St. Petrus (Osmünde)
The Sankt-Petrus-Kirche is the Protestant church in the village of Osmünde in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The church is located on Paul-Scheibe-Platz . The parish has around 185 members, although the parish traditionally also includes believers from neighboring places.
architecture
The single-aisled nave, built from rubble stones, was built around the year 1200. The church windows were changed in later times. The choir has moved into the ship. On the east side there is a semicircular apse , which dates from the construction period with the choir and east part of the nave. On the north side of the ship there are some small original windows that have been preserved. The west transverse tower, which collapsed in 1986 and was only preserved as a ruin, and another tower north of the choir were built in the late Gothic period. The background to the construction of the unusual square choir tower , which took place around 1450 and which gives the church the appearance of a saddle church , is said to have been used as a pilgrimage chapel. The elaborately executed Romanesque edge columns at the eastern corners of the nave and choir are remarkable .
A vestibule was added to the north of the nave in the 1930s. The design of the roof and gable was based on the brick gable of the west transverse tower.
The interior of the nave is spanned by a flat ceiling. In the area of the choir, the ceiling is decorated with stucco . A central, oval field depicts Christ and John the Baptist as children, which is surrounded by fields with ornaments . The representations date from the last quarter of the 17th century. The altar , pulpit , baptism and organ also date from the same period . The altarpiece has a sculptural crucifixion group in its center . The crucifix is of baroque origin. Figures of Maria and Johannes, created at the beginning of the 16th century, stand in front of a painted urban landscape. To the side there are figures of the apostles Peter and Paul. Behind these are acanthus cheeks . A picture of the Lord's Supper serves as the predella , the entablature is decorated with putti.
The pulpit is crowned by a sound cover designed as a crown , over which a tuba angel is enthroned. The pulpit itself is lavishly decorated with acanthus. Symbols of the evangelists can be seen in the decoration. Putti carrying books are arranged above it.
The hexagonal font is made of limestone in the shape of a chalice. According to an inscription, the baptismal font, which is decorated with vegetal décor, was created in 1686. It was originally provided with strong colors.
The galleries on the long sides of the nave date back to 1581. The swinging western gallery and the organ front were built in the last quarter of the 17th century.
Two colored glass windows in the south wall of the nave were created in 1906 by the Quedlinburg glass painting company Ferdinand Müller .
The ground floor of the choir tower has an ogival transverse barrel. The sacristy is located in the choir tower .
The bronze bell, cast in 1749 by the Halle bell caster Friedrich August Becker , is located in the churchyard . It was originally located in the western church tower and was recovered after it collapsed. Southeast of the church is one of the fallen of the First World War reminiscent war memorial .
history
The first documented mention of a church in Osmünde comes from the year 1179. The patron of the church was the Archbishop of Magdeburg , and later the sovereign. Several villages in the area also belonged to the church.
In the church there was an image of Mary, regarded as miraculous, which made the church a destination for pilgrimages . The pilgrimages took place on the second Sunday after Trinity . The pilgrims received an indulgence for their sins. The tower to the north of the choir was built around 1450. It is said to have served as a chapel for the image of Mary and as a dwelling for the altar priest, who was known as the Osmünder monk . The west tower, which was given a high wooden top and had four small corner towers, was also built during this period. The church was also renovated, so new portals were added.
The last Catholic priest was Leonhard Müller , who died in 1538. After the Reformation , in 1554 , Matthäus Piscator became the first Protestant pastor at the church. The image of the Virgin was lost and the altar area was redesigned.
During the Thirty Years War the church was looted and devastated several times. In 1639 the top of the west cross tower burned down after a lightning strike . At the same time, the church roof was severely damaged. The first repairs were carried out in the following years. From 1660 the church was redesigned in the Baroque style . So the west tower received a helmet with tail gables . A new, baroque interior was purchased in stages. Around 1700 the church received a new organ. In addition, the church windows of the ship have been enlarged.
Renovation work was carried out around 1880. At the same time, the church was painted in a historical style . Local landowners donated stained glass windows.
During the First World War, the parish had to hand over a large and a medium bronze bell for purposes of armament. Two steel bells were bought to replace them in 1923. These bells are still in place today in the belfry and in front of the church door.
