St. Michaelis (Zehren)

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St. Michaelis Zehren
Interior view with altar
Interior view to the west with organ
Location of the church in the Elbe landscape

The Protestant Church of St. Michaelis is a baroque hall church in the district of Zehren of the municipality of Diera-Zehren in the district of Meißen in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Zehren in the church district of Meißen-Großenhain of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The parish church in Zehren is visible from afar on a hill above the village first mentioned in 1003 and the left bank of the Elbe. The building was rebuilt in 1756–1775 as a hall building with a stately west tower instead of the medieval, several times renewed predecessor building consecrated to St. Michael. In 1986 an exterior and in 1988 an interior restoration was carried out.

The plastered building is over a drawn rectangular floor plan with three-eight circuit built. Basket-arch windows illuminate the interior, entrances in the north and east open up the building. In the south is the sacristy with a mansion box above it with an outside staircase. On the west side of the entrance hall and staircase rises the well-proportioned tower with beveled corners and approaches, which cover the gable ends of the roof and which is completed with a hood , lantern and helmet with the year 1775.

The interior is finished with a flat plastered ceiling with frame stucco and is framed by two-storey wooden galleries in the south and north. In the east the building is convexly closed, the western organ gallery was changed in 1913. On the south side of the choir is the box of the patrons of Schleinitz auf Schieritz with a glazed front.

Furnishing

The wooden, yellow and gray marbled pulpit altar was created around 1775; the pulpit basket is arranged between Corinthian columns in front of corner pilasters , with a segmented gable at the end. A crucifix with Mary Magdalene kneeling was created in 1773.

Sandstone grave monuments are arranged on the walls of the chancel, including the monument to Hans von Schleinitz († 1561?), Which shows the deceased kneeling in his death shirt. The monument of a young kneeling von Schleinitz in a coat was created around 1600, the monument of Hans († 1618?) And Marie († 1613?) Von Schleinitz is provided with relief depictions of the two dying people.

The organ is a work of the company Eule Orgelbau from 1913 in a magnificent baroque case from 1763 with 23 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

Surroundings

The sandstone monument of Johann Gottlob Voigt († 1837) can be found in the cemetery with a fluted column stump on a base with inscription panels and an urn attachment. The rectory with a half-timbered upper floor and a half- hip roof is accessible through a portal with the year 1825. The half-timbered outbuildings from 1717 with older cellars were expanded in 1994 and are used as a leisure home. A baroque courtyard entrance with an archway and a sandstone gate opens up the rectory.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the municipality. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 59.6 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 13.9 ″  E