Trinity Church (Reinsdorf)
The village church of the Holy Trinity is located in the Reinsdorf district of the district town of Greiz in Thuringia . It belongs to the Greiz parish in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The village church of Reinsdorf was built on the site of an old dilapidated chapel in 1720. The chapel's demolition stones were also used to build the new church.
For the consecration of the temple one written by the parish priest Hironimus rubbing stone and from Greizer organist was Johann Friedrich Fasch set to music cantata premiered.
Four years after the nave was rebuilt, the old church tower was replaced by a slim new one. It has an idiosyncratic dome shape that deviates from the usual Greizer shape.
In a fire in 1911, the stalls , galleries and the organ were lost. During the renovation, the church received two aisle-like additions. Another interior renovation took place in 1976 and the exterior plastering two years later .
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar , which was donated by Carl Erdmann von Commerstädt on Schönfeld when the church was built, is decorated with carvings. The sandstone baptismal font and a late Gothic figure, which is supposed to represent the martyr Laurentius and is now placed at the lectern, were taken from the medieval previous building .
Web links
- Description and photos on the Evang.-Luth website. Reinsdorf parish.
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 20.4 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 12.9" E