Reichstädt Church (Thuringia)
The Evangelical Lutheran , listed church Reichstädt is in Reichstädt , a municipality in the Thuringian district of Greiz . The church Reichstädt belongs to the parish Reichstädt-Frankenau in parish Großenstein-Linda in church district Altenburger Land of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The rectangular hall church originally had two-story extensions on the east ends of both long sides. The southern extension was canceled. The nave is covered to the west with a crested hip from which a roof turret rises.
Most of the church furnishings date from the 2nd half of the 17th century. The western part of the nave has three-sided galleries . On the east wall there are closed stalls and a pulpit altar . In front of the church stalls for the "simple" worshipers were the prieche for the stalls . The upper floors of the extensions were converted into boxes and decorated with a corresponding background .
When the southern extension was demolished, the painted background was left in place. Only in the western part of the nave is a painted coffered ceiling from the 2nd half of the 16th century. Popular scenes from the Old Testament were painted in six transverse rows of eight fields each . The figures are depicted in contemporary clothing. The coffered ceiling in the east is simpler and younger than that in the west.
The church furnishings include a kneeling, violently agitated baptismal angel with a fluttering robe. He wears an ambo over his head . A wooden sculpture from 1738 comes from a Gera workshop. The organ with 12 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built by Christoph Opitz around 1850 .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
- Information about the parish on the church district website
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 5.3 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 1.7" E