Evangelical Lutheran Church in Großneundorf
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Großneundorf is a baroque church in the Großneundorf district of the Gräfenthal community in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . It was erected in 1731 at the highest point of the village to shape the townscape.
history
There was a church in Großneundorf before the 16th century. At that time, 17 villages belonged to the church district. Sebastian von Pappenheim introduced the Reformation in 1525 . Due to the poor state of construction of the old church, a new church was built from 1728 to 1731 and consecrated on August 14, 1731.
The pastorate has been vacant since 1974. 1983 followed the amalgamation of the parish, with the parish villages Gösselsdorf , Gebersdorf , Lippelsdorf , Sommersdorf and Creunitz , with the parish of Gräfenthal.
In 2014 the tower lantern, the two tower knobs and the weather vane were renovated and the clock faces of the church tower were repainted.
Architecture and equipment
The listed baroque church stands in the old cemetery and is surrounded by a cemetery wall.
The interior of the nave , which merges into the choir without offset , is characterized by wooden galleries with baluster parapets and hanging, openwork carved decorative boards. The galleries are two-story on the long sides and one-story with the organ on the transverse side in the west. A vaulted, wooden ceiling spans the interior with six oil paintings on canvas depicting Christ, Moses and the four evangelists . The entrance portal is on the south side.
In the center of the choir is the altar with a gilded altar crucifix from 1836 and two silver altar candles from around 1880. Above the altar is the carved pulpit , which is supported by three flat arches resting on Doric pilasters . An hourglass for the clergyman's speaking time is in the pulpit. Two colored church windows decorate the chancel and show a Christmas image and a crucifixion. The glass painter Gottfried Heinersdorf from Treptow created it in 1915.
organ
The organ is the work of the organ builder Johann Georg Fincke from Saalfeld in 1731. In 1751 a viola da gamba register was added. In 1935 the organ builder Voigt from Halberstadt carried out a reconstruction . Between 1997 and 2000, the parish finally had Fincke's baroque organ reconstructed by the Nuremberg organ builder Jörg Maderer, with fifteen stops on two manuals and a pedal.
tower
The approximately 30 meter high church tower has a footprint of 6.3 × 4.0 meters and is located on the west side. It shows the year 1731 above the western ground floor window.
On the ground floor there is a Gothic bell without a clapper, which was already there in 1454. In the tower hang next to a small baptismal bell from 1922 with the strike tone c sharp² three sound steel bells , cast in 1948 by Schilling & Lattermann in Apolda . These are the death bell in e¹, the Sunday bell in f sharp¹ and the after-work bell in a¹.
The tower clock was made in 1923 by Bernhard Saam from Themar .
literature
- Church leader Gräfenthal / Großneundorf, published by Orgelbauverein Großneundorf e. V.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Christoph Janecke: Graefenthal, Gebersdorf and Großneundorf. A contribution to the chronicles of these places. Author's website, accessed January 7, 2019.
- ^ In the Großneundorf tower button: coins, newspapers and a certificate. Ostthüringer Zeitung , August 26, 2014.
- ^ Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: List of monuments of the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt (PDF; 632 kB).
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '5 " N , 11 ° 17' 57.9" E