Our Dear Women (Mittweida)
The Protestant town church of Our Lady Mittweida is a late Gothic hall church in the district of Central Saxony in Saxony . It is also known as St. Marien Mittweida and belongs to the parish Mittweida in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . Due to its location high above the city, it shapes the cityscape of Mittweida.
History and architecture
The town church Mittweida was first mentioned in 1303. After a fire in 1450 it was partly replaced by a new building. The sacristy north of the choir was retained from the previous building. On the adjoining north aisle from 1430/50 there is a keel- arched figure portal from around the same time. The newly built choir is influenced by the churches in Rochlitz and was vaulted around 1476. The construction of the nave dragged on until the 16th century. The west tower with the tower parlor was rebuilt between 1516 and 1522.
The town church in Mittweida is a three-aisled, four-bay hall church made of plastered quarry stone masonry with various net vault shapes. The two-aisled choir comprises the central nave and the south aisle and closes with seven sides of a dodecagon; the north nave of the choir, taken over from the previous building, is lower and has stone galleries. Similar to the Rochlitz churches, the choir has rich tracery windows and a finely structured exterior. A similar asymmetrical choir solution can be found in the Marienkirche Angermünde .
A neo-Gothic restoration was carried out in 1886/87 by Hugo Altendorff; The figural stained glass in the choir was also used. Further restorations were carried out inside in 1958, outside by Georg Laudeley in 1974 and after 1987.
Furnishing
The three-part altar structure by Valentin Otte and Johann Richter from Meißen from 1661, which is similar to the altars in the town church in Leisnig and in the monastery church of St. Afra in Meißen , should be mentioned. In the predella he shows a relief with a representation of the Lord's Supper. Above it is a painting with Christ on the Mount of Olives, framed by four angels on consoles that support an architrave on which the central figure stands. In the middle there is a niche with an Ecce homo figure, which is framed by side niches with figures of the evangelists in front of painted illusionistic architecture. In the cheeks there are painted representations of the sacrifice of Abraham and Samson with the gates of Gaza . In the crown of the altar angels are depicted with the instruments of passion . Above the pages are pictures with the brazen serpent and the story of Jonas as well as four other figures. The conclusion is formed by a crucifixion group, which is crowned by the Salvator mundi .
The originally colored sandstone pulpit was made by Abraham Conrad Buchau in 1667 , it shows a seated figure of Moses as the carrier of the basket and a carved mercy seat on the sound cover. The pulpit stairway winds around the pillar like a snail. On the parapet of the basket there are niches depicting the great prophets between Corinthian columns ; the stair parapet is decorated with representations of the minor prophets .
A sacrament house made of Rochlitz porphyry tufa dates back to around 1450. It shows tendrils fanning out over a narrow foot with the niche above that is flanked by figures of prophets. A five-lane, staggered structure with pinnacles and angel figures in the lateral spandrels serves as the end. Five windows in the choir with stained glass were created in 1889 by Wenzel Schwarz and Bruno Urban.
The octagonal baptism made of sandstone from 1553 is set up in the tower hall and shows figures of children with christening gowns at the base and putti between tendrils on the cup . A large, expressive crucifix dates from around 1700. A built-in cupboard from the 15th century with fittings and various locking devices has also been preserved.
Friedrich Ladegast built the organ in 1880 with 39 registers on three manuals and pedal , but only the neo-Gothic case is preserved . The work was expanded to 72 registers by the company Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden and revised in 2009 by the company Eule Orgelbau .
Surroundings
The church stands on a fortified churchyard with numerous, partly multi-armed and interconnected underground storehouses with vaults or passages carved into the rock ( rock cellars ), which originally served to store grain and tools or as a place of refuge. They are accessible from the north and west sides of the churchyard and from the outside of the wall.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 694–697.
- Fritz Löffler : City churches in Saxony. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, p. 224.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the parish of Mittweida. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0.3 " N , 12 ° 58 ′ 53.4" E