Maria Schnee (Schleid)
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The Roman Catholic parish church Maria Schnee is a baroque hall church in Schleid in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Maria Schnee Schleid in the deanery Hünfeld-Geisa of the diocese of Fulda .
History and architecture
The important baroque hall church with east tower and facade was built in 1743–1746 according to a design by Andrea Gallasini , from whom the churches in Dermbach and Zella also come. A medieval tower basement was included. An exterior restoration was carried out in 1994.
The building is a plastered building with dividing elements made of sandstone and shows Tuscan pilasters on a high pedestal with surrounding beams. The church is characterized by its two-storey facade, which consists of the ground floor with a flight of stairs and the gable storey with an attic , triangular gables on Corinthian pilasters and curved side panels. The rectangular portal is provided with a coat of arms of the Fulda prince- abbot Amand von Buseck . The figures of the apostles Peter and Paul , created around 1890, are arranged in the niches to the side, and Our Lady is in the gable . The tower with corner blocks contains the sacristy on the ground floor and is closed off by an octagon with a Welscher dome .
The interior is designed as a pillar hall with deep window niches and is closed off by a flat barrel vault with stitch caps with belts over pilasters with cranked beams. The choir is separated by pillars drawn far into the room.
The initially conventional-looking choir solution, which cannot be seen from the nave, is related to that of Balthasar Neumann's church in Gaibach . It does not appear from the outside either, as the choir is integrated into the rectangular exterior.
It is only when entering the choir that it becomes apparent that it is approaching a central building. Two longitudinally oval side rooms are connected to a central rotunda . The rotunda is open to the nave and the adjoining rooms with arched arcades on simple pilaster pillars with curved foreheads. The arches cut into the vault, creating a dome-like vault that attaches behind the entablature of the central apse . The walls are structured by pilasters, the protruding, cranked entablature takes up the curve of the rooms.
The architectural structures in the choir and nave are emphasized by painted ornaments, the pilasters are marbled and equipped with ionizing capitals and flower hangings.
Furnishing
The high altar with an open column position and a volutengestützten canopy constructed of scagliola and positioned in the middle the Cross, in the altar extract the God's eye is in the halo. The beams of the altar is in form and in the Kurvung the apse to that adjusted. The simpler side altars show figures of Our Lady and St. Joseph from the 19th century. The baptismal font, adorned with tracery, dates from 1529. Figures of Christ and Mary also from the 19th century are placed in the choir. Moving Baroque figures of Saints Apollonia and Barbara can be found on the choir arch . In the nave there is a Madonna from the end of the 17th century. A keel-arched sacrament niche with pinnacles from 1484 has been preserved in the sacristy .
The organ is a work by Barthel Brünner from 1748, which was expanded in 1887 by Heinrich Hahner and restored in 2001 by Orgelbau Waltershausen . Today it has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
Surroundings
The church is surrounded by significant remains of the cemetery wall with loopholes. The former rectory ( Hauptstrasse 36 ) is a two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house, the courtyard gate is provided with a coat of arms. The house is accessed through a colored seat niche portal with winged angel heads, which shows a profiled round arch with an egg stick from 1591. The opposite colored wayside shrine from the second half of the 18th century shows the cross-bearing Christ ("cross tug") on a column with winged angel heads and on the back a child lying on the cross.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 1077-1078.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 13.1 ″ E