St. Anne's Church in Gößnitz
| City Church of St. Annen
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| Denomination : | evangelical |
| Patronage : | Saint Anna |
| Consecration date : | 27th 12 1494 |
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '24.1 " N , 12 ° 25' 51.4" E
The town church of St. Annen is a Protestant late-Gothic hall church in Gößnitz in the Altenburger Land district . Quite unique in the region is its ground plan in a modified form of a Greek cross .
Dimensions
Overall, the church has a length of 25.4 m, of which 12.5 m is the choir, 9 m is the nave and 3.9 m is the square tower. The choir is 7.9 m wide and the nave is 7.8 m wide.
history
Before the construction of today's church there was a wooden church in Gößnitz, which was torn down after it was completed. The foundation stone of the St. Anne's Church was laid on May 3, 1491, the inauguration on December 27, 1494. It was erected in the form of a Greek cross in the late Gothic style made of sandstone above the wooden church. Parts of the stone tower are still from this one. The tower was raised in 1614 by approx. 20 m to a height of 32 m by the Altenburg master builder and stonemason Wolf Rieth. A first, no longer preserved, carving was made in 1621.
In 1741 the tower got its octagonal structure with onion dome and lantern in the Baroque style .
From 1899 to 1900 the church was rebuilt, so the first heating was installed. In addition, the galleries were rebuilt and the church was painted in a neo-Gothic style.
In 1917 the bells were melted down for war purposes. The church received three new bells in 1925, two of which were melted down again in 1940. Today's bells date from 1925 and 1953.
The church received electric light and a new tower clock in 1927. In 1964 the interior was renovated and the painting was removed. In the 2000s, the church interior was painted beige.
On November 5, 1989, during a demonstration by critics of the GDR regime, the church was overcrowded.
organ
The church received its first organ in 1660. Between 1832 and 1835 a new organ was built by the brothers Christian Friedrich II. And Johann August Poppe from Stadtroda . In the course of the church renovation from 1899 to 1900, the organ was also reworked by the organ builder Hegermann and moved from the east to the west gallery. Just like the bells, the organ pipes were melted down for war purposes in 1917. In 1978 the organ was repaired and reworked by the Zittau organ building company Schuster. Today it has 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
So-called Malerwinkel with the old town hall on the market in the foreground
Main portal of the church
View of the rectory from the church tower
The church as seen from Waldenburger Strasse
Interior
The church has a simple beige painting. The carved altar and pulpit were made in neo-Gothic style. Likewise the galleries, the supporting columns of which are decorated with floral capitals. The organ prospect dates from around 1835 and is classicistic. On the north side of the transept there is a Gothic star vault, on the south side of which there is a net vault. The chancel is separated from the rest of the nave by an arch that is painted with floral motifs. The lead glass windows with biblical motifs in the chancel are decorated with Gothic tracery. The marble font dates from 1835.
Sanctuary
Reticulated vault on the south transept
Column capital on the first gallery
Burial chambers
Under the nave there are burial chambers that were rediscovered in 1957. The one on the north side of the church measures a width of 1.05 m, a length of 2.05 m and a height of 1.15 m. In it human skeletal parts were found, which probably belong to the family of the manor owner Hanß Schaurot from Hainichen. Another crypt on the south side of the church houses the grave of adjunct ZM Christian Grübler (July 25, 1693 - August 26, 1760). Under the altar there is said to be another grave, which is said to have belonged to Magister Tobias Mahn, who died in 1693.
Web links
literature
- Claudia Krys: Chronicle of St. Anne's Church in Gößnitz. Church of St. Annen (ed.), Hofmann Verlag, Gößnitz 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .