City Church St. Nikolai (Bad Düben)

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Evangelical town church St. Nikolai in Bad Düben (2005)

The Protestant town church St. Nikolai with its 63 meter high steeple is the tallest building in the spa town of Bad Düben .

history

Establishment (12th century)

Towards the end of the 12th century, the town church was built as the seat of an archpriest of the Meissen diocese . It was rebuilt several times, but its core has remained Romanesque to this day . In 1661 the church burned down, but the tower and bells were preserved. Extensive repairs were carried out on the south side of the church tower in 1742 and 1743.

Collapse and rebuilding (1809 to 1814)

At the beginning of 1809 a crack was discovered on the evening side of the church tower. On May 9, 1809, the tower was inspected and an appraisal was made. The result was that the crack was not particularly bad, that it should be smeared with lime so that it would not weather further. Four weeks later, on Monday June 12, 1809, the church tower collapsed. He buried three people under himself, one injured died eleven days later. War times and disputes between the parish, pastors and tax authorities delayed the new construction until the dispute was settled in 1814. From 1810 to 1814 the tower was rebuilt and completed on December 19, 1814.

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Inscription above the front door

Around 1816/17 the nave was rebuilt and the hall was designed by Carlo Ignacio Pozzi from Dessau. Since then, the altar , pulpit and organ have formed the center around which the community gathers in the Reformation tradition and in the sense of the Enlightenment of Classicism . It was not until 1819 that the church was able to serve its purpose again, only after the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III . had provided the oak wood needed for the tower repair to the value of 900 thalers free of charge.

Further innovations

In 1887 the octagonal upper floor of the tower was raised and redesigned. Until 1904 there was a tower keeper's apartment on the upper floor. Major repairs were carried out in 1906/07. The last renovation and restoration of the entire building took place from 1990 to 2007.

Unproven tags

The following construction work is said to have taken place on the church, but can no longer be checked from today's perspective because these extensions and modifications are no longer preserved today.

  • 1450 the church was rebuilt after the city of Düben was plundered and set on fire by the Bohemians (due to the probability, this can no longer be verified today)
  • 1561 new organ built
  • 1562 Construction of a student gallery and a morgue
  • In 1580 and 1589 the organ was repaired
  • 1611 and 1612 construction of a pulpit
  • 1620 Purchase of a new bell for 100 guilders
  • 1685 Construction of a gallery for the city council

Furnishing

The church has five bells, two of which are made of hard cast iron . The oldest bell dates from the 14th century. The pulpit and the altar are from the years 1816/17 and the baptismal font in the church hall from 1907. In the basement of the tower there are two old, damaged baptismal fonts, the older one in Renaissance form, probably from the year 1600. Next to the pulpit are in upper area two figures from a baroque high altar (late 17th century, early 18th century), Moses and Christ , the Salvator. The altarpiece shows a woman at Jacob's fountain and dates from the second half of the 19th century.

organ

In 1907 the sixth organ in the history of the town church was installed by the organ building firm Wilhelm Rühlmann (Zörbig) in the previous case of the organ from 1819 (Johann Carl Friedrich Lochmann, Delitzsch). After 1920 there was a change in planning due to the organ movement . Due to water damage during construction work in the 1990s, the organ was in an unplayable condition. The complete restoration was completed in 2008 and the organ was restored to its original condition from 1907 by the organ building company Christian Scheffler Sieversdorf.

Bells

In the bell tower there are three bronze bells and two chilled iron bells.

The first bronze bell was probably cast between 1300 and 1325 and has a diameter of 890 mm. The inside script consists of Gothic capitals, some of which are reversed. There are five medallions around the flank.

The second bronze bell was cast by Hans Becker in Leipzig in 1594 and has a diameter of 840 mm. It has a shortened rib, without a cast iron, and was used then as now to strike the clock ( hour strike ).

The third bronze bell probably dates from the first half of the 14th century and has a diameter of 690 mm and serves as a quarter-hour strike. It has a floral ribbon between two bars on the shoulder, but no writing inside. The hanging iron was removed early.

The two chilled cast iron bells from 1950 are the largest and the smallest of the peal.

In 2017 the bell was refurbished. The drives and the electrical controls were renewed. No significant work was done on the bells themselves.

Photo gallery

  • City church seen from the market square (2017)

  • Church tower, view from the north from Mühlstrasse (2017)

  • Church tower with entrance door (2005)

  • Front door (2005)

  • Lettering above the entrance door (2005)

  • Church tower (2005)

  • City church with nave (2005)

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche St. Nikolai (Bad Düben)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . History , accessed on August 22, 2017.
  2. ^ Article by Lutz Fritzsche in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 31, 2017
  3. ^ Article by Lutz Fritzsche in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 31, 2017
  4. ^ Article by Lutz Fritzsche in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 31, 2017
  5. ↑ According to the inscription above the entrance door on the church tower
  6. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . History , accessed on August 22, 2017.
  7. ^ Article by Lutz Fritzsche in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 31, 2017
  8. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . History , accessed on August 22, 2017.
  9. ^ Article by Lutz Fritzsche in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 31, 2017
  10. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . Equipment , accessed on August 22, 2017.
  11. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . Organ , accessed on August 22, 2017.
  12. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Bad Düben " . Bells , accessed on August 22, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 33.2 "  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 3"  E