St. Andreas (Bellstedt)

Bellstedt, St. Andreas

The church of St. Andreas is a Protestant - Lutheran church in Bellstedt .

history

The church was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is unclear whether the choir was built at the same time as the nave, but a later construction in the 15th or 16th century is also possible. Around 1585 repairs of an unknown extent were carried out. On March 22, 1585, Johann Günther I allowed the community to carry out a collection to finance this work. Between 1709 and 1711 the galleries and a box were built. The latter was intended for the then landowners, the lords of Krackenhof. At the end of the 19th century, the staircase on the north side was renewed. Furthermore, were stained glass windows installed. The painting of the choir vault with gold stars on a blue background, which is still preserved today, also dates from this period.

Building description

The church is a rectangular hall structure, to which a retracted polygonal choir adjoins. An octagonal roof turret sits on the west side . The north side of the church contains a pointed arch portal with tracery filling . The galleries and the box can each be reached via external stairs on the north side.

In the interior there are two-storey three-sided galleries. The ceiling forms a wooden barrel vault .

Furnishing

Altarpiece from around 1520
wooden standing figure of St. George and a knight figure also from approx. 1520
carved figure of St. Christopher from around 1500
Pulpit from the 17th / 18th centuries century
stone font from the 16./17. century
Portrait of Pastor Friedrich Heinrich Kessler (1703–1767), oil on canvas
Portrait of the Pastor Dr. Kühn, oil on canvas, from 1912
Bell from 1571

organ

The organ is probably a work by Karl Hickmann from Dachwig from 1886. It has the following disposition :

I Manual C–
1.	Drone	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Viol	8th'
4th	Principal	4 ′
5.	Mixture III	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′

II Manual C–
6th	Salicional	8th'
7th	Flute harmonique	8th'
8th.	violin	4 ′

Pedal C–
9.	Sub-bass	16 ′
10.	Principal	8th'

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Playing aids : Fixed combinations (Pleno)

literature

Friedrich Apfelstedt : Local history for the residents of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. First issue. Sondershausen 1854, p. 144
Georg Dehio , edited by Stephanie Eißing, among others: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Thuringia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 118

Web links

Commons : Bellstedt Church - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The church on the side of the Bad Frankenhausen Supture