Holy Spirit Church (Mupperg)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit is located in Mupperg , a district of the municipality of Föritztal in the district of Sonneberg ( Thuringia ). The listed hall church stands in the middle of the village and is characteristic of the town.
local community
In the 11th century, the Counts of Schweinfurt founded their own church in Mupperg , which was assigned to the district of the original parish in Fechheim . According to a documentary mention, dated 1069 and 1071, respectively, the Margravine Alberada von Schweinfurt is said to have given Mupperg with a chapel as an initial gift to the Banz monastery . However, the incorporation did not take place until 1242. The founding documents of the Benedictine monastery were, however, partially forged in the 12th century. In 1148 the Mupperger chapel was called a church, for which a pastor is documented in 1241, who was also responsible for Effelder .
At the beginning of the 16th century, the parish district comprised the places Mogger , Oerlsdorf , Fürth am Berg , Heubisch , Liebau , parts of Sichelreuth and two courtyards in Unterlind and Gefell with the subsidiary church of St. Nikolaus . From 1520 an evangelical pastor preached in Mupperg.
Building history
Remains of the first Romanesque chapel from the 11th century are not known. In 1451 a new Gothic church with a polygonal choir and a nave was built in its place . The sacristy was added a little later. In 1719/20 the nave was demolished and rebuilt with a larger height and a third gallery. On May 26, 1722, it was consecrated as a Holy Spirit Church and in 1728 the baroque painting was completed. In 1783 a fire as a result of a lightning strike destroyed the church tower, the bells and the organ. The previously pointed tower roof was replaced in 1784 by a Welsche hood with a lantern.
The interior of the church was redesigned in 1838. The baroque version was replaced by a late classicist version. At the end of the 19th century, the Coburg decorative painter Klett painted the choir area in the historicist style. In 1951, Ludwig Friedrich from Mupperg finally restored the original baroque painting of the church. In addition, fragments of Gothic paintings in the choir were uncovered and restored. After thorough conservation measures in the 1990s, the paintings were restored in the early 2000s and renovation measures were carried out on the pillars in the nave.
architecture
The nave of the hall church with its coffered ceiling has a gable roof and arched windows arranged in double rows on the long sides. On the western gable side there is a side entrance and the covered staircase to the gallery. The main portal is on the north side and is adorned by a heraldic cartouche from 1720 with the Wettin diamond wreath , held by two angel figures, and an inscription.
The interior is characterized by a three-storey gallery , which stands on three sides and is supported by Corinthian columns. The gallery fields and the ceiling are painted with biblical themes. The writing fields on the gallery parapets have an explanatory function.
A triumphal arch, painted in the late Gothic style, separates the nave from the choir tower, to which the relatively small, recessed, polygonal choir adjoins in the east. The choir is spanned by a ribbed vault with fluted ribs. The stained glass of the windows in the apex of the choir dates from 1898, that of the two neighboring windows is from 1935.
The sacristy to the north of the choir has a barrel vault and a piscina on the south side .
Furnishing
The free-standing wooden pulpit from 1720 is the work of the Coburg sculptor Georg Kaufmann. The pulpit is carried by a figure of Moses with the tablets of the law and is decorated with figures depicting Christ, the four evangelists and Peter , Paul and Andrew . The top of the sound cover shows depictions of a dove, God the Father with the globe and Christ with the cross. The late Gothic baptismal font with its tracery has a Baroque version from 1720. In the choir there is an epitaph of Hans von Schaumberg , who died in 1559, and a grave slab for Christoph Caspar von Speßhardt, who died in 1694. The paintings in the nave show Martin Luther and portraits of two Mupperg pastors.
The organ is on a separate gallery above the choir. The original instrument from 1729 was restored in 1908 by the Nuremberg organ builder Johannes Strebel .
In the church tower there are three hard-cast iron bells that were cast in 1920 by Schilling & Lattermann in Apolda. A bronze bell was added in 1949.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 228 .
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '34.3 " N , 11 ° 9' 4.4" E