Oepfershausen Church
The Evangelical Lutheran , listed church Oepfershausen is in Oepfershausen , a district of the town Wasungen in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district of Thuringia . The parish Oepfershausen belongs to the parish area Friedelshausen-Oepfershausen in the parish of Meiningen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The hall church was built in 1718 on the foundations of the previous building from the 15th century. The rectangular nave , covered with a hipped gable roof , has a choir tower in the east, to which an apse with a 3/8 end is attached. At the southeast corner of the tower there is a bearded gaffer who represents Christ instead of the usual builder . The slate-roofed tower has an eight-sided, double and bulbous hood , connected with an open intermediate piece.
The nave has two-story galleries running around three sides , the one for the organ is in the east. It has curved baroque balusters as a parapet . The baroque mechanical organ with 13 registers was built around 1750, it is the work of Johann Caspar Rommel . On the west wall is the epitaph of Baron Georg Friedrich Auerochs from 1731, the builder of the church and the last of his line. He and his family are buried in the crypt on the west wall of the church, which was built over in 1835.
The baptismal font from 1567 made of sandstone from the previous building is part of the church furnishings . This includes a brass baptismal font , made around 1500, depicting the Annunciation to Mary . The wooden pulpit , adorned with adolescent gaze heads and the four evangelists , was built around 1600, the baroque sound cover dates from around 1720. A life-size baroque crucifix stands between the central windows of the chancel .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 28.7 ″ E