Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of Elsa
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church Elsa in Elsa , Upper Franconia , a district of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district , dates from 1866 in its current form.
history
In 1343 the parish of Elsa was donated by a Kune von Hesseburch (von Heßberg ) and furnished with various goods. It received a farm and 30 acres in the Elsa district as a parish pledge, as well as further benefices in other villages in the area. The existing branch church was elevated to a parish church.
A church consecrated to St. John in the late Middle Ages was fortified with a churchyard wall. During the Hussite Wars , the church burned down around 1430. In 1483 a new church was consecrated. The late Gothic church tower is likely to date largely from that time. The Reformation was introduced in the 1520s. A renovation took place in 1583. In 1866 the parish extensively renovated the building. The old, dilapidated nave was torn down and replaced by a neo-Gothic new building with a relatively flat roof, and the interior was redesigned. The churchyard has not been used as a churchyard since 1890. The neighboring town of Heldritt became a branch in 1875, and from 1977 Grattstadt and Oettingshausen also belong to the parish of Elsa.
description
The church stands on a hill in the west of the community, characterizing the townscape. It is a choir tower church , the tower of which consists of unplastered sandstone blocks and is covered by a slate-covered, octagonal pointed helmet. The 3.6 meter long and 4.2 meter wide choir is spanned by a cross vault, which consists of late Gothic, throat-profiled ribs and is closed by a rosette with a keystone. There is a pointed arched window on the east side and a rectangular window on the south side, and a pointed arched door on the north side leads into the sacristy . A pointed triumphal arch connects the chancel with the 12.4 meter long and 7.8 meter wide interior of the nave, which is spanned by a flat ceiling and characterized by a surrounding, mostly two-storey gallery . The wooden pulpit on the southern triumphal arch pillar, the chairs, the lectern and the baptismal font made of sandstone with a star-shaped cross-section are designed in a neo-Gothic style. The three-axis long sides of the nave are structured by neo-Gothic windows and buttresses. The west gable has two neo-Gothic windows and the main portal with a tail-arched attachment filled with fishmass work. A slate-covered gable roof forms the upper end.
A bell in the church tower is from 1504. It bears a medallion with an eagle and the Latin inscription “demon nil avder vbi locvs hac tuba gavder” (the demon can dare nothing as long as the place is happy about this tuba).
The churchyard is framed by a wall that is partly from the early modern era and has a rounded, oval floor plan. A stone arched gate with an ornamented keystone from 1754 forms the entrance. Some gravestones, including a neo-Gothic pointed arch tomb made of red sandstone, are in the churchyard.
organ
Nothing further is known about the organ of the previous church. The current instrument comes from the Schmiedefeld organ builder Friedrich Wilhelm Holland and has a romantic disposition . It was built after the new nave was built in 1866 for around 926 guilders. The wide organ case has a five-part prospectus in simple neo-Gothic shapes. The high side panels are adorned with a horizontal crenellated wreath , the middle section with two pipe panels is gable-shaped and accentuated by pinnacles . The two manual organs have a main work with six registers and an upper work with three registers as well as a pedal with three registers, manual and pedal coupler. In 1981 the instrument was restored.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Herta: Elsa monument preservation survey . SI / 9
- ^ A b Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Issue XXVIII. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jena, 1902, p. 35f.
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 17
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part I. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1970, pp. 188f
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 22 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E