St. Johannis (Leopoldshall)

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St. Johannis Church in Staßfurt-Leopoldshall - Photos: Holger Zürch (April 2019)
Church tower and main portal
Rear view
View from the entrance area to the altar

The St. Johannis Church is a Protestant sacred building in Leopoldshall , a district of Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt , consecrated on February 6, 1876 . The parish belongs to the Evangelical Church of Anhalt .

History and present

The municipality of Leopoldshall , which has been independent since January 1, 1873 , had more than 2,000 inhabitants in 1874. The church was to become the symbol of the new place. With it, the new citizens testified their will to settle down and settle down, which they proved through generous donations.

The first groundbreaking for the neo-Romanesque building in the shape of a cross and according to the rules of the Eisenach regulation with a church tower height of 40.5 meters (with button and cross) took place on April 7, 1874.

The foundation stone was laid by the consistorial commissioner, general superintendent and senior consistorial councilor Walther from Bernburg on May 28, 1874. 37,838 thalers were estimated for the church, of which the community took over a third and the cost of 1,588 thalers for the building site. The actual expenditures for the building of the church including the facilities amounted to 81,213.55 marks.

Carl F. Schneppel was the first pastor of this church to attend the inauguration on February 6, 1876, and at the same time celebrated the first service .

After the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in the late 1990s and 2000s, the church building was comprehensively and professionally renovated both inside and out.

Furnishing

View from the side gallery of the pulpit and altar
Baptismal font, altar and crucifix

The altar was made by Freihold from Aderstedt , the font by Kielhorn from Bernburg and the pulpit by Hartung. Organ builder Nicol from Dessau completed the organ on August 31, 1876. The church has excellent acoustics , probably also due to its special wooden ceiling .

The five windows in the chancel with stained glass portraits of the Savior and the four evangelists were made by Oidtmann in Linnich - three have been preserved.

In the entrance area of ​​the church tower there are eight plaques with 30 names each of the parish soldiers who died in the First World War . There is also the true-to-scale wooden model of the church made by parish member Heinz Wiest, which serves as a donation box.

Bells

The original three bronze bells came from the Carl Friedrich Ulrich bell foundry in Apolda, and their production cost 2,983 marks. Their inscriptions read: 1) “Come, for everything is ready. Glory to God on high and peace on earth. ”2)“ And a pleasure to people - God bless Leopoldshall. ”3)“ Let the little children come to me ”(baptismal bell). During the world wars, they had to be given as metal donations and were replaced by cast steel bells without inscriptions.

For years it was difficult to ring the bells by hand because the electrical bell system was defective. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the church consecration, a new electrical bell system was put into operation on June 18, 2016.

Pastor

View from the altar into the nave and the gallery and organ
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According to the knowledge and sources of 2015, the following people were pastors of this parish (with information on the term of office):

  • Carl F. Schneppel: 1875–1882
  • Wolfgang Knaths: 1882–1888
  • Pastor Pietschker
  • Wilhelm von Tiling: 1888-1892
  • Emil Baumecker : 1898–1934 - previously a deacon there since 1893, also elected member of the state parliament of the Free State of Anhalt
  • Rudolf Günther: 1933–1943
  • Siegfried Hotzel: 1934–1936
  • Wolfgangfriedrich Sachse: 1936–?
  • Ernst-Joachim Zürch (1912–1980): 1938–1978
  • Erich Baumgärtner: 1944–1951
  • Martin Pfennigsdorf: 1951–1956
  • Alfred Klonz: 1956–1957
  • Karl-Heinz Windschild: 1957–1961
  • Ernst Kleiss: 1961–1987?

Varia

  • A large-format photo of St. Johannis Church Leopoldshall adorns the poster advertising the special exhibition 100 Years of Leopoldshall City Rights in the Staßfurt City and Mining Museum from January 27 to May 29, 2019.

literature

  • Ernst Laue: Leopoldshall as it used to be. From the location of a salt works to the Staßfurt district. Wartberg Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-86134-826-8
  • Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Published in 1993 as an extended reprint by Hartmut Wiest, Staßfurt-Leopoldshall. ISBN 3-930207-00-1
  • Frank Kowolik: The old Staßfurt. A central German industrial city in old and rare pictures. Oschersleben 1992, ISBN 3-928703-06-4
  • Joachim Zürch (pastor): Church chronicle 1945–1967 , typewriter document, June 1968
  • Wolfgangfriedrich Sachse (pastor to Leopoldshall): History of the community Leopoldshall. 50 pages, A5 format. Commission publisher Oskar Flemming, Staßfurt 1938

Web links

Commons : St. Johannis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Eisenacher Regulativ - rules for the Protestant church building, decided in 1861 at the church conference in Eisenach with the participation of Friedrich August Stüler, secret senior building advisor in Berlin, Christian Friedrich von Leins, senior building advisor in Stuttgart and Conrad Wilhelm Hase, building advisor in Hanover. (Full text version). Ev.-luth. St. Johannis-Pauli Church in Lower Saxony, homepage. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The font is probably a work of the master stonemason Hugo Kielhorn from Bernburg - cf. in addition http://talstadtgemeinde-bernburg.de/?page_id=14
  3. ^ Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Staßfurt-Leopoldshall, Reprint 1993, p. 11 ( ISBN 3-930207-00-1 )
  4. ↑ * July 12, 1920, † April 27, 2017, retired master electrical and radio mechanic, source: Volksstimme obituary notice May 6, 2017  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / anzeigenmarkt.volksstimme.de  
  5. ↑ Ernst Laue: Leopoldshall as it used to be. From the location of a salt works to the Staßfurt district . Wartberg Verlag 2001, p. 26 ff.
  6. ^ Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. First publication Leopoldshall 1901, Reprint Staßfurt-Leopoldshall 1993; Pp. 11, 54, 55, 57 ( ISBN 3-930207-00-1 )
  7. ↑ Wolfgangfriedrich Sachse (pastor to Leopoldshall): History of the community Leopoldshall. 50 pages, A5 format. Commission publisher Oskar Flemming, Staßfurt 1938, p. 50
  8. ↑ Church chronicle 1945-1967 June 1968, prepared by Pastor Joachim Zürch (typewriter document); Pp. 1, 5, 6
  9. ↑ https://www.stassfurt.de/de/atei/angebote/id/55296,1065/plakat_sonderausstellung_museum_leopoldshall.pdf - accessed on February 12, 2019
  10. ↑ In the archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Leopoldshall-Staßfurt
  11. ↑ In the archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Leopoldshall-Staßfurt

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 55 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 42"  E