St. Michaelis Church (Schmiedefeld)

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St. Michaelis Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Michaelis Church in the Großharthau district of Schmiedefeld , named after the Archangel Michael , was consecrated in 1818. The church and two memorials are listed .

history

The first church in the Schmiedefeld area was a Marien-Kapelle, which stood on the Kapellenberg named after her in the northeast of the village from around the year 1200 . In the village itself, a church has come down to us from 1354 at the latest. During the spring campaign of 1813 , the French soldiers holed up in Schmiedefeld. The Russian troops stood on the Kapellenberg and took the place under heavy fire. During the fighting on May 12, 1813, the church was one of the first buildings in the village to be destroyed, and by the end of the year almost no houses in the village were habitable. With the church all church records from the time before 1813 were destroyed. The hereditary court, rebuilt in 1815, served as an emergency solution for the church services for several years. In 1816 construction began on the new church, which was consecrated on October 12, 1818. The first expansion and repair work took place in 1862. The previously very simple interior of the church was redesigned in 1889.

A comprehensive renovation of the interior of the church was carried out in 1988, the church tower was completely renovated in 2003 and the exterior of the church in 2007.

Memorials

Memorial plaque and war memorial

A memorial plaque was attached to the eastern church wall in 1889 to commemorate May 12, 1813, the day of horror in Schmiedefeld , and July 21, 1871, the day on which the citizens of Schmiedefeld who fought in the Franco-German War returned home . Three cannon balls that were found in the rubble during the clean-up work during the construction of the new church were incorporated into the plaque.

There is a stone war memorial in front of the church, donated by the community of Schmiedefeld and commemorating the fallen and missing of the place in the First World War . The memorial is provided with a sculpture of a soldier's helmet and bears the names of all the victims from the place. On the base of the monument is the inscription: “Nobody has greater love than him / that he gives his life for friends” ( Jn 15.13  EU ).

Furnishing

The hall church is equipped with a two-storey gallery . The three-part church tower has a Welsche dome , on the top of which there is a gold-colored tower ball and a weather vane . The Schmiedefeld rectory from 1816 was renovated in 2008 and offers a small area for overnight stays.

organ

View of the organ gallery

The Schmiedefelder organ was created in 1821 by the Saxon organ builder Christian Gottfried Herbrig . It is considered to be the first independent organ built by Herbrig. In the years 1889, 1970 and 2008 the instrument was refurbished, each time the work was carried out by the Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen company, which had existed since 1872 .

The instrument has the following disposition :

Manual C – e 3
1. Quintatön 16 ′
2. Drone 08th'
3. Violin principal 08th'
4th Hollow flute 08th'
5. Principal 04 ′
6th Dumped 04 ′
7th Octave 02 ′
8th. Fifth 03 ′
9. Sesquialter II
10. Mixture III
Pedal C – c 1
11. Principal bass 08th'
12. Violon bass 08th'
13. Sub bass 16 ′

The Schmiedefelder Church is a station on the Herbrig-Orgelstraße , a project of the Stolpen cultural workshop , along the course of which the preserved instruments of the Herbrig family can be found.

Peal

After the old bells were also lost when the church was destroyed in 1813, two new bells were purchased in 1817. These were produced by the Gruhl bell foundry in Kleinwelka . On the occasion of Martin Luther's 400th birthday in 1883, a landowner donated a third bell. During the First World War , the Schmiedefelder chimes were melted down as a metal donation from the German people . In 1921 a new steel bell with three bells was installed. The individual bells weigh 1250, 600 and 350 kg and are provided with verses from the Bible: “Be happy in hope” / “Be patient in tribulation” / “Hold on to prayer” ( Romans 12.12  EU ). The bells were restored in 2006.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Michaelis Church (Schmiedefeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmiedefeld list of monuments. Großharthau community, 2009, accessed on July 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b The St. Michaelis Church in Schmiedefeld. (PDF; 406 kB) Ev.-Luth. Pfarramt Großharthau, accessed on July 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b The organ in the St. Michaelis Church in Schmiedefeld. Kulturwerkstatt Stolpen eV, accessed on July 7, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 12.6 ″  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 11 ″  E