Evangelical Lutheran parish church Weidhausen
The Evangelical Lutheran parish Weidhausen in Upper Franconia Weidhausen bei Coburg in Coburg has a bell tower with a core of the 15th century.
history
At the intersection of the north-south road from the Thuringian Forest in the direction of the Obermaing area, from Haarbrücken via Fechheim , Sonnefeld , Lettenreuth to Hochstadt am Main , with the much younger east-west road from Ebersdorf near Coburg to the intersection of the north-south road from the Thuringian Forest Trübenbach was built in Weidhausen and a house of worship, initially probably a chapel. The massive base of the church tower with a choir vault is dated to the 15th century. Around 1520 the west side was broken open and a triumphal arch was built into the chapel wall for a small wooden church. In 1701 a renovation was completed in which the small, massive nave with half-timbering was lengthened by eight to ten meters and the walls were raised. In addition, a sacristy was added and in the 18th century the tower base was increased with a half-timbered construction. An extensive renovation followed in 1889. In 1890 the cemetery around the church was closed. Between 1948 and 1953 the parish had another repair carried out. Structural damage in 1977/78 led to a new building of the nave according to plans by the Coburg architect couple Gerhard and Ilse Schulwitz and to a restoration of the half-timbered tower. The construction costs amounted to 1.13 million DM. The inauguration took place on April 30, 1978. In September 2009 three new bells were pulled into the bell house. The old steel bells, cast in 1919, which replaced bells removed during the First World War in 1917 , were placed in front of the church tower.
Building description
The choir tower church is in the center of the village. The upper floor of the tower, made of half-timbered construction, is striking above the chancel with the altar, on which there is a slate-covered hip roof with an octagonal ridge turret. The sandstone choir, with a square floor plan and 5.5 meters edge length, is spanned by a ribbed vault with the head of Christ as the keystone. There are ogival windows on the south and east sides. Under the chancel there is probably the burial place of the bailiffs and gentlemen of Weidhausen. Grave slabs for Katharina von Wirsberg from 1661 and for Chamber Councilor Amalie Veronika von Erffa from 1693 on the eastern wall of the choir remind of this. A pointed triumphal arch connects the choir with the nave, a rectangular door with the sacristy attached to the north .
The old nave was a simple half-timbered building, 15.8 meters long and 8.2 meters wide, with two-story galleries and a plastered flat ceiling. The new, wider nave has a slate gable roof and a boarded soffit made of wood. A single-storey gallery is available on the south and west side.
Furnishing
The font probably dates from the 17th century. A stained glass church window, made by the Coburg art glass painter Bringmann, with an expressive depiction of Luther has been in the church since 1931. Luther is shown in front of a flaming red background. He wears a robe and holds the Bible in his left hand. The right hand is holding a pen that points towards the Bible. The 15 gallery pictures come from the Einberg artist Herbert Ott. The oil paintings were created in 1947/48 and show scenes from the life of Jesus.
organ
The branch church had a positive at the beginning of the 18th century . In 1722 the damaged instrument was repaired by the organ builder Nikolaus Seeber for 50 Reichstaler and a pedal with a sub-bass 16 'was added. In 1781, the community had the old organ replaced by the organ acquired from the Sonnefeld monastery church . In 1901 a new organ was installed in the church by the Coburg organ builder Anton Hasselbarth with eleven registers , two manuals and a pedal . The organ had a neo-Romanesque design, five-part prospectus with round arched fields, the uneven fields with triangular gables. Pilasters with half-pillars and crowned with battlements as well as an upper cornice with a serrated frieze adorned the housing.
Since the new building of the nave, a two-manual organ by Walcker with a modernly designed prospect has stood on the gallery in the southeast corner of the nave.
Parish
Weidhausen initially belonged to the parish of Marktgraitz . At the end of the 1520s the place was evangelically and ecclesiastically assigned to the parish of Gestungshausen . In 1555 there was a move to the closer Sonnefeld. In 1927 it was raised to the status of a daughter parish of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Sonnefeld. Due to the increase in Weidhausen's population after the Second World War by around a third to over 2100 inhabitants, Weidhausen received its own pastor in 1946. On April 1, 1951, Weidhausen was appointed an Exposed Vicariate and thus an independent parish. With the construction of a parsonage in 1958 the elevation to a parish followed. Only the village of Weidhausen belongs to the church district. The district Trübenbach still belongs to the parish of Sonnefeld and Neuensorg, which ecclesiastically belongs to the dean's office in Michelau , has its own parish.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 162
- ↑ a b c Werner Schumann: Weidhausen b. Coburg through the centuries. Schneider-Druck, Weidhausen 2000, ISBN 3-9805880-3-3 , pp. 73f
- ↑ Gottfried Prechtel: Weidhausen . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , pp. 189f
- ^ 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. 98
- ^ A b Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Issue XXVIII. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jena 1902, p. 96f
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part II. Yearbook of the Coburg Landesstiftung 1971, p. 123f
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 24 ″ E