St. Johannis (Mügeln)
The Protestant town church St. Johannis is a late Gothic town church in the town of Mügeln in the district of Northern Saxony in Saxony . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Mügeln in the church district Leisnig-Oschatz of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and dominates the city silhouette of Mügeln.
History and architecture
The town church St. Johannis in Mügeln was mentioned for the first time in 1373. However, nothing is known about this medieval predecessor building. According to the inscriptions in the keystones, today's building was built around 1510 (choir), 1516 (north aisle) and 1521 (central nave). It is a three-aisled, three-bay hall church made of plastered quarry-stone masonry with a two-bay, drawn-in choir, which is closed with a five- eighth end. It belongs to the latest Gothic style, but because of the less ambitious building contract, it is stylistically more conservative than the other Upper Saxon hall churches that were around the same time .
The central nave is wider than the side aisles. Three-part pointed arch windows with late Gothic tracery illuminate the interior. All naves are closed with star vaults supported by slender, polygonal pillars. The choir is similar to that of the cathedral in Wurzen and is separated from the central nave by a triumphal arch . The sacristy and the Annenkapelle adjoin it on the north side, while a vestibule with star vaults is connected to the south side of the nave.
The portal of the vestibule from 1510 has a splendid wrought iron grille from 1648. The tower, which is square in plan, is built into the church to the west and finished with an octagonal top and a curved dome with a lantern . A late Gothic portal with profile penetrations can also be found in the west. Restorations of the church were carried out in 1869 and 1965/66 as well as after 1989.
Furnishing
A splendid sacrament niche from the construction period of the church with colored paint shows a Christ head in the tympanum , above it half-figures of prophets and angels and is decorated with keel arches and finials . Two altar wings with paintings by Matthias Krodel the Elder from Schneeberg from 1582 in the successor to Lucas Cranach should also be emphasized. They show Christ in the garden of Gethsemane and the resurrection. Behind the altar table is a larger-than-life wooden crucifix, the body of which is believed to date from the 17th century; the cross is from 1961. A late Gothic figure of Mary with remains of the frame comes from a crucifixion group from around 1510.
A number of funerary monuments and epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries have been preserved. These include the epitaph Melchior von Saalhausen († 1504) with a plastic relief representation of the armored person in life size and two epitaphs from those von Wolframsdorf from 1691 and 1696 by Conrad Max Süßner . One of them shows a mighty pilaster architecture with an inscription plaque and the other a life-size bust in white marble with an inscription plaque.
A grave monument for the Bishop of Meissen Johann IX. von Haugwitz († 1595) shows the deceased in a life-size bas-relief in a spiritual garb, presumably with the Luther Bible and a large hat in his hands. In another grave monument, the deacon Georg Stein († 1612) is shown as a bust with a cap and book in relief over a pulpit parapet.
The organ is a work by Julius Jahn from 1893 with 14 stops on two manuals and pedal .
Grille in the vestibule
West portal
Peal
The bell consists of three bronze bells , the bell cage is made of steel. the bell yokes made of oak. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | material | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1593 | Bell foundry W. Hilliger | bronze | 1317 mm | 1300 kg | it' |
| 2 | 1883 | Bell foundry H. Große | bronze | 1013 mm | 600 kg | G' |
| 3 | 1922 | Bell foundry B. Pietzel | bronze | 798 mm | 252 kg | b ′ |
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 703–704.
- Fritz Löffler : City churches in Saxony. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, DNB 810059398 , p. 224.
- 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 , p. 332 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website Architektur-Blicklicht. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ^ A b 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. 332 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '14.3 " N , 13 ° 2' 50.6" E