St. Marien (Tegkwitz)
The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Marien is in the center of the Tegkwitz district of the Starkenberg community in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .
history
The church in Tegkwitz was first mentioned in 1228. The church has a miraculous image of Mary . That is why many pilgrims stayed here. Therefore, in 1469 the parish received a papal letter of indulgence , which was confirmed in 1471 by Bishop Heinrich II von Stammer from Naumburg .
From 1484 to 1488 the partially collapsed west tower was restored and given a roof turret. The nave was rebuilt from 1518 to 1521 using older components. The church tower stands in the west and is connected to the nave by an arch. The slightly raised choir closes on three sides and is crowned with a roof turret. In the 18th century the church was redesigned and repaired in 1866 and 1936. Since 1971 the church was unused due to dilapidation.
architecture
Parts of the west tower and the north nave wall are made of meticulous ashlar masonry and come from a previous building, which was probably built in the second half of the 12th century by stonemasons from the Benedictine monastery Posa near Zeitz . A walled-up arched window, like the biforium column preserved on the north wall of the tower, is very finely executed; the latter is reminiscent of a biforium preserved in Posa.
High-quality details have also been preserved on the late Gothic parts of the church. A coffin cornice with profile intersections at the corners of the buttresses runs around the building. On one of the buttresses on the south side there is a niche with a heavily weathered framework and the remains of an earlier locking mechanism. Three-lane ogival windows are provided with restored tracery. On the north side there is a two-storey extension from the construction time of the eastern parts with a cross-rib vaulted sacristy on the ground floor and a patron's box on the upper floor.
The interior is closed with a flat ceiling and is surrounded by a two-storey gallery in the west. On the east gallery there was once the organ and in front of it a pulpit altar from 1708. The altar shows a polygonal pulpit with corner pillars, shallow shell niches and consoles for six sculptures depicting allegories of Christian virtues, of which only five have survived. There were once six angel figures on the sound cover, of which only two have been preserved together with the enthroned Christ and two other baroque sculptures. A colored glass pane with a coat of arms from the beginning of the 16th century has also been preserved.
organ
The church got the first organ in 1662. In 1770 a new organ was built by the court organ builder Maurer from Altenburg. The organ was sold in the GDR era and is now in the Handel House in Halle (Saale) (see Wall Organ in the Handel House in Halle ).
Bells
The three bells are from 1873 and were cast in Apolda . Only one of them is left. The others were sacrificed in World War II .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 1214-1215.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ev.-Luth. Mehna-Dobitschen parish. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 50.8 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 27.4 ″ E