Michaeliskirche (Rohr)

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The Michaeliskirche
Pulpit altar with organ
Interior panorama
The carillon

St. Michael zu Rohr is considered to be the oldest church in Thuringia. It was built as a monastery church of a Benedictine monastery between 815 and 824. The monastery was a branch of the large imperial monastery in Fulda . Since the monastery ceased to exist around 900, it served as an imperial palace in the 10th century , which existed until the beginning of the 11th century . The return of the kidnapped Otto III was significant . from Heinrich the quarrel to the empresses Adelheid and Theophanu in 984. In the late Middle Ages the complex was surrounded by the wall ring and thus became a fortified church . Only after the Reformation did the church become a Protestant village church.

Building description

In Carolingian times, a hall church with a transept was built. With the first construction or a little later, the crypt was built typologically as a hybrid of hall and gallery. The oldest crypt in Central Germany has been located in this church ever since. It already belonged to the Benedictine monastery that was destroyed by the Hungarian hordes in 915. In the Gothic period the windows were walled up and larger new ones broken in. After the Middle Ages, the side arms of the transept were broken off and the crypt filled in, only to be found again after 1900.

Aerial view of Michaeliskirche

The picturesque complex is the only monumental building in eastern Germany that has survived from the Carolingian era.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert von Hintzenstern : Monastery complexes in Thuringia built as if for eternity . Cultural evidence from ancient times . Verlagshaus Thuringia, 1996, ISBN 3-89683-104-6 , p. 35

literature

  • Werner Jacobsen, Leo Schaefer, Hans Rudolf Sennhauser : Pre-Romanesque church buildings, catalog of the monuments up to the exit of the Ottonen , Prestel Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7913-0961-7
  • Annett Laube-Rosenpflanzer, Lutz Rosenpflanzer: Churches, monasteries, royal courts: pre-Romanesque architecture between the Weser and Elbe , Halle 2007, ISBN 3-89812-499-1

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 57.6 ″  E