Graitschen village church
The village church Graitschen is located in the community of Graitschen near Bürgel in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish in Burgel Kirchenkreis Eisenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
location
The church is located in the center of the Gleisetal , where the trade route once led from Frankfurt am Main via Erfurt to the Gleisefurt near Bürgel to Leipzig and Altenburg . The church with its tower construction is unique in the Saale-Holzland district.
history
The church in Graitschen is a large hall church with a choir and west tower . At the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century, a new building was started. This new building was discontinued with the completion of the choir and united with the previous ship . In 1911 this ship was dismantled and rebuilt in a factual form using the old material.
Inner ship and special features
The simple interior features three-sided galleries , a protruding patronage box on the north side of the choir and the pulpit from 1663 on the south side of the triumphal arch . The font dates from the 16th century. A small bell , cast around 1100, has been in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1888 .
A stone relief on the south side of the church tower indicates the cultic function of the old Gleisberg.
There are some epitaphs and tombs in the cemetery .
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Köhler: Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia , Jenzig-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 161
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '39.7 " N , 11 ° 43' 8.4" E