Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bischofrod
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bischofrod in Bischofrod , a municipality in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ), was consecrated on October 9, 1746.
history
Today's church goes back to a small chapel that was consecrated to St. Anthony and was probably demolished due to a poor state of construction. The new church was built between 1744 and 1746, and the consecration took place on October 9, 1746. The half-timbered building was slated up in 1863 and 1900. Bischofrod belonged to the Lengfeld parish for centuries . On March 15, 1904, the parish got its own parish office. There are branch churches in Eichenberg and Grub . A rectory was built in 1905/06. It has housed the Protestant retreat since 1982. Since November 1st, 2001 the parish has been administered by the parish office of St. Kilian . At the end of the 2000s, the church tower was renovated.
Design and equipment
The listed church stands on the outskirts, in an elevated position, next to the cemetery. It is a half-timbered building with a rectangular floor plan with edge lengths of fourteen meters and ten meters. The church has a gallery with sixty seats and in the nave, eight rows of benches on both sides with around a hundred seats.
The chancel is adorned by two stained glass windows , which were made in 1904 by the glass painting company W. Franke from Naumburg on the occasion of his own parish. One window is below the pulpit and shows Jesus as Lord of the Church with the signature ( John 14.6) “I am the way, the truth and the life! March 15, 1904 ”. The other is located above the pulpit and shows red flowers and the Christ monogram. The pulpit with a gilded column is baroque in design.
The late Romanesque baptismal font made of light sandstone is remarkable, it is ninety centimeters high and has a hemispherical basin with a round arch frieze and fifty centimeters in diameter on a column shaft. It probably still comes from the old chapel.
The organ is located on the west gallery above the main entrance. It was built around 1880 and has nine registers , one manual and one pedal as well as pedal coupler . The organ builder is not known.
In the octagonal church tower with an octagonal dome hangs a bronze bell from 1890. It bears the inscription "LOUD BELL LOUD PEACE, LOUD REST IN EVERY HEART - MY DAY ENDS ONLY HIENIEDEN LAUUTE YOU ME HOME". There were two bells until World War II .
literature
- Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Großmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen ... nothing but God's house - the gate of heaven ... Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 35.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.michael-krapp.de/regionales/presse.htm
- ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 11 ( pdf ).
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 17.6 " N , 10 ° 39 ′ 46.7" E