Niklaskirche Tann

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The Niklaskirche , also called St. Nicholas Church, in the town of Tann in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda is a baroque building from the 1740s. Today it mainly serves as a cemetery chapel , but is also used for church services and occasional concerts .

The construction

The church is on Rhönstrasse ( B 278 ), Geriethweg / Friedhofsweg junction in the north of the small town, at the southern end of the cemetery, which is surrounded by a mighty stone wall, about 300 m north of the historic old town. It is a solid, plastered building about 20 m long and 10 m wide, with a relatively flat gable roof and a bell tower of 8 × 8 m in the east with a raised bell tower of 8 × 8 m with a beautiful lantern dome on the onion dome . The nave has three high lattice windows on each side and three round windows above, so-called ox eyes, lit, as well as the lower floor of the church tower .

A flight of stairs on the west side leads up to the main portal. The portal is flanked by two lattice windows and above the portal there is a small lattice window as well as a large and a small ox eye.

history

The building was built in the years 1741 to 1746, on the site of a demolished in 1741 due to disrepair Church of truss , which also already under the patronage of Nicholas of Myra had stood. The Niklas church was, as its predecessor, long time built hospital church for the 1617, located outside the city walls the hospital and later poorhouse of Messrs von der Tann, the m in today as a house used so-called "Claß" or "Klas house" about 30 southwest on the corner of Rhönstrasse and Alter Weg.

In 2010, the renovation of the now very dilapidated and threatened building began, starting with the roof and followed by the organ , heating as well as the chairs and the organ gallery at the west end. In 2012 the tower, which had been secured two years earlier, was tackled, the framework of which was partially worm-eaten and rotting. A large part of the work was carried out voluntarily or through non-invoiced work by local companies.

Interior

A number of the most valuable old tombstones are placed along the side walls in the church to protect them from further weathering or other damage.

Eye-catching, however, is particularly remarkable the large, carved from sandstone and colorfully painted renaissance - Epitaph of the local lords Melchior Arnak von der Tann and his wife Agnes called Schutzbar Milchling inside the church. It dates from 1606 and was originally located in the previous church. Since 1564, the von der Tann family's grave had been the newly built Evangelical Church of St. George in the city center, which was inaugurated that year , but Melchior and his Catholic wife Agnes were buried in the St. Nicholas Church, which was built before the Reformation . When this was demolished in 1641 and replaced by the current building, the new church was built around the tomb. It is special because of its size (about 4 m high) and sculptural quality. In the lower part it shows the married couple Melchior Arnak and Agnes adoring the crucified Christ and above them the resurrection of Jesus Christ . The lower part is surrounded on the right and left with the 16 coats of arms of the so-called ancestral test of the two deceased.

Since July 2015, the so-called “Wortwerk” by Franz Erhard Walther has been on the wall of the altar niche , but it was not only applauded.

Footnotes

  1. ^ As stated in 1483, 1564; Tann (Rhön), district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Photo of the former Tanner hospital "Klashaus"
  3. ↑ http://www.waldkircher-orgelbau.de/orgelgalerie/tann.html
  4. ^ Renovation of the tower of the Niklaskirche - "Second bell would be the icing on the cake" , in Osthessen News , June 8, 2012
  5. ↑ Das Wunder von Tann , in Kasseler Sonntagsblatt , October 19, 2012
  6. ^ Sister of the Fulda abbot Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling
  7. ↑ This church was destroyed in the great fire in 1879; In its place, today's Protestant town church was built in the neo-Gothic style.
  8. ↑ photo
  9. ^ Text completed by Franz Erhard Walther , in Osthessen News , July 8, 2015
  10. ^ Tanner Niklaskirche: Walther's “Wortwerk” is handed over . In Fuldaer Zeitung , March 12, 2016

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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 42 "  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 22.8"  E