Half-timbered church

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Half-timbered church Wartha , Thuringia

A half-timbered church is a church building whose load-bearing elements are wooden beams, as in the half-timbered house . Methodologically they are a subgroup of the wooden churches .

Half-timbered churches were especially built in the following epochs:

Half-timbered churches are mostly village churches . They were mainly built in areas that are poor in suitable stone material and in places where there was no financial means for stone construction at the time of construction.

Germany

Half-timbered church in Kernbach
Half-timbered church in Pechern
Half-timbered church in Spreewitz
Half-timbered church Tuchen, Barnim
Evangelical Reformed Chapel in Belle (Horn-Bad Meinberg)
Bergkirchen Church (Bad Salzuflen)
Half-timbered church in Rudlos

France

In southern Champagne , between Lac du Der-Chantecoq and the lakes of the Forêt d'Orient , there are a number of half-timbered churches ( Eglises en pans de bois ) from the 16th to 18th centuries. Without exception, the churches are in smaller places that lacked the financial means for a stone building at the time of construction. Today, the churches are considered special historical witnesses that have been renovated in recent years. They are developed for tourism through a “street of half-timbered churches”, which connects some of the churches.

Among the half-timbered churches in the region are next to the chapel Saint-Jean in Soulaines-Dhuys churches

Half-timbered Notre-Dame church in Châtillon-sur-Broué

Poland

Peace Church in Jawor ( Jauer )

literature

  • Irmgard Bott: Half-timbered churches in Hessen. 4th edition. Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg, Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 .

Web links

Commons : Half-timbered churches  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Fachwerkkirche  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Half-timbered church Eichelsachsen
  2. ↑ Street of the half-timbered churches in Champagne ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.champagne-ardenne-tourismus.de