St. Petri (Albrechtshain)

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St. Petri Church in Albrechtshain

The St. Petri Church in Albrechtshain is a Protestant church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony in Albrechtshain , a district of Naunhof near Leipzig in the Leipzig district . She is the patron saint of St. Peter consecrated .

history

In 1382 the Romanesque church was first mentioned in a document. The first Protestant pastor in Albrechtshain was Johann Pfeffinger from 1530 , who was later appointed to Leipzig as superintendent.

The church before 1844

By 1840 the church was dilapidated. The church was completely renovated in 1846, the sacristy was added as an extension and a small roof turret. The church was consecrated on August 1, 1847.

During the major renovation in 1896, the architect Theodor Quentin from Pirna designed the church with intense colors in the chancel. The colored windows from this period show the risen Christ as well as Peter and Paul. The altar, pulpit and benches also date from that time. A stylistic mix of neo-Gothic elements and influences of Art Nouveau was created. Quentin also planned the 32-meter-high, slim tower made of Beucha granite porphyry and Rochlitz porphyry . The Petrus window in the chancel and the rooster as a weather vane refer to the namesake of the church “St. Petri ".

Extensive renovation and restoration work began in and on the church in 1996 - it was successfully completed in 2017; the re-inauguration was on the 1st of Advent 2017.

altar

The "miraculous" altar by Beatae Mariae Virginis - moved to the Albrechtshain Church after the monastery was dissolved in 1525

In the Middle Ages there was a place of pilgrimage in nearby Eicha - the Antonite Order built its Antonite monastery there in 1497 , which was dissolved due to the Reformation in 1525. The Marien-Altar Beatae Mariae Virginis on the south side of the choir is most likely from the church of the monastery . The carved altar was made around 1510 and shows Mary on the crescent moon with the Christ child. Saint Martin and Saint Wolfgang are at her side. A further twelve saints adorn the altar, including Katharina, Barbara, Nikolaus and Georg as well as in the predella the figure of Anna Selbdritt, i.e. Anna with her daughter Maria and her grandson Jesus. The altar was extensively restored from 2015 to 2017.

organ

In 1847 Christian Carl David Beyer (1785–1856) from Leipzig-Großzschocher created the organ with a manual and pedal . In 1976, the organ builder Reinhard Schmeißer from Rochlitz changed the plan : he replaced the original register flute 8 'with the sif flute 1'. The organ currently (as of 2018) has the following disposition :

Manual C–
Principal D 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Mixture III
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'

Bells

In 2011 a wooden belfry was installed. The current bells consists of three bronze - bells : one was in 2011 cast in Lauchhammer (sound a '-2, bottom diameter 905 mm, 448 kg), the other two in 2012 (by the bell foundry Rincker tone c +/- 0, bottom diameter 770 mm, 299 kg; clay e -3, lower diameter 655 mm, 193 kg) cast. The big bell bears the words "Be happy in hope", the middle bell "Persist in tribulation" and the small one "Hold on to prayer". They were consecrated in 2013.

Parish

The Peterskirche Albrechtshain and the Bergkirche Beucha form a parish; likewise the church Polenz and the city ​​church Brandis . The pastor of both parishes is Christoph Steinert from Brandis.

literature

  • Ev.-Luth. Church communities Brandis-Polenz and Beucha-Albrechtshain (ed.): The churches Brandis, Polenz, Beucha, Albrechtshain. Brandis 2018, without ISBN.
  • Lutz Heydick: Leipzig eastwards. Parthian villages, quarries, motorway lakes. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1997, ISBN 3-93007647-0 .
  • The Parish Albrechtshain with Eicha and Filial Erdmannshain. In: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Die Ephorie Grimma links der Mulde. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1911, Sp. 189–194 ( digitized version )
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Albrechtshain. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 3.

Web links

Commons : St. Petri (Albrechtshain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stadtkirche-brandis.de/main.php?id=NULL&sub=7 - accessed on December 5, 2018
  2. ↑ http://www.stadtkirche-brandis.de/main.php?id=NULL&sub=57 - accessed on December 5, 2018
  3. ↑ According to information from the ORKASA organ database https://www.evlks.de/fiegen/kirchenmusik/orgeln/ - there is a link to access it, accessed on December 5, 2018.
  4. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony - sound between heaven and earth. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 269 .
  5. ↑ http://www.stadtkirche-brandis.de/main.php?id=3 - accessed on December 5, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 9.6 ″  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 1.7 ″  E