Hohendorf village church (Bürgel)

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Hohendorf village church, view from the west

The village church of St. Michael Hohendorf is in the Hohendorf district of the city of 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 on a hill in the northeast of this small town.

history

In the 13th century it was built as a choir tower church . The tower is a recessed square building with an apse and Romanesque triumphal arch . The apse is already Gothic .

description

The exterior was remodeled in the 17th and 18th centuries. The tower was then built octagonal at the top.

Organ of the village church in Hohendorf (Luis Poppe 1844)

The nave has three-sided galleries with choir and cross vaults and a built-in apse as a sacristy .

organ

The church has a romantic organ from the Altenburg organ builder Luis Poppe from 1844, which has been playable again since around 2013, with two manuals and pedal with the following disposition :

I main work C – d 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Viola di Gamb. 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Oberwerk C – d 3
Quintatön 8th'
Flaut d'Amour 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Smalled up 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Cornett III
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Trombones bass 16 ′

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 42.56 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 20.91"  E