Geitersdorf Church

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Geitersdorf Church

The branch church Geitersdorf stands on a hill in Geitersdorf , a district of the city of Rudolstadt in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . The church is a cultural monument in Geitersdorf . The church belongs to the parish area of the town church Teichel in Kirchenkreis Rudolstadt-Saalfeld the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

description

The Romanesque hall church made of quarry stones has a choir tower with a semicircular, arched apse . Featuring a verschieferten with dormers provided gabled roof covered nave was rebuilt in the 15th century after a fire rebuilt 1637th An extension made of plastered half-timbering was built in the southwest . In 1887 the church was restored . The church tower is three- story , on the top floor there is the bell cage, in which hangs a bell cast by Melchior Mörinck from Erfurt in 1639 . Above it rises a four-sided truncated pyramid on which an eight-sided bulbous dome sits, which is crowned by a lantern . The choir and nave have been spanned by a wooden barrel vault since 1654 , but separated from each other by a belt arch . The two-storey galleries are on three sides. Its parapets are painted with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament . On the southern side of the belt arch is the pulpit with a sound cover from the 17th century. On the second mezzanine floor on the west side there is an organ with 11 registers , divided between a manual and a pedal , which was built in the 18th century by Ludwig Wilhelm Hähner, the stepson of Johann Stephan Schmaltz .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Geitersdorf parish
  2. Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : Geitersdorf Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 35.2 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 14.1"  E