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.
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
- Joseph Ludwig Leopold von Löwenberg, 1705
- Raimund Antonius Leopold von Löwenberg, 1705
- Philipp Achilles Baron von Kaltenthal , 1705
- Hermann Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern , 1705
- Joachim Hanns von Moltke , 1706
- Christoph von Bassewitz , 1706
- Helmut Otto von Bassewitz , 1707
- Hanß Heinrich von Barth, 1707
- Christian Martin von Gravenreuth , 1709
- Johann Philipp Wolf von Sponheim, 1710
- Johann Casimir von Benckendorff, 1710
- Christoph Friedrich Freiherr von Seckendorff -Aberdar, 1711
- Johann Heinrich Hofer von Lobenstein , 1711
- Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Unruh , 1711
- Heinrich Siegmund Baron von Miltitz , 1713
- Friedrich Hermann von der Streithorst, 1713
- Christoph Heinrich von Leipziger , 1714
- Heinrich Carl von Künsberg , 1715
- Johann Georg Edler von Fischern, 1715
- Balthasar Heinrich von Nitzschwitz (Nischwitz), 1716
- Anton Ferdinand von Zedtwitz , 1716
- Adam Christoph Siegmund von Benckendorff, 1716
- Heinrich Johann von Korff , 1717
- Heinrich the XXII. in Reuss -Gera and Mr. von Plauen, 1717
- Philipp Ferdinand von der Heydte, 1717
- Johann Georg Freiherr von Gersdorff , 1717
- Johann August von Ponickau , 1717
- Wolf Freiherr von Metternich , 1717
- Sylvius Gottlob von Gellhorn, 1717
- Heinrich XXV. Reuss -Gera and Mr. von Plauen, 1717
- Christian Friedrich von Pflugk , 1717
- Carl Siegmund von Ziegesar , 1717
- Detlof Hans von Bassewitz , 1717
- Carl Gottfried Graf von Giech , 1717
- Christoph Erdmann Baron von Podewils , 1718
- Victor Count of Philippi, 1718
- Georg Ehrenfried von Nauendorff , 1718
- Julius Dietrich Baron von Crailsheim , 1718
- Hans (Johann) Christoph Erdmann von Sparneck and Weißdorf, 1718
- Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim , 1720
- August Friedrich von Roeder , 1720
- Hans Moritz von Brühl , 1720
- Ernst von Gleichen , 1721
- Heinrich von Gleichen , 1721
- Daniel (?) I. von Kottulinsky von Kottulin, 1721
- Franz Joseph Baron von Neveu, 1721
- Wolff Christoph von Reitzenstein , 1721
- Caesar Joseph von Lentulus, 1722
- Casimir Abraham Count von Schlippenbach , 1722
- Otto Wilhelm von Bodenhausen , 1723
- Johann Freiherr von Brehmer, 1724
- Johann Christoph von Reitzenstein , 1726
- Christian Albrecht Graf von Wolfstein , 1728
- Christoph Heinrich von Reitzenstein , 1729
- Georg Friedrich von Reitzenstein , 1729
- Johann Heinrich von Dorbenck, 1729
- Christian Ernst von Reitzenstein , 1729
- Wilhelm von Bindemann, 1730
- Johann Sigmund von Oberländer, 1732
- Albrecht Ludwig Friedrich Count von Hohenlohe , 1733
- Joachim Ernst von Beust , 1733
- Georg Sigmund von Erffa , 1733
- Andreas von der Lühe , 1734
- Johann Gebhard von Viettinghoff, 1734
- Carl Ludwig von Schlegel, 1738
- Johann Christian Wilhelm von Schardt , 1748
- Christian Friedrich von Grone zu Eschenau, 1752
- Joachim Ernst von Bonin , 1754
- Johann Ferdinand von Ehrenstein, 1755
- Philipp Andreas Freiherr von Ellrodt , 1756
- Christoph Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Aufseß , 1756
- Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Ellrodt , 1759
- Johann Adam von Gravenreuth , 1759
- André Louìs Marquìs de Silva, 1761
- Friedrich Jacob Muffel von Eschenau and Eckenhaid, 1763
- Georg Hartmann von Erffa , 1763
- Johann Gottlob von Meyern , 1764
- Pierre Auguste Count Wallis , 1764
- Christian Ulrich von Ketelhodt , 1765
- Johann Georg Tucher von Simmelsdorf , 1765
- Johann von Rothkirch , ---
- Philipp Heinrich Freiherr von und zu Hanstein , 1766
- Sir Henry 3rd Baronet Echlin, 1767
- Carl Graf von Schmettau, 1768
- Simon Claude Amable Baron de Tubeuf, 1768
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
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 .
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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
- Norbert Aas (Ed.): Nobility, Citizens, Poor People - One Church brings people together. 300 years of the Bayreuth-St. George. Bayreuth 2011. ISBN 978-3-929268-23-2 .
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , VI. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1959. pp. 18-20.
- Kraussold: About the so-called Order Church of St. Georgen near Bayreuth . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 8. Issue 2. Bayreuth 1861. pp. 116–120.
- Christoph Rabenstein, Ronald Werner: St. Georgen - Pictures and Stories . Bayreuth 1994, ISBN 3-922808-38-7 , pp. 43-54.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Braun: The Lords of Sparneck - family tree, distribution, brief inventory. In: Archive volume for the history of Upper Franconia. Bayreuth 2002.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Web links
- Official Church website
- Aerial view of the Ordenskirche with the Bavaria Atlas
- Heraldic panels at Welt-der-Wappen.de: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 14.8 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 34.4" E