Margarethenkirche (Melborn)
The Evangelical Lutheran Margaret Church is in Melborn , a district of the Thuringian community Hörselberg-Hainich in the Wartburg district . The parish Melborn belongs to the parish area Melborn I in the church district Eisenach-Gerstungen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
That of Saint Margaret consecrated medieval church was in the Thirty Years' War severely damaged. The present hall church was mainly built in 1769. It has a choir tower with a polygonal end in the east. On the stone ground floor of the tower there is an octagonal intermediate piece clad with sawn timber , the belfry of which houses two bells. One from 1482 is dedicated to the evangelists and the namesake of the church, the other, dating from the 15th century, is a so-called alphabet bell. The tower is covered with a bell-shaped dome and is crowned with a tower ball .
The nave , covered with a half- hip roof , is spanned inside with a wooden barrel vault. The galleries on the long sides are single-story, in the west the gallery is two-story. The choir has a star vault .
The church furnishings include the wooden pulpit with a sound cover on the north side of the triumphal arch . The chalice-shaped, wooden, octagonal baptismal font dates from 1650. The organ is on the gallery in the west . It has 10 stops , divided into a manual and a pedal , and was built in the 18th century by an unknown organ builder .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 27.4 " N , 10 ° 26 ′ 56.1" E