St. Martin (Nerchau)

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St. Martin Church, Nerchau, June 2018
General view of St. Martin Church, Nerchau, June 2018
View through the aisle to the altar
The restored Jehmlich organ sounded at the organ and parish festival on June 9, 2018
Altar and baptismal font
the pulpit
The restored cassette ceiling

The St. Martin's Church in Nerchau is a sacred building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Nerchau , a district of Grimma in the Saxon district of Leipzig . It is located on a small hill near the hollow and towers over the place.

Architecture and history

The church received its current floor plan due to multiple modifications and additions. The oldest massive building was probably a Romanesque hall church . With their involvement, an early Gothic square tower was built, from which the coupled ogival sound openings have been preserved. The late Gothic choir with a straight vault was built at the beginning of the 16th century in connection with a reconstruction or new building of the nave. The octagonal baroque tower tower was built at the beginning of the 18th century . In 1873 the western annex was added to the nave.

The Art Nouveau altar has an altarpiece carved out of wood, painted in color and gold. The stone altar - erected in 1964 as a replacement for the Art Nouveau altar that was handed over to the Dresden Institute for the Preservation of Monuments - has a simple design.

The sacrament house from the pre-Reformation period was uncovered in 1954 during work on the renovation of the church interior on the south wall of the sanctuary.

The Christ the King figure is a remnant of a coronation group of Mary from an altar shrine, which could be a work from Bohemia around the 13th century.

The baptismal angel was part of a larger altar scene and probably dates from around 1730.

The memorial and memorial for the victims of the Second World War and the post-war years were made by master bookbinder Kurt Menge and woodcarver Otto Matthes from Grimma. The altar window was donated in 1900 by Kommerzienrat Hessel, it was destroyed in 1945. In 1971 the Deckwarth companies from Görlitz and Roemer from Leipzig replaced the colored windows with lead-framed slug panes.

Recording of 1920: View of the Church Nerchau from the trough of

organ

In 1830 the Beyer company built the organ . The organ case has been designed in a classical style and expanded with elements of Art Nouveau. The organ was extensively rebuilt in 1912 by the Jehmlich brothers from Dresden and has been the Jehmlich organ ever since. The original tin pipes in the prospectus were replaced by zinc pipes in 1917 due to the war. In 2018 the pneumatic organ was restored by Johannes Lindner from the restoration workshop for organ instruments Lindner from Radebeul.

It now has 918 sounding organ pipes and 62 silent prospect pipes (out of a total of 117 prospect pipes). All parts are original; the missing register could be replaced with original pipes from 1906.

The organ with 17 (8-6-3) registers , two manuals and pedal currently (as of 2018) has the following disposition :

Manual I
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viol 8th'
4th flute 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Salizet 4 ′
7th octave 2 '
8th. Mixture III
Manual II
9. Violin principal 8th'
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Salicional 8th'
12. Aeoline 8th'
13. Reed flute 4 ′
14th Fugara 4 ′
Vacat
pedal
15th Violon 16 ′
16. Sub-bass 16 ′
17th violoncello 8th'
  • Coupling : Sub-Octave-Coupler II-I, Super-Octave-Coupler II, Pedal-Coupler I, Pedal-Coupler II, Manual-Coupler II-I.

Bells

The former bronze bells were confiscated in 1917 and replaced with three chilled cast iron bells in 1920. Due to their weight, these put a considerable strain on the bell cage and the tower made of rubble.

The current bell consists of two bronze bells with the tones f ′ +2 (919 kg, lower diameter 1,145 mm) and as ′ +/− 0 (595 kg, lower diameter 970 mm), cast in 2009 by the Kunst- and bell foundry Lauchhammer . They have their place in the wooden belfry, which was also newly created in 2009. The previous steel bells have found their permanent place in one area of ​​the cemetery.

present

The parish of Nerchau, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony , uses the church for its varied parish life. Markus Wendland has been the pastor since 2012.

The last major renovation was in 1954, when the central aisle in the nave was also removed. This central aisle is now accessible again in 2018, the eyes of the visitors when entering the church go directly to the altar.

In the spring of 2017, during the restoration investigation, reeds came to light under the ceiling plaster, behind which a colored wooden ceiling was hidden. This coffered ceiling can now be seen again after the interior renovation was completed in June 2018.

The star cell vault in the sanctuary also turned out to be a false vault that was added to the existing one above the altar; behind it is a wooden ceiling.

The interior renovation was completed with the organ and parish festival on June 9 and 10, 2018 with District Administrator Henry Graichen as guest of honor. The inside of the church is therefore equally worth seeing and hearing. The renovation of the exterior plastering of the church is necessary and in the planning stage.

Varia

  • Nerchau and the church are a station on the Muldentalradweg and the Muldentalbahnradweg.
  • The Nerchau church has been a so-called cycle path church since June 2013 : it is open to cyclists, pilgrims and visitors every day from Easter to Reformation Day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

literature

  • Pastor Markus Wendland: Organ and Parish Festival Nerchau - June 9 and 10, 2018 - Program. With greetings from Bishop Carsten Rentzing and District Administrator Henry Graichen . Nerchau 2018.
  • Report on the status and the administration of the community affairs of the city of Nerchau. Nerchau 1890ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Nerchau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 20. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (2nd half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1898, p. 190.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Nerchau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jehmlich organ profile. P. 11 in: Pastor Markus Wendland: Organ and Parish Festival Nerchau - June 9 and 10, 2018 - Program. With greetings from Bishop Carsten Rentzing and District Administrator Henry Graichen . Nerchau 2018.
  2. ↑ According to information from the ORKASA organ database https://www.evlks.de/fiegen/kirchenmusik/orgeln/ - there is a link to the guest access, accessed on December 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ The old-new original register from 1906 was probably upgraded there - see organ text. Confirmation is pending - it is also still open what kind of register it is.
  4. ↑ http://kirche-nerchau.de/03_kgn/kinerchau.php
  5. ↑ Rainer Thümmel in: Bells in Saxony - Sound between heaven and earth. 2nd updated and supplemented edition, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 334.
  6. ↑ http://www.kirche-nerchau.de/
  7. ^ Pastor Markus Wendland: Organ and Parish Festival Nerchau - June 9 and 10, 2018 - program. With greetings from Bishop Carsten Rentzing and District Administrator Henry Graichen. Nerchau 2018.
  8. ↑ http://www.muldentalradweg.de/index_v.htm

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 3.7 "  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 5.4"  E