Tiefenau Castle Chapel
The Tiefenau Castle Chapel is a listed church building in Tiefenau , a district of the municipality of Wülknitz in the Saxon district of Meißen .
The church, built in the baroque style in 1716, can be found with an adjacent cemetery in the area of a former castle or manor complex . The interior of the richly furnished chapel includes an organ created by Gottfried Silbermann in 1728 , which was restored in the late 1990s. The Tiefenau Castle itself, which was located a little west of the chapel, was blown up in 1948.
Building and Church History
A first Tiefenau church was mentioned as early as 1495. At first it was a branch church of Koselitz , which later came to Spansberg and fell into desolation during the Thirty Years' War . The Tiefenau rulers also had a chapel, which was located near the stately sheepfold to the west of the castle. In 1661 this was renewed or repaired again, but was then considered completely dilapidated in the first quarter of the 18th century.
Today's Tiefenau Castle Chapel was built in 1716. The Electorate Court Marshal Count Ferdinand August von Pflugk (1662–1712) acquired the Tiefenau rule in 1704 and had a baroque palace built here in 1710. The noble family von Pflugk had lived in the nearby Frauenhain since the late 14th century. His wife Elisabeth Friederike von Pflugk (1673–1733), b. Stubenberg, had the castle chapel, which still exists today and is located east of the former castle, built. The builder George Bähr (1666–1738) is presumed to be the author of the design of the chapel , although other builders from the Saxon court, such as Balthasar Permoser (1651–1732) and Johann Benjamin Thomae (1682–1751), are also believed to have been involved.
The palace chapel was consecrated at the Reformation Festival in 1717 by the then court preacher Heinrich Pipping (1670–1722). The newly built castle chapel also became a branch church of Spansberg . There was hardly any renovation and restoration work in the period that followed. It is assumed that the resident noble family, whose gravestones in the adjacent cemetery are still in good condition, lacked the financial means.
At the end of the Second World War , the palace chapel, among other things, was also affected. There was vandalism and looting in and around the church in the post-war period . In 1948 the neighboring castle was blown up. The command 209 of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) it had become fatal. The order of September 9, 1947 included measures to be taken to create new farms, but it was also used as an opportunity to destroy numerous smaller aristocratic residences in order to obtain the necessary building materials. In the immediate vicinity, the old aristocratic residences in Frauenhain, Strauch and Grödel were also affected. The castle chapel first came to the Nauwalde parish , and later to Streumen .
After the Tiefenau Castle was blown up, the chapel was largely left to decay in the following years. Nevertheless, the first security measures had been taken on the structure as early as 1945 . The first reconstruction measures began in 1962. In 1965 the roof ridge was reconstructed . Further work was carried out on the facade , the roof and the windows, but in the end it was not sufficient. In the 1980s, the castle church was finally in danger of collapsing. In 1984 there was therefore another restoration.
Concrete and extensive restoration work began after the fall of the Wall . The work began under the technical influence of the Dresden art historian and former Saxon state curator Heinrich Magirius in 1989. The project was financially supported by the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg and the private donor Hildegard Seyffardt from Bad Honnef . In 1996 the Hildegard Seyffardt Foundation was established.
The Tiefenau castle chapel has been largely renovated and restored today. The Hildegard Seyffardt Foundation, a trust foundation of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , supports the maintenance and preservation of the valuable furnishings of the building to this day.
Building description and equipment
Longitudinal section of the chapel
Chapel floor plan
The Tiefenau Castle Chapel is a plastered sandstone block with a simple choir. The hall church, structured with pilaster strips, has a hipped mansard roof with a ridge turret. The slim roof ridge itself is intricately structured and has a tail hood with a weather vane. A clock tower can be found in the lower third of the tower.
The chapel has a rich and magnificent interior and has remained almost unchanged in its interior. Responsible for this in the 18th century were presumably the court architect Johann Benjamin Thomae (1682–1751) and the court sculptor Johann Christian Kirchner (1691–1732).
The hall is characterized by a baroque stucco ceiling, the circumferential throat of which sits richly profiled in the corners on strong volutes . It is also ornamented with acanthus as well as ribbon and tendrils. The walls of the chapel are divided by pilasters and Ionic capitals .
