St. Kilian Church (Bad Lausick)

St. Kilian's Church in Bad Lausick

The St. Kilian Church is now an Evangelical Lutheran church in Bad Lausick in the Leipzig district in Saxony, construction of which began in 1105, making it the oldest building in the town. The church is equipped with an organ by Gottfried Silbermann .

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The construction of the Lausick St. Kilians Church began under Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch and was designed as a Romanesque basilica with three naves . The size of the building, which was initially carried out without a tower under the supervision of the Pegau Benedictine monastery, was intended as a central church for the surrounding villages of the new settlers from Franconia , whose patron saint Kilian also gave the church its name.

In 1523 the community elected a Protestant pastor and a little later had the church added with a tower. This was replaced in the 18th century, the church was painted in Baroque style and the aisles were equipped with groin vaults . Porphyry from Rochlitz was used for the west portal .

In 1920 the church was supplemented by a winged altar from 1490 from the church in the village of Witznitz near Borna , which had been abandoned in the course of open-cast lignite mining. During the restoration from 1955 to 1957, the church was largely returned to its original state.

St. Kilian, winged altar around 1490

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St. Kilian with Silbermann-Trampeli organ

The church is equipped with an organ by Gottfried Silbermann , which he originally built with a manual for the Johanniskirche in Chemnitz in 1722 . After moving into a new building of St. John's Church in 1772, it was in 1791 by Johann Gottlob Trampeli by installing a second manual with eight registers extended. The organ was sold to Auligk near Pegau in 1879 , where minor modifications were made in the same year. The pitch was modernized in 1940. The instrument was moved to Bad Lausick on the occasion of the renovation of St. Kilian in 1957. In 1988 the Eule company from Bautzen largely adapted it to the choir tuning intended for the construction .

I Hauptwerk C, D – c 3 1. Principal 8th' 2. Dumped 8th' 3. Gamba 8th' 4th Octava 4 ′ 5. Reed flute 4 ′ 6th Quinta 3 ′ 7th Octava 2 ′ 8th. Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ 9. Sifflöt 1' 10. Cornett III (from c 1 ) 11. Mixture III 12. Cymbel II

II upper structure C, D – c 3 13. Dumped 8th' 14th Quintadena 8th' 15th Prestant 4 ′ 16. flute 4 ′ 17th Octava 2 ′ 18th Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ 19th Mixture III 20th Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C, D – c 1 21st Sub bass 16 ′ 22nd Principal bass 8th' 23. Octave bass 4 ′ 24. Mixture IV 25th trombone 16 ′ 26th Trumpet 8th'

* Coupling : II / I ( sliding coupler ), I / P

Web links

Commons : St. Kilian's Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• St. Kilian's Church ( memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the Bad Lausick website
• The oldest church in Saxony celebrates its 900th birthday. On the website of the evang.-luth. Church of Saxony
• St. Kilian's Church on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Bad Lausick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organ portrait ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Gottfried Silbermann Society; Retrieved April 9, 2013. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 41 ″  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 27 ″  E