Evangelical Lutheran parish church Untermerzbach
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Untermerzbach in Lower Franconia in the Haßberge district is a simultaneous church .
history
A church in Untermerzbach is documented as early as 1225. In 1439 the chapel was raised to a parish church in the diocese of Würzburg and the neighboring town of Kaltenbrunn was parish. In 1534 the von Rotenhan family introduced the Reformation under Kunz II . In 1675 Georg Wolf von Rotenhan zu Merzbach and his family returned to the Catholic Church. In the following years there were conflicts between the Catholic rulership and the Protestant parish. In 1691 Kaltenbrunn was elevated to a Catholic parish. Simultaneous use was introduced in the Untermerzbach church in the same year. The gentlemen von Hendrich had the right of patronage until the beginning of the 19th century. The church belongs to the evangelical community, which also maintains it. The Catholic Church has a right of use.
The choir tower is dated to the 15th century, the nave to the late 17th century. The gallery was rebuilt in 1749/50. A restoration took place at the beginning of the 20th century.
description
The choir tower church stands on a hill in the village center. It has a three-story tower. A cornice separates the two lower floors from the third floor with the bell house. In the basement there is a retracted tower choir, which is spanned by a cross vault. The round choir arch to the nave is now closed by the altar wall and the choir serves as a sacristy . On the south side there is a narrow late Gothic pointed arch window and an entrance. The second tower floor has narrow loopholes-like slot windows and the top floor has round-arched sound openings. An eight-sided and slated pointed helmet follows the eaves cornice .
The plastered nave is a hall building with five window axes on the long sides. It has large rectangular windows and an entrance portal on each of the three sides. The interior is spanned by a flat ceiling, which is decorated with a framework with shells and rich stucco acanthus decorations. A single-storey, three-sided wooden gallery characterizes the room. The organ is on the transverse side . The tile-covered gable roof is hipped on the west side and closed at the bottom by a sandstone eaves cornice.
Furnishing
In the north-east corner of the nave is the Catholic St. Mary's altar, which was created around 1691. The altar has a two-pillar, late baroque structure decorated with fruit hangers with an entablature with round-arched gables. In the middle on the architrave there is the coat of arms of those von Rothenhan with the cock as a crest. The altar panel shows the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , a banner describes her as “The Queen of All Saints”, the excerpt above it shows the Holy Trinity.
To the left of the altar stands Maria with the child, a 1.45 meter high wooden figure from around 1500. A memorial plaque for Count Otto Adolf Wolf von Rottenhan is set in the wall next to it.
The Protestant altar stands in the middle of the east wall of the nave and is designed as a pulpit altar , which underlines the equality of sermon and Lord's Supper as an explicitly evangelical point of view.
Gravestones of Matthes von Rottenhan zu Merzbach († 1591) and the captain of Maximilian Hieronymus von Mudersbach († 1676) are embedded in the north wall. On the south wall, an epitaph with acanthus frame and coat of arms reminds of Martin von Mudersbach († 1679), who was colonel and lord of Schenkenau .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hans Karlinger : The art monuments of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg, booklet XV. District Office Ebern, Munich 1916, p. 202 f
- ↑ a b c 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. 54.
- ↑ a b c Georg Habermehl: Untermerzbach - Insights into the history of Untermerzbach and its parts of the community . Untermerzbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023699-0 , p. 161 f.
Remarks
- ↑ 1698 after Georg Habermehl: Untermerzbach. P. 161.
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 10 ° 51 ′ 26.5 ″ E