Mittelpöllnitz village church
The Evangelical Lutheran village church of Mittelpöllnitz is located in Mittelpöllnitz , a community in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Mittelpöllnitz belongs to the parish area Pillingsdorf in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The village church was devastated in the Thirty Years' War in 1639 and rebuilt in 1684. The current building was created in 1826. A major renovation took place in 1890. However, the year 1876 on the weather vane proves that there were renewals before that.
description
The hall church was built with the help of Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray . It has an octagonal floor plan , in the west a rectangular porch with the foyer and in the east a choir tower , which comes from the previous building. A pointed arched window on the upper floor of the tower that is now walled up speaks for this . The story above is retracted, its corners are bevelled. Behind the sound arcades is the belfry with three cast steel bells from 1921. The original bell had in the first World War are delivered. The tower is covered with an open lantern . The portal to the west is framed by pilaster strips on the side and crowned with a tympanum .
The central interior , which receives a lot of light through large windows, has two-story, circumferential galleries and is spanned by a wooden monastery vault. A chandelier with a figure of Christ hangs in the center. The sacristy , the former choir , is separated by the simple pulpit altar . The room now also serves as a winter church , for which the entrance in the east had to be omitted.
The organ with 10 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , was built by Poppe in the 19th century and overhauled by Jehmlich around 1900
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 16.6 " N , 11 ° 54 ′ 38.4" E