St. Bartholomew Church (Selva)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Bartholomew in Selva goes back to a late medieval predecessor and is located in the immediate vicinity of Selva Castle . It was built in its present form after the city fire of 1687 in the Saxon late baroque style. The choir room in the east, built in 1648, has been preserved as the oldest part of the previous building. The rectangular nave was completed in 1689, the 35 m high tower in 1710. The interior of the church is classical .
history
Presumably there was a church in Selva since the 12th century, the construction of which was connected with the building of the castle there and became Evangelical-Lutheran through the introduction of the Reformation in the offices of Freiberg and Selva in 1537 by Duke Heinrich of Saxony . The east-facing building was given a choir room in the east with an altar made of marble , alabaster and porphyry designed by Johann Heinrich Böhme in 1648 on behalf of the bailiff Johann Rechenbergk . Stifter Rechenbergk and his wife are buried in the chancel.
The town fire of 1687 badly damaged the church. The rectangular nave had to be rebuilt (completed in 1689). In 1710 the tower was added, the oldest bell of which was cast in 1712. A stone relief of St. George fighting the dragon, which was probably made around 1450, was attached to the outer wall of the tower . The heavily weathered relief was hung inside the church in 1986. During the reconstruction period (1702) the crucifix in the church was donated, a little later (1755) the font made of Zöblitz serpentine stone .
inner space
The altar, which survived the town fire undamaged, shows the story of Pentecost with figures carved out in relief: in the predella the Lord's Supper , above the apostles during the pouring out of the Holy Spirit and above God the Father with the globe and the victorious Christ. The representation is flanked by the four evangelists and their symbols. From 1843, the altarpiece was covered for a few decades by an oil painting showing Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman. In order to be able to fit the oil painting into the altar, parts of the original altar relief (apostles in the lower area) were removed.
Inside the church there are ornate, two-storey wooden galleries that extend over three sides of the nave and that, until the recent removal of some parts that could no longer be restored, have practically completely enclosed the nave. On the second floor of the gallery on the west side is the two-manual organ with 26 registers (12-9-5) and around 1500 pipes, which is considered the third work of organ builder Christian Gottlob Steinmüller from Grünhain and was built in 1817/18. The ornate brass chandelier was donated in 1857 and supplemented by additional copper chandeliers during the GDR era.
Peal
The bell consists of three 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 | 1786 | JG Gräfe bell foundry | 1230 mm | 1100 kg | e ′ |
| 2 | 1712 | Bell foundry M. Weinhold | 1040 mm | 600 kg | G' |
| 3 | 1908 | Bell foundry CA Bierling | 770 mm | 280 kg | H' |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 371 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '20.8 " N , 13 ° 3' 54.8" E