St. Jakobus Major (Dornburg / Saale)

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The church
The church in 1905

St. Jakobus Major is a Protestant church in Dornburg / Saale , city of Dornburg-Camburg , in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia .

location

The church is located in the eastern part of the small town near the Dornburg castles and their parks in front of the floors of the slopes to the Saaleaue and Dorndorf-Steudnitz, some of which are cultivated with roses and vines . Opposite is the 1,200 hectare Tautenburger Forest , south of the city limits to Jena near Kunitz with the federal highway 88 and the railway line Berlin-Munich.

history

With its foundation walls, the Dornburg Church is one of the oldest buildings in the city. Most likely it was built in the middle of the 13th century when the settlement was moved from the parcel in the old town to its current location around the market. Based on the patronage it can be assumed that it was the successor to the royal royal church mentioned in the 10th century. The patronage changed in 976 from the Ottonians to the Bishop of Naumburg, in 1321 to the Provost of Naumburg, until it finally passed to the sovereign, the Dukes of Saxony, in 1539. In the pre-Reformation period, the church was consecrated to Saint James. In 1717 the church and its archive fell victim to a city fire. In 1718 the reconstruction of the church began with a late Baroque appearance. In 1820 a Gerhard organ was installed in the second west gallery and restored from 1987 to 1989. Today's late Baroque pulpit and baptismal font are permanent loans from the church's art archive.

building

Under the mansard roof there is a baroque building with a polygonal east choir with buttresses. The west front consists of a mighty octagonal tower on a square basement. The north wall of the nave is adorned by a polygonal porch. The three mezzanine storeys with the supports carry the wooden cross vault . The organ prospectus from the 18th century was created by the Dorndorf master Gerhard . The chalice and the communion jug are works from Nuremberg from the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : St. Jakobus Major (Dornburg / Saale)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrei Zahn, Wolfgang Rug: The arrival of St. James in Dornburg . In: Dornburg - history and stories, chronicle group in Dornburger Impressionen e. V. 2016, Volume 3, pp. 52-65
  2. ↑ Lieselotte Swietek: Churches in Thuringia , Thuringia publishing house, 1990, ISBN 3-86087-023-8 , pages 24/25

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 24.1 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 2.9 ″  E