In 1934 extensive renovation work was carried out again. The northern gallery was torn down, new church stalls were purchased and the furnishings were restored. The interior of the church was repainted with light colors by Fritz Lewecke . Extensive repairs were carried out on the organ in 1942.
In the following time the church was marked by decay. There was considerable damage to the masonry and the church roofs, but also to windows and doors. The entire church was affected by sponge infestation . As a result of this poor condition, one was forced to remove the top of the church tower. The upper galleries were also removed. In addition, the church bells could no longer be rung. In 1986 the west cross tower finally collapsed. Only the eastern tower wall remained. The bells in the tower, but also the tower clock and wind chamber of the organ were under the rubble. The roof of the nave was also damaged.
After the political change in 1989 , the church was repaired from 1992 onwards. The ruins of the west transverse tower were stabilized, roof trusses and roofs repaired. Two bronze bells were recovered from the ruins of the tower. In 1993 the "Association for the Preservation of the Church Osmünde eV" was founded.
With the retirement of Pastor Noeske in 1996, the pastoral position of the church ceased. Since then the responsible pastor's office was initially in Zschernitz and later in Landsberg . The parish area Landsberg is one parish of Halle-Saale district of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
1997 began with the sponge renovation. Windows and doors were renewed, the interior was restored and the masonry stabilized. After the rectory was sold, parts of the church were converted into a community room, archive and sanitary facility. In 2008 and 2009 the apse and the choir tower, which received a new helmet, were renovated.
organ
The baroque organ was built by David Zuberbier in 1722/23, whose prospectus has been preserved to this day and was only given a new coat of paint in 1934. Zuberbier's son and his grandson waited for the organ until 1797. Since the accounting books between 1684 and 1755 are not in the Osmünde church archive, the organ was repeatedly attributed to Christoph Cunzius, who built two large organs in Halle in 1716 and 1720. The first major organ repair was carried out in 1819 by organ builder Carl Heinrich Knoblauch, with the tuning and registration not remaining unchanged. Further repairs followed from 1844 to 1846 and from 1852 to 1853 by the organ builders Friedrich Wilhelm Wäldner and his son August Ferdinand. Contrary to an expert opinion by organist Freyer in 1884, which AF Wäldner joined, the parish decided on a thorough repair, whereby the disposition was not changed. Fifty years later (1934), in anticipation of an extensive renovation of the church, the demand for a new organ was again up for discussion, which, due to a lack of funds, was only reflected in a new painting of the case. In the following years, a (“contemporary”) new building was repeatedly requested, but the parish again decided to carry out repairs, for example from 1940 to 1942 by the Hanover company Hammer. "In the middle of the war, the refurbished organ was inspected in 1942, which attests to its 'exceptional sound quality'." However, the organ was not maintained in the following years and in 1985 it was "barely playable". The wind turbine was lost in 1986 when the west transverse tower collapsed. A dry rot spreading over the galleries due to the leaky roof also endangered the organ, which is why parts of the pipework had to be temporarily stored. In 1989 renovation work began on the church; In 1999, the remaining organ work was dismantled, documented and also temporarily stored by the Hüfken company. A repair could not be carried out for financial reasons. Fourteen years later (2013) the redevelopment could be realized due to an inheritance and an offer from Paul (Niederröblingen). Schildt (Halle) carried out other work, such as the repair of the original pedal box, and a baroque wedge bellows system from Esperstedt near Querfurt was acquired and built next to the organ. After tuning, the organ was removed on March 27, 2018 and handed over to the congregation during the Easter Sunday service. The organ has two manuals and a pedal with a mechanical action and in Neidhard 1729 tuned to a 1 = 440 Hz. The instrument has the following disposition:
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literature
- Sabine Meinel, Birthe Rüdiger: List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 5, Saalkreis. fly head publisher Halle, 1997, ISBN 3-910147-64-X , page 52
- Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 643
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the Friends' Association ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Our organ building references. Retrieved September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Zuberbier organ - Ev. St. Petrus village church . In: Ev. St. Petrus village church . ( kirche-osmuende.de [accessed on August 26, 2018]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 47.5 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 57.1 ″ E