Ordenskirche St. Georgen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ordenskirche St. Georgen

The Ordenskirche St. Georgen , also called Sophienkirche , is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the St. Georgen district of Bayreuth .

Origin of the Church

As Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Bayreuth , Georg Wilhelm founded the suburb of St. Georgen am See from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern . Streets with representative buildings were built in strict baroque symmetry . The Ordenskirche fits into the street scene and is not geosted .

In 1705 the foundation stone was laid to build the church. The stones required were delivered from 20 quarries in the near and far area. After the shell of the church was completed in 1709, the margrave pushed for the interior work. His concern was to combine the consecration of the church with St. George's Day and aimed for April 1711 for the consecration . The date for the inauguration ceremony was kept, even if some work had to be continued afterwards.

The interior of the church shines in baroque splendor. The floor plan of the church is laid out in the form of a cross and the arrangement of the furnishings , including a pulpit altar , reveals the spirit of enlightened Protestantism . One of the many special features of the equipment is the organ case by Elias Räntz .

The church stands in one of the prominent squares of St. Georgen and is now widely regarded as its landmark.

Interior of the church

Ordenskirche

In addition to the Order Castle , the Order Church was intended as a meeting place for the members of the later Order of the Red Eagle . A place of interest are 85 coats of arms in the church, which represent the individual knights of the order . The coats of arms are oval, the central motif is the respective coat of arms. Above the detailed colored family coat of arms is the name (mostly abbreviated) at the top along the edge in large gold letters and at the bottom a year, not that of admission to the order, but that of affixing the plaque. Each coat of arms is framed by a red ribbon with an attached cross , which bears the Brandenburg eagle in the middle and a prince's hat at the top.

  • Julius Dietrich Baron von Crailsheim (7.6.1664 - 30.12.1747)

  • Johann Heinrich von Dobeneck (12/21/1699 - 1759)

  • Georg Sigmund von Erffa (9.12.1690 -)

  • Georg Hartmann von Erffa (May 14, 1727 - June 11, 1770)

  • Seriousness of equals

  • Friedrich Jacob Muffel von Eschenau and Eckenhaid (1708 - 1774)

  • Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Unruh (June 21, 1668 - December 7, 1728)

  • Anton Ferdinand von Zedtwitz

The individual persons are always at least of local importance, mostly holders of court offices or members of the military, administrative officials and commanders of the Plassenburg , but also scholars, sometimes also nationally important personalities who shape their time are among them. The families represented are diverse, from the simple landed aristocracy to the high aristocracy ( Counts of Hohenlohe , Counts of Hohenzollern ) representatives can be found; the spectrum ranges from Livonian (von Brehmer) to Mecklenburg ( von Moltke ), Altmark ( von Beust ), Westphalian ( von Korff ), Silesian (von Bindemann), Rhenish ( von Metternich , Wolf von Sponheim), Thuringian ( von Nauendorff ) and Franconian ( from Crailsheim , from Seckendorff ) to French (from Neveu) and Italian (Graf Philippi) nobility. Here they gathered who was important to the margrave, with whom they maintained relationships, whose loyalty they wanted to strengthen, who was formative for the time and who they wanted to bind to themselves.

List of vocation boards with the year indicated on them

Notes on individual panels

One example is Johann (Hans) Christoph Erdmann from Sparneck . He was half the owner of the Püchersreuth estate , later he also owned Reuth . Presumably he was significantly involved in the construction of the New Palace in Püchersreuth. There, too, a double coat of arms Sparneck / Hundt adorns the entrance with ribbon and cross. The coat of arms stone was originally located above the entrance portal and is now set into the wall next to it. The tinging of the order cross was probably displayed incorrectly during restoration work. At the same time, the donation of an altar by a Sparnecker in Püchersreuth falls, although the assignment of the medallion of the order cannot be made unequivocally.

organ

View of the organ with the balustrade positives

The organ in its current form was created by the GF Steinmeyer & Co. (Oettingen) organ building workshop in 1934, who added two positives on the balustrade and built a free-standing console with an electropneumatic action . The artist Elias Räntz designed the historical prospectus . The first organ was made in 1714 by the organ builder Daniel Felix Streit (Kulmbach) and replaced in 1851 by a new one by Ludwig Weineck. In 2001 Orgelbau Deininger & Renner repaired the organ and renewed the play area. Today the instrument has 42  registers on three manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Cane-covered 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Night horn 2 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II parapet positive C – g 3
11. Singing dumped 8th'
12. recorder 4 ′
13. Prefix 2 ′
14th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
15th Super quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Night horn 1'
17th Cymbel 1 ⁄ 4 ′
18th Krummhorn 8th'
19th Fiddling shelf 4 ′
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
20th Coupling flute 8th'
21st Quintatön 8th'
22nd Violin principal 4 ′
23. Covered 4 ′
24. Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Forest flute 2 ′
26th Large mix 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Sharp 1 ⁄ 2 ′
28. bassoon 16 ′
29 oboe 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
30th double bass 16 ′
31. Sub bass 16 ′
32. Drone 16 ′
33. Violon 8th'
34. Tube bare 8th'
35. Principal 4 ′
36. Tube bare 4 ′
37. Choral bass 2 ′
38. Pedal mixture 2 ′
39. trombone 16 ′
40. Trumpet 8th'
41. Trumpet 4 ′
42. Singing shelf 2 ′
tremolo
  • Couple
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II
    • Super octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III, III / P

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Braun: The Lords of Sparneck - family tree, distribution, brief inventory. In: Archive volume for the history of Upper Franconia. Bayreuth 2002.
  2. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : Ordenskirche St. Georgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 14.8 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 34.4"  E