Wohlmuthausen village church

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Wohlmuthausen village church
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The Protestant village church of Wohlmuthausen is a Baroque-style hall church in the Wohlmuthausen district of the Rhönblick community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of Bettenhausen-Helmershausen in the Meiningen parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

History and architecture

After the fire of a previous building, today's church was built from 1730 as a choir tower church with a rectangular nave and a retracted choir with tower as well as a sacristy and a polygonal stair tower. The one with tent roof completed tower on a square floor plan must be regarded as typical for the region as a whole. The ship's double gallery, which surrounds the nave on three sides, dates back to the 17th century and is associated with the date 1655 on the weather vane . Scenes from the life of Christ with verses from the Bible are painted on the parapet . In 1993 the structure was restored.

Furnishing

The pulpit altar in the choir arch and the organ gallery above are decorated with rustic carvings. To the side of the pulpit , which is flanked by columns, there are life-size wooden figures of John the Baptist and Moses . Two doors on either side of the altar allow access during the Lord's Supper . The version from the construction period is based on an inscription by V. Herberth.

The organ is a work by Johann Caspar Rommel from 1765/1766 with 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . It was restored after 1990 by Thilo Viehrig from Kaulsdorf . The pitch is 492 Hz.

Of the 672 pipes, 428 are still original. The disposition is:

I main work CD – c 3
Principal 8th'
Vacant
Dumped 8th'
Viol 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Fifth 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture IV-V (2 ′)
II Oberwerk CD – c 3
flute 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Vacant
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Mixture III (1')
Pedal CD – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
trombone 16 ′

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ in the booklet of the CD Rommel organs in the Thuringian Rhön. (PDF) Retrieved March 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 36.8 ″  E