Luther Church (Chemnitz-Harthau)

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The church and its tower dominate the area
"Old church"

The Lutherkirche of the Lutherkirchgemeinde at Annaberger Straße 469 was built between 1906 and 1908 in the Harthau district of Chemnitz because the old church of Harthau had become too small. Despite the only slight damage in World War II , the church had to be fundamentally restored in the 1980s. This high-quality church building with a tower dominating the surroundings , with its fully preserved furnishings and the mountain cemetery with its interesting garden design, is a protected ensemble that is entered in the list of monuments as a listed entity .

history

Since 1539 there was already a stone church in Harthau for the places Harthau, Berbisdorf and Eibenberg . Before that there was already a Romanesque predecessor building, which was archaeologically proven from 1966 to 1968. In 1609 and 1765 it was fundamentally rebuilt and still stands today as the "Old Harthauer Church" on the mountainside behind the rectory. It is also a protected cultural monument and is recorded in the list of monuments with the file number 09204823. They and the surrounding ensemble are characterized as a historically significant church building with a turret that characterizes the townscape , a churchyard with old trees and a few elaborately designed tombs and a newly erected memorial stone for the Bernhard family of manufacturers.

Due to the construction of two spinning mills and other industrial plants in the village, the population of Harthaus grew to 7,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. Although Eibenberg in 1901 and Berbisdorf in 1905 had their own churches, the old church was far too small for the large population. From 1906 to 1908 the new and larger Luther Church was built according to plans by Paul Lange .

Furnishing

This new church is a high-quality church building made of bare bricks with an accentuating structure through terracotta reliefs. The tower is visible from afar and dominates the area. For equipment that has remained intact during World War II, only the out came Magdeborn originating altarpiece added.

  • Steeple

  • Luther statue on the tower

  • Stained glass window

  • Stairway to the portal

  • Chancel with pulpit

  • Altarpiece from Magdeborn

  • Organ loft

Part of the whole

The Luther Church is only part of the listed entity that includes the surrounding green area, the historic cemetery complex of the Bergfriedhof with its chapel , the entrance portal and three tombs.

Individual features of the entity "Lutherkirche Chemnitz-Harthau with Bergfriedhof":

  • Luther Church with Luther monument in the tower
  • Green area around the church
  • Cemetery chapel in reduced Art Nouveau forms
  • three tombs
  • Portal of the mountain cemetery
  • Mountain cemetery with a rectangular system of paths and old hedges and trees.

  • Entrance to the mountain cemetery

  • Cemetery chapel

  • Inside of the chapel

  • Tomb

  • Tomb

  • Tomb

  • Soldiers graves

  • View over the graves

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Edited by Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius et al. Munich, Berlin 1998.

Web links

Commons : Lutherkirche (Chemnitz-Harthau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.harthau.kirche-chemnitz.de/gemeinde.html accessed on January 5, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 43.3 "  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 33.1"  E