St. John's Church (Niederwürschnitz)

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St. John's Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church in Niederwürschnitz is a hall church with a west tower. The red clinker brick building, built in neo-Gothic forms, is of architectural, local history, urban planning, landscape design and artistic significance. The parish of Lugau- Niederwürschnitz is located in the Ore Mountains in Saxony . It is part of the Lugau administrative community.

history

The place mentioned for the first time in 1447 as Nydernwirßnitz was a farming village until the 19th century. With the onset of coal mining and the textile industry , the region turned into a densely populated industrial area . This led to the demand for a separate parish , which was decided by the newly founded church council for the Reformation Festival in 1901 in the Niederwürschnitz Central School. Until July 1, 1902, the parish of Stollberg was parish and has now become an independent parish. This meant that services, weddings and baptisms could continue to be held in the auditorium of the Niederwürschnitz Central School. A cemetery with a bell tower and a belfry with three bronze bells was built on a hill.

church

Following a resolution by the church council, the Leipzig architect Paul Lange was commissioned to submit plans for a new church. The design was approved by the board of directors and construction began in 1903. On September 26, 1904, the church was consecrated by the first pastor of the community, Joachim Ungnad. Since then, the name of the church has been St. John's Church . The result was a hall church in neo-Gothic style with twin towers about 50 meters high on the west side. The entire building was built using clinker brick. Inside you can also find Neo-Romanesque and Art Nouveau elements in the paintings, the galleries and railings, but also on the pulpit and the decorated vaulted ribs. The tall, ogival church windows were colorful leaded glass windows based on Christian themes. In the period from April 15 to May 7, 1945, the church was badly damaged by the effects of the war. Only one of the leaded glass windows remained, the sacristy window of the Good Shepherd . The war damage had been repaired by 1951. In the meantime, repairs were repeatedly carried out within the scope of the possibilities. In 1986 the interior and the roof structure were renovated. The two towers received a sheet copper cover and the church received heating. The St. John's Church and the cemetery are included in the Niederwürschnitz cultural monument list as individual monuments of the material entity under the entity ID 09238125 .

organ

The organ was built in 1904 by the master organ builder Alfred Schmeisser . It has 26 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The wind chests are designed as pneumatic cone chests. A general overhaul was carried out in 2016 by the organ building workshop Vogtländischer Orgelbau Thomas Wolf ( Limbach ). The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – a 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Gamba 8th'
octave 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Cornett III-IV 4 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C – a 3
Thought bass 16 ′
Violin principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Voix celeste (from c) 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Concert flute 4 ′
Piccolo 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Violonbass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
violoncello 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / I Super, II / I, II / I Sub, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : coupling switch, 1 free combination, register off, reeds off, group moves (p, mf, f, ff), roller, roller off

Peal

In 1902 three bronze bells were installed in the bell tower of the cemetery. With the consecration in 1904, these bells were also consecrated in the tower. In the First World War and also in the Second World War , bells had to be donated as metal . In 1960 the church received four chilled cast iron bells with an electric drive. The consecration took place on January 15, 1961. In the meantime, the bells and the belfry are showing their age. A fundraising campaign has already been launched to renew the bells. Further donations were made possible through a reading with Eberhard Görner and Gojko Mitić . The municipality has to pay 100,000 euros of the total repair cost of 300,000 euros. A new bell consisting of three bronze bells and a wooden bell cage is planned. This significantly reduces the previous loads on the church towers. A new check is due in 2020 and by then the new bells should ring, otherwise the tower is threatened with closure.

The ringing consists of four chilled cast iron bells, the bell cage and the bell yokes are made of steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster material diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1960 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1550 mm 1540 kg e ′
2 1960 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1370 mm 1150 kg f sharp ′
3 1960 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1220 mm 750 kg g sharp ′
4th 1960 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1010 mm 428 kg H'

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes (Niederwürschnitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical index of places
  2. ↑ a b c website of the community - history.
  3. ↑ Niederwürschnitz. Organ description. In: Internet presence. Ev. - Lutheran parish Lugau-Niederschwürnitz, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Vogtland organ building Thomas Wolf: Organ in Niederwürschnitz , accessed on July 24, 2019.
  5. ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 349 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 21.3 ″  E