Kleinlöbichau village church

The church

The village church of Kleinlöbichau is located in the Kleinlöbichau district of the Großlöbichau community in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia .

location

The village church is located in the village and at the Gottesacker , around the cemetery and church are the houses and courtyards.

history

In 1675 the village church was built, consecrated and handed over to the parish within a few months. With the church, Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Jena, on the occasion of the birth of his successor Johann Wilhelm, redeemed his vow to found a church if a male heir was born to him. According to another tradition, the consistory, a body for the administration of the churches, is said to have imposed the church foundation on him as a punishment for his polygamy. It is the only new church to be built during the short period of the Duchy of Saxony-Jena between 1672 and 1690. Demolition stones from buildings of the Thalbürgel Abbey were used as building material .

The historian and local researcher Ottogerd Mühlmann writes about the church in Kleinlöbichau:

“The history of its origins has made the church considerably more important. It was built in a short time in 1675 from the stones of the neighboring, decaying Thalbürgel Abbey, donated by Bernhard, the only Duke of the Saxony-Jena line, in whose presence it was inaugurated. The village received its little church as a gift from a duke, who, however, only had to fulfill a vow with his deed, which he had probably made in connection with an admonition issued by the consistory, because of family events, "the one that went on up to now, cordially to repent, to do true repentance and to seek God out "."

Supported by the Friends of the Church in Kleinlöbichau , founded in 2009 , the village church was renovated between 2012 and 2015.

The house of God

Divine service in the Kleinlöbichau church for the rededication on October 31, 2015

It is a simple little hall church with a choir closed on three sides . This is crowned to the west by a baroque tower. The portal and the windows are arched. The plastered corner pilasters and arched friezes are structural changes from the 19th century.

Interior

Kleinlöbichau church: altar, pulpit, organ 2017

• Altar table ( canteen ) made of stone in the center of the polygonal choir room; Candlesticks and vases by Ulli Wittich-Großkurth
• Pulpit from the Rococo period with grisaille painting of the four evangelists on a painting with a blue background; Restored in 2017
• Rococo font
• Baroque organ by the organ building company Gerhard from 1755

Bicycle path church

The Kleinlöbichau village church is the smallest church on the Jena - Thalbürgel church bike path and is close to its topographical highlight. It was added to the list of cycle path churches in 2013.

Web links

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

• The renovation of the church
• Information about the church

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lioba Knipping: Now fill the church with life. In: Thuringian regional newspaper. November 2, 2015.
2. ↑ Traugott Keßler: A church for the family owner. In: Faith and Home. No. 44, Wartburg Verlag, November 1, 2015, p. 6.
3. ↑ Ottogerd Mühlmann: The stones speak. Churches of the Jena superintendent in words and pictures. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1970, OCLC 631291668 .
4. ↑ Information about the church at www.kirchenkreis-jena.de
5. ↑ List entry for the village church Kleinlöbichau. In: EKD cycle path churches. Retrieved February 4, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 32.6 "  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 52.2"  E