Parish church housing
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church Gehaus is in the immediate vicinity of the castle in Vachaer Straße 44 von Gehaus , a district of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The parish Gehaus belongs to the parish area Stadtlengsfeld-Gehaus-Oechsen in the parish of Bad Salzungen-Dermbach the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The current hall church with three axes was built from 1765 to 1767 on the foundation walls of the previous building that was demolished around the middle of the 16th century. Due to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War , the planned new church did not come about for the time being. The foundation stone for the new church was not laid until May 22, 1765 . The year is carved in the keystone on the portal in the east. Sandstone blocks from the castle park , which borders the old cemetery , were used as building material . In 1767 the new church was consecrated. The year of the inauguration is immortalized in the copper weathercock on the top of the tower.
The plastered nave , covered with a gable roof , is decorated with corner stones made of sandstone. The facade tower is in the east . It has an octagonal tower with arched windows on four sides and a slate-covered Italian hood . The bell room in the tower tower houses three bells : A small one, it has now served its purpose, a larger one from 1634 and one from 1939 with a roaring sound.
The ceiling above the central space between the two-storey galleries consists of three wooden cross-ribbed vaults . In the raised chancel there is a semicircular step with a bulge for the baptismal font and ambo . The base of the baptismal font bears the year 1577. There is another octagonal baptismal font from the 18th century. Behind the age rises in the central axis of the church a wooden structure decorated with Tuscan columns , which holds the pulpit altar . Above is the gallery for the organ built in 1777 . The baroque organ front is decorated with carved tendrils.
Under the chancel there is a crypt that was already laid under the old church. It was the hereditary burial of the Boyneburgs who lived in Gehaus . Outside the choir are tombstones from the 17th to 19th centuries.
On June 28, 1818, a heavy thunderstorm destroyed the west side of the tower and damaged the church roof and the tower clock . After the interior renovation in 1893 and repeated repairs to the tower, the interior of the church was renovated from 1967 onwards. The newly renovated church was consecrated on September 8, 1968 with the participation of the regional bishop Mitzenheim .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 20.4 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 27.2" E