Hohengandern village church
The Catholic village church of St. Bartholomew is in the municipality of Hohengandern in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia . It is a branch church of St. Matthew in Arenshausen and belongs to the diocese of Erfurt .
The square quarry stone building of the tower with the slated Welsch hood comes from a previous building and dates back to 1597. The unplastered ashlar structure of the wide nave was built in late Classicist forms in 1850–1857. The windows are arched. There is a portal each on the north and south sides .
The nave
Columns divide the ship into three parts. The flat ceiling is coffered . Ribbed vaults are in the tower and groin vaults in the choir . The church has stained glass windows that were painted with historical scenes by the Düsseldorf court glass painter Carl Hertel in 1907 and 1913.
Inside there are three altars: the main altar has taken over an essay from St. Martin's Church in Heiligenstadt. There it was used to take the famous image of Mary "Maria vom Elende", which was brought to St. Mary's Church in Heiligenstadt. Today the niche contains a crucifixion group. The rich rococo carving by the sculptor Edmund Rickmann was documented in the sixties or seventies of the 18th century. The side altars were built in the form of the high altar after renovations in 1906/07. On the left: Merien Altar with statue of the Virgin, donated by the Youth Association and Girls Association in 1861. Opposite are St. Agnes and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. On the right side: St. Joseph Altar, opposite St. Aloysius and St. Alphons.
The pulpit on the south wall bears fine plastic symbols of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Lucas and John. The sculpture of St. Peter sits enthroned on the crown-shaped sound cover.
The organ was built in 1897 by the organ builder Otto Petersilie from Langensalza . The technical construction of the wind chest is based on the cone chest system, the cone valves of which are operated by pneumatically controlled wooden shafts. This instrument represents the transition from the mechanical to the purely pneumatic action. As a result of a far-reaching renovation in 1938 by the Alban Späth company from Fulda, the console and parts of the pipework and the action are no longer original. In 2007 a general renovation was carried out by Johannes Motz Orgelbau.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Lieselotte Swietek: village churches in Thuringia , Thuringia publishing house, 1990, ISBN 3-86087-014-9 , pages 50/51
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 20 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 45 ″ E