Ichtershausen Monastery Church

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Front view

The monastery church Ichtershausen (St. Georg and Marien) is the parish church of the village of Ichtershausen in Thuringia . Until the abolition of the monastery in 1539 it was the abbey church of a Cistercian abbey and became a Protestant church as a result of the Reformation.

North elevation

history

Construction of the church began around 1100, and in 1133 it was consecrated as a private church by Frideruna von Grumbach . It is a Romanesque , three-aisled basilica with a three apsidial choir and two mighty towers on the west side. In 1147 the church was converted into a monastery. The nave is connected to the main building of the old castle, the previously existing connecting routes no longer exist. In 1602 there was a fire that destroyed the north aisle, whereupon its remains were removed and the arches walled up (still clearly visible today). In the early 1960s, the royal box and the pulpit altar were demolished. In 2000, the north aisle was rebuilt in a very simple way that does not fit the historical building by prisoners of the Ichtershausen correctional facility.

Partial view of the south side with walled-up door arches

Philip of Swabia was determined to be German king in the monastery in 1198 (afterwards he was elected in Mühlhausen and crowned in Mainz). In 1546, the Protestant princes of the Schmalkaldic League held a congress here.

The poet Wilhelm Hey was pastor of the church between 1832 and 1854. A monument next to the nave is dedicated to him. The graves of Hey and his wife, which were in the cemetery next to the monastery church, have not been preserved.

Furnishing

The church has two galleries on the south side. The Thielemann organ is currently being reconstructed. There are some medieval paintings in the church.

Current ecclesiastical position

The church belongs to the parish area Ichtershausen-Holzhausen in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

photos

  • inside view

  • Representation of Jesus

  • Depiction of a dead princess

  • Depiction of a dead princess

  • Monument to Wilhelm Hey next to the church

  • Plaque on the monument

literature

  • Wilhelm Rein (Ed.): Ichtershausen Monastery. Document book, history and structural description with genealogical and heraldic notes, seal image and floor plan (=  Thuringia Sacra . Volume 1 ). Hermann Böhlau, Weimar 1863, p. 202 .
  • Ulrich Simon : Ichtershausen . In: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia , arr. by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Regina E. Schwerdtfeger (Germania Benedictina IV), EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, pp. 976-1006.

source

Web links

Commons : Ichtershausen Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  E