St. Christopher's Church (Saara)

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Christophoruskirche Saara
Ceiling and organ
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organ

The Protestant Christophoruskirche is a Romanesque, often rebuilt hall church in the Saara district of Nobitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of Ponitz-Saara in the Altenburger Land parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church is a station on the Lutherweg Thuringia .

History and architecture

Saara Church is a rectangular hall church with a gable roof and two ridge turrets . The clock face is attached to the smaller of the two roof turrets , on which you can read the motto instead of the twelve numbers : USE THE TIME . Two vestibules on the south and north sides from 1522 and 1687 open up the building. A sacristy is added to the east . Massive supporting pillars structure the surrounding walls.

The interior is closed off by a field ceiling from 1687 with a girder , which is supported by a strong wooden column. On each side there are five panels showing creation, the fall of man and eight scenes from the life and passion of Christ. There are also twelve medallions with emblematic representations. This ceiling design was created around 1700 and was restored in 1911.

Furnishing

The church interior is bordered on three sides by a gallery. A polygonal pulpit from 1664 with corner columns and the statues of Salvator Mundi and the Evangelists is attached to the east wall . The risen Christ is depicted above the stairway to the pulpit. A large handcrafted crucifix is ​​dated 1664. Three pastor portraits from the 17th and 18th centuries are beautifully framed. Baroque and classicist tombs have been preserved in the churchyard.

The organ with a splendid, fragmented front is originally a work by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost from 1750, of which the case is essentially still preserved. As early as 1788, the plant was rebuilt by Christian Gottlob and Gotthold Heinrich Donati . Further modifications were carried out by Friedrich Wilhelm Trampeli in 1828 , by Hermann Kopp in 1887 and by Heinrich Hegermann in 1911/1912, so that only rudiments of the original organ have been preserved.

literature

  • Handbook of German Art Monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 1065.

Web links

Commons : Christophoruskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the Christophoruskirche Saara on the pages of the Lutherweg Thuringia. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Felix Friedrich : The organ builder Heinrich Gottfried Trost. Life - work - performance. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-370-00287-6 , pp. 126–127.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0.7 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 13 ″  E