St. Burchardi Church (Kleinmölsen)

The church

The St. Burchardi Church is located in the municipality of Kleinmölsen in the district of Sömmerda in Thuringia .

history

The way the village church looks today, it was built between 1601 and 1604. The parish had asked the Erfurters for money , which they got. On the southern wall of the choir, the panel of donors and Erfurters is in the first place.

The rededication took place in 1719. It was a long-awaited event because before that the church belonged to other parishes.

In 1814 they had the first church seal on St. Burchardi. This name day was decisive for the parish fair until 1965/70 .

The church building from 1804 still shapes the townscape today. In church construction, traditional forms were retained for a longer period of time, and so the tracery of the two-lane windows around the chancel still has a Gothic character, while the interior design, such as the originally completely encircling wooden toothed friezes, is already modern in the Renaissance style . The barrel vault of the hall church with a three-sided choir polygon has a church tower on the east side and south . The arched portals with their profile are also part of the new building. The basement is a century older. The tower is indented on the south wall and is 34.5 meters high with an octagonal pointed helmet . The tower floor space with a quarry stone barrel vault is 80 cm below the floor level of the hall and can be reached through a pointed arch portal .

In 1712 the community received a baroque pulpit altar from Eisenach . The organ built Friedrich Meissner from Gorsleben a 1913th The altar table , with a cavity from 1450/1500, a lectern from 1579 and a baroque painting showing Christ on the Mount of Olives make up the space. The church's paintings and a wooden chest have now been restored.

The organ renovation took place in the same year. It is playable again. The electrical system was renewed and modernized.

The belfry

Belfry

From 2005 the structural repair of the upper floor of the tower took place with the installation of a new belfry . The old belfry from 1500 has been a memorial in the churchyard since 2008 .

The old bell chair is a so-called trestle chair. The dendrological examination showed that the fir wood (unusual for bell stalls) was felled in the winter of 1500/01. In 1509 the bell cage took up the big bell that had been cast by the Erfurt bell caster Heinrich Ciegeler .

After 444 years of reliable service, the bell broke when it was rung in March 1953 and was cast in Apolda in 1954 . The old inscriptions and the iconographic equipment with medallions with the unicorn hunt motif were retained. The other two bells were cast by the Schilling bell foundry in 1955 and 1969 .

Over the long life of the belfry, it became unstable and weak. In 2008, a new oak bell chair was created.

Newly built than the 1604, the still usable beams, at least 100 years older church were assembled some energetic citizen in 2009 in 270 volunteer hours and beaver tail is -Ziegeln.