Luther House and Rectory (Kötzschenbroda)

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The Lutherhaus am Anger von Altkötzschenbroda in Radebeul- West in Saxony is the parish hall of the Evangelical Lutheran Peace Church . The older rectory of the Friedenskirche is built at right angles . The parsonage thus formed is closed to the green and the church by a quarry stone wall with gate and gate. Both buildings are now classified as cultural monuments.

In 1645, the Kötzschenbroda armistice with the Swedes was signed in the rectory , which brought the Saxons to the end of the Thirty Years War .

Rectory in Kötzschenbroda, from the Anger

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Luther relief by Burkhart Ebe above the entrance door to the Luther Hall
Parsonage (right) and Lutherhaus (back) in Kötzschenbroda, from the parsonage
Lutherhaus, from the tower of the Friedenskirche; to the right the rectory
Plaque

The narrow side of the older rectory stands directly on the Anger. The two-storey, simply structured house was built in 1824, the year the long-time pastor Johann Samuel Gottlob Flemming retired , over the preserved cellar vaults of the previous building. It was expanded in the direction of the Elbe in 1890 and rebuilt in the 1920s.

In the previous building of the rectory, the truce of Kötzschenbroda between the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I and the Swedish General Lennart Torstensson was concluded in 1645 under the host Pastor Augustin Prescher, which ended the Thirty Years War for Saxony. The wooden table on which the legend about the Swedish table after the armistice is said to have been signed is now in the neighboring Friedenskirche .

The representative Lutherhaus was built in 1928/1929 by the Kießling brothers . It is entered through a porch made of sandstone, above the door of which there is a portrait of Martin Luther , the Luther relief , by the Radebeul sculptor Burkhart Ebe along with the dates 1529 and 1929 on the keystone . There is a polygonal stairwell on the side of the building. Just like the rectory, the Lutherhaus has a slate-covered hip roof, supplemented by a ridge turret.

Inside there is the Luther Hall on the first floor as a community hall , which is heated and used for church services in winter. This has, carried out by the construction company Johannes Eisold , a diagonally formed, visible wooden slat interior ceiling according to the Zollinger roof system . This forms a wide ogival barrel. The roof with its slats is particularly effective thanks to its color scheme in blue, red and gold tones. The hall is closed by an ogival apse , in which there is also an ogival apse window. Its colored glazing "Risen" shows a representation of the risen Jesus; the design for this comes from the Dresden secessionist Hans Jüchser from 1952.

On the 350th anniversary of the Kötzschenbroda armistice in 1995, a memorial plaque was donated by the Association for Monument Preservation and New Building in Radebeul to commemorate the event. Sunk into the ground in front of the rectory on the Anger, it is now part of the newly designed Friedenskirch forecourt.

History of the parish

Pfarrhaus zu Kötzschenbroda, lithograph from 1845 for the bicentenary of the armistice with the Swedes

The rectory, the history of which is closely linked to the events surrounding the Kötzschenbroda Church, was not only the home of the respective pastor, but also a manor house on extensive estates. The parish itself consisted of a Hufe farmland, plus four meadows, two vineyards and the so-called parish wood , a piece of forest in the Kötzschenbrodaer Tännicht .

The parish farm was destroyed several times by the effects of war or fires, for example in 1429 by the Hussites , in 1598 and 1637 by the Swedes. In the new building after 1637, the armistice treaty was signed with the Swedes.

In the first half of the 19th century the parish was closed and the vineyards were sold in 1846. In 1853 the farm buildings were demolished, creating today's rectory.

Since 1996, since its foundation, the rectory on the ground floor has housed the rooms of the Radebeuler NOTschriften-Verlag.

In 2012, the Luther Hall with the Zollinger roof and walls restored in the previous year was presented to the public on the Open Monument Day.

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Web links

Commons : Lutherhaus und Pfarrhaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 1 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  2. Wolfgang Zimmermann: The Radebeul “NOTschriftenverlag” celebrated its 20th anniversary. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, July 2016, accessed on July 3, 2016 (with a photo of the publisher, Jens Kuhbandner).
  3. Open Monument Day on Sunday, September 9, 2012 in Radebeul.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 14.2 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 0.5"  E