St. Anna (Moderwitz)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Anna , surrounded by the completely preserved cemetery wall, stands in the middle of the village of Moderwitz , a district of the city of Neustadt an der Orla near Jena in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Moder joke belongs to the parish area Knau in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The Romanesque hall church has a relatively large conche as an apse in the east and a roof tower in the west. The nave is covered with a gable roof. A bulbous hood sits on the tower . Two bells hang in the roof tower , a bronze bell from 1922 and a cast steel bell from 1957. The old Romanesque window in the east is walled up. The church was in the 18th century inside Baroque renovated in 1859 and 1989. The interior , which is covered with a flat ceiling , is surrounded by a white painted horseshoe-shaped gallery . There is a patronage box on it, with its own entrance, which is now walled up . Behind the baroque pulpit altar from the 1st half of the 18th century is a round-arched triumphal arch towards the apse. Carved statues of an altarpiece from the beginning of the 16th century are included in the pulpit altar. Next to the pulpit on the pulpit in front there are Anna herself , a man of Sorrows on the left and a Pietà on the right . In the pilasters there are wall niches on the side of the basket , in which two figures of two saints stand on top of each other. Five pictures above the pulpit show the adoration of the kings , the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the left , in the middle the crucifixion with John and Mary under the cross , the entry into Jerusalem and the ascension . Above the pulpit altar there are two large pictures of Katharina von Bora and Martin Luther on the wall on the left and right . The cup-shaped baptismal font made of marble is dated 1688. Three epitaphs for former parish priests are attached to the outside of the apse. The organ with 13 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1867 by Friedrich Wilhelm Dornheim.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 17.9 " N , 11 ° 45 ′ 34" E