St. Urban (Meißen-Cölln)
The Protestant Church of St. Urban is a baroque hall church in the district of Cölln von Meißen in the district of the same name in Saxony . It belongs to the Johanneskirche community Meißen-Cölln in the Evangelical Lutheran church district Meißen-Großenhain of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .
history
The church right next to the neo-Gothic Johanneskirche was a parish church until 1889. The building is a baroque building from around 1700 with the occasional use of older remains. The previous building was a Romanesque hall church from the last third of the 12th century, which was restored after being destroyed in the war in 1636 and expanded in 1669. In the years 1691–1701 a major renovation and demolition of the old church took place, in the years 1769 and 1845 repairs were necessary. In 1839 the tower was raised and in 1880 a mortuary was added on the north side; In 1900 an interior restoration was carried out, whereby the old sacristy and the Oberland crypt were combined into a mortuary. After the completion of the new church in 1898, the church was used as a cemetery chapel. In the years 1987–1991 the exterior was restored, in the years 1992–1995 the interior was renovated while lowering the floor level. Excavations revealed the floor plan of a Romanesque hall church with a retracted choir and apse . The position of the Romanesque apse is marked in the floor in front of the choir. The wall with the sacristy door corresponds to the course of the Romanesque north wall of the choir and still contains Romanesque building material.
architecture
The building is a plastered quarry stone building with a three- eighth end and is finished with a gable roof with a set west tower, the tower ends in an octagonal tower with a baroque dome . The sacristy and the bierhaus are built on the north side, and a former prayer room on the south side of the choir . The portal in the tower and the windows are arched with ears and sloping keystones . The monogram Johann Georg IV from the years 1691–1694 can be found on the tower portal . The sacristy is accessed through a Gothic gate and has a late Gothic window with a grill. The interior of the building has a flat roof and is surrounded on three sides by galleries. The organ gallery is convex with twisted wooden columns, the southern and western ones date from 1653. The sacristy is closed off by a star vault. The tower hall, which is open to the hall, is equipped with wooden spiral stairs.
Furnishing
The late Gothic altarpiece, painted with oil on wood from around 1500, shows two angels in the predella holding the veil of Veronica . Saint Peter and Saint Urban, flanked by Saints Barbara and Catherine, are depicted in the main field. The picture above shows a representation of the Trinity . The pulpit was created by Valentin Otte and consists of an octagonal pulpit with a representation of the Evangelists , Christ, John the Baptist, Moses and Aarons with the brazen serpent . One of the tombs is a late Romanesque knight monument from around 1220/1230 in the form of a stele , which probably comes from the previous church. On the front is a Maltese cross with a legend on the stand and with a sword next to it. The grave of Pastor Hund († 1657) made of sandstone with a portrait in oil is kept in the sacristy of the Johanneskirche. The tomb of Georg Schlicke and his wife from around 1751 is a fine baroque work and still bears remnants of the coloring. The sandstone tomb for the children of Carl Gottlieb Kamenz from around 1756 is designed in the form of an obelisk with reliefs in rococo cartridges and used to stand in the cemetery.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 604.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 3.7 ″ E