Fortified church Pomßen

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Fortified church Pomßen

The fortified church Pomßen ( ˈpɔmzn̩ ) is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Pomßen , a district of the Parthenstein municipality in the Saxon district of Leipzig . In it is Saxony's oldest playable organ, which Gottfried Richter (1640–1717) created.

history

Baptismal font, 15th century
The Pomßen Church around 1840

The oldest parts of the church, Romanesque capitals , apse and Romanesque windows, date from the 13th century. The breakthrough in the wall from the nave to the tower, the door arch made of Rochlitz porphyry and the font go back to the 15th century .

From 1536 to 1782 the Lords of Ponickau owned the Pomßen estate and castle. This also made them patron saints of the church. In their time, the church's current furnishings were essentially created. When the Lords of Ponickau took over the church, it was already Protestant; The first Protestant church visitation took place here in 1527 .

The Renaissance altar from 1560 from the Freiberg Sculpture School Andreas Lorenz is likely to have been the first major acquisition. After major damage to the church and the tower partially collapsed, a lengthy construction and furnishing phase began in 1660. In 1668 the gallery was built into the north wall. The coffered ceilings in the nave and choir as well as the pulpit were created, and in 1668 the angel's concert on the parapet of the organ gallery. The organ followed in 1671 and the ringing of bells in 1686. Construction work ended with the construction of the two-story patron s lodge with its own staircase in 1686.

On February 6, 1727, in the church in Pomßen, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) performed his cantata I won't let you, you bless me for the first time, which was later changed as BWV 157 to a cantata for the day of the Purification of the Virgin . The reason for the performance was a funeral service for the Pomßen landlord Johann Christoph von Ponickau (1652–1726), who died the previous year and who is said to have chosen the biblical passage for the cantata himself. In the second part of the service, Dearest God, will you forget me (BWV Anh. I 209).

Renovation work took place over the period from 1889 to 1934, including the uncovering of old wall paintings. In 1974 the outside of the church was renewed, and in the 1990s the works of art inside were restored.

architecture

Ground plan of the church (around 1900)
View from the east

The first thing you notice about the church is the massive transverse tower with a base area of ​​11.5 mx 6.5 m, which takes up the width of the main nave of the church and defines the character as a fortified church . Except for the arched sound windows in the bell chamber, it is almost without windows. On a slate-roofed hipped roof , a sitting ridge turret with a bell cap on. On the south side of the roof a small gable carries a clock face of the tower clock, while on the north side the face of the clock is attached to the wall at the level of the bell chamber.

The 11.5 m long main nave adjoining the tower is widened to the south beyond the width of the tower, creating a side aisle. Inside it is connected to the main nave via a large arch. The 6.5 m long choir follows the height of the main nave and is closed off by a semicircular apse with three arched windows. To the north of the apse there is a small stair tower that allows external access to the patron's box.

Furnishing

In contrast to the simple exterior, the church has a rich interior. The altar is made of color- setted sandstone . In the altarpiece divided by columns, he resembles a three-winged altar. The individual images depict the life and suffering of Jesus: the birth in the stable, his baptism, the imprisonment in Gethsemane, flagellation, crucifixion, descent from the cross, burial and resurrection. The donor family, Hans von Ponickau (1508–1573), with his wife, daughters and sons , is represented centrally .

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View from the gallery to the chancel with patronage box, altar, baptismal angel and pulpit
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From the choir to the nave with pulpit, balustrade, galleries, organ and coffered ceiling


The choir room is dominated on the north side by the stucco patronage box, opposite it hang elaborately designed epitaphs for the deceased of the Ponickau family. The flat ceiling of the choir is adorned with 20 coffers in which angels are depicted carrying the instruments of Christ's torture. From the ceiling of the choir, a large baroque baptismal angel floats on a rope , which earlier could be lowered for baptism. A barrier with strong balusters turned and carved from wood separates the choir from the nave.

Above this barrier on the column between the main and side aisles stands the white and gold pulpit on a carved angel . The evangelists , Paul , Joel and Jeremiah are depicted in their fields of view, and Aron and Moses on the pulpit door .

The main nave has a coffered ceiling with 56 fields. 53 of them bear allegorical representations of Old and New Testament figures from Adam to Christ and early church fathers in grisaille painting on a gold-ocher background. The side aisle has a wooden barrel vault and a gallery. Their fields and those of the two galleries in the main nave show floral ornaments in the technique of the ceiling cassettes.

A second gallery with the organ rises above the first on the west wall . Angels with contemporary musical instruments are depicted on their parapet in seven fields ( angel concert ). The double doors of the organ also show music-related images. The paintings on the coffered ceilings of the galleries and the organ form a design unit.

  • altar

  • Baptism angel

  • Patronage Lodge

  • pulpit

  • Main nave ceiling

  • Aisle

organ

Organ prospectus
Organ console

After the damage in 1661, Sophia von Ponickau commissioned Gottfried Richter , organ builder and later mayor of Döbeln in Saxony, to build the organ that has been preserved to this day . It was built in 1671. The one-manual work originally had twelve registers . In 1727 a pedal register was added, created by organ builder Johann George Gordt from Mittweida. In 1887 Gottfried Hildebrand from Leipzig expanded two registers and installed new keyboards . From 2004 to 2006 the Wegscheider organ workshop restored the instrument and restored it to its original condition.

