Welkershausen village church

The local road with the church in the background

The Evangelical Lutheran village church of Welkershausen is located in the Welkershausen district of the city of Meiningen in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of Meiningen in the parish of Meiningen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The previous building of the Welkershausen Church burned down in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War . The foundation stone of the unadorned village church took place on July 17, 1724. Master mason Daniel Schaubach was commissioned with the construction. The church was consecrated on November 25, 1728. It has a hexagonal roof turret with two tail domes on the ridge and half-timbering on the gable bay window. The interior of the church, on the other hand, has become a piece of jewelry through the painting. The paintings on the ceiling are from 1728. The house of worship is rarely used, mostly as a summer church or on high church holidays.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Welkershausen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Alfred Erck (Ed.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen . On behalf of the Kuratorium Kulturstadt Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 , p. 132 .
^ The church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .

50.628755 10.394096Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 43.5 " N , 10 ° 23 ′ 38.7" E

[1] Alfred Erck (Ed.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen . On behalf of the Kuratorium Kulturstadt Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 , p. 132 .

[2] The church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .