Zöblitz town church
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The Protestant town church Zöblitz is a baroque hall church with older parts in the district Zöblitz of Marienberg in the Erzgebirge in Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Zöblitz in the Marienberg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and is best known for its well-preserved organ by Gottfried Silbermann .
History and architecture
The Zöblitz town church was created from the baroque reconstruction of a late Gothic church dating from around 1480 in 1728/1729. The triumphal arch and the tower of the older church were reused. The plans for the conversion to a hall church with an east tower were drawn up by Johann Christian Simon from Dresden. The interior of the church was fundamentally redesigned in the Art Nouveau style in 1904. The building is a quarry stone building with a hipped roof and a staggered tower with side stair towers; the west side is closed on three sides.
The interior is shaped by the redesign. The mirror vault is painted with cherubim and dove and, like the window reveals and side walls, adorned with baroque acanthus tendrils. The surrounding galleries sit on pillars with profiled fighters . Behind the organ, an illusionistic baroque drapery was partially exposed in 1994 .
Furnishing
A richly carved baroque pulpit altar from 1750 forms the main part of the furnishings and is provided with altar cabinets made of Zöblitzer serpentine . The baptismal font from 1616 is equipped with a pewter baptismal font from 1614 showing the cast relief heads of Christ and the Evangelists and the taming of the animals by Orpheus . Two baroque confessionals from 1734 have also been preserved.
The stained glass windows from 1904 show acanthus ornamentation and depictions of Christ in Gethsemane , Christ as the sower and the portrait of Luther ; in the sacristy Christ is depicted as a wanderer.
Bells
The church bell consists of three bells. The largest bell with the tone f was cast in Dresden in 1710; she weighs 975 kg. It was picked up for war purposes in 1942 and was supposed to be melted down; however, it remained intact and was re-inaugurated at Pentecost 1950. The middle bell was cast in 1476, weighs 520 kg and has a tone of a. The oldest and smallest bell was cast in 1475. It comes from the church in Ruppertsgrün and was brought to Zöblitz in 1957; it weighs 230 kg and is tuned to tone C. The bell cage is made of steel, the bell yokes are made of cranked cast iron. The following is a data overview of the bell:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
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| 1 | 1710 | Bell foundry M. Weinhold | 1150 mm | 975 kg | f ′ |
| 2 | 1476 | Bell foundry unknown | 950 mm | 520 kg | a ′ |
| 3 | 1475 | Bell foundry unknown | 750 mm | 230 kg | c ″ |
organ
The organ is a work by Gottfried Silbermann from 1742 with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . No significant changes to the instrument are documented until the late 19th century. During a repair in 1894, Guido Hermann Schäf added a pedal coupler, replaced the manual slide coupler with a fork coupler and removed the tremulant . In 1903, the Jehmlich brothers created the concert pitch by rearranging the inner pipes, adding extensions to the prospect pipes and building new pipes for C and D. Two more registers in the upper work were added instead of the Cimbel II . In 1952 the Cimbel was reconstructed by the same company. In the years 1996/1997, Wieland Rühle carried out a comprehensive restoration, whereby all later ingredients except for the pedal coupler were removed. The inner pipes were reset and the Chorton mood Organ restored; the added low c sharp was omitted. The tremulant has been reconstructed. The case frame was exposed, supplemented and restored by the restorers Günther and Gert Alpha. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : sliding coupler II / I, mechanical pedal coupler (since 1894)
- Secondary register : tremulant, bell
- Remarks
- Pitch: currently a 1 = 465 Hz
- Mood : well tempered
- Wind pressure: about 80 mm water column
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 1063.
- Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 373.
Web links
- Website of the parish of Zöblitz
- Website of the Friends of the Zöblitz City Church
- Zöblitz - organ from 1742 on the website of the Gottfried Silbermann Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Friends of the Zöblitz City Church. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 373
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 373
- ↑ Frank-Harald Greß, Michael Lange: Die Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends. No. 177). 2nd Edition. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-50-4 , p. 110.
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 26.3 " N , 13 ° 13 ′ 51.3" E