Braunsdorf village church
The listed village church of Braunsdorf is located in the Braunsdorf district of the city of Saalfeld / Saale in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .
history
On July 4, 1802, the previous church, a half-timbered building , burned down completely. The fire spread across the entire village. The sermon on fire was delivered on July 11, 1802. After the fire ruin had been removed, the foundation stone was laid for the new church building on March 9th, which ended in 1845 with a sermon on the completion of the construction.
description
The Braunsdorfer Church is the largest worship place in the area of Dittrichshütte , Birkenheide , Dittersdorf and Burkersdorf . With two galleries it offers space for 500 people.
The white-gray-gold color scheme is in the Louis Empire style . Altar , pulpit and organ form a design unit. The organ is an almost original preserved instrument by the Unterwirbacher organ builder Johann Michael Georgi from 1812 with 2 manuals and 1 pedal.
Between 1979 and 1989 the church was saved from deterioration through many work assignments. In 2000 the 36 meter high church tower received its dome . It was crowned with the weather vane and the Schwarzburgisch-Rudolstadt insignia of comb and fork .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Information on the organ. In: orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 12, 2020 (German, Dutch).
- ^ The church at www.kirchenkreis-rudolstadt-saalfeld.de ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 15, 2013.
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '15 " N , 11 ° 15' 23.7" E