City church Olbernhau

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City Church Olbernhau from the southwest (2010)

The town church Olbernhau on the market square of Olbernhau belongs to the parish Olbernhau in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony . The church was consecrated in 1590 and is a listed building .

History of construction and use

The church of Olbernhau was built from 1584 to 1590 on the market square of Olbernhau. Olbernhau only received town charter in 1902, so the name town church is of more recent origin.

The churchyard , which served as a cemetery from 1596 to 1862 , was also built at the end of the 16th century . The crypt house of the Oemichen family, manor owners in Olbernhau, date from this period of use.

On May 7, 1639, during the Thirty Years War , Swedish cavalry destroyed many buildings in Olbernhau by arson. The church also burned to the ground.

In 1648 the church was rebuilt on the old enclosing walls.

Architecture and equipment

Church building

The shape of the town church is a simple hall church made of plastered quarry stone, the north and south ends of which are polygonal. The lower area of ​​the tower has a square floor plan, from the height of the church roof the floor plan of the tower is octagonal. The tower roof is onion-shaped.

Inside, the church has a barrel vault with galleries almost completely surrounding it. The church interior was originally designed in color, but is now white. A special feature is the patronage box with rich ornaments.

Furnishing

The church furnishings include an altar from 1641 and a baptismal font from 1790.

Today's (3rd) organ dates from 1790 and was built by Johann Christian Kayser .

Churchyard and war memorial

The churchyard includes the former cemetery, several monuments and graves of the manor owner family Oehmichen from 1584. The crypt house belonging to it from 1685 is a free-standing, lavishly designed pavilion.

In 1741 Carl Gottlob von Leubnitz was buried in the churchyard .

In 1922 the city formed a committee to erect a memorial for the fallen and missing of the First World War . The monument was erected on the area of ​​the town church and inaugurated on September 20, 1925. The design of the wall made of roughly hewn stone and the execution of the relief figures in the middle comes from the Chemnitz sculptor Bruno Ziegler . The names of 372 victims of the First World War from Olbernhau are recorded on bronze plaques to the left and right of the figures. Next to it is a dedication plate for the victims of World War II, the latter without mentioning the individual names.

literature

  • Richard Steche : Olbernhau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 24.
  • Olbernhau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 7th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1820, pp. 792-906.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Olbernhau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cenotaph for the victims of the 1st World War 1914-1918 on the website of the city of Olbernhau (accessed in February 2018)
  2. ↑ Olbernhau, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony in the online project Gefallendenkmäler (accessed in February 2018)

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 5.4 ″  E