Frankenau Church

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Frankenau Church

The Evangelical Lutheran affiliate church Frankenau is in Frankenau , a district of Reichstädt in the Greiz district in Thuringia . The church Frankenau belongs to the parish Reichstädt-Frankenau the parish area Großenstein-Soon grove of the church district Altenburger Land of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

description

The Romanesque hall church has a retracted, square choir tower and a semicircular apse with a dome . On the south side of the choir there are small ogival windows. The exterior of the church was later changed. The fighters of the arch to the apse and the triumphal arch are profiled. On the reveal on both sides of the triumphal arch there is a groove for attaching a board. Perhaps it was used to set up a crucifixion group . There are galleries on three sides in the nave . The octagonal, Romanesque baptismal font is unadorned. In the nave there is a carved, oval coat of arms. It comes from the Baroque and is decorated with flags , cannons and the like. decorated. The inscription has been lost. The organ with 7 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , was built in 1853 by Christoph Opitz .

literature

Web links

Commons : Church Frankenau (Reichstädt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Frankenau Church on EKMD
  2. Information on the organ

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 27.8 ″  E