Kunigunden Church (Borna)
The Evangelical Kunigunden Church is a Romanesque brick church in Borna in the Leipzig district in Saxony . It belongs to the Protestant parish of St. Marien Borna in the parish of Leipziger Land in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The church, consecrated to the wife of Emperor Heinrich II Kunigunde of Luxembourg , may have been founded under the influence of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . The elongated, three-aisled, towerless pillar basilica with apses was built from brick before 1200. After the Reformation used as a burial church, it gradually fell into disrepair. During the restoration work carried out by Emil Högg in 1923–1932 , a baroque wooden barrel vault was removed and the aisle walls and the north apse rebuilt. In 2009 the slate roof was renewed. The exterior is characterized by a steeply proportioned central nave with a high saddle roof over significantly lower aisles with pent roofs and partly reconstructed arched windows. The aisles, like the central nave, end in apses.
Strikingly, the central nave runs right through to the east wall; it can be assumed that the choir square was originally delimited by an arch. The order of the upper facade windows does not correspond to that of the five pillar arcades, which do not have a transom profile. The beam ceilings in all naves are from the restoration around 1930.
Remnants of wall paintings from the construction period show a majestas domini in the main apse, the additions from the restoration around 1930 have largely been lost. Wall paintings from the second half of the 15th century have been preserved in the central nave; they show on the north side Margarete , Dorothea , Barbara and the martyrdom of St. Sebastian . The crucifixion, an apocalyptic Madonna and Christophorus can be seen on the south side .
Furnishing
The late Gothic carved altar, dated 1502, comes from the demolished church in Görnitz . It shows the saints Joachim , Maria and Anna with the baby Jesus in the shrine . In each of the wings, four saints from the vicinity of the Naumann brothers' workshop in Altenburg can be seen. A painted Annunciation is depicted on the damaged exterior of the wing . A Romanesque porphyry font with a horseshoe arch frieze comes from the Pegau district of Großstorkwitz. A sandstone Madonna around 1430 shows the characteristics of the outgoing soft style . The house organ was built by Hermann Lahmann in 1951 and was donated to the church in 1981.
An epitaph by Council Chamberlain Peter Breiting († 1568) shows the deceased kneeling in front of the crucified Christ and comes from the workshop of Hans Koehler the Elder in Meissen. There are other tombs from the 18th century as well as for the Russian and Prussian officers who died in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. The church was surrounded by a grove of honor for other victims of the Battle of Nations near Leipzig.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 84–85.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on construction work on the municipality's website. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 23 " N , 12 ° 30 ′ 10.6" E