Heyda Church (Ilmenau)

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Church in Heyda (Ilmenau)
inside view
The organ

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Heyda is located at Martinrodaer Landstrasse 7 in Heyda , a district of the city of Ilmenau in the Ilm district of Thuringia . The Heyda parish is part of the Ilmenau-Unterpörlitz parish in the Arnstadt-Ilmenau parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The first reliable information about the church dates back to 1567 and can be found in a document from the Grand Ducal Archive in Weimar regarding the erection of the fences around the rectory. Also mentioned in a document is the request of the headmaster and the entire community to the Henneberg Consistory in Meiningen of October 4, 1652, in which a collection for the construction of the church in Heyda was requested, to be found in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive . During the Thirty Years' War , the church was looted and fell into disrepair . In 1657 the restoration work began. The renovation of the church was completed in 1714, a corresponding inscription can be found on the south window. The painting work was not finished until 1722. On June 5, 1724, the newly built church fell victim to a major fire . However, it was not completely destroyed. In the same year the church was built from scratch. The church has been renovated several times since it was built in 1725. The last major repair and interior renovation work began in 1997 and ended in 2007. The renovation in 1997 included the new roofing of the roof and church tower with slate and the restoration of the tower.

description

The original choir tower church from the 17th century was rebuilt as a baroque hall church , older wall remains were included. It has a recessed rectangular choir and a roof tower . The nave has a slate hipped roof . The portals and windows were built during the renovation in 1714 and from the time after the fire in 1724. The roof tower has a square tower that houses the belfry with three bells . An eight-sided hood is enthroned above it and is crowned by an open lantern . During the First World War , the two small bells were melted down for the construction of cannons . In 1926 the tower received two new bells again, but they were melted down during World War II to produce war material. New bells were not bought again afterwards, so that today only one bell from the years 1724/25 hangs in the belfry.

The interior is Romanesque in the complex . It has two-storey galleries and is covered with a wooden barrel vault. The pulpit altar belongs to church furnishings from 1724. The organ of Brothers Wagner (before 1800) today 24 registers .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heyda Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The church on the website of the church district. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 3.1 ″  E