Hubertusburg Palace Chapel

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Interior of the Hurbertusburg Castle Chapel

As a chapel Hubertusburg the baroque, Catholic is Rococo -Hofkapelle the once royal Saxon hunting and Hofresidenz Hubertusburg in Wermsdorf in Saxony called.

history

The Catholic governor Anton Egon von Fürstenberg brought Catholicism to the Protestant Wermsdorf. The politically motivated conversion of August the Strong to Catholicism due to the Polish crown legitimized the small Catholic court service in Wermsdorf. The Catholic community grew rapidly, and the first Catholic service was held on May 9, 1710.

The Hubertusburg Palace Chapel, visible today, was built between 1740 and 1751.

The chapel was spared the plundering of the palace by Prussian soldiers during the Seven Years' War , as the court chaplain and Jesuit father Anton Robert Schubert begged for mercy on his knees in front of King Friedrich II of Prussia in 1761. In 1827 Wermsdorf was elevated to a Catholic parish. To this day, the parishioners come from a supra-regional catchment area around Wermsdorf.

In 1912 the altar was repaired as partial cracks appeared in the stucco-lustro surfaces.

In 1940 the Wermsdorf chaplain, Hermann Scheipers, wanted to celebrate church service with Polish forced laborers in Wermsdorf after they had been banned from participating in German church services. For this he was arrested and interned in the Dachau concentration camp . He survived. In 1997 he became an honorary citizen of Wermsdorf.

With the entry of the Red Army on April 5, 1945, looting and violent attacks on the civilian population began. A Russian officers' mess was set up in the Hubertusburg Palace Chapel .

In the 1950s, the GDR leadership tried to ideologically influence the Catholic communities. Catholic parents and their children were harassed and given fewer opportunities to develop in professional and school education. Community life was made more difficult by the authorities, meetings of the community were even prohibited by the police, on the grounds that the church communities only had the right to perform cult acts, but not to hold any events.

After the reunification , the life of the Catholic community normalized. In 1994 three bells could be hung in the tower again.

The 250th anniversary of the parish fair was celebrated on October 5th, 1997.

In the contract dated July 2, 1996 between the Holy See , represented by the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo , and the Free State of Saxony, represented by Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf , the Free State took over the entire construction work on the palace chapel, which was very advantageous for the Vatican . On November 11, 2007, Bishop Joachim Reinelt inaugurated the renovated church again. The renovation, originally estimated at € 800,000 plus restoration costs for the organ, was completed in 2009. Today the Catholic community in Hubertusburg has 1,200 members.

Building description

Layout

From the outside, Saxony's only Rococo chapel cannot be seen by the visitor. In the rectangular interior with a clear width of 13.5 by 30 m, the arcades are set in such a way that they close to the southeast in a semicircle for the altar and thus create the impression of an apse . Two colonnades support the galleries , delimit the sanctuary and the nave and create a corridor on both sides. The organ is located above the main altar. To the right of the parapet is the baptismal font and opposite, on an arcade pillar on the north-western long side, the pulpit. Behind the choir there are two sacristy rooms . The altar niche is surrounded by pilasters . On these are gilded relief hangings and in the upper part monstrances in front of which angels float. Are the glass above the entrance of the chapel rule boxes . The floor in the chancel is made of Maxen marble . The chapel and the organ were restored by the Free State of Saxony in 2001–2009. Seat heating was installed. The three-storey interior has a height of 17 m. In 2005 a glass wall was erected in the entrance area, through which visitors can visit the interior of the church at any time.

Furnishing

High altar

Sacra Conversazione in the high altar

Lorenzo Mattielli created the high altar in 1746. The group of figures depicts a Maestà , Saint Joseph and Saint Jesuit Franz Xaver . Franz Xaver died in 1552 on the island of Sanzian off China and was the favorite saint of Maria Josepha Karolina Eleonore Franziska Xaveria of Poland and Saxony ( 1731–1767), who had made him the patron saint of the royal Saxon house. Maria Josepha paid homage to her namesake in the figures of Mary and Joseph. The Holy Spirit hovers as a dove in the vault of the altar niche, surrounded by a halo, clouds and angel heads. Above a profiled table made of stucco lustro is the tabernacle , as a concave, arching hexagonal architectural case with corner pilasters and a heavily capped cornice, above which the cross is located. In front of it is the Salvator Mundi . On the predella is the Sacra Conversazione , also made of stucco lustro. The virgin sits on a pedestal, her right arm on her thigh, with her left holding the moving baby Jesus who is sitting on a cloud. St. Ignatius stands on her left and St. Hubertus on her right. Due to the humanly proud and yet moving structure of the figures and their deepened expression, the group is considered a remarkable forerunner of classical sculpture of the 19th century.

pulpit

Lower part of the pulpit

The pulpit is carried by a life-size angel in high relief, next to which an angel child unrolls a banner:

 Quasi tuba ex alta vocem - translated: "His voice will sound like a tuba!"

The big angel points with his right index finger at the pulpit on which the pastor is standing. Whose voice the unknown artist now means, that of God or of the pastor standing above, is not known. The figures are also made of stucco lustro, the wooden pulpit is gilded. Four angel children with palm branches sit on the curved parapet, angel heads and a child with the cross in front of the crowning halo on the sound cover. The pulpit is considered to be one of the most outstanding pieces of the Saxon Rococo. A small flock of sheep can be seen in the pulpit. It refers to the pastoral service of the bishop, in which the pastor has a share. In North German this has been preserved in the name pastor (= shepherd).

