Gustav-Adolf-Church (Friedrichswerth)
The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is on Untere Waisenhausstraße in Friedrichswerth , a part of the rural community Nessetal in the Thuringian district of Gotha . It is named after King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden.
Community membership
The parish Friedrichswerth together with the parishes Brüheim, Ebenheim, Haina and the Sonneborn Sonneborn pastorate in the church district Gotha of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Until 2009 the church district Gotha belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia .
description
The construction of a new church had already started in 1690, but could not be finished due to the sudden death of Friedrich I. In 1858 the old church that stood on the church square was demolished . Today's Gustav Adolf Church was built in the neo-Gothic style from 1855 in the center of the village and inaugurated in 1860. It has a retracted four-story bell tower on the west side . The three lower floors have a square floor plan, the bell floor above is octagonal. A pointed tent roof with a tower ball rises on it . In the belfry hang three bells that create the chord of E, G sharp and B. The rectangular nave with six window axes , which is covered with a gable roof, is followed by a retracted polygonal choir . By bilateral extensions of projections of the impression is a cross vessel generated. The church painting comes from the Franz brothers from Gotha.
The three-sided galleries are two-story, the organ is on the lower one above the entrance . It has 29 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal , and was built in 1860 by Friedrich Christian Knauf .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 38.2 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 38.6 ″ E