Castle Church (Hassenberg)
The Evangelical Lutheran castle church in Hassenberg in Upper Franconia , a part of the municipality of Sonnefeld in the Coburg district , was built in 1690.
history
In 1684, the Coburg Chamber Director Christoph Sebastian Freiherr Stockhorner von Starein, who had to leave Austria because of his religious affiliation, bought the Hassenberg manor. He had an old castle demolished and in 1689 the castle and in 1690 the neighboring castle church built as a house church and burial place in their current form. In 1694, Baron Stockhorner von Starein sold the Hassenberg estate. This then often changed hands. In the 18th century this was, among other things, the imperial general baron Heinrich Johann von Schilling. In 1841 the church was restored.
The church was acquired by the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg in 1856 after a foreclosure auction, along with the estate and the castle . In 1860 a penitentiary was established , which was closed in 1911. The church was an institutional church during that period.
Hassenberg belonged to the Gestungshaus church parish. From 1929, regular services were held in the branch church for the Hassenberg parishioners. In 1936, the Bavarian state left the state-owned church to the newly founded parish free of charge. In 1950 Hassenberg became an independent parish. A year later, the neighboring village of Wörlsdorf , which until then belonged to Fechheim , was re- pared . In 1954 a parish office was set up. The parish had about 1000 members at that time, in 2015 there were around 700. In 1980/81 the parish had a comprehensive repair carried out. The bell was extended and a new church staircase was built. A new organ was built in the early 1990s. An extensive renovation is due again in the mid-2010s.
Building description
The hall church stands in the partly walled castle district on the slope and in the inner corner of a street bend. The church house with its 150 seats has a simple, simply rectangular hall 15.35 meters long and 9.1 meters wide, surrounded on three sides by a single-storey gallery . The main entrances are in the south and north. The higher north entrance has an anteroom with a staircase that leads down to the nave and a staircase up to the gallery. There is a large rectangular window on both sides of the doors on the north and south sides. The east side has two identical windows. The windows are mostly provided with ears, sometimes also with fascia .
The basement of the church tower to the west is 2.0 meters long and 4.35 meters wide and houses the sacristy . The tower superstructure has two storeys with windows, on top of which a tail dome, followed by a square top and a helmet as a top.
The interior is spanned by a wooden flat ceiling richly decorated with stucco . A longitudinal beam decorated with leaves and flowers in the middle divides the ceiling into two large, long fields that are specially framed. There are three large ceiling paintings in each of the two fields. The white stucco ceiling, probably a work of the Italian brothers Castelli, has no flat decorations, but shows three-dimensional flowers and large tropical fruits that frame six colored frescoes . Angel figures, holding instruments of Jesus' passion, are in between. The ceiling paintings are probably by the Coburg court painter Johannes Schuster. They show six scenes from the life of Christ: Annunciation and Birth, Baptism and Resurrection, Ascension and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
The windows facing the interior of the church are flat-arched and framed with stucco. Above the apex are empty cartouches with fruit threads on the sides and small reliefs above.
The altar is free-standing. The altarpiece on the east wall dates from the 18th century and shows the Ascension of Christ . It is framed by twisted pillars decorated with vine leaves. There are small figures of Peter and Paul on the left and right. In the middle there is an attachment with a coat of arms, crowned with a figure of Christ. The gallery parapets are painted with garlands. The classicist pulpit on the southern gallery dates from the 18th century. It rests on a Corinthian pillar and is decorated with acanthus tendrils and wooden evangelist figures. There is a crypt under the chancel and a grave under the sacristy. General von Schilling and family members were buried in the crypt. Johann Wilhelm von Wasmer, husband of Paula von Wasmer, née Brentano , is buried in the grave site.
organ
The first organ was erected from 1878 to 1880 by an unknown organ builder. In 1913 the Coburg Carl Graßmuck repaired the instrument. In 1930 it was repaired by E. Dietmann from Lichtenfels . The arrangement of the organ was later modernized. The instrument had seven registers on a manual and pedal . From 1991 to 1992 the organ builder Thomas Wolf from Vogtland built a new organ with twelve stops on two manuals and a pedal. A thirteenth register was unoccupied. The historical prospectus was preserved.
The organ has a box-shaped case with a three-part prospectus. Pilasters and flat keel arches frame the pipe fields. Moldings and column capitals form the top.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 94
- ^ A b Oskar Fugmann, Erich Zellmer and Hans-Ulrich Hofmann: Hassenberg . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , pp. 182f
- ^ Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 78
- ↑ a b c Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Issue XXVIII, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Landrathsamt Coburg. Jena 1902, p. 82f
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part I. Yearbook of the Coburg Landesstiftung 1971, p. 110
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 19.3 ″ E