St. Dionysius (Salomonsborn)
The St. Dionysius Church is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Salomonsborn , a district of the Thuringian capital Erfurt . It belongs to the parish Marbach -Salomonsborn in the parish of Erfurt the Evangelical Church in Central Germany ..
history
The foundation stone was laid on April 23, 1738. The construction was completed in 1740 and the church consecration in the name of St. Dionysius took place on July 27, 1747.
In 1838 the entire nave with the vaulted ceiling, galleries, manorial estates and altar was painted white lime. With this, the baroque and rococo painting disappeared . In the service on October 15, 1838, the pastor announced that the church had been “freed from all unnecessary advancement advice”. Today it is a listed building.
description
On a square floor plan, the church tower has an octagonal slate-covered dome with a slate-clad lantern , which is crowned by a tower ball with a weather vane . On October 20, 1998, the tower button was removed and ceremoniously opened in the church; the content has been documented.
There used to be a clock in the tower, which was removed during the renovation in the mid-1990s. The Schilling bell from 1920 is now rung by hand from what used to be three bells . With its inscription "God's blessing on Salomonsborn" it could be assigned to St. Dionysius in Salomonsborn in the bell cemetery in Hamburg and reinstalled in 1950. The middle bell escaped the fate of being melted down. Why she escaped evacuation in 1941 is unknown. It is the work of the Erfurt bell founder Eckart Kucher from 1575 and came into the tower in 1849 from the Erfurt St. Andreas community .
On the uppermost gallery stood an organ from 1760 by master organ builder Johann Michael Hesse . It had to be removed in the mid-1990s due to severe damage to the church roof and is now stored in various places.
After the political change, the church roof was re-covered. The walls drifted apart because static factors were not given sufficient consideration. The installation of a false ceiling enabled the church to continue to be used. In July 2008, the boards from the barrel vault ceiling were removed and numbered. This was followed in February 2009 by removing the bricks and then dismantling the roof structure, installing a ring anchor, setting the roof structure using the original rafters and re-roofing with the same bricks. The boards of the barrel were attached according to their numbering. A painting from the time the church was built was exposed.
It is thanks to the parish church council and the Friends of St. Dionysius Church that on August 16, 2010, the restorer Benno Busch was able to start restoring the central image of the barrel vault. It depicts The Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor (according to Matthew 17, 1-9 or Luke 9, 28-36). The restored scroll to the left of the central picture contains the text: “This is my dear son - I liked him ". The right inscription was only legible in the second part: "... then hear the voice of God". For the consecration of the church, the central picture and the two putti with banners were probably painted in the choir area . A church bill from 1775 proves the payment for the painting of the vaulted ceiling with putti and clouds and the galleries. In the case of a putt, the restorer was unable to make it recognizable. It remained unfinished. Flower plait paintings on the pillars and blue vases with floral decorations over the capitals of the pillars, as well as the marbling of the cornices give the nave a festive character.
The baroque pulpit altar with its architectural structure, ornamental carving and two sculptures (Johannes and Jacobus) is made entirely of wood. On the front there is a pulpit under an overhanging cornice supported by four columns. At its lower edge it is designed as a sound cover with filigree lambrequin and tassel trimmings. The polychrome colors consisted of a white base coat, partial blue-white marbling (on the pillars), partial gilding and parts of the figures painted in the color of flesh . The color scheme was consistently continued on the housing of the choir stalls, the manorial estates. This applies to the white primer with the blue and white marbling and red-brown frame, as can be found in the cassette fund. The strips of the cassettes are painted ocher. The baroque colors could be demonstrated on the cheeks of the pews. In the rows of seats, the initials of Salomonsborner parishioners, which were later applied, can be read.
Another finding can be seen on the floor. Brick tiles in a brown and white checkerboard pattern were laid here. A scratched inscription shows the year 1760. At the time of the consecration of the church, wooden floorboards with this paint were laid here.
Surroundings
The church encloses a church's own cemetery for burials and cremations, including a semi-anonymous urn community facility.
swell
Resurrection of the churches in the Erfurt district. From: Thüringer Allgemeine from April 7th, 2012 My association: The Friends of St. Dionysios Church. From: Thüringer Allgemeine from January 5, 2015
Web links
- Homepage of the Friends of the St. Dionysius Church Salomonsborn
- The St. Dionysius Church on the website of the Marbach-Salomonsborn parish
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sensation under the church roof. In: Thuringian regional newspaper. September 10, 2010, accessed November 15, 2017.
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 56.2 " N , 10 ° 56 ′ 51.1" E