St. Nicholas (Constappel)
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The Protestant village church of St. Nikolaus is a Romanesque , neo-Romanesque hall church in the Constappel von Klipphausen district in the Meißen district in Saxony . It belongs to the parish in the left Elbe valleys in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The Protestant parish church goes on a since the 12./13. The former pilgrimage church of St. Nicholas , located on a hill south above the village, existed in the 19th century . The longitudinal walls of the hall are essentially Romanesque. The unusual cross-shaped extension by similar side arms to the south and north probably took place around 1500. In the years 1884/1885 the church was extensively rebuilt and expanded according to plans by Bernhard Schreiber in predominantly neo-Romanesque forms. The various attachments are arranged symmetrically. The apse was added to the choir, the west tower was rebuilt, the outer walls were raised and the gable roof was rebuilt. At the same time, the interior was redesigned by Dresden artists.
The church is a plastered building with arched windows; transept-like two-storey annexes to the south and north are added to the hall, each with a stair tower from 1885 to the east. Tracery windows are built in sandstone on the upper floor of the south extension , with the coat of arms of Balthasar von Ziegler († 1474) and his wife Elisabeth von Lüttichau († 1511) at the Sohlbank. The choir apse dates from 1885, is polygonal closed and provided with buttresses and large arched windows. The west tower is accompanied to the south and north by stair turrets, most of which are made of exposed quarry stone masonry; its upper end is designed with a clock core on the hipped roof and a lantern and spire above. At the west portal there is a stone relief by Emil Huber with the depiction of Christ inviting the laborious and burdened ( Mt 11.28 LU ).
Inside the building is flat covered, the ceiling is painted with symbolic representations, the side arms close rectangular; on the left there is a chapel-like room, above it the lordship gallery of the Princes Schönburg, on the right there is the sacristy , above it another gallery. In the western part of the hall, wooden galleries are arranged over iron supports on three sides, their parapets were once painted. A large round arch communicates with the retracted choir, which ends in the apse with a ribbed vault. The interior was painted in bright colors by Wilhelm Walther in 1889 ; on the vault there is a golden starry sky against a blue background, in the arched reveal depictions of Saints Peter and Paul as well as angels can be seen, on the arched forehead of Moses and Elias; the figurative paintings are integrated into architectural painting. The glass paintings of the three arched choir windows with representations from the Revelation of John based on cartons by Anton Dietrich , which were executed by Bruno Urban around 1889, refer to this spatial setting .
Furnishing
In the small altar piece from 1885 there is a panel with a depiction of the Lamentation of Christ in the 16th century from the school of Lucas Cranach the Younger , which was heavily restored in 1863. It shows John on the left and Mary on the right laying the dead Christ in the shroud, assisted by a group of four weeping women and two men, the latter presumably depicting Simon of Cyrene and Joseph of Arimathia . The panel was originally of a larger format; the altarpiece is surmounted by a crucifix by Rudolph Hölbe . The painting of the choir, its stained glass and its altar give this part of the room the character of a sanctuary . The sandstone baptismal font was created in 1583 and has reliefs on the cupa depicting the birth and baptism of Christ; The theological message of the stone includes four small sculptures of children in shrouds on his foot, which show the instruments of Christ's suffering , on the upper part of the stone are the coats of arms of those of von Ziegler and von Beschwitz, the inscription "Let the children come to me" ( Mt 19 , 14 LU ) and the year 1583.
The wooden pulpit in the nave dates from around 1885, while the images of the evangelists on the pulpit were painted by Karl Gottlob Schönherr . In the choir on the walls hang two panel pictures with larger than life portraits of the reformers Philipp Melanchton and Martin Luther , which were given away as 17th century copies of originals by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Count Zinzendorf auf Gauernitz to their patron church, furthermore two narrow panel pictures, formerly Wing of an altar with depictions of Ecce homo and the Lamentation of Mary from the beginning of the 16th century.
On the outside of the apse there are sandstone grave monuments of Elisabeth von Pflugk († 1614) with an inscription and coat of arms, Elisabeth von Ziegler († 1501) with a relief portrait, Caspar von Pflugk († 1609) with an inscription and coat of arms, on the northern extension of Caspar von Pflugk († 1599) with a relief representation of the deceased as a youth, a girl († 1596) with relief portrait, Balthasar von Ziegler († 1474) with coat of arms, Katharina von Ziegler († 1588) with relief portrait and Christof von Ziegler († 1583) with a relief portrait of the deceased in splendid armor. On the south side of the hall is the burial place of the princes Schönburg-Waldenburg on Gauernitz.
The organ is the work of EF Walcker & Cie. from 1885 with 13 stops on two manuals and pedal .
Pastor since 1548
Pastors / clergy
- 1548 - Strong, Kaspar
- 1548 - Teich, Georg
- 1552 - Döring, Gregor
- 1560 - Naumann, Benno
- 1578 - Franke, Heinrich
- 1618 - Jahn, Johann Noah the Elder Ä.
- 1645 - Junghans, Heinrich
- 1664 - Höpner, Johann Christoph
- 1671 - Schuster, August
- 1703 - Burghardt, Johann Gottlieb
- 1710 - Barthel, Johann Andreas
- 1720 - Grieser, Johann Christoph
- 1724 - Franke, Johann Christian
- 1729 - Fischer, Johannes
- 1743 - Müller, Daniel
- 1772 - Martini, Johann Nikolaus
- 1789 - Schmidt, Christian Gottlieb
- 1801 - Geucke, Karl Friedrich Viktor
- 1817 - Heege, Johann Gottfried
- 1838 - Grützner, Heinrich Ernst
- 1859 - Rudel, Friedrich Otto
- 1881 - Schüttoff, god of honor Hermann
- 1919 - Planert, Franz Friedrich Bernhard
- 1961 - Schulze, Johannes
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 355-357.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ https://pfarrerbuch.de/sachsen/stelle/544 , accessed on April 25, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 58.1 ″ E