St. Wenzel (Lommatzsch)
The Protestant town church St. Wenzel in Lommatzsch in the district of Meißen in Saxony is a late Gothic hall church . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Lommatzsch in the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and, with the peculiar tower end, shapes the silhouette of the city of Lommatzsch to this day .
history
The Lommatzsch town church is a hall church with a lower, retracted choir and pointed helmets on a Romanesque west tower taken from the previous building. It was first mentioned in 1180; a little later the transverse rectangular west tower with Romanesque sound openings was built .
The nave was built between 1504 and 1514 under the direction of foreman Peter Ulrich and with the participation of Conrad Pflüger . A three-aisled, four-bay vaulted hall church was planned, but the vaulting was not implemented. Between 1520 and 1521 the choir with a net vault and a sacristy to the south with a singing choir above it was built. After the church was devastated in the Seven Years' War , galleries were built in in 1763/65. Under the direction of Theodor Quentin , the tower was redesigned from 1890 to 1901 and the nave vaulted and restored inside. An exterior restoration took place in 1971, another interior restoration in 1972.
architecture
The church is a plastered building with a slate roof, the buttresses and the window frames are made of sandstone. There are also buttresses on the nave; accordingly, it was planned from the beginning to vault the building. The three-part windows show rich late Gothic tracery made of keel arch and fish bubble motifs . The east window on the north side of the nave shows the memory of Mayor Johannes Carl Bersch († 1614), his initials in the tracery. A Kaffgesims that circulates the construction, the forms sills of the windows. The choir with a five-eighth closure resembles the nave in the design of the windows, buttresses and cornices. The portals on the north side are from the late Gothic period, the portals on the south side and the west portal were created in 1890.
The transverse rectangular west tower was built around 1200 and shows Romanesque biforic windows on the third floor , while the fourth floor was built by 1514. The tracery on this floor, as well as the neo-Romanesque windows and the west portal, were not built until the restoration in 1890. The west tower closes with three needle-point slate-covered helmets and is reminiscent of Thuringian churches such as the Severikirche in Erfurt . This unconventional conclusion was created in 1523 and was renewed several times, as the weather vanes with the dates 1851 and 1971 prove.
The interior of the nave was closed in 1890 in just two bays with neo-Gothic ribbed vaults over a pair of fluted pillars. The choir also has a reticulated vault, which was created together with the choir. In the nave, a three-sided gallery is built according to the plan by Johann Daniel Schade in moderately baroque forms made of natural-colored, stained wood.
The sacristy is equipped with a rich late Gothic portal and has a neo-Gothic ribbed vault as well as a space from the time of the restoration under Theodor Quentin. The choir is arranged above the sacristy and the treasure chamber adjoining it to the west. It opens towards the church in two glazed pointed arches over a parapet with tracery. In the choir there are still windows with figural glass paintings from 1900.
Furnishing
The high baroque altar was created by Paul Heermann in 1714 and shows the resurrection of Christ and two apostles in an architectural frame with columns and a cornice as a fully sculptural relief, flanked by two angel figures, above the eye of God with clouds and wreaths of rays.
The discreetly colored pulpit from 1619/20 was made by Paul Steudte and has an octagonal basket with corner columns, arched architecture and consoles. The richly decorated sound cover shows obelis purchases and is crowned by the figure of the risen Christ. The font was made in 1890 in the forms of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance.
The organ was built in 1814 by Johann Christian Kayser and Friedrich Traugott Kayser, rebuilt in 1886 by the Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden company and in 1931 by the Eule Orgelbau Bautzen company. It has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
Numerous grave monuments and epitaphs complete the equipment. In the sacristy there is a colored and gold-framed wooden epitaph for Pastor Samuel Theodor Schönland († 1721) with a half-portrait of the deceased in relief and with the Bible, skull, chalice and cross as attributes. In the ground floor hall of the tower there is a grave monument of Johann Kaulbersch († 1614), which shows the deceased in period costume. There is also the grave monument of Lorentz Werdent († around 1690) and his wife († 1612) with a relief of the resurrection of Lazarus around the lower part and a relief representation of the resurrection of Christ and the family of the founders in the upper part, which is covered with arched architecture and decorated with fittings . Finally, there is a grave monument to Barbara Piltz († 1702) with a depiction of death.
Peal
The ringing consists of three chilled cast iron bells , the bell frame is made of steel and the bell yokes are made of steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | material | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1959 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | Chilled iron | 1650 mm | 2050 kg | it' |
| 2 | 1959 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | Chilled iron | 1370 mm | 1150 kg | ges ′ |
| 3 | 1959 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | Chilled iron | 1200 mm | 760 kg | as ′ |
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 543-545.
- Fritz Löffler : The city churches in Saxony. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, pp. 221–222.
- Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 327 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
- ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 327 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 47 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 30.5" E