Weber Church Zittau

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Weber Church Zittau
South view
Tomb in the cemetery

The Protestant Weber Church Zittau (also Trinity Church ) is a Gothic hall church in Zittau in the district of Görlitz in Saxony . It belongs to the Zittau parish in the Löbau-Zittau church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .

History and architecture

The church, located on the outskirts of the city near the city wall, was built in the years 1488–1518 as an elongated Gothic hall church with a three-sided closed choir on a defensive tower. In the years 1616–1620 the church received new fittings, another renovation took place between 1713 and 1718. In 1889, the architect Hugo Müller changed the windows, bricked up doors and built in galleries. At the same time, the crypt under the church interior was converted into a sacristy .

The roof was repaired and the sponge was refurbished with ERDF funds after 2010.

The church is a plastered quarry stone building with buttresses. The west side has a semicircular, convex finish, which was probably chosen for fortification reasons. The hipped roof has a slender ridge turret from 1659. On the north and south sides are polygonal stair towers, on the north wall between the eastern buttresses there is a staircase. A neo-Gothic portal is arranged on the west side .

Peal

The ringing consists of a bronze bell, the belfry is made of oak, as are the yokes. The following is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1493 Bell foundry P. Ponhut 635 mm 150 kg d ″

Furnishing

The simple hall with a wooden beam ceiling was shaped by the redesign in 1889. There are single galleries on the north and south sides and double galleries on the west wall. Behind the neo-Gothic altar, a spiral staircase leads to the sacristy. An organ from the Leopold Kohl company was built in 1864 and changed several times afterwards. The bronze bell from 1493 hanging in the roof turret is the oldest bell in Zittau.

Surroundings

The church is surrounded by a cemetery on which several historically and artistically important grave monuments have been preserved. Particularly noteworthy is the grave monument of Tobias and Anna Dorothea Horn with a plate and relief on both sides from the beginning of the 18th century, showing the resurrection on the front and Christ in glory on the back. Furthermore, there is the tomb for Christian Gottlob Brandt from 1716 with an angel figure on an ornate base holding two writing cartouches and two medallions with the corpse text. On the east and west walls, several family tombs in an artistically valuable design from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in blind arcades.

literature

Web links

Commons : Weberkirche Zittau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information about the history on the website of the parish. Retrieved October 31, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 372
  3. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 372

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '52.2 "  N , 14 ° 48' 4.3"  E