Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church in Großgarnstadt
The Evangelical Lutheran parish Großgarnstadt in Upper Franconia Großgarnstadt , a district of Ebersdorf bei Coburg in Coburg , dates in its present form from the early 18th century.
history
The church came from the original parish of Fechheim to Sonnefeld monastery and has been a parish church at least since the late Middle Ages. A church or chapel is believed to have been around 1100. The parish was first mentioned in 1270 in a document from the Sonnefeld monastery. Langheim Abbey later held the right of patronage. In the 13./14. In the 19th century there was a fortified church with a fortified tower, surrounding alleys , wall and moat. The first Protestant church visitation by Electoral Saxony took place in 1528/29.
The previous building burned down in 1632 in the course of the Thirty Years' War, the troops of Wallenstein together with the village. The reconstruction took place from 1633 first as a provisional timber construction. The Gothic choir tower was built around 1500. With the tail dome, it got its baroque shape in the upper part in 1668 . Between 1706 and 1708, the growing parish had the Weinlein brothers from Coburg extend the nave by three meters to the west and add a third floor to be added later. The interior design lasted until 1720. In 1785 the sacristy was added. In 1837 the new floor panels and pews were made. A major renovation took place at the beginning of the 1960s and a restoration of the pictures between 1996 and 2002.
Building description
The parish church standing on a small slope with a formerly fortified cemetery is the center of the village. The choir tower church is characterized by a massive tower in solid ashlar technology. Above the choir is a cornice, followed by the first floor with window slots on the three sides, another cornice and a piece of the second floor. The upper end is formed by a slate, octagonal floor with flat arched windows and a tail dome that merges into the tip of the helmet. In the basement there is the 6.4 meter long and 5.6 meter wide choir , spanned by two bays , the front with a star vault , the rear with a cross vault , with a continuous rib in between. The fields between the ribs are painted with medicinal and ornamental plants. On each of the three sides there are medium-sized, long pointed arched windows with tracery , on the north side partially bricked up. In the choir room there is a single-storey gallery on the north and south sides. The parapet panels were painted in 1799 by Johann Georg Brückner the Younger with scenes from the story of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Some pictures had to be redesigned during the restoration in the late 1990s.
The nave is 15.8 meters long and 7.8 meters wide. It is spanned by a stuccoed flat ceiling with three large frescoes . The ceiling paintings and two wall paintings are works by the Coburg court painter Johann Schuster and were created around 1720. The ceiling paintings in the nave show three scenes from the Revelation of St. John . The Last Judgment is depicted above the pointed triumphal arch , and to the right of the pulpit the baptism of Jesus.
There are three-storey galleries on the long sides. The west side is two-story. The upper organ gallery emerges in front of the lower gallery and is supported by wooden pillars in the shape of a palm tree. The gallery balustrades have paneled panels that are painted with small, folk pictures. The two lower floors were designed between 1706 and 1710 by the Kleingarnstadt painters Andreas and Cyriacus Stephan. The lower gallery shows representations with motifs from the Old and the middle gallery with motifs from the New Testament . The top gallery, built into the north and south sides around 1750, was painted by Johann Brückner the Elder with floral and fruit decorations. The parapets of the organ loft show the heavenly court making music and announcing the birth of Christ.
The facade of the nave has two flat arched windows on the north side and three rectangular windows with ears on top. The three-axis south facade has rectangular windows with ears and fascia above and below and a door below. It is divided by a cornice . The west gable is also divided by a cornice, above which there are two rectangular windows with a cartouche in between. There is a rectangular entrance door below.
Furnishing
The richly decorated pulpit from the Renaissance stands on the southern triumphal arch pillar. It bears a designation with the year 1633. The parapet is covered with four colored figures of the evangelists with their respective symbols. The sound cover dates from the 1960s.
The altar cross is the work of an unknown sculptor and dates from 1750. Two presentation crosses decorate the interior. One is by the baptismal font and dates from 1797. The other is three years younger and shows the crucified Jesus on one side and the risen Jesus on the other.
The tombstone on the south side of the church commemorates the former pastor Magister Christoph Richter (1680–1726) and his wife Rosalina (1680–1718).
organ
An organ was purchased before 1687, which in 1707/1708 the organ builder Johann Wiegleb from Heldritt expanded it to ten registers and placed it in a new case . In 1755 Wiegleb from Schney built a new organ with 13 registers on a manual and a pedal , the pipework of which was largely renewed in 1831/1832 by the heroic third Laurenz Heybach. From 1938 to 1942, the organ builder Heinrich Keller from Selb expanded the instrument according to plans by Johannes G. Mehl, while retaining the old manual, with a positive on the gallery in the choir room with electrical control and added a new pedal. After that, the Hauptwerk had twelve registers, the pedal four registers and the choir positive six registers. An electric game table is in the chancel.
The organ is adorned with a five-part Rococo prospectus with raised side half-segment towers, interposed pointed fields and a central round tower, above which is the ducal double coat of arms with the initials FJ ( Franz Josias ). Angels with trumpets stand on the pointed fields. The choral work has a three-part, two-storey prospectus that contains two pipe fields one above the other in the middle section.
Parish
In addition to Großgarnstadt, Friesendorf , Kleingarnstadt and Oberfüllbach belong to the parish of almost 1000 parishioners .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Köbler: Großgarnstadt . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev - Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , pp. 175f
- ↑ a b c d Peter Mierdel: The evang.-luth. Church of Großgarnstadt. Small guide through a jewel box of the Coburg country
- ^ 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. 48
- ↑ a b Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXVIII, Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, Landrathsamt Coburg. Jena 1902, p. 79f
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part I. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1970, pp. 105f
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 27.6 ″ N , 11 ° 4 ′ 32.5 ″ E