St. Georg (Pfaffroda)

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St. Georg (Pfaffroda), view from the north
View from the east
Pulpit, right pulpit hourglass

The Protestant village church of St. Georg is a late Gothic, baroque-shaped hall church in the Pfaffroda district of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Pfaffroda in the parish of Olbernhau in the parish of Marienberg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is best known for its organ by Gottfried Silbermann .

History and architecture

The village church Pfaffroda is a late Gothic hall church built around 1480, which was expanded after a fire in 1645. Restorations took place in the years 1988 to 1993. The church is a plastered quarry stone building with an irregular semicircular east end and a west tower from 1671 with a square floor plan. The windows and sound openings show wide frames; as a conclusion, a Welsche hood was put on. After the hurricane Kyrill on 17./18. January 2007 had brought the crowning in an inclined position, the tower button with cross was removed and restored.

The bright and friendly interior shows a carniessim surrounding the flat ceiling painted with acanthus tendrils . On three sides are galleries arranged, which indicate the north and south a two-storey suspended construction. The galleries and boxes on the east side were removed during the restoration from 1988-1993. The parapets are painted with acanthus tendrils, angels, evangelist symbols and other Christian symbols. The choir can be recognized by the protruding wall as an extension from 1645.

Furnishing

The main part of the furnishings created after 1645 is the baroque altar, which was donated by Caspar and Elisabeth von Schönberg in 1671 . In the predella it shows a representation of the Last Supper, in the main field the crucifixion and finally the Ascension of Christ as artistically valuable 17th century painting. During the restoration in 1991–1998, the altar was restored.

The baroque pulpit and the sound cover are richly gilded and cranked and decorated with angel heads. The original of the pulpit hourglass from around 1680 has been in the Mathematical-Physical Salon in the Dresden Zwinger since 1945 , and a copy has been placed next to the pulpit. The colorful sandstone baptism is adorned on the octagonal cupa with angel heads and coats of arms, shows four children's figures at the base and dates from 1635.

Silbermann organ
Play closet

organ

The organ is an early work by Gottfried Silbermann from 1715 with 14 stops on a manual and pedal . The setting of the case was made by the Dresden painter Johann Christian Bucaeus. After several maintenance work in the 19th century, the organ was tuned lower by the Alfred Schmeisser company in 1928 by relocating the action . In 1967 Wilhelm Rühle reconstructed the key action, removed a register added in 1928 and restored the original pitch with an unevenly floating, but not original, temperature . In 1966 the case frame was restored by Werner Pitzschler. Further repairs by Rühle took place in 1983, 1992/1993 and 2015, including the restoration of the windchest and damaged tin pipes. The disposition is:

Manual CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Gedackts 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Qvinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sufflute 1'
Cornet V (from c 1 )
Mixture III
Cymbals II
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Trombones bass 16 ′
Remarks

Peal

The ringing consists of three chilled cast iron bells , the bell frame and the bell yokes are made of steel or cast iron. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster material diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1950 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 1220 mm 753 kg as ′
2 1950 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 950 mm 355 kg c ″
3 1950 Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann Chilled iron 790 mm 204 kg it"

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Georg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information about the church on the website of the parish of Olbernhau. Retrieved August 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Information on the 2015 restoration on the Rühle Orgelbau website. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Frank-Harald Greß , Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 41.
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 342 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 47.3 "  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 14.2"  E