St. Barbara Church (Markersbach)

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Center of Markersbach with the St. Barbara Church (around 1535)
St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (NE view)
St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (SE view)

The St. Barbara Church in Markersbach is a hall church in the Saxon Ore Mountains . It is considered to be one of the oldest and most richly endowed village churches in the Ore Mountains. Its current external appearance can largely be traced back to an extension that was carried out between 1714 and 1719, while various stylistic epochs can be seen inside.

General

According to a message in the missing chronicle of the Grünhain monk Conrad Feiner, the Markersbach church was consecrated in 1250 in the name of St. Peter and Paul . Probably after being destroyed by the Hussites in the 15th century, it was consecrated to its current patroness Barbara of Nicomedia , the patron saint of miners. The parish of Markersbach is one of the original parishes of the western Ore Mountains. It originally comprised the villages of Markersbach, Unter- and Oberscheibe ( parish to Scheibenberg in 1539 ), Mittweida and Schwarzbach . In the latter village, after a protracted dispute over roads, a separate church was built from 1835 (initially as a daughter church of Markersbach) and finally parish in 1837. The Church of All Saints in Raschau is said to have been a branch church until the beginning of the 16th century , before it became an independent parish .

Since 2006, the parish has had a sister church relationship with the All Saints parish in Raschau, which is responsible for the joint parish offices, and the St. Anne parish in Grünstädtel .

architecture

The outside of the St. Barbara Church is a simple, plastered quarry stone building. It is crowned by a baroque octagonal roof turret with a curved hood. In particular, the barrel-vaulted sacristy with a small eastern arched window and the sacrament niche set into the north wall in the north-eastern part of the church is of Romanesque origin. The late Gothic choir with cross ribbed vaults, which is closed on three sides, dates from the first quarter of the 16th century. The choir windows are designed with pressed pointed arches. The choir is separated from the hall with a flat, painted wooden ceiling by a pointed triumphal arch . Between 1714 and 1719 the church was extended to the west. The point from which the building was added to the church is clearly visible through a taper in the masonry.

Furnishing

The baroque altar , acquired in 1719, shows the crucifixion of Jesus in the altar panel . On an entablature supported by two columns, there are two sculptures of Moses and Aaron on the side . In a second altar painting the erection of the brazen serpent is shown in an oval frame decorated with foliage. The altar is crowned by a carved angel with a banner. The altar is surrounded by a wreath-like prayer room , which residents of the parish (testers, merchants and hammer property owners) had built in when the church was expanded at the beginning of the 18th century. The prayer room belonging to the Pöckelgut shows the coats of arms of the noble families von Hartitzsch and von Wahren . A special feature in the chancel is the preserved evangelical confessional .

The carved pulpit with an octagonal basket carried by a pillar was donated by Enoch Pöckel in 1610 in atonement of his father-in-law Matthäus Siegel. Framed by small figured pillars and fittings, a juxtaposition of God's law and God's judgment is shown in the parapet areas.

The original winged altar from the second half of the 15th century with a depiction of the Crescent Madonna was found in the attic in 1923 and after a restoration it was put back on the north wall of the church. On the inside of the altar wing there are four depictions from the life of Our Lady. A replica of the Barbara figure, which was burned in the bombing of Dresden in 1945 , was created in 2001 by the Schwarzenberg sculptor Hartmut Rademann.

The parapets of the two drawn-in galleries on the north side show scenes from the Old and New Testament , beginning with the creation of the world through to depictions from the life of Jesus. In the upper part of the north and east walls of the hall there are remains of late Gothic wall paintings that were uncovered during a restoration in 1955. The south pore shows twelve of the Little Prophets and six of the Apostles . On the south wall there are some epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The stained glass windows in the west end of the church were created by Richard Schlein from Zittau in the 1890s . There are two more prayer rooms under the choir. One belonged to the Obermittweidaer Hammer and is marked with 1774 and the coat of arms of the Nietzsche family. The other was used jointly by the owners of the Mittweidaer Drahthammers and the pastor families. The two prayer rooms are used as visitor rooms.

