St. Johannis Church (Winterstein)
The St. John's Church , newly built in 1855, is the Protestant church in the Winterstein district in Thuringia .
history
Previous buildings
The barons of Winterstein as patron saints of the place dared to convert to the Evangelical faith as early as 1530 . They owned a private chapel in the castle grounds, which existed until the mid-19th century. As a result of inheritance divisions, it was in the area of the Mittelgut and was dilapidated at that time.
According to the Gotha historian Johann Georg August Galletti, an older St. John's Chapel, which has existed on the outskirts of the village since the late Middle Ages , was on the Erbachschen Hof on Schmerbacher Weg; it is no longer verifiable. The village population was also forced to convert during the Reformation and was parish off to Schwarzhausen . It was not until 1703 that Bernhard von Wangenheim approved the construction of a village church.
First of all, the new church was built on a plot of land next to the Winterstein castle ruins . It was consecrated on June 24, 1704 as St. John's Church. At the same time, a village school and the new cemetery were created for the village population. The church had three galleries . In the following years, a separate tower was built and a stately bell was bought.
As early as 1850, the church building was badly damaged by structural defects (sponge infestation?) And was removed down to the foundation walls.
Construction of a new church in the middle of the 19th century
By 1855 it was replaced by a new building - a simple hall church . This received the organ from the castle church installed. In the choir room of the church a small crypt was created for the burial of the lord of the castle. The later burials then took place on the Wangenheim hereditary burial to the north of the church .
On July 1, 1905, the Wintersteiner parish became independent. The first Winterstein pastor was called Meng. He only stayed there for two years, insisting on the provision of his own rectory. In 1909 the village received its own rectory, in which Pastor Hans Munck lived until 1920.
Well-known pastors
The following list names the pastors who worked in Winterstein until 1993. Clergymen who later worked in Winterstein are also given.
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Building
The church building is a simple hall church and is closed with a wooden barrel vault . A circumferential gallery houses the organ, among other things. The octagonal church tower , which is clad with slate, rises from its pent roof , which is covered with tiles.
organ
The organ comes from the workshop of the Großtabarz master organ builder Friedrich Knauf and was installed in Winterstein in 1856. Before that, the church owned the organ from the 18th century, which was removed from the former castle chapel of the Wangenheimers.
After the fall of the Wall , in 1993/1994, the organ restorer Hey , who lives in Urspringen, was able to carry out maintenance and repair work on the organ.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ U. Sareik, S. Ortmann, K. Sturm: Monuments of the Gotha district . Ed .: Council of the District of Gotha. August-Bebel Gotha printing works, Erfurt / Gotha 1987, p. 98 .
- ↑ a b Local court districts Tenneberg, Thal and Wangenheim . In: Paul Lehfeldt (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Vol. 2. Justice Office Walterhausen . Book XI. Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1891, p. 92-95 .
- ↑ Hartmut Ellrich (et al): The churches of the superintendent, Waltershausen-Ohrdruf . Weimar 2005, Winterstein, p. 91-92 .
- ^ A b Karl-Heinz Pfuch: Winterstein. Pictures, stories and history (anniversary publication for the 750th anniversary) . Ed .: Festival Committee. Winterstein 1996, excerpts from the history of the Protestant parish Winterstein, p. 40-43 .
- ↑ Business card of the St. Johannis Church in Winterstein , accessed on January 3, 2015.
- ↑ Hartmut Ellrich (et al): The churches of the superintendent, Waltershausen-Ohrdruf . Weimar 2005, The Winterstein Organ, p. 138 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ' N , 10 ° 27' E