Schmirma

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The village church Schmirma

Schmirma is a round village with 134 inhabitants (December 2014), which belongs to the town of Müuellen (Geiseltal) in the Saalekreis .

history

Until 1815 the place belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

On July 1, 1950, Schmirma was incorporated into Oechlitz .

St. Ulrich village church

The village church of Ortisei got a new nave with wall and ceiling paintings in 1699. The organ was built in 1905 by the organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann .

In 1921/22 - at the suggestion of the Provincial Curator Max Ohle - the Halle artist Karl Völker furnished the church interior with a new color scheme and 14 unique, expressionist ceiling paintings . These depict scenes from the life of Jesus, especially the passion story. Karl Völkers church painting is considered "one of the most fascinating spatial creations of the 1920s in Central Germany"; Völkers work made the church "the most extraordinary village church in the region". During the GDR era, the paintings were badly damaged, up to and including the complete loss of color. The causes were a leaky church roof with water damage, dense cobwebs and a layer of soot on the pictures from heating with a cannon stove. The paintings were removed one after the other from 2009 and extensively restored. During the renovation of the church, they were shown from October 17, 2013 to January 5, 2014 in an exhibition of the Moritzburg Foundation in Halle (Saale) . The congregation celebrated the completion of the extensive restoration of the pictures and the interior of the church with a ceremony on October 17, 2014.

Adjacent to the village is an orchard meadow that is under landscape protection .

literature

  • Church in Schmirma . In: Sabine Meinel: Karl Völker. Life and work . Diss., Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 2008, vol. 1, pp. 111–118 ( online ) and vol. 2, fig. 54–58.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
  2. ↑ The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900
  3. ↑ Adolf Müller: The ceiling paintings in the church at Schmirma bei Mülocken . In: The Scheuer. Sheets for local research and home life , year 1924, issue 9/10, pp. 77–79 (part 1) and issue 11/12, pp. 90–92 (part 2).
  4. ^ Sabine Meinel: Karl Völker. Life and work . Diss., Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 2008, Quotations Vol. 1, p. 111.
  5. ^ Ingrid Schulze: The proletarian-revolutionary "Hallische Künstlergruppe". Dedicated to Martin Knauthe (born May 30, 1889) and Karl Völker (born October 17, 1889) on their 100th birthday . Museum for the History of the City of Halle, Halle 1989, pp. 22–28.
  6. ↑ Sabine Meinel: The endangered expressionist paintings in the village church Schmirma . In: Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt , year 2003, issue 2, pp. 155–162.
  7. ↑ Bettina Vaupel: Christ, grounded. Karl Völkers ceiling paintings in the church of Schmirma . In: Monuments , vol. 2015, issue 2, pp. 16-19.
  8. ↑ Sacred Stories. The expressionist treasure trove of images from Schmirma . Flyer for the exhibition of the Moritzburg Foundation, Halle 2013.
  9. ^ Gisela Tanner: The Schmirma community celebrates the return of the paintings by Karl Völker , accessed on April 23, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Schmirma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 11 ° 47 ′  E