Gernstedt Church

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Gernstedt church, view from the entrance to the village
The church tower in Gernstedt is attached to the side of the nave.

The church Gernstedt is a sacred building of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in Gernstedt , since 2009 a district of the municipality Lanitz-Hassel-Tal in Saxony-Anhalt district Burgenlandkreis . It is located directly on the B 87 near the entrance to the town and towers over the town.

prehistory

A pastor was first mentioned in a document in 1183. Between 1183 and 1190 the Pforta monastery acquired many possessions in Gernstedt and built a monastery fore around 1205 with further land purchases . The village fell, the church mentioned in a document disappeared.

There was a chapel in the cloister fore on the site of the demolished church. Because of the dissolution of the monastery in 1564 the chapel fell to the new settlers. With the parish right they belonged to Rehehausen . The pastor there came to Gernstedt every four weeks, from 1575 every two weeks. In 1878 the affiliation changed to Lißdorf .

The chapel consisted of bare walls and was dilapidated. It was not until 1743 that the church was rebuilt and enlarged, and the tower was rebuilt in 1792. The building was a styleless building from the 18th century.

history

Today's church in Gernstedt was built on a field that belonged to the Pforta state school . The porter-builder, government builder Max Leidich, created it in the neo-Gothic style . The first groundbreaking was on April 17, 1895, the foundation stone was laid on June 10, 1895, the church was consecrated and the first baptism was on June 10, 1896. The stones come from the quarry in the nearby Lanitztal.

The construction costs amounted to 31,200 Reichsmarks, of which more than a third - around 13,200 Reichsmarks - was paid for by the Pforta State School.

See also

photos

  • Front of the nave and entrance portal (detail)

  • A slightly different view of the rose window and the church tower

  • Weather vane on the Gernstedt church

  • Stained glass window of the Gernstedt church, exterior view

organ

The organ is said to have been built by a son of the famous master organ builder Ladegast . During the First World War , 31  tin prospect pipes were melted down : "The Royal District Administrator Nbg, August 20, 1917 ... I humbly request the transfer of ownership of tin prospect pipes from organs to the Reich Militarfiscus, the same on Thursday, August 30, 1917 at 9 am-1am and in the afternoon 3-6 o'clock to the local collection point on the Domplatz to be deliberately delivered on time. "

In 1930 the loss was replaced: According to a cost estimate from EF Walcker & Cie. Orgelbauanstalt Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) of July 2, 1930, the 31 new prospect pipes - made of strong zinc, coated with aluminum bronze and installation and freight costs - were to cost 273 Reichsmarks. In addition, there were 270 Reichsmarks for cleaning, re-intonation and tuning of the organ.

Bells

The original three bronze - Church bells 65 centimeters, 79 centimeters and 105 centimeters in diameter dated back to 1844 and were greeted by Henry and Carl Friedrich Ulrich in Apolda cast.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the church history of Gernstedt , accessed on July 18, 2017
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/beschreibendeda08anhagoog#page/n43/mode/2up
  3. ↑ http://www.fotomarburg.de/histfoto/messbilder/abtskapelle
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/beschreibendeda08anhagoog#page/n43/mode/2up

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '3.6 "  N , 11 ° 36" 49.1 "  E