St. Bartholomew (Gahma)
The branch church of St. Bartholomäus is in Gahma , a district of the municipality of Remptendorf in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Gahma belongs to the parish Gahma-Weisbach in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . She also looks after the believers in Rauschengesees . Around 1200 monks from the Benedictine Abbey of Saalfeld founded the parish of Gahma. Before the Reformation it was an important parish church .
description
The present hall church was built at the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century using older parts. The building history is unclear because different dates are carved in: 1493 on the south-east wall, 1511 on the south-west wall and 1560 on the north wall. Today they are under plaster. The church was renovated in 1689, 1832/33 and 1877. The defensive character of the hall church is created by the unity of the cubic structure and the massive wall of the church cemetery with rectangular arrow slits. The nave is covered with a crooked hip roof that supports a ridge turret. The roof structure has the type of a blown central column.
The interior is divided into the western parish room and the eastern chancel with a flat ceiling . In between there is a narrow middle section below the roof ridge with groin vault , which goes back to the previous building. Except for the east side, the galleries are single-story. The pulpit altar has neo-baroque carvings from the 19th century. The baptismal font from the 17th century is designed in the shape of a cup . The organ with 11 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , was built in 1732 by Andreas Nicolaus Franke.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 27.7 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 13 ″ E