Angelroda Evangelical Church
The Evangelical Church in Angelroda , Thuringia, goes back to a medieval building and was completed in its current form shortly before 1700. Most of the furnishings date from the late 18th century.
It belongs to the parish Geratal in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The church in Angelroda is the oldest building in the village. Already before 1250 there was a Romanesque chapel on the site of the church , from which the masonry of the tower base of the church still originates. This first chapel was rectangular with a small apse to the east. Around 1500 the church was extended to the east by the nave. This initially had beveled corners. The Gothic pointed arched door to the tower chamber and its barrel vault still originate from that construction phase . The sacrament niche is also of Gothic origin, but was only given its current location later. In 1688 the tower was given its present shape, in 1696 the church was again extended to the east, with which it had reached its present appearance. The interior is mainly from the late 18th century and is characterized by Lutheran orthodoxy and the focus on sermons instead of pictorial decorations .
The church, built on the hillside, suffered for a long time from moisture penetrating into the walls and the associated dry rot . A sponge renovation carried out in GDR times was not very successful and was only able to contain the sponge for a short time. In 1997, extensive renovation measures took place, in particular the area around the church was cut down and the church was provided with a breathable lime plaster. The hood of the men's staircase, badly damaged by sponge, was renewed. Due to limited funds, a complete interior renovation could not be carried out, so that the renovation of the interior was limited to a new coat of paint of the plastered wall parts and to repairing the handcrafted ceramic floor. The renovation measures came to a preliminary conclusion in 1999 with extensive repairs to the tower slate.
Furnishing
The church has a pulpit altar and a three-sided circumferential wooden gallery from the late 18th century. The furnishings show stylistic features of the baroque and early classicism . The floor of the church is covered with a historic ceramic tile floor , which has a checkerboard pattern through the alternation of white plaster screed with red ceramic tiles.
A first organ was mentioned as early as 1681. In 1724 the organ was built on the gallery near North in Nahe winds and in 1754/57 it was extended by Schmalz from Arnstadt to an eight-legged organ with two bellows. In 1886, Eifert from Stadtilm replaced the inside of the organ with a mechanical organ with 16 stops , two manuals and a pedal (op. 52). In 1904 the organ was slightly modernized by the Schönefeld organ building and underwent a general overhaul in 2002.
Bells were first mentioned in 1632. Three bells cast by Johann Mayer in Rudolstadt in 1770 and 1788 formed the church's triple chime until World War I. In 1915, the two larger bells were melted down for war purposes, and also in 1941 after replacements had been procured in the 1930s. In 1951 three new bronze bells were cast in the Schilling bell foundry in Apolda, while the remaining older bell was sold. The triple chime has the chimes g sharp, b sharp and c sharp, the bells weigh 376 kg, 205 kg and 138 kg and are 87 cm, 72 cm and 64 cm high.
The originally six carved medieval figures of saints from the Angelroda Church were brought to the Thuringian Museum in Eisenach for restoration in 1937, where they remained. In 1969 two of the characters returned at the initiative of the parish council. The saint with the club can be identified as the apostle Thaddäus . The second figure, a man with a beret, once held an attribute in his hands, but it is missing today, so that the figure can no longer be identified.
Various historical tombs have been erected near the church, including several tombs of members of the von Witzleben family and the ornate tomb of a lemon merchant with a relief representation of the deceased.
Organ brochure from 1724
Saint figure
Hist. Tombs near the church, including that of a lemon merchant
literature
- Evangelical Church Angelroda: Welcome to our church (church leader, n.d.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The church on the website of the church district. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 10 ° 51 ′ 59 ″ E