St. Georgen Church (Schwarzenberg)

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View from the south
Nave with official choir, altar and pulpit
West side with ratchet and organ gallery

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Georgen Church is a baroque hall church which, together with the castle, shapes the townscape of Schwarzenberg .

history

After the old town church had become too small and unsightly for the residents of the town, a new church was to be built. The Saxon Elector Johann Georg III donated for this . and the Schwarzenberg Oberzehnder and distributor Balthasar Lehmann each took half of the building site on the site of the burnt down office building on the site of the former outer bailey of the castle. A pewter plaque, which was laid when the foundation stone was laid on May 6, 1690, reports on those involved in the construction. The plans were designed by the Lößnitz architect Johann Georg Roth. Master mason Johann Georg Pauli and master carpenter Samuel Georg, both from Schwarzenberg, were responsible for the construction. After nine years of construction, the church was consecrated in the form of a transverse church on October 22, 1699. The baroque altar grille from 1721 was made by Zacharias Georgi from Schwarzenberg.

Only on July 17, 1722, a button with a flag and cross was placed on the tower. Six years later, the richly carved, self-supporting wooden ceiling was added, which gained national fame due to its construction: the clear width of the room was 34 × 18 meters.

organ

The organ comes from the organ building workshop Hermann Eule (Bautzen) and was built in 1993. The organ case was also built in 1993, based on the case designed by Gottfried Silbermann in Forchheim. The instrument has 39  registers on slider drawers . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Quintad 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Cornett V (from b 0 ) 8th'
11. Mixture IV
12. Zimbel III
13. bassoon 16 ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
15th Silent 16 ′
16. Principal 8th'
17th Black viola 8th'
18th Dumped 8th'
19th Unda maris 8th'
20th octave 4 ′
21st Reed flute 4 ′
22nd Salizet 4 ′
23. Rohrnasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. octave 2 ′
25th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
26th Sifflet 1'
27. Mixture IV
28. Wooden dulcian 16 ′
29 Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
30th Principal bass 16 ′
31. Sub-bass 16 ′
32. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Octave bass 8th'
34. Thought bass 8th'
35. Chorale bass 4 ′
36. Mixture V
37. trombone 16 ′
38. French trumpet 8th'
39. Clarine 4 ′

Peal

The chime consists of three chilled cast iron bells and a bronze bell. The belfry consists of a steel structure. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions material Chime
1 1947 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1610 mm 2052 kg it'
2 1947 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1350 mm 1158 kg ges ′
3 1947 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1195 mm 725 kg as ′
4th 1878 Bell foundry H. Große bronze 1357 mm 1332 kg d ′

Tower keeper

  • The St. Georgen Church is the workplace of the tower keeper of the city of Schwarzenberg.

photos

  • Historical view around 1900

  • Obere Schlossstrasse and Georgenkirche

  • Wooden ceiling with God's name in a halo

  • Communion relief on the altar

  • Middle part of the choir lattice by Zacharias Georgi

  • pulpit

  • City coat of arms on the Ratschor

  • Former elector's box

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Becher: The Schwarzenberg flat roller makers 1690-1790. In: Erzgebirge 1974. A yearbook for socialist local history. Cultural Association of the German Democratic Republic, Stollberg 1973, p. 48.
  2. ^ Owl Organ , accessed April 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony: Sound between heaven and earth . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 357 .
  4. ↑ Türmer-schwarzenberg.de

literature

  • Wolfgang Geßner: The St. Georgen Church - part of the landmark of the old town. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, 59 (2013) 3, pp. 216–225.
  • Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 357.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '14.9 "  N , 12 ° 47' 11.3"  E