 to cell before it was demolished.

Peal

The ringing consists of three chill cast steel bells, cast in the Bochumer Verein . The bell cage is made of steel and the yokes are made of cast iron, cranked. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1913 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 2100 mm 3900 kg g sharp °
2 1913 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 1773 mm 2250 kg h °
3 1913 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 1490 mm 1350 kg

Plaster scratches and historical inscriptions

Copy of the plaster scratch painting in the Friedenskirche Aue -zelle

In 1881 restorers uncovered a colored sgraffito- like plaster scratch painting on the east wall of the church , which is one of the oldest and most valuable works of art in Saxony today. It (probably) depicts Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa , Mary with the baby Jesus and a bishop with a halo and is dated to the year 1230. In the course of the dissolution of the monastery, the 2.23 m high and 2.15 m wide painting was plastered over and was thus preserved for posterity. For restoration reasons and thanks to the work of the local history researcher Siegfried Sieber , it was removed in 1934 and restored in Dresden.

Except for a relocation during World War II , the painting was exhibited in the Städtisches Museum Aue from 1937 to 1967 and has been on view in the St. Anne's Chapel of Freiberg Cathedral since its dissolution . From around 2007 to 2011 the original was in the Altzella monastery . In 2011 the picture was shown in the state exhibition Saxony-Anhalt Naumburg Masters . The Saxon state government then decided to restore the building in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments, which a study group from the Dresden University of Fine Arts dealt with in 2012 . In 2013 the sgraffito image in the Zell church was to be given a place of honor in the interior. The little monastery is equipped with an alarm system and automatic air conditioning. A copy made by Heinz Beck in 1967 can be viewed in the anteroom of the Friedenskirche (Aue cell) .

In late autumn 2017, the Schneeberg restorer Holger Blaugut exposed lettering under layers of plaster inside the church on the east gable during ongoing restoration work. Historians and writing experts date it to the time of the plaster scratch painting. The inscription, which is largely covered by the pulpit stairs, is in the same font and color as the one on the plaster scratch picture. However, it has not yet been deciphered because it is unclear how to proceed with the stairs.

use

The former monastery church is used by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Aue -zelle for religious services. There are also concerts or reading evenings, mostly with free admission.

Outdoor area

Hereditary funeral for the Klösterlein manor

The chapel is surrounded by a cemetery that extends to the Zwickauer Mulde . The grave of Carl Erdmann Kircheis is on the west side of the complex . In the hereditary burial for the manor Klösterlein on the east side are u. a. his son-in-law and successor Wilhelm Röll and his wife Pauline are buried.

Manor Klösterlein

Klösterlein manor around 1860

Today's office and commercial building at Am Bahnhof 11 emerged from the outworks of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1527. The representative manor house was rebuilt by Johann Traugott Lohse after a fire in 1816 . The two-storey plastered building has a high hipped mansard roof and standing arched skylights. The facade is strictly symmetrical and was originally provided with two segmented arched portals, of which the right one was added. The thick masonry and the irregular vaults in the rear rooms on the ground floor and the two- bay groin vault in the basement are probably from the previous building. The stucco ceilings on the upper floor have been preserved from the time it was built. This manor is also a listed cultural monument of Aue .

literature

  • Ralf Petermann: Valuable findings on the little monastery cell. Aue 1996.
  • Günter Kavacs, Norbert Oelsner: The church of the "Klösterlein cell" in Aue. Building history observations and historical classification. In: Preservation of monuments in Saxony. Notices from the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony , 2002, ISSN  0943-2132 , pp. 104–121.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Saxony : II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 880f.
  • Richard Steche : Little monastery. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 19.
  • 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. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 271.

Web links

Commons : Klösterlein cell  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae. IA documents of the Margraves of Meissen, Volume 2 No. 397.
  2. Wolf-Dieter Röber : The territory in times of war , In: The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–1991 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, nfos on the monasteries Grünhain and Cella bei Aue, p. 73. Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber.
  3. New Saxon Church Gallery. Volume 14: Ephorie Schneeberg. Strauch, Leipzig 1902, p. 236.
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony ; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : pp. 271ff.
  5. ^ Aue, mosaic stones of history. Aue 2001, DNB 1017288267 , pp. 16-18.
  6. a b A work of art returns in 2013. In: Blick Magazine. Welcome to the Ore Mountains - the region's vacation and leisure magazine. Issue 41, 2012, p. 98.
  7. When the user visited the interior of the Klösterlein church in the summer of 2018 : 44Penguins , the restoration was not yet completed and consequently the plaster painting could not yet be seen in the church.
  8. Press release from the city administration of Aue: Old writings exposed in the little monastery , December 21, 2017.
  9. Press release of the Aue city administration: Concert / reading events 2018 in Klösterlein Aue , September 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 53 ″  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 35 ″  E