Gospiteroda Church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Gospiteroda is located in Gospiteroda , a district of the Georgenthal rural community in the Gotha district in Thuringia . The parish Gospiteroda belongs to the parish community Boxberg Sundhausen in the region Gotha of the church district Gotha of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
During the Thirty Years' War , the landowner had a fortified church built opposite the manor house . It was allegedly connected to the manor house by a tunnel , which should indicate subsidence, but which had been carelessly filled in in the past. Landowners were the imperial counts of Hohenlohe .
description
According to an inscription , the late Gothic hall church was built in 1623. It has a four-sided closed choir . On the north side there are two floors of an unfinished tower. The rectangular windows have profiled soffits . The first floor of the tower, which is now used as a sacristy , is covered with a stone barrel vault. The nave has a barrel vault made of wood. The painted galleries are two-story. The evangelists are depicted on the pulpit from the first half of the 17th century . The baptismal font with a shaft made of balusters with volutes comes from the same period . In the 1990s the church was extensively renovated.
organ
The organ is a work by Karl Christian Hoffmann from 1741 with 14 stops on two manuals and pedal . Johann Michael Wagner was Hoffmann's employee. Johann Valentin Knauf worked on the organ in the 19th century . Organ builder Rudolf Böhm from Gotha restored the work in 1994. The plan is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church Gospiteroda on EKMD
- ^ Georgenthal rural community
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 19.8 " N , 10 ° 38 ′ 47.3" E