Kieselbacher Church
The Evangelical Kieselbach Church is the village church of Kieselbach in the Krayenberg community in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
Together with the rectory below, it forms a local attraction. In front of the rectory, the new village linden tree stands on a square walled with sandstone blocks.
The church built on the northern slope of the Kraynberg is one of the highest buildings in Kieselbach. The church, which is listed as a cultural monument, has no patron, the age is unknown. The old fortified church is surrounded by a spacious cemetery. The church tower, from the second floor in half-timbered construction, probably dates from the first half of the 16th century, it is possibly a hundred years older.
construction
The church tower has a crooked hipped roof covered with red tiles , crowned by a weather vane with the year 1522 and a cross. The top floor of the tower in half-timbered construction houses the bell cage with three bronze bells. Sound hatches are installed to the northwest, northeast and southeast . The two western sides of the belfry floor are clad in slate. In the upper area of the north-western trapezoidal gable of the tower there is a white tower clock in the middle. A round arched window is built into each of the three sides that are not adjacent to the ship. On the side of the tower facing the town there is a later built extension with a gable roof, presumably the sacristy. Next to it, at the junction between the nave and the tower, there is a stair tower with a round floor plan and its own entrance. It has a round conical roof with a tower ball .
The nave is of a red roof tiles provided with hipped roof covering, the roof side on the southeast two, on the northwest side of a straight towing dormer includes. The roof forms a trapezoidal gable on the southwest side of the nave. There is also the roofed, somewhat in front of the entrance portal under an ox's eye , above which a pair of these round windows let light into the interior. The nave receives additional natural light through two high arched windows on both of its long sides.
The star-vaulted chancel with vaulted struts drawn down to the floor is made of sandstone and is located below the tower. The ends of the vault ribs show the heads of men carved in stone and the stonemason's marks . The stone altar, the floor and the decorated sacrament niche date from the pre-Reformation period. In 1692 the nave and the galleries resting on round columns were given their present form. The heads of the apostles, Moses , his sister Miriam and King David as well as Bible verses adorn the gallery parapets.
Furnishing
The pulpit rests on a helically wound column. The parapets show Christ and the four great prophets Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel . The octagonal sound cover of the pulpit is crowned by an angel carved from wood with a cross staff . The barrel vault of the church was renewed in 1901.
The mechanical organ was built in 1985 by the Gerhard Böhm company from Gotha . It has fourteen registers , two manuals and a pedal .
The roof was re-covered in 1997. The interior was renovated in 2005, and the bells were consecrated on October 31, 2007, Reformation Day. Outside, at the northeast corner of the church, there is a bell that, according to the inscription, was cast during the First World War.
The church shows similarities with the Förtha church . Since this church was built in its current appearance as a restored church in 1674, i.e. obviously much later than the Kieselbacher church, it can be assumed that the Kieselbacher church served as a model for the Förthaer building, unless the Förthaer building from 1674, which was a new building, was built according to the model of its predecessor church from 1430. If the latter is true, one could speculate that both churches originally had the same builder.
Lutherlinde
The Lutherlinde is in front of the church . It was probably planted on November 10, 1883 on the occasion of the 400th birthday of Martin Luther and designated as a natural monument in 1954 .
Pictures of the church
View from the east
View from the southeast
View from the direction of the village with the war memorial in front, the stair tower in the middle of the church building
View of the northeast corner with the bell from the First World War
The church in 1910
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 55
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 22.9 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 26.3 ″ E