In the hall of the church is a 1928 by Otto Lange , a professor of textile design at the State Art School of Textile Design in Plauen of, in the style of realism painted monument to the fallen of World War I in the form of a triptych.

organ

After a positive had already been purchased at the beginning of the 17th century, an organ built by the Joachimsthal organ maker Jacob Schedlich was purchased for the first time in 1661 . The current one-manual organ with pedal was built between 1803 and 1806 by the famous Adorf organ builder Johann Gottlob Trampeli and consecrated at Pentecost 1806. It was last restored in 2006 and is the oldest organ in the church district of Aue.

The organ has the following disposition :

manual
1. Principal 8th'
2. Heavily dumped 8th'
3. Quintatön 8th'
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Flute amabile 4 ′
6th octave 4 ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Flageolet 1'
9. Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Cornett III
12. Mixture XII
pedal
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th bassoon 16 ′
15th Octave bass 8th'

Secondary register: pedal coupler, tremulant, cymbal star

Outdoor area

Around the Markersbacher St. Barbara Church is the local cemetery, which is surrounded by an old defensive wall. At the back of the once for upper Mittweidaer hammer belonging family burial ground at the entrance to the cemetery can be found on the B 101 highly visible one by Heinz Dörjer to a design by Paula Jordan decorated sgraffito with the saying "Wanderer, you can pray?". The funeral hall was rebuilt in 2009.

The neighboring classical rectory was built in 1878.

photos

  • St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (view over the cemetery wall)

  • St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (SW view)

  • Entrance portal

  • St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (around 1902)

  • St. Barbara Church in Markersbach (around 1902)

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Saxony : II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 677f.
  • Friedrich Hermann Löscher : Church and parish Markersbach up to the year 1600. Glückauf (magazine of the Erzgebirgsverein ) issue 11/1929.
  • Fritz Josiger: The Trampeliorgel to St. Barbara in Markersbach i. Erzgeb. - Festschrift for the 150th anniversary. 1956.
  • Gaston Nogrady: 1250–2000 Chronicle of the Church in Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Markersbach parish, 2000.
  • Karsten Richter: 200 years of Trampeliorgel zu Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Markersbach, 2006.
  • Karsten Richter, Gaston Nogrady: The pulpit of St. Barbara 1610-2010. Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Markersbach, 2010.

Web links

Commons : St. Barbarakirche (Markersbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Friedrich Hermann Löscher: Church and Parish Markersbach up to the year 1600. Glückauf (journal of the Erzgebirgsverein ) issue 11/1929.
  2. ↑ Gaston Nogrady: 1250–2000 Chronicle of the Church in Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Markersbach parish, 2000.
  3. ↑ Saxony's church gallery: The Schönburgische Receßherrschaften along with the ephorias Annaberg, Marienberg and Frauenstein . 1845, p. 154 f. ( Digitized version )
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Saxony: II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 677 f.
  5. ↑ a b c Karsten Richter: 200 years Trampeliorgel zu Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Kirchgemeinde Markersbach, 2006, pp. 4-9.
  6. ↑ a b Karsten Richter: The choirs in the St. Barbara Church in Markersbach. In: Mitteilungsblatt Markersbach, issue 5/2003.
  7. ↑ Karsten Richter, Gaston Nogrady: The pulpit of St. Barbara from 1610 to 2010. Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Markersbach, 2010.
  8. ↑ Karsten Richter: The Markersbach pulpit - an atonement foundation? In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 32 (2010) 4, Marienberg, pp. 18-20. ( Text edition ; PDF; 88 kB)
  9. ↑ St. Barbara Church receives the figure of the namesake.
  10. ↑ Karsten Richter: 200 years Trampeliorgel zu Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Markersbach, 2006, p. 4.
  11. ↑ a b Fritz Josiger: The Trampeliorgel St. Barbara in Markersbach i. Erzgeb. - Festschrift for the 150th anniversary. Markersbach, 1956.
  12. ↑ Fritz Josiger: Organs in the home - 170 years Trampeliorgel to Markersbach. In: Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 22 (1977) 2, pp. 45–47.
  13. ↑ Karsten Richter: 200 years Trampeliorgel zu Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Kirchgemeinde Markersbach, 2006, pp. 10-12.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '58.35 "  N , 12 ° 52' 18.42"  E