St. Nikolaus (Windischleuba)

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The church
Southeast view

The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Nikolaus is located in the municipality of Windischleuba in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of Treben in the Altenburger Land parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

History and architecture

The St. Nikolauskirche belonged to the original parish of the Pleißenland . The large village church made of red sandstone and porphyry is a single-nave, late Gothic building using Romanesque parts. Strong buttresses on the choir and nave characterize the view. The church has a rising gable roof with mansards .

The hall church with west tower was built in the years 1492–1507 using older components. In the years 1820-1822 a renovation, combined with a new equipment, was made. In 1968 a renovation took place, whereby the family crypt of those von Gabelentz on the north side of the church was demolished.

The church consists of a nave with three bays and a choir bay of the same width with a polygonal end. On the south wall of the nave, two arched windows from the previous Romanesque building have been preserved. A two-storey extension in the south contains the sacristy and the patron's box . The square west tower is provided with early Gothic biforias on the upper floors. The nave is closed with a net vault, the choir with a star vault. A keystone in the nave is dated 1507. All side rooms of the church are closed with ribbed or groin vaults.

Furnishing

The well-preserved church furnishings date from the years 1820–1822 and are the oldest of a group of such furnishings in the region, which were created with the free use of classical and neo-Gothic forms in the 1820s and 1830s, comparable to the church in Nobitz . A double-storey gallery on pillars in the form of bundle pillars runs around the nave and is provided with a pulpit in the choir. The free-standing altar is provided with iron barriers on the sides. A marble grave monument to Georg Ernst von Zehmen († 1728) is housed in a wall niche of the patron s lodge . A volute-shaped base is decorated with Chronos , the god of time, and a shield with a bust of the deceased. Baroque tombs can be found in the churchyard.

organ

The organ with a classicist prospect crowned by vases and a lyre is the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Trampeli from Adorf. After a restoration in 1992-2005 by the organ builder Gerd-Christian Bochmann, it now has 25 (originally 27) stops on two manuals and a pedal . Around 1900 an unknown organ builder carried out a revision with a change in disposition. In 1917 the prospect pipes were given up for war purposes. In 1956 and 1960 the organ was cleaned, tuned and impregnated against wood worms. The disposition is (state until 1992, then reconstruction):

I main work C – d 3
Principal 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octava 2 ′
Mixture IV 1'
Drone 16 ′
Heavily dumped 8th'
Put it small 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Flageolet 1'
Cornet III D
Viola da gamba 8th'
II Oberwerk C – d 3
Principal Discant D. 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Octava 2 ′
Sisfloet 1'
Mixture III
Flûte traversière 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Flûte d'amour 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Quintatoena 8th'
Pedal C – c 1
Trumpet bass 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 1388-1389.

Web links

Commons : Nikolaikirche (Windischleuba)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on restoration in the community letter . Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 275-276 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '58.2 "  N , 12 ° 28' 4.4"  E