St. Jakobus Church (Freital)

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St. James Church, seen from the village square
View from the street "Zur Jakobuskirche" (2015)

The St. Jakobus Church is an Evangelical-Lutheran church building in the Pesterwitz district of Freital, built in the style of historicism . It is located west of Pesterwitzer manor and the former town hall and stands as Pesterwitzer cultural monument under monument protection .

history

Postcard from Pesterwitz with the previous building of today's church (in the center of the picture), around 1899
St. James Church (1992)

The St. Jakobus Church is the fourth Pesterwitz church. Previously, there were two places of worship at this location and one at another. After the previous building, which was used from 1478 to 1904, was torn down, the foundation stone for today's church was laid on July 11, 1905 . The architect was Woldemar Kandler , who had already designed numerous church buildings in Saxony and Bohemia. In contrast to the previous building, the church tower was now facing the village in the east. The entrance portal of the old church was integrated, the organ, on the other hand, was a new building from the Jahn workshop in Dresden . The completed church was consecrated on November 11, 1906. It bears the name in honor of the apostle James the Elder . The new building of the church cost 250,000 marks , the last loans for it were paid off only in 1963.

In 1993 the Pesterwitze church got a new organ, which Georg Wünning from Großolbersdorf built. The church tower and clockwork received a major overhaul in 2003. In spring 2013 the St. Jakobus Church received a new bell.

The parish of Pesterwitz is currently still independent of the Freital parish, but a merger is being considered. The villages of Altfranken , Altroßthal , Neunimptsch ( near Dresden) and Saalhausen , Zauckerode and Niederpesterwitz ( near Freital) are parished into the church.

The church is part of the Saxon Way of St. James and therefore also a point of contact for pilgrims who are on the section between Dresden and Grumbach . There is a guest house for travelers near the church.

Matthias Koch has been the pastor since 1998. Events and concerts take place regularly in the church, such as the “Pesterwitz Concerts”. In addition, the " Kammerchor Pesterwitz" performs in the St. Jakobus Church.

The original bronze bell had to be given as a metal donation during the First World War . In 1920, three hard-cast iron bells were obtained from the Apolda bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann. The now heavily rusted bells were removed in February 2013. Three new bronze bells were raised in March and rung for the first time at Easter. The chilled cast iron bells were then restored and placed in front of the church, in Zauckerode and in the garden of Burgk Castle .

Building description

The nave faces east-west, in the west the neo-Gothic chancel, in the east the 43 meter high church tower. The ship is column-free and has a circumferential gallery . The pulpit is to the left of the sanctuary. The interior is essentially painted white, the lead glass windows are narrow and high. The St. Jakobus Church has around 600 seats. The Dresden painter Robert Sterl made the altarpiece . The altar from 1606 and the font from 1589 have been preserved from the previous building.

The 1993 organ has 28 registers and 1,815 sounding pipes, the largest of which is around five meters long. On both sides of the organ there are portraits of the pastors Achatius Andreas Thomae and Johann Gottfried Thomae, who were the grandfather and father of the sculptor Johann Benjamin Thomae from Pesterwitz. These portraits date from the end of the 17th century.

graveyard

The Pesterwitz cemetery is located directly northwest of the church building. It houses some buildings that have also been designated as cultural monuments. This includes the Luckner Chapel , in which family members of the naval officer Felix Graf von Luckner, known as the "sea devil", are buried. The chapel was built in 1859 and became the property of the parish in 1977. The following relatives are buried in the grave chapel (details with life data):

  • Countess Wilhelmine von Luckner (1817–1858)
  • Count Nikolaus von Luckner (1838–1864)
  • Heinrich Wilhelm von Luckner (1805–1865)
  • Count Felix von Luckner (1849–1902)
  • Countess Mathilde von Luckner (1853–1934)

Another important and protected monument on the Pesterwitz cemetery is “The Six Fold Tears”, a grave of the Opitz family. Around 1760 she lost six family members.

The grave of the mining pioneer and inventor of coal washing , Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig (1779–1852), is also located in the cemetery. It was created directly above the Tiefen Elbstolln , which runs under the grounds of the cemetery, and whose construction Lindig directed. Today the original, above-ground grave complex is no longer preserved, but has been identified by a memorial stone.

  • Luckner Chapel

  • "Six times the tear offering" of the Opitz family

  • Tomb of the Dathe von Burgk family

  • Memorial stone for Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Oberpesterwitz. 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. 91.

Web links

Commons : St. Jakobus Church Pesterwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dresden Jazz Days: St. Jakobuskirche Pesterwitz , accessed on January 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013.
  3. ↑ a b contacts, church news of the ev.-luth. St. Jakubusgemeinde Pesterwitz, 3rd quarter 1981.
  4. ↑ City of Freital: St. Jakobuskirche Pesterwitz , accessed on February 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Peter Kitzing: The Wünningorgel to Pesterwitz. Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Pesterwitz church tower gets new shine. In: Saxon newspaper . July 31, 2003.
  7. ↑ Stephan Klingbeil: Pilgrim paths should stimulate tourism . In: Saxon newspaper . February 9, 2011.
  8. ↑ Peter Salzmann: A resting place for the pilgrims. In: Saxon newspaper . 29th September 2012.
  9. ↑ Pesterwitz bells are hanging again. In: Sächsischer Bote. March 23, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Bells to commemorate. In: Sächsischer Bote. November 30, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Pesterwitz church bells can ring again. In: Dresden television. March 22, 2013, accessed October 2, 2014 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 39.3 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 4.1 ″  E