City church Geising
The Evangelical Lutheran town church in Geising ( Erzgebirge ) is a late Gothic hall church in the Saxon Eastern Ore Mountains .
history
A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary is mentioned in a document as early as 1479 . It is also known that a pleban , i.e. a people priest with parish rights, was installed. This wooden structure was replaced between 1484 and 1513 by a new church made of sandstone. On October 6, 1484 Jul. the foundation stone was laid. The abbot of the Altzella monastery near Nossen, Martin von Lochau, consecrated the new church in 1513. With the arrival of the Reformation in 1539, the community of Geising became Protestant. In 1567 and 1644, tower repairs became necessary after violent storms. Due to the economic boom through mining and the related ancillary trades, an extension of the church became necessary. In 1689/1690 the building got its present form. Executives were the master mason Zacharias Kunde from Pirna and Andreas Böhme from Breitenau; Master carpenter Georg Seifert from Börnersdorf carried out the woodwork.
The collator of the church was Rudolf von Bünau the Younger , who gave great support to the building of the church. The construction costs amounted to around 5000 thalers and were paid for by the church property. The Protestant community of Alt- and Neugeising also included the Bohemian Front Zinn Forest until 1614, the Bohemian Back Zinn Forest until 1728 and the Saxon Zinn Forest and Georgenfeld until the completion of the church in 1909 .
architecture
In the floor plan of the single-nave hall church , the length is approximately 30 meters and the width approximately 16.75 meters (104 feet by 58 feet). The approximately 48.75 meters (170 feet) high octagonal tower with a baroque dome was completed in 1694. Two stair turrets are added to the side of the tower. The coat of arms of the von Bünau zu Lauenstein is located above the tower portal.
There are three symmetrically arranged high arched windows with simple tracery on both long sides . There are two such windows in the choir. The facades are plastered, the roof was covered with slate shingles, and the supporting pillars between the windows are covered with sheet copper. The northern wall of the previous church was included in the new building.
The interior of the church is functional, symmetrical and bright. There are three galleries on both sides. The organ gallery is on the tower side. The ceiling finish is wooden and hung horizontally. There are prayer rooms on both sides of the altar.
Furnishing
A winged altar made around 1520 was taken over from the previous church. This shows the risen Christ as ruler of the world with Mary , holding the little Jesus and Maria Salome . The church father Hieronymus stands on the right wing , and Bishop Thiemo of Salzburg is depicted on the left panel . A new altar with a three-tier structure was purchased in the larger church. This reproduces the story of the Passion: the last supper is shown in the lower part, the crucifixion of Jesus in the middle and the apparition of the risen in the upper part.
The baptismal font was donated in 1741 by Gottfried Heymann, Hofriemer zu Dresden . Two putti made of sandstone hold the baptismal bowl made of local tin. Two altar candlesticks, also cast from local tin, depicting miners, were donated by Johann Christoph Wendisch, merchant in Neu-Geising, and Gottlieb Grundig, Hochgräflicher Sternbergischer Berggeschworener from Zinnwald, in 1685. A carved angel hovers in the chancel, the weather angel. A stained glass window depicting Christophorus after a graphic by Albrecht Dürer comes from the estate of Heribert Fischer-Geising.
In the front church there is a crucifix from the old church. In the underground part of the church there are over 20 different graves and tombs of clergy, mountain officials and school teachers as well as families.
organ
The teacher, councilor and instrument maker Johann Daniel Ranfft (1727–1804) built the organ for the town church of Geising at the age of 21. He was a student of the organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel . It is the largest surviving work from the Ranfft Organ Building School. During that time it was changed and rebuilt several times, most recently in 1944. In the GDR era, no financial means were made available for the maintenance of the instrument. The organ fell into disrepair and was badly damaged by worms. Only in the years 2008 to 2009 in a first construction phase was the technology, preserved registers and the housing renovated by the company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen . And from 2012 to 2013 the missing registers were added and concert pitch tuning was carried out. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I (sliding coupler), I / P
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Bells
The mountain bell of the Mining Authority District Neugeising from 1615 (cast in 1703 and 1753), which announced the start of the shift for the Geisingen miners, once hung below the top of the tower. The financing at that time came from the sale of a Zinnwald mine dump. During the renovation work on the church tower in 2006, the old choir's bell was hung in the bell base; there it forms today's church bells with the two newly cast bronze bells .
The ringing consists of three bronze bells , the bell cage is made of oak, as are the bell yokes.
Below is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | material | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2006 | Bell foundry Rudolf Perner | bronze | 893 mm | 481 kg | a ′ |
| 2 | 2006 | Bell foundry Rudolf Perner | bronze | 738 mm | 263 kg | c ″ |
| 3 | 1753 | Bell foundry JG Weinhold | bronze | 683 mm | 180 kg | e ″ |
literature
- Saxony's church gallery. The Pirna, Altenberg and Dippoldiswalde inspections. Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1840, Vol. 4. - Signed lower right “Steindr. v. Renner u. Ketzschau. ”P. 20ff. ( Link to the digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library )
- Richard Steche : Geising. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 2. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde. CC Meinhold, Dresden 1883, p. 31 ( link to the digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library )
- Otto Voigt: Newspaper article in: Bote vom Geising, 1878, No. 122 u. 12 and 1882, No. 95 and 97.
- Werner Stöckel: Contributions to the local history of Geising and the surrounding area. Volume 1. Ed. Christine Stöckel. Verlag BoD-Books on Demand, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-74125603-5 .
- Freimut Lüdeking: Flyer Geisinger Stadtkirche. Geising rectory, Altenberg.
- Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 360.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hermann Schmidt (ed.): The Inspections Pirna, Altenberg and Dippoldiswalde. Dresden 1840, p. 20ff.
- ^ A b Werner Stöckel: Contributions to the local history of Geising and the surrounding area. Volume 1. Ed. Christine Stöckel. Verlag BoD-Books on Demand, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-74125603-5 .
- ^ Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen | Archive
- ↑ Geising Evangelical Church. Altenberg Mining Museum , accessed on September 29, 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. 298 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 32.4 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 29.3" E