City Church St. Marien (Greiz)

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Tower of the city church of St-Marien

The city ​​church of St. Marien is the largest Protestant church in the city of Greiz in the southeast of Thuringia and the parish church of the parish of Greiz. Together with the Lower Castle , it forms an inner-city, classical ensemble . With a maximum capacity of up to 812 seats, the church is the largest meeting room in the city.

history

The construction history of the church building located at today's Kirchplatz 2 begins with a choir tower church, first documented in 1225, which represented a "nucleus" of the medieval city that was being built.

After the introduction of the Reformation, the church became the Protestant town church. In 1727 extensive renovations began, which resulted in a hall church lavishly furnished in the Baroque style and with an enlarged floor plan and size. In 1736 the new building with an unusually high east tower was completed. The church, now used as the court church of the Princes Reuss , fell victim to the fire of 1802 and burned down, along with the adjacent rectory, Kirchplatz 3, and large parts of the old town.

As one of the first reconstruction projects, the church, which was still under construction, was rededicated in 1805. The striking tower, still preserved as a ruin, was restored true to the original, and the rebuilding was completed in 1827 with the attachment of the tower hood.

inner space

Work on the interior of the church ruins began in 1804, when the statics of the building were restored and the roof was erected. The interior of the three-aisled church is divided by mighty Corinthian columns , between which three floors are stored. The magnificent coffin of Heinrich VI is located on the first gallery . It also serves as a reminder of the Greiz hero who fell in the Battle of Zenta in 1697. At the east end of this former court church there is a pulpit altar with rich classical furnishings.

The capacity of the church achieved during normal events is distributed among the interior space as shown in the table below. For concerts with an orchestra, there are 68 seats less available in the main nave and 60 fewer seats for events using the central gallery in front of the organ.

Left center Right total
Main nave 17th 248 20th 285
1st gallery 97 70 50 217
2nd gallery 71 73 46 190
3rd gallery 71 - 49 120
total 256 391 165 812

organ

The Silbermann organ of the previous building burned down together with the church in the great city fire in 1802. After the church was rebuilt, it received the old organ from the upper castle as an interim solution , probably a work of Trampeli . This solution was to be replaced by a new building in the 1840s, but it was only realized in 1881 with an organ with 3 manuals and 40 registers from the workshop of the organ builder Richard Kreutzbach from Borna , by the Jehmlich brothers from Dresden , through the operation of Richard Jung (a Freund Max Regers ) expanded the instrument to 63 registers in 1919 and converted it to a pneumatic action. The latter company made minor changes to the sound up to 1945; in 1980, Hartmut Schüßler, Greiz, made further minor changes to the sound, and a new console was installed and the action was converted to electropneumatics.

The organ is currently in great need of renovation. Some registers can no longer be played, others only partially. Furthermore, the pneumatics and electrics require a thorough revision. In addition to technical and electrical improvements, the renovation is also intended to restore the sound of the organ from before 1945, as the sound modifications that have been made since then only partially correspond to the musical history of the organ. The renovation is to begin in 2021.

I. Manual C-a 3
16. Principal 16 ′
17th Principal 08th'
18th Gamba 08th'
19th Gemshorn 08th'
20th Dulciana 08th'
21st Flute harm. 08th'
22nd Drone 08th'
23. octave 04 ′
24. Reed flute 04 ′
25th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
26th octave 02 '
27. Mixture 4f.
28. Cornet 3-5f.
29 Trumpet 08th'
30th Trumpet 04 ′
II. Manual C-a 3
01. Principal 08th'
02. Drone 16 ′
03. Salicional 08th'
04th Soft flute 08th'
05. Hover Flute 08th'
06th Reed flute 08th'
07th Quintatön 08th'
08th. octave 04 ′
09. recorder 04 ′
10. Salicet 04 ′
11. Forest flute 02 ′
12. Swiss pipe 02 ′
13. Super-fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
14th Cymbel 3f.
15th oboe 08th'
III. Manual C – a 3
45. Dumped 16 ′
46. Dolce 16 ′
47. Violin principal 08th'
48. Concert flute 08th'
49. violin 08th'
50. Distance flute 08th'
51. violin 04 ′
52. Aeoline 08th'
53. Vox coelestis 08th'
54. Gemshorn 04 ′
55. -
56. Transverse flute 04 ′
57. Piccolo 02 ′
58. Cane fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
59. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
60. Sif flute 01'
61. Echo mixture 3f.
62. Clarinet 08th'
63. Trumpet harm. 08th'
Pedal C – f 1
31. Pedestal 32 ′
32. Principal bass 16 ′
33. Violin 16 ′
34. Sub bass 16 ′
35. Dolcebass 16 ′
36. Dacked bass 16 ′
37. violoncello 08th'
38. Principal bass 08th'
39. Octave bass 04 ′
40. Night horn 02 ′
41. Rauschpfeife 2f.
42. Trombone bass 16 ′
43. Trumpet bass 08th'
44. Clarin bass 04 ′
Couple
64. Pedal coupler I / P
65. Pedal coupler II / P
66. Pedal coupler III / P
67. Manual coupling II / I
68. Manual coupling III / I
69. Manual coupling III / II
70. Super coupling III / II
71. Super coupling III
72. Super coupling II / I
73. General coupling
  • Crescendo and Jal. Sill via foot control

City Cantors

  • KMD Siegfried Schadwill was cantor in Greiz until his retirement.
  • From 2000 to 2004 Matthias Grünert was city ​​and district cantor at St. Marien. In 2003 he performed the entire organ work of Bach and initiated the Greizer Bach Week . In 2004 he became the first cantor of the rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche .
  • From 2005 to 2012 Oliver Scheffels was city and district cantor at St. Marien, and in recent years provost cantor of the provost district Gera-Weimar and organ expert for the EKM.
  • Ralf Stiller has been city and district cantor at St. Marien since 2013.

Regular events

In addition to its religious function, the church is also a cultural venue for the St. Marien parish in Greiz. The annually recurring events include:

  • in October: Music and Bible days in the town church
  • in November: Big autumn market on the day of penance and prayer
  • in December: New Year's Eve concert by the Vogtland Philharmonic in the town church

literature

  • Stefan Michel: The historical and theological environment of the Greiz church building from 1803 to 1805. At the same time a contribution to the history of the theological enlightenment in Greiz. In: Andreas Hummel, Volker Schimpf, Hans-Jürgen Beier (eds.): From churches and castles. Commemorative publication for Günter Hummel (= contributions to the early history and the Middle Ages of East Thuringia. Volume 7). Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-95741-049-8 , pp. 365-372.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche St. Marien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The northern Vogtland around Greiz . A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Ed.): Landscapes in Germany . tape 68 . Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , Greiz, monument inventory, p. 276 .
  2. ^ Stefan Michel: The historical and theological environment of the Greiz church building from 1803 to 1805. At the same time a contribution to the history of the theological enlightenment in Greiz . In: Andreas Hummel, Volker Schimpff, Hans-Jürgen Beier (eds.): From churches and castles. Commemorative letter for Günter Hummel . Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-95741-049-8 , pp. 365-372.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 21.6 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 58.2 ″  E