St. Laurentius (Crimmitschau)
The Protestant town church St. Laurentius is a late Gothic hall church in Crimmitschau in the district of Zwickau in Saxony . It belongs to the Association of Evangelical Churches in Crimmitschau in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony and shapes the cityscape of Crimmitschau.
History and architecture
The time when the first chapel was built on the site of today's church is unknown, it probably dates back to the 10th century. The ecclesia S. Laurentii was first mentioned in civitate Crimaschowe in 1222. It is safe to assume that the Romanesque chapel stood on the site of the later choir of the St. Laurentius Church. The original church gave way in the 14th century to a new building ordered by the Bishop of Naumburg in 1353 . The walls and vaults of the former choir and the outer shape of the tower date from this period. Due to the growth of the community, the building was extended to the west in the late Gothic style in 1513 . The construction of the church was financed through collections and donations that were collected at the traditional Laurentius fair and on the feast of the Assumption of Mary . The late Gothic hall church, shifted diagonally to the south, was built by Assmann Pfeffer in 1513 according to an inscription on the north-western pillar.
Renovations took place in 1638 and 1675, and a neo-Gothic redesign was carried out in 1896 by Julius Zeißig . During a restoration between 1974 and 1978, the choir (now the winter church ) and the hall were separated. In 1991-1993 the tower and the choir were restored.
The church is a plastered building with a just closed choir and buttresses . The gables of the hall are structured in the east and west with ogival blind niches. The keel-arched north portal is designed with profile penetrations. There are three-part windows on the hall and two-part windows on the choir, which are decorated with fish-bubble tracery. The round window in the east wall of the choir, like the vestibule in the west, is a neo-Gothic addition from 1896. The tower above a square floor plan is equipped with tracery windows and closes with a slim pointed helmet.
Inside, the regular three-aisled, five-bay hall church with knick-rib star vaults with a continuous apex rib is closed over octagonal pillars. The vaults appear in a similar form in the Wolfgang Church in Schneeberg and later in the castle chapel of Hartenfels Castle in Torgau . The lower choir closes with two cross vaults and one of the star vaults matched to the hall church, which, like the western aisle vaults, has partly reconstructed Baroque painting by Johannes Neinebel from 1675, which shows angels with musical instruments or the tools of passion and was exposed in 1975/76 .
In the west, a gallery with painted representations of the parables in Art Nouveau style is built into the parapet, some of which comes from the former aisle galleries, which were removed between 1974 and 1978.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic sandstone altar is decorated with mosaic depictions of the Last Supper at Emmaus and a life-size statue of Christ by Friedrich Albert Trebst from 1896 according to Thorvaldsen .
A late Gothic winged altar from around 1500 from Berzdorf shows the Madonna between St. Elisabeth and a holy bishop in the central shrine with the apostles in the wings and a depiction of the Lord's Supper from the 17th century in the predella . Also from the 17th century, a life-size baroque crucifix has been preserved. An artistically valuable painting of the Last Supper by Jakob Wendelmuth, which comes from the predella of the former high altar donated in 1624, is now installed in a chest.
The organ is a work by Jehmlich from 1921 in the case of the previous organ with a magnificent neo-Gothic prospect and pneumatic action with remote control . The construction of the first organ is documented in 1462. Today the St. Laurentius parish is strongly influenced by the extensive church music work. Especially through the concert series “Crimmitschauer Kirchenmusiken” she has an impact beyond the city limits. The choir can look back on more than 350 years of uninterrupted tradition.
Glass paintings by Fritz Geiges from 1896 show a cycle of the Our Father and the Beatitudes in the hall as well as depictions of Luther and Gustav Adolf in the rifle window. An epitaph for the city judge Urban Faber († 1610) shows a large painting of the crucifixion with a figure-rich, virtuoso- mannerist composition.
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. 163–164.
- Fritz Löffler : The city churches in Saxony. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, p. 206.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ as testified by the chronicler Johannes Trommer
- ↑ Information on the Crimmitschau Church on the city's website. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 14.3 ″ E