St. Bartholomew (Otto Wind)

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St. Bartholomew in Ottowind
Choir room

The oldest parts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Bartholomew in Ottowind in Upper Franconia in the Coburg district date from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century.

history

The church and the churchyard, which was the cemetery until around 1880, were once fortified. The oldest part of the church is the ground floor of the church tower, in which a cuboid with a stonemason's mark from the 13th century is built. The earlier church is attested to the year 1528. The oldest bell dates from 1601. According to a building inscription, the top floor of the church tower and the tail dome date from 1753. The nave in its present form was built in 1767 on the orders of Duke Ernst Friedrich , following a collection from the neighboring communities.

For centuries, Ottowind was a subsidiary of Oettingshausen . The parish has been looked after by the Großwalburer parish since 1978 . The church book goes back to 1651.

Building description

The baroque church bears the name of St. Bartholomew . It is a choir tower church , the churchyard of which is enclosed by a wall. The striking, 42 meter high church tower with its octagonal, slate-covered tail dome stands above the choir , which is 4.9 meters long and 4.7 meters wide. The choir is spanned by a late Gothic cross - ribbed vault with a round keystone in blue . Above the choir, the tower has one storey with rectangular windows, separated by a cornice from the top storey with the bell chamber and larger, flat-arched windows with protruding keystones. To the north of the tower is the sacristy , which was added in the second half of the 18th century .

Nave

The rectangular nave, separated from the chancel by a round-arched triumphal arch , is 12.1 meters long and 6.6 meters wide. The interior has a simple design and is spanned by a flat ceiling, which adorns stucco work and a central sun with tetragram , the four Hebrew letters of God's name. A two-story gallery on wooden pillars characterizes the room. The north and south facades are divided into three and the west facade two flat-arched windows with protruding keystones. In addition, there are flat-arched doors on the south and west sides, with the main entrance on the west side being decorated with ears, fascia and attachment.

Bells

The larger bell with a diameter of 78 centimeters was cast in 1601 by Erfurt's Herman Konnigk. It is decorated with a frieze of lion heads and tendrils as well as a large relief of St. Bartholomew with a knife and peeled skin. There was also a smaller bell with a diameter of 63 centimeters and an ornamental frieze that was cast in 1749. In 1958, three new bells were added to the big bell.

organ

The first documented organ was purchased by the parish in 1729 with the help of a subsidy from the Ducal Church Office in Coburg. In 1768 a new organ with 17 sounding voices on two manuals , built by the Sesslaches organ builder Johann Adam Schöpf, followed. The barely maintained instrument had to be replaced by a new one in the 19th century. This was made by the organ builder Michael Schmidt from Schmiedefeld for 230 Franconian guilders and the old organ. The one-manual work with nine registers was completed at the end of 1855. The organ stands on the lower gallery and has a three-part prospectus, the middle section of which is a little too high.

Web links

Commons : St. Bartholomäus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 65
  2. ^ A b Michael Höchstädter: Ottowind . In: Eckhart Kollmer (ed.): Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 111
  3. ↑ a b c Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXVIII. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jena, 1902, p. 55f
  4. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part I. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1970, pp. 205f

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E