Evangelical-Lutheran parish church Scheuerfeld
The Evangelical Lutheran parish Scheuerfeld in Upper Franconia Scheuerfeld , a district of Coburg , dates in its present form from the year 1834th
history
In the year 1100 the nobleman Siboto and his wife Hildegard donated a chapel to the “Schurinvelt” to the Saalfeld monastery . The handover of this is, however, controversial. By 1300 at the latest there was a chapel in Scheuerfeld. This became a church, which was first mentioned in 1525 in the Tambacher Urbar. The next mention was on the occasion of the first Protestant Catholic church visitation in 1528/29. The church was probably originally a Romanesque fortified church with a short nave from the 12th or 13th century, which was replaced by a larger nave in the 15th or 16th century .
In 1601 Nicolaus Zech , who was bailiff of Duke Johann Casimir and was the village lord and church patron in Scheuerfeld, founded the Protestant parish with the appointment of pastor Gregorius Besserer from Auma . Since the 15th century, Scheuerfeld belonged to Neuses as a branch , previously to the original parish of Meeder . The last owner of the Scheuerfeld estate, the Secret Justice Councilor Otto, bequeathed the remainder of the manor, the manor house and around 12 hectares of land to the parish in 1895.
Due to the poor state of construction and the population growing to 350 in 1830, the parish had the old nave , which had a wooden barrel vault, relatively small windows and two-story galleries on the south and west sides, replaced with a new building. The ducal architect Friedrich Streib from Coburg was commissioned with the planning and implementation in 1831 and 1832 . In 1831 the community had the cemetery that was laid out around the church relocated. The foundation stone was laid on October 29, 1832 and the inauguration followed on December 14, 1834. The chancel under the church tower was closed and converted into a sacristy . In 1840 the church tower was increased by one storey and a low, dome-shaped tower roof was replaced by a slated pointed tower. The construction work had cost a total of 5,360 guilders .
Between 1947 and 1955, renovations were carried out according to plans by the Coburg architect Reinhard Claaßen . Claaßen had the base of the tower reopened and expanded into a chancel, and a sacristy was added to the south side of the tower as an alternative. The interior received galleries and a new pulpit. Renovations took place in the 1980s. In 2001 the old bells were replaced and in 2008 the owner, the City of Coburg, had a new side entrance built on the south side.
description
The choir tower church is in the center of the village of Scheuerfeld. It consists of a four-axis hall church with a two-storey gallery and the church tower.
The lower three floors of the massive choir tower date from the Middle Ages and consist of embossed ashlar masonry. The choir room with the altar is 3.4 meters long and 3.9 meters wide. It is spanned by a fielded, plastered arched arch barrel. The floors are separated by cornices . The older upper floors are pierced by a few slits of light on three sides. An octagonal pointed helmet forms the upper end.
The 14 meter long and 8.3 meter wide nave is spanned by a plastered flat ceiling. It has a hipped gable roof to the west and almost halfway around the tower on the north and south sides. There are four room-high, rectangular lattice windows on each of the long sides. The west facade is structured by a double-wing portal with a cross and diamond structure as well as an inscription in a fascinating frame with a straight profile roofing. Above that there is a window that is designed as on the long sides. The sacristy has a pent roof and stands at the southern corner of the church tower.
The interior, characterized by the dark choir and the light nave, has a wooden, two-story gallery on three sides. The wooden pulpit on the southern triumphal arch is decorated with four evangelist figures , a work by Edmund Meusel . On the north wall of the church there is a funerary inscription by Sophia Helena Merklin († 1615) and an epitaph from the court judge Johann Christian Merklin, owner of Eichhof Palace, from the years after 1624.
Two pieces of equipment from the church, which were rediscovered in the attic at the beginning of the 20th century, have been among the exhibits in the art collections of Veste Coburg since 1911 . There were wooden sculptures, a Pietà around 1360 to 1370 and a crucifix from around 1430. The early date of origin and the very few surviving, comparable sculptures of that era explain the importance of the Coburg Pieta.
Bells
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a bell from 1892 in the church tower, a large bell cast by Albrecht & Sohn in Coburg in 1840 and a bell from 1652. In 1917 two bells for cannons were melted down. The small, 182.5 kg bell was sold to Weidach in 1919 and a new bell with three cast steel bells was purchased from the Apoldaer bell foundry factory Schillnng and Lattermann for around 5,000 marks.
On February 23, 2001, the Rincker bell foundry cast three new bronze bells in Sinn . On April 4, 2001, the new bells were installed and inaugurated on April 15, Easter Sunday.
organ
There is first evidence of an organ for the year 1727. The work was repaired in 1748/49. Further repairs followed in 1758/59 and 1771. In 1790 and 1815 Johann Andreas Hofmann from Neustadt serviced the instrument.
After the church was rebuilt in 1834, Georg Christoph Hofmann from Neustadt installed a new organ, the bellows of which was repaired in 1954. The instrument has eight registers on a manual and pedal . The organ case has a three-part organ front made of rectangular fields, the middle one is elevated. Ornate carvings with openwork tendrils made of gilded leaves and flowers decorate the prospectus. A renovation took place in 2010.
Parish
The parish originally included the villages of Oberhergramsdorf, Dörfles , Gut Eichhof and the center of Scheuerfeld with its church and an estate. In 1840 Weidach was incorporated, which until then belonged to Neuses. In the 1980s the parish had 2,800 members.
literature
- Hartmut Braune-Bezold, Michael Sonnenstatter: Living and learning together; Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the parish and school Scheuerfeld . DCT Coburg 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Axmann: Insights into the history of the parishes and the church Scheuerfeld . In: Living and learning together; Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the parish and school Scheuerfeld. P. 127 f
- ↑ Dietrich Leipolz: Scheuerfeld . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev - Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 212 f
- ↑ a b c d e Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 474
- ^ A b Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXXII. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Landrathsamt Coburg, District Court District Coburg. Jena 1906, p. 449
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Old organs in the Coburg country, part III. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1972, p. 213
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 13.4 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 32.4" E