Niedernissa Church
The Evangelical Church of Niedernissa (also: Zur Himmelspforte ) is an originally Romanesque, baroque-style choir tower church in the Niedernissa district of Erfurt in Thuringia . It belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Association Erfurt-Windischholzhausen in the Evangelical Church District Erfurt of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The church, located near the entrance to the village in the northwest of the village, is of Romanesque origin. The Romanesque choir tower has a square floor plan with a roof that was newly slated in 1994. At the same time the church tower received a new gilded tower button . The large church tower clock is located at the base of the south side of the tower spire, with the striking bell hanging under a small roof just above it. The three church bells were cast in 1633 by Melchior Moeringk from Erfurt. A large walled-up arch on the east side of the tower is interpreted as access to a broken apse . The main entrance is built into the south side of the tower. A covered wooden staircase on the south side of the nave, which was renovated in 1729, leads to the gallery floor inside the church. The high nave carries a partial hip - mansard roof with three standing roof windows on the south and north side of the roof. The west side has no windows or doors. The interior is surrounded on three sides by a double gallery on pillars with capitals and fruit hangings and finished with a double-broken wooden barrel vault. Since 1994, large parts of the church have been restored and repaired and the altar has been restored.
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar from 1730 consists of a two-storey structure with column structure, the risen Christ is shown with the flag of victory and a ray of glory in the altar extension . The pulpit is richly decorated with three-dimensional fruit hangings. The baptismal font from the beginning of the 18th century shows strongly plastic fruit pendants between winged angel heads on the cup, the organ in a case with rich leaf and fruit ornamentation as well as two trumpet angels is a largely preserved work by Johann Georg Schröter from the year 1731 , but in need of restoration 20 stops on two manuals and pedal . The organ's play area is the only completely preserved Schröter organ.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 890-891.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '5.4 " N , 11 ° 6" 8.5 " E