Baroque church Steinbach
The baroque church Steinbach is at Kirchweg 4 in Steinbach , a district of Bad Liebenstein in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
history
A first wooden chapel was built in 1425. It was replaced in 1709 by a massive new building, which was inaugurated in 1711 and received an organ in 1722. The building was destroyed in a major fire in 1733.
The church, which still exists today, was built in 1736. The wooden baptismal font dates from 1746. In 1753 the interior was painted in rococo style by the local painter Michael Ley . In 1757 the sound cover and pulpit were installed and in 1794 the church tower received its tower clock . The tower ball was renewed in 1878. In 1921 the church received three steel bells after the bronze bells had to be delivered for armaments purposes during the First World War .
From 1967 to 1973 the building was extensively renovated. The floor and benches were renewed, the doorways on the north wall of the church to the patron s lodge were bricked up, the altar was redesigned and the clock tower was repaired. In 1983 the interior was renovated, and in 1986 the tower and tower followed.
In 1996 the church received a new clock, a year later a two-manual, digital Ahlborn organ was installed . In 2010 the roof was re-covered and the windows were renewed in 2010/11.
Building description
The 1709 built and after the fire of 1736, rebuilt hall church is a plastered masonry with 5 Jochen . The high rectangular windows are divided into three parts, each with an oculus . From the gabled roof of the nave a growing verschieferter roof tower out of a Welsh hood carries. The portal in the south is marked with the year 1710.
The interior has a flat ceiling with coves . The large picture fields are surrounded by wide, ornamentally painted frames. The double coves and the fields of the two-storey galleries are painted with biblical scenes. The patron's box is located on the north gallery . The organ gallery has a parapet made of balusters .
Furnishing
The furnishings come from the time it was built. The back wall of the pulpit altar with slug panes separates the sacristy . The sound cover is decorated with large volutes and putti . The baptismal font is shaped like a chalice . The organ with 18 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built by Johann Jacob Möller from Meiningen in 1745. It was replaced by a two-manual Ahlborn organ after baroque model intoned and has a pedal.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 5.4 " N , 10 ° 21 ′ 54.3" E