Wenceslas Church (Schrebitz)

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Northeast side of the Schrebitz Church (2010)

The Schrebitz Wenceslas Church is a late Gothic single-nave hall church in Schrebitz from the first half of the 16th century.

Building description

Side view with modified tower after 1980
Layout
cross-section

The church is an elongated, plastered building made of quarry stone with a choir closure and buttresses from the years 1500 to 1520, which was subsequently lengthened by a yoke. The stone used was Rochlitz porphyry , which at the time it was made was brick to English red with black lines towards the cap. The originally Gothic tracery and a buttress in the south are missing. The ribs, consisting of two grooves on each side, form a reticulated vault, similar to the Marienkirche in Torgau and have ribs with multiple penetrations and noses on the southern choir pillar. The entrance hall can also be classified in the construction period around 1520. The Gothic west door, which was built before this construction period, was moved into the tower as access to the attic. The high west tower has an octagonal bell storey and a curved dome.

Furnishing

The bell mechanism consists of two iron bells, the middle bell - 57 cm wide and 49 cm high - bears the inscription: "... in the month of October 1745". The tower clock from 1745 comes from master watchmaker Finsterbusch from Döbeln, the old clockwork is still preserved in the attic, it was replaced by a modern drive.

Interior view looking west
Art Nouveau altar

In the choir there are stained glass windows with vine tendrils and vines, as well as to the side of the altar with the depiction of the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ by Bruno Urban from 1910. The names of the donors, including Clara Uhlemann , are recorded in the windows . The altar is a work of Art Nouveau .

The crucifix is 155 cm long, rough work from the construction phase of the 16th century, the body fell off during a planned implementation, was not reassembled and is in need of repair. The baptismal font made of chased copper has a diameter of 55 cm and is decorated with flower tendrils, in the middle with the Annunciation in Kufic script . It dates from the 16th century.

The baroque gallery dates from 1744. The parapet is painted with floral motifs. On the north wall, above two coats of arms, there is a Gothic sacrament house made of Rochlitz porphyry with a wrought iron grille, above tracery . The sacrament house comes from Rittmitz near Ostrau from the church that was abandoned around 1970.

organ

The organ was built in 1756 by master organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel (1697–1777) from Pausitz in the baroque style. The work was changed by Hermann Eule (1872–1929). This organ was destroyed due to structural damage in the 1970s, the prospectus could be preserved. With great effort, the parish succeeded in acquiring a replacement organ from the St. Trinitatis burial chapel in Dresden in the 1980s.

Building history

Reticulated vault

There are no visible findings of the Romanesque predecessor building, the Schrebitz original church, it is presumably located under today's church. This is supported by the shape of the ring that is still visible today . A clarifying excavation is impossible due to its use as a cemetery.

The sacred building visible today dates from the years 1500–1520. The entrance hall south of the second yoke (counted from the west) was also built at this time. A new bell tower was built from October 1, 1744 to September 7, 1745; the old tower collapsed in a storm in 1718. In the same year the stalls were renewed and four prayer rooms were created in the northern extension, where the sacristy , bahrenhaus and morgue were once located.

In 1886 the tiled roof was replaced by a slate roof. In 1910 the interior was redesigned in Art Nouveau style by the church painter Richard Schultz, the second gallery was removed, the organ was installed in the west of the church, the pulpit altar was dismantled and brightly colored church windows were inserted. During the First World War, the church lost two of its bronze bells for armament purposes. The lantern of the tower was removed in 1965 and it received its striking appearance of a spiked hood . From April 1, 1978, the building damage caused by penetrating moisture was removed in private initiatives of the citizens and a weekend brigade. Despite the enormous GDR supply bottlenecks, the slate roof was renewed. In 2003 the facade, the roof and the exterior color scheme were renewed.

Parochial history

Until the Reformation, the localities of the Parish Schrebitz were under the jurisdiction of the provost of Seusslitz Monastery . Seusslitz also exercised the patronage rights over Schrebitz. Through the secularization of Seusslitz in 1539, Schrebitz came to the Meißen consistory and in 1540 to the superintendent of Oschatz. In 1543 the Meißen Afra Monastery became the Princely School of Meißen. From 1546 the Bailiwick of Schrebitz had to pay its taxes and interest to the education authority of this princely school. In 1560 a parish apartment was set up in Kroppach and from then on it always belonged to the Schrebitz pastor as a parish.

In 1611 the sixth Protestant pastor died of the plague. In 1804 the entire church treasury with important documents and 200 thalers was stolen. The theft was never solved. The Evangelical Lutheran parish today belongs to the church district Leisnig-Oschatz and to the parish Ablaß mit Ablaß, Börtewitz, Gallschütz, Kiebitz, Rittmitz and Sornzig.

Namesake

The church is dedicated to St. Wenceslaus , a Bohemian martyr. The construction time was during the Reformation , in 1517 Martin Luther hammered his 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg and the Reformation, which unfolded fully in 1520, also had an impact on the newly built Catholic church and the parish of Schrebitz. The people were confused about the strength of their faith. They surely remembered the Hussite armies they had just overcome and marauding through the surrounding area, who had depicted a Wenzel on their shields under the cup of communion and who sang a Wenzel song as a battle song. There are references in the literature that the namesake already stood for the previous building.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Seifert: Stone treasures in the village church in Schrebitz. In: Monuments in the Döbeln district. Issue 1, Verlag Beier and Beran, Dresden 1998, p. 8.
  2. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 905.
  3. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Schrebitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 28th booklet: Oschatz Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1905, pp. 273-274.
  4. ^ Gerhard Billig : The Burgward organization in the Upper Saxon-Meissnian area. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-326-00489-3 , p. 65.
  5. ↑ Stone in the tower with the following inscription: October 1st, Ao. CMR MDCCXLIV the foundation stone for this tower was laid when Dr. Johann David Streihbach - Supr. zu Oschatz, Mr. Abraham Walter - school administrator in Meißen, Mr. M. Johann Ehrenfried Ernesti - pastor here, Abraham Wolf von Döhlen and Andreas Lommatzsch zu Schrebitz were building supervisors. AO MDCCXLVII this construction and repair of the church was brought to an end under God's blessing and the end of the Prussian invasion.
  6. ↑ Mügeln's court book. Schrebitz 1654.Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig, No. 200.
  7. ↑ Saxony's Church Gallery. Fifth volume. Verlag von Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1840, p. 83. Saxon State and University Library online: "The inspections: Nossen, Leisnig, Döbeln and Wurzen"
  8. ^ A b c Deacon Thomas Franke: Church in Schrebitz. In: Gemeindeverwaltung Schrebitz (ed.): Schrebitz in Saxony. School and home festival. 1992. Schrebitz 1992, p. 13.
  9. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony II. Administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, 1998, p. 903.
  10. ^ Karl von Weber : Archives for the Saxon history. Tauchnitz publishing house, 1663, p. 78.
  11. ↑ a b To the church in Schrebitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 10th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1823, p. 688.
  12. ↑ Ralph Gundram: Chub and the Hussites. The Hussite campaign of 1429/30 between Elbe and Mulde in legend and reality. In: The Heimatbote Central Saxony. Oschatz, 2007.
  13. ^ Wenceslas (Wenceslaus, Václav). In: Joachim Schäfer: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon.
  14. ^ Mügeln court book. 1654, No. 200, Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Leipzig: "The local church was called the St Hencels Church in papacy ..."

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 15.3 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 10.4"  E