Burkersdorf Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Filialkirche Kirche Burkersdorf is located in the district of the same name in the town of Triptis in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Burkersdorf (at Pillingsdorf) is part of the parish area Pillingsdorf in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The solid masonry of the pilgrim Church Burkersdorf, as loopholes created window below the running in framework floor of the tower and for piles made gate with its heavy fittings of iron characterize the former function as Wehrkirche . Access from the inside is secured by an additional lock using a square key .

The Roman , with a saddle roof covered Saalkirche has a retracted transverse rectangular choir tower with a small vestibule . In 1798 renovations were carried out. The windows in their current form were broken in and the tower was given an additional storey made of half-timbering , which was covered with a half- hip roof. Two steel bells hang in the tower, the small one was made in a bell foundry in Apolda in 1920 , the large one was cast in 1962. The arched portal is on the south side. Its walls are still purely Romanesque, the wooden door leaf has iron fittings from the early Gothic period. The year 1798 is written on the wind direction indicator , since a major overhaul of the church equipment took place.

The pulpit was not rebuilt until 1828. A delicate font wooden stands on balusters with scrolls . As part of the renovation in 1911, a decorative stencil painting with angel figures was created in the interior by the painter Fritz Bethge from Meerane . The flat-roofed interior has a single-storey gallery , scenes of the Passion are depicted on the fields of the parapets . In a conche there is an old sacrament house , the iron door of which was replaced in 1911. Opposite him is the old parsonage . Two wooden epitaphs for children hang on the west wall. Instead of an organ , a harmonium is used to accompany the church singing.

Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .

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