St. Martin's Church (Weinböhla)
The St. Martin's Church is the Evangelical Lutheran church of the community of Weinböhla (Saxony).
history
It can be assumed that Weinböhla was looked after by the neighboring parishes of Niederau and Oberau from its first mention in 1349/1350 until around 1500 .
The first church was probably built before 1539, the introduction of the Reformation in Saxony. A testimony to this time is a pre-Reformation winged altar from 1503 with the depiction of St. Martin of Tours . This was expanded in the course of a church renovation in 1827 and moved to the Dresden Antiquities Museum. The altar was later moved to the Meißen City Museum , then to the Martinskapelle on the Meißner Plossen . Today this renovated altar is in the St. Afra Church in Meissen .
In the course of industrialization and the construction of the railway line to Leipzig (1838) and Berlin (1875), the population grew and a new church was considered. A lightning strike in 1892, which caused considerable damage, was decisive for this. On August 21, 1893, the late Gothic church tower, whose 1.5 m thick walls were built from rubble stones, was blown up.
The foundation stone of the church, which still exists today, was laid on October 8th, 1893, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 24th, 1894 and the final church consecration took place on March 24th, 1895 after 18 months of construction. The architect of the neo-Gothic building was Theodor Quentin . In 1981 the top of the church tower was renewed.
architecture
The church is a richly structured structure in unplastered ashlar and quarry stone masonry with slate-covered gable roofs. Four large tracery windows with gables are arranged on the long sides of the ship. The nave merges into a retracted choir with a three-eighth end , buttresses and tracery windows. A single-storey sacristy is added to the north and south, each accompanied by a turret. To the west is a three-storey tower with large windows and sound openings, which is closed with a pointed helmet with four small accompanying towers. The west portal is decorated with a figure of the Good Shepherd by Robert König and is flanked by polygonal stair turrets.
The nave is closed off by a wooden barrel vault with stitch caps , painted with plant friezes . Painted wooden galleries are also arranged over wooden supports on three sides. The vaults also rest on wooden supports that sit on the gallery balustrades. The choir has a vaulted vestibule over pillars; the end of the choir is equipped with a rib vault over round services on figure consoles. The vaults are painted with vegetable and symbolic representations. In the large choir windows there are stained glass depicting the great Christian festivals, which mystically exaggerate the character of the room.
The rectory, a half-timbered building from 1754, was located near the old church. This was replaced in 1894 by the building that still exists today under the direction of Theodor Quentin.
Furnishing
The furnishings from the time of origin include the altar with a neo-Gothic, colored stone retable , which frames a painting depicting the institution of the Last Supper. A neo-Gothic baptismal font and a wooden pulpit in neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic forms complement the furnishings, as do the stalls from the construction period.
The organ is a work by Georg Wünning from 1995 using the material of the organ by Jehmlich from 1915 with 32 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
The church's clockwork dates from 1894 and was overhauled in 1995. Today it is a listed building. The dials have a diameter of 1.80 m.
Peal
The ringing consists of four chilled cast iron bells. The belfry consists of a steel structure. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1949 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1654 mm | 2050 kg | it |
| 2 | 1949 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1297 mm | 910 kg | G |
| 3 | 1949 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1079 mm | 525 kg | b´ |
| 4th | 1949 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 340 mm | 340 kg | c´´ |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 847-848.
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 368.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '42.45 " N , 13 ° 33' 50.2" O