Michaeliskirche (Neustadt am Rennsteig)

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The Protestant Michaeliskirche is located in the resort town of Neustadt am Rennsteig in the Ilm district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Neustadt am Rennsteig in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The Rennsteig not only separated the place, but also the believers, because the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen owned territory in the place.

The Memorial Church belonged to Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the Michaeliskirche to Sachsen-Meiningen. It was built between 1856 and 1859 as a neo-Romanesque choir tower church in place of a previous wooden church, which was inaugurated on September 13, 1739 .

The church has a rectangular church hall with a recessed, polygonal choir . Above is the tower floor with a hood . The exterior is exposed to stone . The interior is kept simple and includes a single-storey gallery .

The organ built in by the Hofmann company from Neustadt bei Coburg in the course of the construction of the new church used the manual keys, the stop pulls, the pedal keyboard and practically all the stops of the organ from the previous building. Georg Christoph Hofmann built the dismantled organ in 1828 with 14 registers on two manuals and a pedal. Today's instrument with 15 registers on two manuals and pedal is currently (as of 2013) not playable.

At the end of the war in 1945, the church suffered severe damage from shelling by American forces . Until then it was called Meininger Church .

As a result of this bullet damage, the artist Medardus Höbelt was commissioned in 1989 to display the cycle “Michael's Fight” as a warning in five colored stained glass windows in the chancel. An angel prince wrestles with the evil of this world (seven snakes) = deadly sins, envy, greed, hatred, infidelity, excessiveness and indolence. The funnel lamp in the altar niche is also from Höbelt. It illuminates the sanctuary, the altar cross and the altar.

Since 2017, the church has been known as the “Her (r) bergskirche” and offers overnight accommodation for hikers during the summer months.

Web links

Commons : Michaeliskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio , edited by Stephanie Eißing and others: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Thuringia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 887.
  2. ^ Description of the church. In: ilm-kreis.de. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Hanna Lucassen: Without breakfast, with a view of the altar. Hostel church in the Thuringian Forest. In: chrismon . July 8, 2019, accessed March 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '53 "  N , 10 ° 56' 2.4"  E