Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church in Gleußen
The Evangelical Lutheran parish Gleußen in Upper Franconia Gleußen , a municipality part of Itzgrund in Coburg , core dates from the 13th century .
history
Gleußen originally belonged to the district of the original parish Altenbanz . The church was probably a small late medieval choir tower . The core of the church tower with its two lower floors dates from the 13th century.
In Gleussen there was inheritance from the Banz monastery , from Saxe-Coburg and from Rotenhan . The Gleussen farmers were involved in the German Peasants' War in 1525 . They then decided in favor of the Evangelical Lutheran Confession and an independent parish was created. Heinrich Vischer was appointed as the first Protestant pastor in 1528.
In 1608 the bell storey and the tall, slim spire with four watch towers were built. In the 1680s the spire was renewed and a new roof structure was built on the nave . In 1689 work was carried out on the interior. The parish of Kaltenbrunn in 1824 resulted in the construction of a larger nave between 1831 and 1834 by master bricklayer Leonhard Stang from Schottenstein and master carpenter Jakob Steiner from Memmelsdorfch . The consecration was in 1836.
In 1902 the interior was renovated and in 1960 the church was repaired. The parish had an extensive restoration carried out between 1978 and 1987. The church tower was renovated and the bell chamber strengthened. The windows, doors, plaster and pews have been renewed.
description
The choir tower church stands on the south-eastern edge of the village center. It has a three-story, compact tower made of plastered chunks of masonry. The two lower floors dating from the late Middle Ages are separated by a cornice made of exposed sandstone blocks from the third floor with the bell room. In the basement there is a retracted square tower choir, which is spanned by a cross-ribbed vault with simply grooved ribs, and which has a plate-shaped keystone with a relief of the head of Christ at the top . With the construction of the nave in 1831, the choir was closed and has served as a sacristy ever since . In the east side there is a rounded pointed arch window, in the south side a small loop-hole-like arched window and in the north side a newer, round-arched outside entrance. In the west, the sacristy behind the altar has a rectangular entrance to the nave and above it, with a two-flight, wooden platform staircase , the door to the pulpit. The second tower floor has slotted windows and the top floor has ogival sound openings with two-lane tracery on three sides and a round arched window from 1831 in the west. A weathered coat of arms and the year 1608 can be seen under the northern sound window. A high, eight-sided, slate pointed helmet with a knob and a wind vane follows a profiled eaves cornice . Small, hexagonal watch towers with pointed helmets are arranged in the four corners. The nave is much wider than the church tower and is a classicist hall building with four window axes on the long sides and two on the transverse side. Large arched windows and rectangular entrances with arched niches are available in the west and in the north in the second axis. The interior is spanned by a flat ceiling. A two-storey wooden gallery with Tuscan columns and paneled parapets characterizes the room. The lower gallery runs on three sides and carries the organ on the transverse side . The upper gallery is only available on the long sides. Platform stairs in the western corners of the building open up the galleries. The facade is structured with wide corner pilasters made of unplastered sandstone blocks and flat window frames. The west side also has a base and a profiled door frame with a horizontal cornice cover. The tile-covered gable roof is hipped on the west side and closed at the bottom by a profiled eaves cornice made of sandstone.
Furnishing
A canopy of the pulpit altar characterizes the interior. It is a work of the Schweinfurt art carpentry workshop of the Stößel brothers from the year 1834. Above the free-standing stipes there is a marbled wooden structure, two Tuscan pillars are placed on the side and a heavy entablature with Doric order is designed as a rectangular pulpit. The pulpit door is framed with Ionic pilasters . The sound cover is formed by a semicircular protruding profiled cornice with foliage and a console frieze with a dome with a halo.
On the south wall of the nave are two rectangular epitaphs made of sandstone. One is reminiscent of Gleusser innkeeper Johann Christian Schubarth († 1742) and his wife Anna Rosina née Miller († 1740), the other to the pastor Christoph Friedrich Sauer († 1724).
organ
The first organ was built in 1687 by Andreas Schöpf from Sesslach for 62 Reichstaler . The instrument was sold to Staffelstein in 1773 . In 1774 the organ builder Georg Henne from Hildburghausen installed a new organ, which cost 420 guilders . In 1834/36 the current organ followed with the new church, an instrument by Neustadters Christoph Hofmann with 14 stops on a manual and pedal . The five-part prospectus consists of a high segment tower in the middle that supports a cornice. At the side there are narrow intermediate fields with a highly oval carving as a top finish and flat fields with curved meander bands. The fields are framed by pilaster strips, some of which have vases on them. The manual has black lower keys and a keyboard frame with inlays. A restoration was carried out in the mid-1980s.
Bells
In the church tower there were four steel bells that had been cast in 1921/1922 as a replacement for bells delivered during the First World War . In mid-2018, these were replaced by bronze bells from the Rincker bell and art foundry .
Web links
- The church on the website of the Evangelical Dean's Office in Michelau
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Church in Gleussen
- ^ 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. 52.
- ^ Karl Ludwig Lippert: Bayerische Kunstdenkmale Landkreis Staffelstein, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1968, p. 117 f.
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Old Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1980, p. 126 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 51.7 ″ E