Saint Lukas Church (Mühlberg)
The Sankt-Lukas-Kirche is the village church in Mühlberg, Thuringia . One of the three ways to the church leads through a large gate hall , which is bordered by Gothic pointed arches . A stone ribbed vault spans the room. The gateway is part of a ring of meter-thick sandstone walls and half-timbered houses that surround the church and the cemetery . Apparently, two gates were broken into it later. After you have passed through the cemetery, you come to the main gate of the church on the west side. It is usually not locked during the day. Next to the entrance door, an old, well-preserved grave slab of a person who died on October 15, 1598 is attached to the wall.
The parishes of Wechmar , Röhrensee and Schwabhausen belong to the parish Mühlberg in the Gotha parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The namesake is the evangelist Luke .
history
A church in Mühlberg was first mentioned in 726. In 1200 a small Romanesque church building can be proven. The present church is a medieval church, which was built around 1300 as a fortified church with a churchyard and served as a refuge for people in times of war. The late Gothic figural wall paintings above the pulpit altar are impressive. They were created around 1450 as a Secco painting , but were not rediscovered until 1977 during a renovation. The center of the painting are the apostles Peter and Paul , who hold the handkerchief of Christ in their hands.
The two large bells were cast in 1504/05, presumably by the Heinrich Ziegler bell foundry in Erfurt . The bell from 1504 has a diameter of 1158 mm and a weight of 985 kg. On the flank it bears the representation of Our Lady.
In 1526, Justus Menius introduced the Reformation in Mühlberg. In 1536 the first Protestant pastor, Ulrich Beher (Ursinus), was hired.
In the Thirty Years' War Muhlberg and his church suffered major damage. In the following decades, major renovations were carried out with a baroque redesign. The tombstones still visible today were probably walled in in the upper area of the east gable.
According to an inscription on a stone tablet on the north side of the church's outer wall (see picture), the church was renovated from June 8, 1696 to October 18, 1697 , and more comfortably built , and inaugurated on the day of St. Luke, October 18, 1697 to become. The church was previously consecrated to St. Gall (October 16). The board contains the text: To the glory of God, this dilapidated church was renovated inside and out and built more comfortably began in Anno Christi 1696, June 8th. Also happily accomplished within a year through God's blessing and in Anno 1697, October 18th, on the day of St. Evangel. Luca inaugurated. Hanc tibi perpetuo fixam Deus adsere sedem veri hic sit culius arafocus ?? tui .
The baroque interior was completed from 1680 to 1740. The open, imposing baroque church sky was created in 1704 by Johann Schorch from Sömmerda in egg tempera color. Its colors are still like new.
1972 to 1986 the interior was renewed using the old technique of the chalk ground.
On the ground floor of the tower there is a small chapel dedicated to Saint Radegundis . It was established in 1987 on the 1400th anniversary of the saint's death and provided with a meditation cross. In 2009 it was redesigned and received a statue by the artist Heino Gloystein and a small altar. The chapel contains a meditation cross by the Graefenhain artist Gert Weber, who designed it on the occasion of the 1400th anniversary of Radegundis' death in 1987. A Romanesque capital above the statue comes from the former Radegundis chapel on the Mühlburg. An altar fragment probably comes from a Sebastian or Anne altar in the church. In the same year, the restoration of the rectory next door was completed.
In 2012 the tower clockwork, which was installed by the Munich company Mannhardt in 1861, was restored by the Thuringian tower clocks and bell service Steffen Willing from Graefenhain . The clockwork received an electric winding.
In 1802 the length of the Prussian rod of 4.20 m, which is binding for the Prussian enclave of Mühlberg, was carved into the south side of the church . It is a groove in the ledge of the base of the nave. The measure is divided into ¼, ½ and ¾ rod.
As is often the case in this area, the well-kept cemetery at the church is worth seeing.
restoration
In 2013 and 2014 the restoration of the two 500-year-old and one 400-year-old listed tower bells and the renovation of the church tower, accompanied by repairs to the bell cage , roof structure , the tower dome (new encrustation) and the church facade. In addition, the tower received a gutter and a lightning protection system. Drainage work was carried out on the base of the tower, and the Radegunde chapel was completely renovated in the lower tower area. The tower clock was also extensively restored.
On March 1, 2014, the ceremonial reintroduction of the three bronze bells was celebrated with great participation from the population. The two unmarked, deeper, larger bells were cast by the bell founder Heinrich Ziegler in Erfurt in 1503 and 1504 . They sound in d 'and f sharp' and hang in the structure of the bell floor. The smaller f sharp bell stands out u. a. by two very beautiful reliefs, a halo -Madonna and a crucifixion scene. The third, smallest bell rings in e '' and hangs in a dormer in the roof area of the tower. It dates from 1608 and was cast by the Erfurt bell founder Hermann König . The bell is decorated with a figurative representation of the Whitsun scene . The bells were christened Lukas (d'-bell, name of the church), Gallus (fis'-bell, name of the previous church) and Radegunde (e '' bell, name of the former chapel on the Mühlburg) on the occasion of the reintroduction . Lukas rings at all services and after the death of a Mühlberger, Gallus rings 20 minutes before the service and 5 minutes beforehand with Lukas , Radegunde is the baptismal bell.
Ziegler cast a lot of bells between 1499 and 1556, with more or less certainty around 60 bells can be detected.
Between 1596 and 1611, König lived in Erfurt in the house "Zum golden Kelche" on the Fischmarkt (today house no. 10) and was buried in 1611 in the Erfurt Predigerkirche .
On May 18, 2014, the completion of the work was celebrated in a festive service.
organ
The organ of the St. Lukas Church was created in 1729 by Franciscus Volckland from Erfurt . In 1824 the instrument was rebuilt by Ernst Siegfried Hesse, son of the organ builder Johann Michael Hesse from Dachwig , according to early romantic sound ideals. The organ is mechanical and has 26 stops on 2 manuals and a pedal with around 1500 pipes . In the organ loft hang two kettledrums that are used on festive occasions with the organ and other instruments. The organ was completely restored in 1997.
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- Coupling: manual coupling, pedal coupling
- Secondary register: Glockenspiel, Glockenaccord, Tremulant, Calcant
- V = Register of Volkland, 1729
- H = Register from Hesse, 1824
photos
Southwest side
Church sky (detail)
Grave slab next to the church door
Grave slab of a dignitary (?) Next to the church door
Radegundis Chapel with meditation cross
Stone tablet on the north side
Churchyard
Gate hall, integrated into the row of houses
swell
- Dirk Koch: Village churches around the three equals , publisher Trachtengruppe Ingersleben, Ingersleben 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b leaflet of the parish
- ↑ Newspaper report of the Thuringian General
- ^ Newspaper report of the Nord-West-Zeitung
- ^ Walther, K .: Glockenkunde , Regensburg and Rome, 1913
- ↑ Eichler, H.-G .: Handbook of the piece and bell founders on the basis of the bells handed down in central Germany , Greifenstein, 2003
- ↑ More information about the Volkland organ ( Memento from February 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 2 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 25 ″ E