Trinity Church (Scherbda)
The Trinity Church is in the Scherbda district of the city of Amt Creuzburg in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
history
A first church was built in Scherbda as early as the 15th century as the castle chapel of the old manor. It has been rebuilt and expanded several times, and its font from 1566 has been preserved. As church patron, Gideon von Wangenheim laid the foundation stone for the new building of today's church on May 22, 1671.
In 1962 and 1971, the slate roof of the church was replaced by a tiled roof, which in turn was replaced by a slate roof in the 1990s. At the end of the 1980s, a sponge renovation was carried out by the parish itself.
layout
The interior of the church is vaulted with a wooden barrel vault. The ceiling painting from 1761 shows the Ascension of Christ in the main picture, laterally framed by the evangelists Matthew and John on Patmos . The painting was restored in 1938.
The octagonal baptismal font with the family coat of arms of the local nobility and the year 1566 has been preserved from the previous church. There are six gravestones on the walls with life-size portraits of relatives from von Wangenheim , von Kutzleben and von Creuzburg .
The organ from the late 19th century has eight registers. In 2000 it was restored and fitted with a new bellows and motor.
The church tower is on the east side of the building. It is massive and has an eight-sided slate-covered tail dome.
Peal
The oldest bell was cast by the bell caster Kutschbach in Eisenach in 1776 and had a diameter of 80 cm. The second, also known as the “Big Bell”, dates from 1796 and is 82 cm in diameter.
For the world wars, the bells had to be removed as a metal donation and handed over to be melted down. The older bell was melted down during World War I and replaced by a new one in 1926. The Big Bell survived the forced deliveries of the two world wars and returned to Scherbda in December 1947.
literature
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Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Kühn: Churches in Eisenacher Land . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1989, p. 40, 57 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 18.2 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 59.1 ″ E