Ceiling painting

  • Ceiling painting by Johann Babtist Grone

  • Baptismal font

The 400 m² ceiling painting shows the legend of Saint Hubert. It is the last surviving work by the theater painter Giovanni Battista Grone . It depicts the kneeling Saint Hubert in a red cloak, in front of whom a white stag appears on a rock with the shining cross between the antlers. Angels sit on numerous clouds. An angel brings miter and crook. (See: The Legend of Saint Hubertus )

Baptismal font

The font is made of gray marble with a foot of red stucco marble. The lid is made of chased brass.

confessional

The baroque confessional was dismantled in 2010 and transported to the Kaufungen Castle . The original color version from 1754 was reconstructed there, a chalk version by the restorer Grit Stamm.

Handling

There are a number of works of art in the dealership:

painting

On the southeast side, corresponding to the windows of the northwest wall, there are six oil paintings on canvas:

  • Painting in dealing

  • St. Ignatius

  • St. Franciscus Xavier

  • Guardian Angel

  • St. Aloysius

  • St. John of Nepomuk

  • St. Anthony

Reliefs in stucco marble

above the sacristy doors

  • The penitent Magdalena , lying in front of a wreath on clouds, next to her an angel.
  • Saint Peter , next to him the rooster, on the left the papal crown is carried by angels.

on the separation sheets

organ

The organ above the altar

The organ was probably made by Silbermann's student Tobias Schramm (1701–1771) for the construction period of the Catholic Court Church in Dresden . When the great Silbermann organ was built there, the Schramm instrument came to Hubertusburg Castle in 1749. Since the gallery opposite the chancel served as a royal box, the organ was placed in a niche above the altar. After the Second World War, the organ was not spared from the looting of the palace complex by the occupying powers stationed in the palace. The pipe material was largely cleared, the mechanics and the leather bellows were largely destroyed. Only the organ case remained almost intact. In 2001 the case was restored and the instrument was reconstructed by the organ building company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen for 350,000 marks. It has 10 registers (approx. 500 pipes) on a manual and pedal. The metal pipes were handcrafted from a tin-lead alloy. Spruce was used for the wooden pipes. The pedal is firmly attached to the manual. The prospectus is decorated with rococo carvings. The special thing about this organ is that it is tuned a semitone lower than usual in the deep concert pitch.

Manuals C – d 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Viol 'di Gamba 8th'
3. Rude 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Put it small 4 ′
(Continuation)
6th Quinta 3 ′
7th Octava 2 ′
8th. Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – c 1
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Octavbass 8th'

literature

  • W. Riemer: Hubertusburg Castle, otherwise and now. A monographic sketch. Verlag Göthel, Oschatz 1881.
  • Klaus Gumnior: Hubertusburg Castle. Values ​​of a Saxon residence. In: Saxonia. Series of publications of the Association for Saxon State History eV Saxon Printing and Publishing House, Dresden 1997.

Web links

Commons : Schlosskapelle Hubertusburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Krämer: Wermsdorf and its castles. In: Messages from the Saxon Homeland Security Association. Volume XV, Issue 3/4, Dresden 1926, p. 81 ff.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Bergstrasse: The royal Saxon penal institutions. Leopod Voss, Leipzig 1844, p. 18, ( online ) accessed on March 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b dw: The putti are beaming again. Thanksgiving service in the restored St. Hubertus Castle Church. Day of the Lord, Catholic weekly newspaper, issue 46, St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 2007 ( Link ), accessed on March 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ k. A .: Hubertusburg Castle. Values ​​of a Saxon residence. Saxonia series of publications by the Association for Saxon State History Volume 3. Saxon Printing and Publishing House, Dresden 1997.
  5. ^ A b c d Ingo Fischer, Claudia Martin, Diana Barthel: Schloss Hubertusburg Wermsdorf. Restoration of the Catholic palace chapel. Staatsbetrieb Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement, Dresden 2007, (PDF 4.51 MB), ( online ; PDF; 4.7 MB) accessed on March 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ k. A .: Conventio Inter Apostolicam Sedem Et Liberum Statum Saxoniae. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome 1996 ( Link ), accessed March 5, 2011.
  7. ↑ Gabi Liebegall: Bishop Joachim Reinelt consecrates the renovated church in Wermsdorf. Saxony's most beautiful Rococo castle chapel. Leipziger Volkszeitung, Oschatzer Allgemeine, Oschatz, November 12, 2007.
  8. ↑ Archives of the Free State of Saxony ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Archive Center Hubertusburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.sachsen.de
  9. ↑ Martin Prause: The history of the Catholic Church. In: k. A .: 800 years of Wermsdorf. 1206-2006. Sax Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-93-2 , p. 265 ff.
  10. ↑ a b c Cornelius Gurlitt: Hubertusburg. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1905, p. 123.
  11. ↑ Simon Niggemann: Use of Maxener Marble. Heimatverein Maxen eV, 2005, archived from the original on May 5, 2005 ; Retrieved March 5, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Jana Brechlin: Confessional from Wermsdorf Castle Chapel is being restored / Experts reveal the original chalk version from 1754. With pistol and plastic syringe. Leipziger Volkszeitung, Oschatzer Allgemeine, Oschatz, March 1, 2011.
  13. ↑ k. A .: Signs of hope in old castle walls. Organ consecration in the St. Hubertus Church in Hubertusburg. Day of the Lord, Catholic weekly newspaper, issue 19, St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 2001 ( Link ), accessed on March 5, 2011.
  14. ↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the municipality's website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrei-st-hubertus.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 38.8 "  N , 12 ° 56 ′ 23.2"  E