Collegiate Church (Ebersdorf)

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The church of the monastery of our dear women in Ebersdorf is in the Ebersdorf district of Chemnitz .

history

In the second half of the 12th century, at the same time as the village of "Ebirhardisdorf" , a first Romanesque church was built, which was proven by archaeological excavations in 1959/61. The first documentary mention can be found in the Meißner diocese register from 1346. The patron saints had been the owners of the nearby Lichtenwalde Castle since the middle of the 14th century . Around this time Ebersdorf also gained importance as a pilgrimage church (against Richter). The most famous of these pilgrimages took place in 1455: in the wake of the Saxon prince robbery , the parents of the rescued princes, Elector Friedrich the Meek and his wife Margaretha , went on a pilgrimage to Ebersdorf on July 15, 1455 to the miraculous image of Mary to save their children to bring a solemn offering of thanks. The arrival in Ebersdorf took place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Margaretha donated an altar (the papal document about it, allegedly from 1456, but is a crude forgery, which first appears in Johannes Vulpius, "Plagium Kauffungense", Weißenfels 1704) and the prince's clothes and the charcoal burner's cap were kept in memory, who had caught Kunz von Kauffungen , hung up in the church. Corresponding clothes are still kept in Ebersdorf today; however, they are probably copies from the 17th century.

The late Gothic reconstruction of the church lasted from around 1400 to 1470 - with numerous interruptions - which essentially gave it its current appearance. In total the church was equipped with seven altars. In 1469 the establishment of the monastery was confirmed from Rome. Since Ebersdorf belonged to the Rochlitz office , which had been in the possession of Elisabeth of Hesse since 1537 , the widow of Duke Georg's son Johann , the Reformation arrived here two years earlier than in the rest of Albertine Saxony. When Lichtenwalde was converted into an electoral office in 1561, the monastery was also secularized .

Today the ev.-luth. Parish in a sister church relationship to the Glösaer St. Jodokus parish.

Worth seeing

organ

The organ of the collegiate church was built in 2010 by the organ building company Jehmlich (Dresden). The instrument has 15 registers on slider drawers . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Hollow flute 4 ′
5. Cornett III
6th Mixture IV
Tremulant
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. Fugara 4 ′
10. Flute 4 ′
11. Piccolo 2 ′
12. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th violoncello 8th'
15th trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Gert Petersen: Older history of the collegiate church Chemnitz-Ebersdorf. 2nd edition, Chemnitz 2002.
  • Tilo Richter: The collegiate church of Chemnitz-Ebersdorf: shape and building history. Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-932900-84-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on the Jehmlich company website ; accessed on November 19, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Stiftskirche Ebersdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 38 "  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 26.5"  E