St. Matthew (Coburg-Neuses)
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Matthew is in the Coburg district of Neuses , Friedrich-Rückert-Straße 17.
history
A church in Neuses is documented on June 15, 1412. It was a branch of the original parish of Meeder and the seat of a chaplain . After the Reformation in the Coburg region, Neuses became an independent parish in 1535 during the second visitation .
A new church wall around the cemetery and a renovation of the church tower in 1775 are documented among other building measures. An extensive renovation with a church extension took place from 1784 to 1786. A hall church was built in the margrave style . For this purpose, the nave was raised, a flat ceiling was drawn in, new windows were installed and the pulpit was arranged on the southern triumphal arch pillar. In addition, the interior was supplemented by new pews and the diamond-shaped wreath coat of arms of Duke Ernst Friedrich on the ceiling. A new organ was also installed. As part of a renovation, the choir arch was bricked up in 1964 and the pulpit was rearranged in the middle of the wall above the front altar.
Church building
A striking feature of the church building is the church tower on the east side, which originally dates from the 13th or 14th century. Above, the tower a Verschieferung and narrow window slots, as well as an octagonal central helmet with roof bay windows at the four sides of the tower. At the bottom there are larger rectangular altar windows, behind that is the 4.7 meter long and 4.4 meter wide choir with a ribbed vault . The former chancel has been a sacristy since 1964.
The nave is 14 meters long and 8.6 meters wide. The three nave sides are characterized by centrally arranged entrances, flanked on both sides by floor-to-ceiling segmented arched windows. The southern main portal is richly decorated with a round arch on pillars, framed by Ionic pilasters with entablature and is adorned with a blown flat arched gable with the ducal coat of arms. The door on the west side is accessed by a two-armed platform staircase. The interior of the church is designed as a three-axis hall church with a flat ceiling and a circumferential two-storey gallery with single-paneled parapets. The only decoration are the crest cartouches in the ceiling mirror. The four principal pieces pulpit, altar, baptismal font and organ have been in one axis since the last redesign. The tomb of Friedrich Rückert and his wife Luise is located in the church's former cemetery . The remaining four-pillar arbor with a pyramid roof served as a morgue.
Two chalices from before 1500 and from 1699 are among the special art objects of the church.
organ
The first organ was built around 1682. It was replaced in 1836 by a new building by the Neustadt organ builder Hofmann for 1090 guilders. In 1927 the Lichtenfels workshop in Dietmann delivered a new, two-manual work with a pneumatic pocket drawer . Since the pneumatic shutters did not prove themselves, a major renovation was carried out 30 years later by the organ builder Hoffmann from Ostheim vor der Rhön . Among other things, the cone shop was installed and the disposition changed. The organ has two manuals , a pedal and 14 registers . In the five-part housing, three round towers alternate with narrow flat fields.
local community
In addition to Neuses, Beiersdorf , Bertelsdorf and Glend also belong to the area of the parish . Since 1970 it has been called St. Matthew after the Evangelist. In 1984 there were 2240 parishioners, in 2012 there were around 2200 and 2019 fewer than 2000. The parish runs two day-care centers in Coburg ( Falkenegg Castle and Beiersdorf ) and a cemetery in Goldbergstrasse in the Coburg district of Neuses.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
- Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 .
- Willi Bremer: Neuses - St. Matthew . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region , published with a working group of the deanery by Eckart Kollmer, Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaus: Old Orgeln im Coburg Land, Part III. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1972, p. 91f
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 30.6 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E