City Church Penig

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City Church Penig
South side
Cityscape of Penig from the north over the Mulde with the town church

The Protestant town church of Our Lady on the Mountain is a late Gothic church in Penig in the district of Central Saxony in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Penig in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and shapes the cityscape of Penig.

History and architecture

The town church of Our Lady in Penig was initially a branch church of the St. Aegidien Church in Penig and since 1313 has belonged to the patronage of the Benedictine monastery in Chemnitz . The construction of the late Gothic town church began with the high, square tower in the north-west corner of the church in 1476. The exterior of the nave as a plastered quarry stone building was completed in 1499; the interior was left without the pillars and vaults. The consecration did not take place until 1515.

From the previous building, the chapel of the glory on the north side of today's nave was preserved as the burial place of Burgrave Albrecht von Leisnig from 1380. The three-bay structure ends in a five-eighth closure . A small vestibule in the north shows a rich star vault.

The church is laid out as a three-aisled, six-bay hall church and is closed with a seven-sided polygon to the east, similar to the Jakobikirche in Chemnitz, so that an ambulatory choir was probably intended.

In 1688, Constantin Seitz the Elder built the ceiling of the ship. Ä. from Schneeberg painted with 68 pictures of the Old and New Testament, it is even three years older than the ceiling in the village church Löbnitz .

In 1781, the tower was completed with a hood and lantern .

From 1890 to 1892 the church was restored in neo-Gothic form by Woldemar Kandler . In 1969 another restoration was carried out under the direction of Elisabeth Hütter and Heinrich Magirius with Helmar Helas and Fritz Riedel as restorers. The most recent restoration took place from 1988 to 1993.

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is the sandstone altarpiece with a colored version by Christoph Walther II from 1564 with a Protestant image program. It shows the Lord's Supper , the Crucifixion and the Resurrection in the central axis. On the left the birth and baptism of Christ and God the Father are shown, on the right Pentecost , the ascension and the Lord as judge. In the excerpt the resurrection of Christ is shown, to the side the sacrifice of Isaac and the appeasement of the waves ( Mt 8.26  EU ), above God the Father and next to it the angels with the instruments of suffering . A small figure of Salvator mundi concludes . A finely executed frame in Italian high renaissance forms is equipped with column architecture and entablature.

Gabriel Eckardt's baptismal font from 1609 is decorated with reliefs rich in figures. A life-size wooden crucifix was created in 1619. A portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder from 1537 shows Luther as Junker Jörg .

Several stained glass from the beginning of the 16th century depicting the crucifixion of St. Barbara have been preserved in the southern annex; seven large stained glass depicting scenes from the life of Christ were created in 1895.

The organ is a work by Richard Kreutzbach from the years 1890–1893 with 40 stops on three manuals and pedal . It was rebuilt 1955–1957 by Reinhard Schmeisser and restored in 1999 by Gerd Christian Bochmann.

Numerous grave monuments and epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries have also been preserved. Of these, a large stone epitaph for Hans Ernst von Schönburg († 1586), which was created by Samuel Lorentz from Freiberg, should be emphasized. It shows a figure-rich two-storey column structure in artful late Renaissance forms. In the middle part is the figure of the deceased kneeling in front of the cross, flanked by Moses , John the Baptist and two coat of arms holders and above in relief the Ascension. Furthermore, a colored epitaph of Christoph Friedrich von Schönburg († 1607) by Uriel Lorentz with an elaborate Corinthian pilaster architecture and the kneeling deceased with the figurative representation of the resurrection of Lazarus in the arched field should be mentioned. A small bronze plate for Cunradt Schantz from Leipzig († 1530) shows the deceased with his family kneeling in front of the crucified. The epitaph of Philipp von Hassenstein († 1557) shows the life-size relief figure of the deceased in a heavy architectural frame.

In the vestibule there is the tombstone of the founder of the northern chapel, Burgrave Albrecht von Leisnig († 1411) with a coat of arms and a ribbon of inscriptions. In the hall there is the epitaph of Eugenius Pistoris († 1582) and his wife Barbara von Milkau († 1577) by Andreas Lorentz, which shows the family kneeling in front of the crucified. Gravestones were set for Peter Caesar († 1571) and A. von Mansfeld († 1570) each with full-length representation and for a stranger († 1528). A rococo wooden cartouche with a large inscription field commemorates Christian Martin Cooking († 1779).

Peal

The ringing consists of four bronze bells , the bell cage is made of oak and the bell yokes are made of steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions material Chime
1 1764 Bell foundry Weinholdt bronze 1402 mm 1300 kg it'
2 1969 Schilling bell foundry bronze 1090 mm 740 kg ges ′
3 1387 Bell foundry unknown bronze 960 mm 525 kg as ′
4th 1969 Schilling bell foundry bronze 800 mm 300 kg H'

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Penig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the church on the website of the municipality of Penig. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ 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. 342 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).


Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 54.6 "  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 14.5"  E