Martinroda Evangelical Church
The Protestant church of Martinroda in the Ilm district , Thuringia , is located with its walled cemetery, a cemetery chapel and the former parsonage on the north-eastern edge of the village, directly at the foot of the Veronika mountain . This is a small typical regional Feldstein 's Church with verschiefertem tower and roof.
It belongs to the parish Geratal in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The construction time is unknown, the type of construction dates from the Romanesque period. It got its current appearance in 1720 when it was converted into an unplastered baroque hall church. After extensive restoration, the church and its organ were consecrated again. It has been a listed building since 1991 .
description
architecture
The church is built in an east-west direction, the retracted tower forms the western end. The nave has a pointed roof with a three-part hipped roof on the east. The tower is crowned by a tail dome with an attached lantern , a long spire with the tower ball and a weather vane. In a bell house outside the cemetery walls, the two bells of the church ring. The Gothic pointed arch window on the east side of the nave has meanwhile been bricked up. The interior of the church is illuminated by four large rectangular windows. The walled up early Gothic arches in the outer facade are still visible.
Furnishing
The wooden ceiling of the interior is designed as a sky. The two galleries and the richly decorated pulpit altar from the first third of the 18th century are well worth seeing . The second gallery carries the organ, which reaches under the wooden ceiling and bears a prospectus with magnificent baroque carvings and figurative representations of angels making music.
The tabernacle , the place where the holy bread is kept in Catholic churches, dates from the pre-Reformation period (before the 16th century) . It was taken over from the previous building and serves as a container for the sacrament dishes . Above it, a life-size figure of Christ from the 13th century hangs on a new oak cross. The colors gold, white and green dominate the interior. A baptismal angel from 1722 is also worth seeing .
Tomb on the outside wall of the church
Bell cage in the nearby bell house
War memorial by the church
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The church on the website of the church district. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Information about the church on a website for the Day of the Open Monument in the Ilmkreis ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Description of the church. In: ilm-kreis.de. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 29.6 " N , 10 ° 53 ′ 28.1" E