Kaltenlengsfeld village church

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Kaltenlengsfeld village church
inside view

The Protestant village church Kaltenlengsfeld (also: Zur Ruhe Gottes ) is a baroque choir tower church with older parts in the Kaltenlengsfeld district of Kaltennordheim in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish area Friemelshausen-Oepfershausen in the parish of Meiningen of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

History and description of the building

The basement tower of the church dates from around 1500, the upper floor with a Welscher hood was built at the beginning of the 17th century. The structure was restored in 1993.

The interior has been preserved in an impressive cohesion. The nave is closed with a wooden ribbed vault , the arches of which are painted with depictions of the Lamentation, the Resurrection of Christ and the Evangelists, and the caps with depictions of the Nativity and the Trinity. In the double galleries there is an extensive cycle with representations from the Old Testament, half-length portraits of the apostles, Stephen and Christ as well as with texts and the year 1721. The organ gallery and a rustically painted three-sided box are built into the choir tower with ribbed vaults. On the gallery column above the altar there is a depiction of the crucified, framed by a column architecture, probably from the 18th century.

A painted reading pulpit is also part of the furnishings, as is the pulpit with a coat of arms and tendrils, which is extended towards the wall and is carried by a life-size wooden figure of John the Evangelist and bears the signature of Andreas Kümpel and the year 1730. Christ is depicted as Salvator mundi on the sound cover . The font dates from around 1730, a Thanksgiving tablet from 1817.

organ

The organ is a work by Johann Caspar Rommel from 1755 with 22 stops on two manuals and pedal . The original condition of the organ still exists in large parts and was restored to the presumed original condition or reconstructed (reference instruments by Rommel can be found in Wohlmuthausen , Herpf and Geba , for example ). A special feature of this instrument is that the organ system is located in a tower room and on a gallery above the main altar, with the Rückpositiv with the associated manual being built into the much older gallery parapet. For six years the organ was renovated by Orgelbau Waltershausen for a total of 145,000 euros and re-inaugurated on May 7, 2006. The restoration was funded by the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The disposition is:

I main work C – c 3
Quintathön 16 ′
Principal 8th' 2006
Coarse 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th' 2006
Spitz floit 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Sesquialter 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture IV 1758/2006
Trumpet 8th' 2006
II Rückpositiv C – c 3
Floit Travers 8th'
Quintathön 8th' 2006
Principal 4 ′ 2006
Night horn 4 ′
Smalled up 4 ′
Flachenet 2 ′
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Mixture III
Pedal C – c 1
Violon bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′ 2006

Couple:.

literature

  • Handbook of German Art Monuments. Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 680.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Kaltenlengsfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Information on restoration on the website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 35.4 ″  E