Field angel

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Field angel
City of Großenehrich
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 23 "  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 40"  E
Height : 276 m above sea level NN
Residents : 257  (Jul 1, 2009)
Incorporation : January 1, 1996
Postal code : 99718
Area code : 03636
Church of St. Matthew in Feldengel
Church tower in Feldengel

Feldengel is a district of the community of Großenehrich in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .

geography

The district lies on a plateau of the southern roofing of the Hainleite on the edge of the Thuringian Basin . The residents have access to the surrounding area via local roads, Landesstraße 2088 and Bundesstraße 4 .

history

The first documentary mention of the village took place on September 29, 1061. The root word angel goes back to Engilin . Feldengel belongs to a localized group of "angels" places which include wooden angel , church angel and Westerengel belong. They were colonized by Germanic Angles .

The predominantly agricultural town once mainly cultivated woad .

In 1771 a new church was built. French troops committed atrocities in the village, both on the advance in 1812 and when retreating from Russia after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. Until 1918, Feldengel belonged to the rule of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Attractions

  • The Protestant Church of St. Matthew is a hall church with an east tower and a rectangular choir in a walled cemetery. The complex was originally Romanesque and was changed in the 14th century and in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The ship was rebuilt in 1771–73. The rectangular tower has a pointed helmet and flanking corner turrets. The ship is uniform and has a mansard roof . At the end of the choir there are narrow, pointed arched windows that are grouped into three groups . Inside there is a closed room unit, separated from the medieval structures, with a plastered wooden ceiling and in the cross -vaulted tower yoke an added arch to the former choir. The equipment is simple in terms of construction time. The pulpit altar has initials and a princely hat ( Christian Günther III. Von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ) from 1773. The bell with medallions in high relief is from 1512, the cemetery wall with portal and gate from 1561.
  • There is a menhir on the road to Holzengel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Dobencker (arrangement and ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1152 - 1210) . tape 2 Part 1. Fischer, Jena 1898. No. 831
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio , edited by Stephanie Eißing and others: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Thuringia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 409.
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries - pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cultural sites in Thuringia Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , pp. 194 and 209

Web links

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