Poppendorf village church
The Protestant village church Poppendorf is in the Poppendorf district of the city of Schkölen in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia . The church Popp village belongs to the parish Wetzdorf the parish area Dorndorf-Steudnitz in Kirchenkreis Eisenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
location
The village church stands at the western end of the elongated street village . About in the middle of the village, on the southern side of the road, is the roofed belfry with a bell .
history
It is assumed that the church was a choir tower church with a recessed rectangular chancel and apse . It is unclear whether the church tower was ever built or whether the decision was made for the bell house in the village.
New building
In 1873/74 the old nave was torn down . Immediately afterwards, a planned tower and the nave were built in the neo-Romanesque style . The facade of the new ship is interspersed with arched windows and decorated with biforias and arched friezes .
ship
The ship is equipped with galleries , altar , baptismal font , stalls , a pulpit and the organ , which is no longer playable . The organ has 10 registers , divided into 2 manuals and a pedal , and was built around 1870 by an unknown organ builder . Everything together forms a closed unit. The room is decorated with stencil painting.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
- Information with signpost for the disabled
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 19.6 ″ N , 11 ° 47 ′ 53.8 ″ E
Individual evidence