The galleries of the castle chapel, resting on pillars with acanthus, are single-storey and encircling. The three-part mansion box located in the west of the building was decorated with putti bearing a coat of arms. They show the coats of arms of the von Pflugk and von Dölau rulers . Presumably Johann Friedrich Karcher (1650–1726) was responsible for this. At the time the Tiefenau Palace Chapel was built, he was the master builder from the Electoral Saxon and Polish territories. A vestibule can be found under the manor's box, which can be accessed via the main west portal of the church.
The pulpit altar opposite in the east is flanked by two imitation marble columns. The polygonal pulpit is surrounded by female figures that symbolize two of the three Christian virtues : Faith on the left (Fides) and hope (Spes) on the right. The sculptor Johann Christian Kirchner was probably responsible for their design.
Behind the altar there is a small sacristy on both sides , the left one can also be accessed through a gate in the eastern outer wall. Directly behind the altar is an anteroom in the form of a prayer room. From here, a spiral staircase leads to the pulpit and organ loft.
organ
In the eastern corners of the Tiefenau Palace Chapel, two richly decorated organ prospects in the Rococo style can be seen. These flank the pulpit altar, whereby the right one is only a mute symmetry prospectus, which is unique in the German-speaking area. The actual organ with tin pipes from around 1728 can be found in the left case. Pewter pipes are also installed in the blind prospectus. The organ itself comes from the organ builder Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753) and is his Opus 27. The instrument has nine stops on a manual with mechanical slide chests . In 1934 Wilhelm Rühle repaired damage to the organ that had been caused by poor maintenance and vandalism. It was badly damaged at the end of the Second World War . With the exception of the wooden pipes, almost all metal pipes were lost. The preserved remains were restored in 1996 and 1997 by the Wegscheider organ workshop in Dresden and what was lost was reconstructed.
The disposition is as follows:
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The mood was probably well tempered until 1997 and has been the Silbermann Sorge temperature ever since . The pitch is a 1 = 465 Hz.
The following rhymed saying from 1730 has been handed down about Silbermann's work, also with regard to the Tiefenau organ:
What you have shown in Reichenbach and Rochlitz /
in Püchau, Tieffenau, Lobus and Öderan
and how your art is also praised in Glauchau /
that shows your beautiful work, Skilful Silbermann!
Peal
The bell consists of two bronze bells , the bell cage is made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1926 | Bell foundry S. Schilling | 650 mm | 165 kg | d ″ |
| 2 | 1717 | Bell foundry M. Weinhold | 550 mm | 85 kg | fis ″ |
Tombs
While the remains of the manor's former brewery are located immediately to the east of the castle chapel, there is a small cemetery to the south of the building . A small mourning hall can be found on the southern outer wall, against which some historical, weathered sandstone gravestones lean . Immediately by the chapel there are some preserved graves of the von Pflugk family. Another larger tomb was built for Simon Adolf Goedecke.
Tomb for Simon Adolf Goedecke
Gravestones of the von Pflugk family
Mourning hall
Historic tombstones on the outer wall
Literature (selection)
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Official Authority Grossenhain (Land) . Dresden 1914, p. 423-444 ( Scan - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Internet presence of the parish Zeithain
- The Tiefenau Castle Chapel on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain
- The Tiefenauer Silbermann organ on the homepage of the Gottfried Silbermann Society
Notes and individual references
- ↑ List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on September 15, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e The Tiefenau Castle Chapel on the homepage of the Meißen-Großenhain church district, accessed on September 15, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Friedrich Scherzer: The pearl of Tiefenau . In: 250 years of the Grödel – Elsterwerda raft canal 1748–1998 . 1997, p. 91-92 .
- ↑ a b Tiefenaus entry in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony, accessed on September 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f Cornelius Gurlitt: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (country) . Dresden 1914, p. 423-444 ( Scan - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (= Landscapes in Germany . Volume 63 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 187–190 ( preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Saxony. I .: Dresden district . Arranged by Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath u. a. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 529 .
- ↑ a b The Hildegard Seyffardt Foundation on the homepage of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, accessed on September 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b Frank-Harald Greß : Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. Vol. 177). 3. Edition. Sandstein, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-930382-50-7 .
- ↑ a b data sheet of the Tiefenauer Silbermann organ on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain, accessed on September 15, 2017 (PDF; 292 kB).
- ↑ The Tiefenauer Silbermann Organ on the homepage of the Gottfried Silbermann Society, accessed on September 15, 2017.
- ↑ The Tiefenauer Silbermann organ on the homepage of the municipality of Wülknitz, accessed on September 15, 2017.
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 365 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '28.1 " N , 13 ° 23' 54" E