St. Anna (Töttleben)
The Evangelical Lutheran branch church of St. Anna in the Töttleben district of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia dates back to the 15th century.
history
The late Gothic hall church was built between 1430 and 1450 as the Catholic Church of St. Anne. During the Thirty Years War the church was looted and damaged. All documents were lost. The first invoice documents were only available as evidence from 1655.
The planned repair and maintenance measures of the parish failed in 1669 when the bailiff of Kerspleben was banned from preaching. The ban was only lifted with the support of the Erfurt Ministry and there were additional funds. From 1691 to 1695 a general renovation took place with the help of the church authorities and the use of collectors (local farmers collected money from far away). In 1708 the church was spared in a devastating fire in the village. An organ was installed between 1720 and 1722 . A pulpit altar , the galleries and new windows followed in 1730/1731, as did the relocation of the entrance to the south side. A Meinhardt family donated a new baptismal font in 1871 .
In 1916 and 1942, the two bells were to be melted down for war purposes. The smaller bell of 1679 with a diameter of 68 cm was returned to the church in June 1948.
In the GDR era there was very little money available for the church. After the bell tower and the organ were completely renovated between 1993 and 1996 , the external plastering took place in 2004. Because of the one-sided lowering of the groundwater due to civil engineering work in the early 1990s, cracks appeared in the masonry. Three steel bands built around the nave are supposed to stabilize it, after which the cracks were closed.
Building description
The choir, closed on three sides, and the nave are together 14.1 meters long and 6.2 meters wide. A wooden barrel spans the interior with its two-story galleries. On the west side there is a ridge turret with a tail dome, tabernacle attachment and dome.
organ
The organ was installed by the Erfurt organ builder Johann Georg Schröter between 1720 and 1722. It stands on the upper west gallery and has fourteen registers , two manuals and a pedal, a mechanical tone and register action. In 1994 the Hey Orgelbau company restored the instrument.
Parish
At first, Töttleben was part of the Großmölsen parish . In 1846 the place was assigned to the parish Kleinmölsen . 1923 Pfarrstelle was suspended in Kleinmölsen and Kleinmölsen with the branch Töttleben the church Sprengel Kerspleben in Kirchenkreis Weimar assigned.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The church at www.kirchenkreis-weimar.de Query on October 7, 2013
- ↑ Holger Wetzel: Three stainless steel belts save the church of Töttleben. Thuringian regional newspaper, August 4, 2014
- ^ Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XVL. Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach; District court districts Grossrudestedt and Vieselbach. Jena 1892, p. 83
- ↑ Congregational Letter , Volume 11, No. 1, 2012, p. 10
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '2.5 " N , 11 ° 7' 0.4" E