Elleben village church
The Protestant village church in Elleben is a baroque hall church in Elleben in the Ilm district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Association Elxleben-Witzleben in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia .
History and architecture
The Elleben village church was built after 1729 in place of a previous building. The core of the drawn-in west tower dates from the 15th century and shows two quaternary openings on the west side . The upper floor of the tower is clad with slate and is crowned by a baroque dome with a lantern . The nave is provided with a corner cuboid, large rectangular windows and a mansard roof with dormers over a profiled eaves. A rectangular portal with a profiled wall is arranged on the north and south sides , above each a gable field with two volutes and a cartouche.
Furnishing
Inside, the tower ground floor is closed with a barrel vault , the nave with a double-broken wooden barrel vault. A double gallery extends around the inside; in the west there is an organ gallery, in the east patronage boxes with latticed decorative windows and an architecturally designed pulpit altar from around 1800. On the north-east wall of the choir there is a sacrament niche in the rich forms of the late 15th century.
According to the inscription, a winged altar dates from 1498 and was created by Valentin Lendenstreich's workshop in Saalfeld . In the raised central part of the shrine it shows a radiant Madonna flanked by Saints George and Laurentius . All figures stand on plinths under richly carved veil boards. The wings are decorated with painted depictions of Saints Margarethe and Urban (left) as well as Fabian and Sebastian (right) on a punched gold background . The outer sides of the wings show Saint Christopher and a bishop on the left and Saints George and Erasmus on the right . Further figures from an altar that has not survived are attached to the gallery pillars.
The organ is a work by Johann Stephan Schmaltz from 1768 with 24 stops on two manuals and pedal . It was rebuilt in 1857 by August Witzmann .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 277.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '45 " N , 11 ° 5' 32" E