St. Nikolai (Langhennersdorf)
The Protestant village church St. Nikolai is a Gothic hall church in the Langhennersdorf district of Oberschöna in the district of Central Saxony in Saxony . It belongs to the parish in the parish of Langhennersdorf in the church district Freiberg of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .
history
The Nikolaikirche Langhennersdorf consists of several buildings that were built at different times. Originally the Gothic Wendelinkapelle existed since the end of the 13th century , which today is one of the oldest preserved buildings in the former Freiberg district . Up until the Reformation, there was also a relic of the saint there, known as the Miracle of Langhennersdorf. According to legend, the clergyman of Langhennersdorf at the time doubted the authenticity of the relic. Then his hand grew together with the box when touched. Only after many penitential prayers did it let go of the hand again.
The late Romanesque defense tower stood separately next to the Wendelin chapel, while the chapel had its own roof turret with a bell. In the 15th century the choir was vaulted and the south portal was set up. The ship was enlarged around 1500 and also vaulted. After an annex was built on the north side at the beginning of the 16th century with the treasury marked in the keystone on 1530, the building was rebuilt in 1721/1722, the separate bell tower was removed from the roof of the Wendelink chapel in 1739. Restorations took place in 1910, with the galleries removed from 1721/1722, 1977/1980 and since 1995.
architecture
The church is a plastered quarry stone building with buttresses and a five-eighth end of the slightly retracted choir bay with roof turrets and the Wendelink chapel with tracery windows attached to the north. On the west side of the rectangular tower with a gable roof, but without access from the outside, there are two massive buttresses. In the southern vestibule is the main portal, richly profiled with throats and pear bars, with console stones.
The interior is shaped by the vault. The nave is provided with retracted strong buttresses from which the ribs of a parallel rib vault grow. In the choir with a less pronounced choir arch , star-shaped vaulted figures can be found on delicate, bag-like consoles similar to those of the main portal. The glass paintings in the arched windows of the choir were created in 1910 by C. Kaufmann from Dresden and show Christ as the sower and Christ in the vineyard.
Adjoining rooms and equipment
The Wendelink Chapel, used as a sacristy, is closed with a strong ribbed vault on corner columns with leaf capitals and an eagle relief in the keystone . The capitals are similar to those of the Johanniskapelle from 1291 in Meissen Cathedral . A sacrament niche with a pointed shoulder arch is embedded. The stained glass of the tracery windows were also created by C. Kaufmann in 1910 and show St. Wendelin and Christ as the Good Shepherd.
The adjoining room to the west was probably the patron's box and is also closed off with a ribbed vault. An ornate Renaissance iron door with rose decorations leads to the somewhat higher treasury with a room below.
On the lower ground floor of the tower there are two rooms with barrel vaults and stitch caps , the south-western room is accessed from the nave through a small pointed arched gate.
The main piece of equipment is the wooden columnar altar from 1722 with a copy of the image of Christ at the Last Supper according to Carlo Dolci , which was created in 1842 by August Lincke from Freiberg. The large, chalice-like baptismal font dates from 1560.
organ
The organ with 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal was created in 1721/1722 by Zacharias Hildebrandt , a student of Gottfried Silbermann , as his masterpiece . The organ was changed in 1845 and converted to a pneumatic action with a cone shutter in 1910 . The prospect pipes were given in 1917 for armament purposes . The pipes of 14 registers as well as the case and the manual keyboards are still completely or partially original. In the years 1989–1996 the original condition was restored by the Wegscheider organ workshop . The disposition is:
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- Manual coupling
- Bass valve in the main plant
- Remarks
- H - Pipe inventory wholly or partly from Hildebrandt
- Pitch: about a semitone above a 1 = 440 Hz
- Wind pressure: 94.4 mm water column
Peal
The bell consists of three bronze bells. The oak bell cage as well as the bell yokes were renewed in 2008. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | material | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
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| 1 | 1777 | Bell foundry AS Weinhold | bronze | 1290 mm | 1340 kg | it' |
| 2 | 1582 | Bell foundry W. Hilliger | bronze | 1090 mm | 776 kg | G' |
| 3 | 15th century | Bell foundry unknown | bronze | 590 mm | 120 kg | f ″ |
Surroundings
The church also has a large parsonage from 1781, consisting of a rectory, cantor's office, substitute house, numerous farm buildings and around 20 hectares of land. The picturesque complex is surrounded by a quarry stone wall with arches. The large courtyard is surrounded by four buildings. The rectory from 1779 has a massive ground floor and half-timbered upper floor with man figures and is independent of the gable facing Dorfstraße. The two farm buildings in the south and east are also equipped with massive ground floor and half-timbered upper floors from 1780/81 and were rebuilt in 1863. There is a barn in the north. The cantor house is located east of the rectory and forms an ensemble with it. It is a two-story, gable-independent building with a plastered half-timbered upper floor from the second half of the 18th century.
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. 756–757.
- 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. 319 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 173 .
- ^ 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. 319 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 3.7 ″ E