Luther Church (Freital)
The Luther Church is a neo-Romanesque style Protestant-Lutheran church building in the Freital district of Döhlen . It is located in the old town center of the district opposite the old district court and the town hall on "Lutherstrasse". Together with the monument hall, which was built around 20 years later, the Luther Church is under monument protection and in the Freitaler cultural monument list .
history
The Luther Church was built in the years 1880–1882 in place of the old Döhlen village church. This existed since the 12th century and was the oldest church in the Döhlen basin . When the new church building was built, elements of the previous building were included, for example parts of the church tower. This was formerly northeast of the nave and thus to the side of the choir . In the new building, the choir was moved to the north so that the church now extended in an east-west direction. The 16th century consecration plaque and baptismal font also found their way into the new church building, which was built according to plans by the architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel (1838–1915).
The foundation stone was laid on October 11, 1880. The masonry of the new church consists of syenite quarry stone . The bells were consecrated on April 19, 1882 at the end of the construction period. The organ made by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen was installed in 1882. The inauguration of the new church took place on September 10, 1882. In 1907 two stained glass windows with motifs by the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon were installed . After the town of Freital was founded in 1921, the church building was given the name Luther Church. The interior was renovated between 1955 and 1957, and the organ was renovated in 1981. In 1955 the church got a chime made of chilled iron. This was replaced in 2010 by a three-part bronze bell (tones f sharp, h, d) from the Lauchhammer bell foundry. Around 1990, the gate on the south-eastern staircase, which was partly from the previous church, was dismantled. The stones were stored on the church grounds so that they could be used when the gate was rebuilt in 2013. In 1999 the church tower was renovated, and in 2006 the chancel of the Luther Church was renewed. In 2010 the worn steel bells were replaced by new bronze bells.
The villages of Birkigt , Burgk and Weißig are still part of the Luther Church today . The Döhlener Church, which since 1999 to the Ev.-Luth. Parish Freital, which has belonged to the parish Freital since January 1, 2014, had around 600 believers in 2007. Until 1897, Gittersee was also parish after Döhlen, other places broke up before the new church of Döhlen was built (for example Deuben with the new building of the Christ Church ).
Memorial hall
In 1899, Tsar Nicholas II and Max Freiherr von Burgk had an L-shaped monument hall built in the Swiss style based on plans by Cornelius Gurlitt . The tsar co-financed the construction because Max von Burgk was able to prove that ancestors of Catherine the Great had lived in the area. Gravestones that were previously in the old Döhlen church and were attached to the cemetery wall after its demolition were placed in the hall. The oldest of these tombstones dates back to 1356 and reminds of Barbara Küchenmeister.
In his work Descriptive Representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1904, Cornelius Gurlitt recorded the following 19 gravestones that were set up in the monument hall:
| Surname | Year of death | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara kitchen master | 1356 | 77 × 134 cm |
| Margarethe von Grensing | 1531 | 84 × 150 cm |
| Hans von Grensing | 1580 | 100 × 180 cm |
| Elisabeth von Grensing | 1581 | 95 × 180 cm |
| Joshua von Theler | 1590 | 80 × 140 cm |
| Margaretha von Theler | 1598 | 92 × 170 cm |
| Christoph von Zeutsch | 1603 | 100 × 185 cm |
| Joseph Benno von Theler | 1610 | 92 × 170 cm |
| Anna Maria von Zeutsch | 1613 | 90 × 180 cm |
| Johann Dippold von Grensing | 1619 | 100 × 215 cm |
| Wolfgang Ulrich von Theler | 1620 | 61 × 115 cm |
| Anna von Grensing | 1628 | 97 × 215 cm |
| Conrad Theler | 1633 | 103 × 190 cm |
| Katharina von Theler | 1648 | 96 × 185 cm |
| Hans Caspar von Zeutzsch | 1687 | 81 × 105 cm |
| M. Samuel Hannauer | 1693 | 80 × 155 cm |
| Ernst Dietrich von Haugwitz Caspar Dietrich von Haugwitz |
1694 1696 |
90 × 175 cm |
| Johanna Susanna Baroness von Degenfeld | 1722 | 88 × 170 cm |
| CE von Polenz M. J. von Polenz |
1752 1769 |
70 × 170 cm |
The renovation of the previously dilapidated monument hall was planned since 1998 and implemented in 2013 together with some other redesigning measures in the area of the Döhlen town center.
Since the weather has damaged the grave treasure, the monuments are now to be renovated for around 150,000 euros. For the 100th anniversary of the city's founding in Freitals 2021, everyone should be ready.
Web links
- Information about the Luther Church on the website of Ev.-Luth. Parish Freital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013.
- ↑ Luther Church Freital-Döhlen . In: Saxon newspaper . September 7, 2007.
- ↑ The steel bells of the Luther Church ring for the last time . In: Saxon newspaper . October 30, 2010.
- ↑ That was new in Döhlen . In: Saxon newspaper . May 16, 2013.
- ^ Matthias Weigel: Final spurt for the installation of the bells in the Döhlen Luther Church . In: Saxon newspaper . December 13, 2010.
- ↑ Christel Hebig: Joy in God's House . In: Saxon newspaper . September 7, 2007.
- ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Döhlen. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 24. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1904, p. 25.
- ↑ Marleen Hollenbach: Döhlen's new town center is so beautiful . In: Saxon newspaper . May 16, 2013.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '24.7 " N , 13 ° 38' 52.1" E