When designing the five-part prospectus, Richter oriented himself towards the Renaissance style . The middle three long, embossed pipes have twisted feet and gold-plated labia , the upper and lower labia of the prospect pipes have keel arches . The side wing doors are painted using the grisaille technique. The original disposition is documented in the "Orgell-Sermon" on Palm Sunday 1671 by Pomßen's pastor Immanuel Weber. Manual and pedal units are each in their own case. Today's disposition of the organ is as follows:

I Manual CDEFGA – c 3
1. Coarse 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Put small 4 ′
4th Nassat 3 ′
5. Sesquialtera II
6th Octava 2 ′
7th Mixture III
8th. Cimbel doubled II
9. Trumpets 8th'
CDEFGA – c pedal 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Viola bass 8th'
Trumpets 16 ′
Cornets 2 ′

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d 2006 reconstructed
  2. ↑ since 2006 on a separate wind chest

The names and the writing of registers and playing aids (except viola bass) are taken from the organ consecration sermon of March 22, 1671 by the Pomßen pastor Immanuel Weber of 1671.

In 2007, recordings of Roland Börger's organ playing on the Richter organ, which was restored in 2006, were made and published on CD.

Bells

The oldest known and still existing bells dates back to 1686: the three bronze - church bells as a G minor bells created the bell-founder Johann Jakob Hoffmann from Halle. They all have his name or initials in their inscriptions. The large and medium bells had to be handed in during World War II . However, they escaped destruction and melting and in 1947 they were brought back to Pomßen from the Hamburg bell cemetery using the waterway across the Elbe . In 1984 the bell was electrified.

In 2014/2015, the steel bell chair from 1982, which had caused damage to the bells, was dismantled over several months and a new oak bell chair was built based on the historical model and using parts of the historic bell chair that were still there. During this time, the three bells were extensively renovated.

Parish

The Pomßen Church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Pomßen- Belgershain , which is administered by the Pomßen parish together with the Köhra parish.

External impact

Every year from May to December, the association for the maintenance and restoration of the Renaissance organ in the fortified church in Pomßen / Saxony eV organizes a concert with German and international organists. This also includes concerts by the European Organ Academy Leipzig , which the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig organized every two years and in 2017 for the sixth time.

On October 23, 2016, the radio stations MDR Kultur and Deutschlandfunk broadcast the service from the church as a direct broadcast , making the building, the organ and the parish known nationwide.

See also

"Picture churches":

literature

  • Klaus Günther: fortified church Pomssen. 2., verb. and exp. Edition. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2005, ISBN 3-930076-13-6 .
  • Christian Rietschel , Bernd Langhof: Village churches in Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, DNB 454044607 , pp. 38, 39, 79, 140. ( Dust jacket: Wehrkirche Pomßen)
  • G. Graf: The parish of Pomssen and Großsteinberg. In: New Saxon Church Gallery. Issue: The Ephorie Grimma on the left of the Mulde. Leipzig 1911, p. 654 ff. (Digitized version)
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Pomßen. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 20. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (2nd half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1898, p. 215.
  • Georg Eduard Schieck: Pomßen. In: Church Gallery of Saxony. Issue: The Inspections: Leipzig and Grimma. Dresden 1844, p. 193 ff. (Digitized version)
  • Klaus Gernhardt, Roland Börger (ed. On behalf of the Förderverein Renaissance-Orgel Pomßen eV): The organ in Pomssen - Festschrift for the re-consecration. Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-97-5 .

Web links

Commons : Wehrkirche Pomßen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pomßen. In: Schlossarchiv - Güterlexikon. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Guide to Bach Tour - Pomßen. In: Bach Cantatas website. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ The building history of the organ. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ The restoration of the organ in Pomßen. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Felix Friedrich, Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony - A Guide (=  257. publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). Kamprad, Altenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930550-89-0 , p. 51 .
  6. ^ Richter organ in the fortified church in Pomßen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 31, 2017 ; accessed on August 4, 2017 .
  7. ^ Organs in Saxony . Part 4: Richter organ in Pomssen . Altenburg (Leipzig) 2007, DNB  360227090 .
  8. ↑ Johann Jakob Hoffmann. (No longer available online.) In: Sachsen-Anhalt-Wiki. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachsen-anhalt-wiki.de
  9. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation. P. 220.
  10. ^ Pomßen fortified church. In: Pomßen parish. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The bell chair and peal in Pomßen are back in operation. (PDF) In: Official Gazette Parthenstein. July 2015, p. 10 , accessed August 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Pomßen Parish Office. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Events. In: The Renaissance organ in the fortified church in Pomßen. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
  14. ↑ European Organ Academy. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Divine service from the fortified church in Pomßen. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Congregational Letter December 2016 to February 2017, p. 3. (PDF) Retrieved on August 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 20.6 "  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 47"  E