Graefendorf village church (Krölpa)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Gräfendorf is located on Krölpaer Strasse in Gräfendorf , a district of the Krölpa municipality in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Gräfendorf belongs to the parish of granite in the church district Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The hall church was given its present shape in 1752. A small cartouche above the entrance door of the wall shows the year of construction 1752. The apse with its small windows in the east dates from the 12th / 13th. Century. From the slate-roofed mansard one rises in the east ridge turret which an eight- floor of the belfry and the tower clock has. It is covered with a hood on which an open lantern is enthroned . Two bronze bells hang in the belfry , both cast before the First World War . Next to it, on the right, is the old, no longer used clockwork on a small table .
The interior is covered with a wooden barrel vault. The two-story galleries surround the room. Their parapets are decorated with scrollwork and fittings . The old patronage box is located on the lower gallery in the west . Today it is used to store archive material . That is why their windows are now clad with wood. On the upper gallery is the organ . It has eight registers , divided into a manual and a pedal . It was built by Andreas Franke in 1750 and was last overhauled by Hartmut Schüßler in 1998.
The triumphal arch still shows the old fighters . A pulpit once stood on the outside of the triumphal arch, as evidenced by a walled opening on the inside on the east side. Today a pulpit altar from the middle of the 18th century stands in the middle of the arch. Its stone, polygonal basket, however, dates from the first half of the 17th century. The carved decoration, crucifixion on the front, flanked on the right and left by the coats of arms of those of Brandenstein and Watzdorf , comes from the Rococo period . The sound cover is painted with a dove of the Holy Spirit . A simple wooden baptismal font on balusters is from the late Baroque era. The ambo from 1801 complements the church furnishings . The church was renovated from 1828 to 1832.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gräfendorf village church on EKMD
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ^ Information on the Franke organ in Catharinau
- ↑ Information on Hartmut Schüßler
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 11 ° 31 ′ 48.1 ″ E