Trinitatiskirche (Zwönitz)
The Evangelical Trinity Church is a baroque hall church in Zwönitz in the Ore Mountains in Saxony . It belongs to the Trinitatiskirchgemeinde Zwönitz in the church district Annaberg of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The baroque , single-nave Trinitatiskirche was rebuilt by Johann Paul from Adorf from 1688 to 1692 after a city fire. The fortified walls of the nave, which runs across the tower, look like a castle. Such a construction is untypical for churches in the Ore Mountains. The interior of the church was renovated in 1890/1891 and 1938, and another restoration took place in the early 1980s.
The building is designed as a plastered quarry stone structure with a straight east end. Narrow arched windows between strong buttresses illuminate the interior. The sacristy is added to the northeast . The north tower from 1724 with a square floor plan and a hexagonal upper floor has an octagonal bell house with a Welsch dome and high lantern . The tower clock was made in 1747 by a watchmaker from Loessnitz.
The mainly white interior is a hall with galleries on three sides, above which palm trees with twisted trunks support the barrel vaulted wooden ceiling. The attached wooden ribs are decorated with keystone-like rosettes and three quatrains with a representation of the Trinity. The ribs in the choir are designed as a star vault. The council box is located under the organ gallery on the ground floor and has a richly carved crown with the inverted Zwönitz coat of arms, held by two miners and flanked by allegories of justice and wisdom. Similar carvings can also be found above the doors to the gallery and the barrel-vaulted sacristy.
Furnishing
The portico - pulpit altar was made at the beginning of the 18th century as part of the baroque carving by the Zwönitz wood sculptor Gottfried Ullrich. The pulpit is shaped like a cloud, has numerous angel heads and is carried by angels. Two other angels carry the sound cover, on the crown of which God the Father is depicted. Twisted, tendril-wrapped columns with a curved gable and halo, which is also surrounded by clouds and angel heads, serve as a frame. The coronation is the risen Christ with the flag of victory; the figures of the evangelists are arranged on the side. The round marble baptism with a wooden lid adorned with classical ornamentation dates from the beginning of the 19th century. In addition to the marble baptismal font from the beginning of the 19th century, a baroque baptism made of sandstone and a spherical chandelier from 1704, there is a 40 cm high, wood-carved Bornkinnel in the interior at Christmas time . The colorfully painted, baroque figure from 1688, adorned with a red velvet dress, stands on a ball decorated with stars and carries a globe with an erected cross in her left hand.
The original organ was a work by Johann Christoph Gottlob Donati from 1732 and - after several new constructions - was replaced in 1993 by a work by Eule Orgelbau with 32 stops on two manuals and a pedal , while maintaining the prospectus .
Above the north gallery there is a picture of the Zwönitz school principal Israel Junghanns painted on wood in a frame with scrollwork from around 1700. Three portraits of pastors were executed as oil paintings in the middle of the 18th century. Four carved and framed coffin shields by miners from the first quarter of the 18th century are decorated with depictions of the crucifixion and the resurrection in acanthus framing with an angel's head. A depiction of the scene in the garden of Gethsemane and the resurrection with the donor monogram was created in the middle of the 18th century.
Peal
The bell consists of three chill cast steel bells, the bell frame is made of oak, the bell yokes are made of steel, cranked The following is an overview of the bell data:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1954 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1560 mm | 1550 kg | e |
| 2 | 1921 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1240 mm | 750 kg | G' |
| 3 | 1921 | Bell foundry Schilling & Lattermann | 1030 mm | 400 kg | b ' |
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 , pp. 1109–1110.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 375
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 375ff
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 44.9 ″ N , 12 ° 48 ′ 46.6 ″ E