Zelle Abbey
Klösterlein cell is a former Augustinian Canons Monastery in Auer cell district in Saxony.
History
Near the confluence of the Mulde and black water in the western Erzgebirge settled in the second half of the 12th century Augustinian Canons down. On May 7, 1173 authenticated Emperor Frederick I in the imperial city of Goslar at the request of Margrave Otto of Meissen, Meinhers I of Advertisement and Dudos of Meineweh the establishment of Augustinian Canons at the trough in the diocese of Naumburg ( Cellam [ ... ] iuxta Fluvium Mulda ). The small monastery was dedicated to St. Andrew, and of the Holy Trinity and received the abandoned Otto and Meinher 60 Neubrüche in Pleissenland and the hallways of the hotel on the right bank of depression later village cell as a founding facilities.
Because it does not also came across humble beginnings, the monastery was usually called " little monastery ". After the founding of the monastery Gruenhain 1230 it entered more into the background. In the German Peasants' War it was looted in 1525 and then disbanded in 1527 during the Reformation and sold for 800 guilders to the Saxon Elector. Since then it has been used as a manor. A development association established in 1994 has preservation and restoration of the monastery church set itself the task.
The small monastery was the starting point for the colonization and the spiritual life in the surrounding area. Soon after the establishment of the monastery arose the first houses of the later settlements cell and floodplain. For centuries, the Zeller monks were responsible for the religious services in Schlema, Aue, Bockau and Lauter. After the dissolution of the monastery, the monastery church with parishioners villages and cell Niederschlema and the newly created manor 1533 Branch Church of Oberschlema was. After 324 years this daughter relationship was dissolved in 1857 and a new one entered into with the parish floodplain. By the second half of the 19th century, the sharp rise in population resulted in cell of the desire to become an independent parish. On the first Sunday of Advent in 1879, the first Lutheran pastor of Klösterlein cell was inaugurated. After cell was incorporated in 1897 to Aue and the population rose sharply again, the former monastery church was too small. In 1914, the newly built Church of Peace was inaugurated, it lost its function as Zeller parish church and has since been used as a burial chapel.
Abbey
The former monastery church was repeatedly remodeled, and is the only surviving monastic buildings. It was originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Today it is used by the Evangelical-Lutheran parish Aue- cell for church services, funerals and concerts.
Architectural History
The church replaced an earlier building made of wood and was used as a parish church in the municipality of cell since the dissolution of the monastery. The building received its present appearance after an extensive renovation in 1758, when it was extended and increased. The church was restored in 1900 to more than once and has been used since it was replaced by the new Zeller Church of Peace in 1914 as a burial church. 1948 Parentationshalle established under the organ loft. 1998 roof, skylights and belfry were completely renovated. The new weather vane is called SOLI DEO GLORIA 1998 / 1173 *. After the reconstruction of all doors and windows 1999, the facade was renovated from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to 2004 the interior was thoroughly overhauled. From 2005 to 2006 organ and chandeliers were overhauled.
Architecture and Facilities
The stucco building with straight Ostschluss is covered with a hipped roof. The roof turret has a baroque dome. The wooden ceiling inside is flat. There are galleries on three sides. The east wall is provided with a niche that is laterally painted with probably late Roman figures, and remains of wall paintings. A potentially Romanesque Host cabinet is painted with a checkerboard pattern. There is a Baroque Patronatsloge on the north side. The richly profiled sill is provided with twelve painted scenes from the life of Christ. Altar and pulpit carved from the 2nd half of the 17th century were joined together in the 19th century to a pulpit altar. The pulpit is decorated with relief figures of Christ and the evangelists. The crowned with the Redeemer sounding board are carved figures of angels. The panel pictures are provided laterally with scenes from the Passion story. In place of the pulpit hung earlier than originally believed to be the great Crucifixion painting on the back of the pulpit altar.
Before the altar are two oval studded with spikes jewelry marble grave slabs for the lords of the manor Carl Erdmann von Brandenstein and his wife from the 1820s. Northeast under the choir is the entrance to a full painted tomb from the 18th century. There is an angel figure, over a cup side draperies at the narrow end to the north.
The small 14 - registrige organ by Johann Gotthilf Bärmig ( 1814-1899 ) was initially built in the old Auer Nikolai Church and was sold before its demolition in 1895 by the cell.
Shine Ritz paintings
1881 laid restorers at a plaster renovation on the east wall of the church a colored sgraffito -like plaster painting Ritz -free, which today is one of the oldest and most precious works of art Saxony. It is (probably) Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, Mary with the Child Jesus and a bishop with a halo represents and is dated to the year 1230. As part of the dissolution of the monastery, the 2.23 m high and 2.15 m wide painting had been plastered over and remained thus for posterity. For restoration purposes and the use of local historian Siegfried Sieber it was removed in 1934 and restored in Dresden.
Except for a swap in the Second World War, the painting was exhibited from 1937 to 1967 in Aue Municipal Museum and was on view since its dissolution in the St. Anne's Chapel of Freiberg Cathedral. From about 2007 to 2011 there was the original in Altzella monastery. In 2011, the picture in the National Exhibition of Saxony- Anhalt was seen Naumburg Master. After the Saxon government decided a monument dishes restoration, with which in 2012 involved a study group of the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 2013, the Sgrafffitobild in the Zeller church is a place of honor in the interior. The little monastery is equipped for this purpose with an alarm system and automatic climate control. A Heinz Beck 1967 copy made is on display in the vestibule of the Church of Peace ( Aue- cell).
Outside
The chapel is surrounded by a cemetery which extends in a northerly direction. Is the grave of Carl Erdmann Kircheis On the west side of the plant. In the burying place for the manor Klösterlein on the east side whose son and successor, Wilhelm Röll and his wife Pauline are buried among others.
Manor Klösterlein
Today's office and commercial building at the station 11 emerged from the Barbican of 1527 resolved the monastery. This prestigious mansion was rebuilt after a fire in 1816 by Johann Traugott Lohse again. The two-story stucco building has a high hipped mansard roof and standing round-arched windows. The facade is divided strictly symmetrical and was originally equipped with two segmental arched portals, of which the right was added. The strong masonry and the irregular arch of the back rooms on the ground floor and the zweijochige groin vault in the basement probably originate from the predecessor. The stucco ceilings upstairs are obtained from the time of its construction.