Gelmeroda village church

Gelmeroda village church from the perspective chosen by Lyonel Feininger

Gelmeroda Church

The Gelmeroda village church is in the Gelmeroda district of the city of Weimar in Thuringia and belongs to the Buchfart-Legefeld parish association in the Weimar parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

location

The church is located south of the village and north of the junction of the federal highway 4 to the federal highway 85 . It lies on an elevated level rising to the south, like the village in the arable farming area around Weimar.

history

The church as part of the light sculpture

At the beginning of the 13th century the oldest part of the choir tower church was built. A few years later the choir was expanded to the east. There are remains of the medieval Secco painting . The nave is in the 14/15. Built in the 17th century and later rebuilt. During the GDR era, the church was left to decay. Citizens of the village and the surrounding area became active as members of an association and saved the building from deterioration. After extensive renovation, the church was consecrated again in 1991 and in 1994 was the first church in what was then the new federal states to receive the status of a motorway church .

In 1999 a second bell could be purchased: It was designed by master bell founders Peter Schilling (1930–2001) and Margarete Schilling ; the artist and bell designer Horst Jahresling created the bell jewelry for this last bell of the Schilling bell-founding dynasty from Apolda . It was cast as a major public event on the market in Weimar by the Rudolf Perner bell foundry from Passau . - Also in 1999, Klaus Kopetzki installed the small organ from Steinheim an der Murr on loan on the gallery . On the occasion of Weimar's appointment as European Capital of Culture in 1999, the Gelmeroda light sculpture was installed around the church .

Every year around 10,000 guests visit the church.

Bells

photo	Foundry / casting location	Font type	year	Ø (mm)	Weight (kg)	Nominal	Bell decorations and inscriptions	Bell story
	Carl Friedrich Ulrich (Apolda)	bronze	1864	728	260	c sharp2	Neck frieze of hanging acanthus palmettes Shoulder decorative band of geometric band frieze with repeating motifs of parallel lying palm leaves on a diamond base [bordered by two bands that cross at regular intervals to form a wattle halfway up the frieze]; wide ribbon; A twisted ribbon frieze modeled on a cross-arch frieze made of pointed arch-shaped ribbon windings, each with three tassels at the ribbon tips and curved ends that combine to form loops with small standing palmettes on these ribbon loops flank / ES BLESS US GOD, OUR GOD ◊ // AND ALL THE WORLD FUERCHTE THE LORD // CAST OF CFULRICH // IN APOLDA 1864 / edge (other side) / EHRE God in the HOEHE./ Wolm wild berry Fries impact between two round tire Fries, so-called. "running dog", the rounded variant of a meander with portions of the wave-shaped sheets by stylize Leaves are replaced and additionally enclosed flowers decorate the circular ends of the individual arches	1613 bronze bell Hieronymus Möhring [k]; 1743 Palm Sunday shattered; 1743 bronze bell Johann Christoph Rose (Apolda); Available at Lehfeld in 1893 ; Loss (?); 1927 bronze bell Franz Schilling Sons (Apolda) No. 10590; 1942 loss; Allocated from Bell Fund in 1950
	Karlsruher Glocken- und Kunstgießerei GmbH & Co. KG cast on Weimar market square	bronze	1999	621	162	dis2	designed by Horst Jahresling ; Shoulder / Land, Land, Land, Hear the Lord's Word! / Flank Christ Sign / Cast AD 1999 / / WEIMAR // CITY OF CULTURE // EUROPAS / Wolm / Gießerzeichen / [Cross on three coats of arms] Karlsruhe bell foundry	1630 bronze bell Johannes Berger (Weimar); 1832 [Lehfeld] / 1864 bronze bell; Loss of World War I ; 1931 bronze bell Franz Schilling Sons (Apolda); Taken down and melted down in 1942 ; Cast on the Weimar market square in 1999

Feininger Church

The shape of the tower inspired the German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and, like a leitmotif, pervades all of Feininger's creative periods. His paintings became world famous. Therefore the church is nicknamed the Feininger Church .

Web links

Commons : Gelmeroda village church - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Gelmeroda motorway church
Gelmeroda Church - Motorway Church (“Feininger Church”). Data & facts. Description. In: kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Evangelical Lutheran Church District Weimar, accessed on June 21, 2019 (history).

Individual evidence

↑ Gelmeroda Church - Autobahn Church ("Feininger Church"). Data & facts. Description. In: kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Evangelical Lutheran Church District Weimar, accessed on June 21, 2019 (history).

50.949262 11.300415Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 57.3 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 1.5 ″ E

[1] Gelmeroda Church - Autobahn Church ("Feininger Church"). Data & facts. Description. In: kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Evangelical Lutheran Church District Weimar, accessed on June 21, 2019 (history).