Knau village church
The Evangelical-Lutheran , listed village church of Knau is located in Knau , a district of the city of Neustadt an der Orla in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Knau belongs to the parish area Knau in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The first church building is documented around 1500. Esaias von Brandenstein had the church rebuilt in 1608. The Gothic choir tower received its baroque tower at the end of the 17th century. After extensive construction work, the church was consecrated in 1862.
description
The hall church consists of a rectangular nave and a recessed, square choir tower in the east. The gable roof of the nave and the top of the tower are slated . The tower attachment consists of a square part with bevelled corners. On it rises an eight-sided retracted part, which is covered by a hood , which in turn is crowned by a helmet . Three cast steel bells hang in the tower , cast in 1921. The gable on the west side has a gable cornice . In it, as well as on the long sides of the nave, there are three ogival high windows. The middle one is lower because a portal was built under it . The nave has two-storey galleries and pews with brown paint and economical gilding. The church hall and the choir are covered with plastered flat ceilings . They are separated from each other by a Gothic triumphal arch . The sacristy is separated by a wooden partition behind the modern, walled-up altar . It is provided with stencil painting, which consists of 36 narrow fields decorated with tracery . The pulpit on the left of the triumphal arch is from 1862, its rise comes from a more recent past. Opposite her is a small ambo . There is a baptismal font in front of the pulpit . It has a lid to protect it from contamination and evaporation. Behind the baptismal font there is a baptismal angel that is missing its arms today. The old sacrament house is decorated with paintings that still show the outlines of two angels with incense barrels . Its old lattice door is still preserved. It's behind the ambo today. The organ with 16 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1801 by Friedrich Wilhelm Dornheim.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '54.8 " N , 10 ° 6' 54.3" E