Church of Our Lady (Auma)
The Liebfrauenkirche at Dr.-Martin-Luther-Straße 2 is the town church of Auma in the Thuringian district of Greiz .
Parish
The congregation of the parish church of Auma belongs to the parish area Auma of the church district Greiz in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
In addition to the town of Auma, the parish of Auma includes the rural communities of Untendorf , Gütterlitz , Wenigenauma , Muntscha , Krölpa , Zickra , Braunsdorf with Tischendorf and Wöhlsdorf with Wiebelsdorf and Pfersdorf .
history
In the 2nd half of the 12th century a church of St. Nicolai is mentioned. Remnants of this structure have been preserved in the walls of the choir . In 1520, Matthes Franke enlarged it to create a Gothic hall church . After the Reformation , the nave was given a flat ceiling . In 1661, after the destruction during the Thirty Years' War , the church was repaired . In 1790 the church burned down in the town fire . The topping-out ceremony for the newly built church took place on August 13, 1793, and it was inaugurated on the 3rd Advent in 1794. In the period up to the reconstruction of the Liebfrauenkirche, the services were celebrated in the cemetery chapel. The bells had to be delivered for armaments purposes in the First World War . The last restoration of the building was completed in 1994.
Building description
The current, early Classicist shape of the hall church with a polygonal, three-sided east end was created during the reconstruction in 1793/94, while parts of the south wall and the ground floor of the church tower from the 16th century were largely preserved. The sacristy in the east is a separate extension . In 1894 the special chapels and the patronage box were demolished. The tower was given a welsh hood . The tower is accessed from the first gallery. The ringing includes three cast steel bells from 1925. The interior has two-story, simple galleries and is flat-roofed .
Furnishing
In the stipes of the pulpit altar from 1794 there is a relief of the entombment . The former predella of a winged altar was supposedly created around 1516 by the Gottwalt von Lohr from Saalfeld. The wing of a small altarpiece with a depiction of Katharina, made around 1508, comes from the same workshop . The baptismal font is from the beginning of the 17th century.
Furthermore, two carved figures from the Middle Ages, a Romanesque double portal and early Gothic window frames are particularly worth seeing.
The organ with 29 registers , divided into 2 manuals , was built in 1818 by the organ builder Friedrich Wilhelm Trampeli . In 1894 Carl-Friedrich Zillgitt from Gera, a princely Russian court organ builder, changed the disposition .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 56.5 " N , 11 ° 53 ′ 56.2" E