Lauta town church
The Evangelical Church Lauta-Stadt is a building used as a place of worship and cultural church, which is located in the north of the Saxon district of Bautzen on the southern edge of the Lusatian Lake District in the small town of Lauta ( Sorbian Łuty ) in its Lauta-Nord district. The church belongs within the Lautawerk community, which has its seat in Lauta-Dorf, to the Evangelical Church District Silesian Upper Lusatia of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The history of the Evangelical City Church in Lauta is very closely linked to the Lauta aluminum plant, which was built in Lauta in 1917 and attracted many workers. This also increased the number of Christians who had attended the services in the Lauta-Dorf church up to that point . The foundation stone was laid on July 15, 1924. On December 21, 1924, the church built on behalf of the United Aluminum Works was inaugurated. This created a separate pastoral office in Lauta-Stadt.
Furnishing
organ
The organ that exists today was built in 1972 by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen , after there had been plans since the early 1960s to have a new instrument manufactured by this traditional company. From the previous organ , which was built in 1927 by the Arno Voigt organ builder from Bad Liebenwerda , but only consecrated in 1932, the sub-bass 16 ′ was taken over into the Eule organ.
This was made as Opus 430, the 430th owl instrument made. The organ has a total of eleven sounding stops in two manuals and a pedal unit . The pitch a 1 is 437 Hz at 15 ° C with an equally tempered tuning . The instrument has slide chests , a mechanical action , and the second manual has a tremulant .
The organ was manufactured during the last great wave of expropriations in the GDR , which made the Eule company a state- owned company on May 1, 1972 . However, thanks to the skillful management of the then manager and later holder of the Saxon Order of Merit , Ingeborg Eule, this had no impact on the quality, the intended delivery in mid-November 1972 and the acceptance by the church on January 17, 1973.
The disposition of the organ:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Altarpiece
The church, which also included the altarpiece , was also painted in 1932 . The work, about five by five meters in size, is divided into three equal parts, which are presented as a daily routine and illustrate the process of becoming and passing.
- On the left the morning sun has risen over the mountains and shines over a village, over mountains, a lake and fields. Animals jump in the pasture. A young farmer briefly interrupts his work and lifts his face up to God . An old shepherd goes down on his knees and prays.
- In the center of the picture is the hill Golgotha , on which a cross rises. Jesus dominates the picture as a central element. Three people can be seen, a young shepherd who looks in amazement at Jesus, a second who seems very frightened, and a woman who walks towards Jesus lightly and with raised hands. A spring gushes at the woman's feet .
- On the right-hand part of the picture, grapes are entwined with colorful foliage, and over them lies the landscape in the evening light. A man sitting in the middle of a table has opened the Bible . The woman shows satisfied features, one man on the right has the stamp of hard work on his face, the other more that of comfort. And smiling children play with roses.
The first words of a hymn can be found on each part of the painting.
- “Follow me, says Christ, our hero” The text from 1668 comes from the Wroclaw poet, theologian and doctor Johann Scheffler called Angelus Silesius
- "The golden sun full of joy and delight" The song written by the theologian and hymn poet Paul Gerhardt in 1666 is listed in many song books as a morning blessing.
- " Preserve us, Lord, by your word " This work, written by Martin Luther in 1541, is considered to be one of the most controversial hymns, as it contains anti-papal and anti-Turkish passages in the course of the text.
The altarpiece was whitewashed over in the 1970s. The monochrome altar wall is now adorned with a simple wooden cross. A restoration is planned.
Peal
The chiming of the church consists of four cast steel bells. The belfry is made of steel. The church bells commissioned in 1922 were cast in 1924 in the Torgau steelworks of the Lauchhammer stock corporation , which was now part of the Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer AG (LHL) group .
When, after the end of the First World War, the armaments contracts ceased and the need for bells increased due to the melting of thousands of bronze bells during the war , the factory in Torgau changed production and became a bell foundry. However, bronze was very difficult to obtain after the war, and so it was decided, for reasons of cost, to order bells made of steel, especially since many church representatives of the AG Lauchhammer certified that they made the best steel bells in Germany. The bells were cast in 1924, after the inflation had ended ; the installation in the church on December 1, 1924. The four simple steel bells are each provided with the lettering "AG Lauchhammer Torgau 1924" in the hood area and have an engraved label in the field, delimited by two webs.
The following is a data overview of the existing bells:
| No. | diameter | Weight | Chime | Engraving tape | |
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| 1 | 180 cm | approx. 2,700 kg * | cis' | Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever | Hebrew 13.8 |
| 2 | 156 cm | approx. 1,600 kg * | e ' | Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ | 2nd Petr. 3.18 |
| 3 | approx. 127 cm | approx. 920 kg | G' | Be reconciled to God | 2nd Cor. 5.20 |
| 4th | approx. 90 cm | approx. 300 kg * | cis " | Praise the Lord in his sanctuary | Psalm 150 |
| * The weights of three bells were roughly calculated by Johannes Remenz (Chairman of the Society for the Preservation of Monuments in the Eisenhüttenstadt district as well as bell expert and sales manager for bells at the Lauchhammer art foundry ), as there are no original documents relating to this. A table from the iron bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann from Morgenröthe in Vogtland from 1927 served as the basis . | |||||
Culture and community life
Since 2016, the “Association of Friends of the Evangelical Church Lauta eV” has been committed to maintaining the church as a place of worship and for its use as a cultural church. The church has been closed for structural reasons since 2012. After extensive renovation measures inside, as well as on the roof and facade, the church can be used again for church services and cultural events.
As before, church services (with the exception of high public holidays) take place in the “Frommelheim” Lauta-Süd during the winter months.
literature
- Ralf-Peter Pinkwart, Maximilian Claudius Noack: The Lautawerk factory colony - a high point of moderate modernity. In: The preservation of monuments. Volume 74 (2016), Issue 1, pp. 30–35.
- Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (ed.), Maximilian Claudius Noack: Between Wilhelminian demand architecture and moderate modernity. The factory colonies in the Lower Lusatian lignite district. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0404-5 .
Web links
Page of the "Friends of the Evangelical Church Lauta-Stadt eV"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet presence of the Protestant rectory in Lauta-Dorf , accessed on April 26, 2015
- ↑ according to information from the companies Hermann Eule Orgelbau (Bautzen) and Orgelbau Ekkehart Groß (Kubschütz)
- ↑ Consideration of the altarpiece by the Senftenberger Heimatpflegeverein. (Published in the Senftenberger Anzeiger on June 15, 1933)
- ↑ Song text from "Follow me, speaks Christ, our hero"
- ↑ Lyrics of "The golden sun full of joy and delight"
- ^ History of the Lauta town church by Dr. Gabriele Schluttig
- ^ Catalog of Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer AG "Church bells made of bronze and cast steel - delivered or ordered steel bells" 1922
- ^ Torgauer Zeitung, History: Steel bells from Torgau
- ↑ Hans-Georg Eichler: Bell catalog of the Cottbus district, part 9: Hoyerswerda district, Schwedt 1975: Lauta, Lautawerk Nord, Ev. church
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 14 ° 6 ′ 27 ″ E