St. Blasius (Zella-Mehlis)

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St. Blasius (Zella-Mehlis)
Pulpit altar
Council box with organ gallery
organ

The Protestant town church St. Blasius is a baroque hall church in Zella-Mehlis in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia . It belongs to the Zella-Mehlis parish in the Meiningen parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

History and architecture

The Protestant church in Zella St. Blasii was built in 1768–1773 by Johann David Weidner (1721–1784) in place of the St. Blasii chapel, which burned down in the town fire on May 25, 1762 , and was consecrated on November 27, 1774. The model was Weidner's main work, the Michaeliskirche in Ohrdruf, built in 1754–1760 . The Blasius Church in Zella is one of the most important central church buildings in Thuringia with its transversely oval floor plan, the hipped gable roof and the tower projecting in the middle of the north wall.

The hall was probably based on the designs by Gottfried Heinrich Krohne for the Georgenkirche in Eisenach from a rectangle with rounded narrow sides. The exterior is structured with corner pilaster strips made of natural stone, in contrast to the plastered facades. High arched windows illuminate the interior, a mansard roof with dormers completes the building. Entrances are arranged on all four sides, in the south the entrance was emphasized as a counterpart to the northern tower by a three-sided porch with a triangular gable.

The interior is equipped with two circumferential galleries. The theater-like arrangement of the benches and the alignment on the altar along the longitudinal axis emphasize the central character of this Protestant preaching room.

Furnishing

The original pulpit altar with rocailles decoration stands on the southern long side, while opposite it is the manorial box with the organ above it.

organ

The organ with a prospectus with laurel tendrils and rocaille shapes is a work by Johann Caspar Rommel from 1778 with 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . It was restored in 1990 by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company . The disposition is:

I Manual CD – c 3
Quintatön 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Viola da gamba 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Put it small 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sesquialtera III
Mixture V
II Manual CD – c 3
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Flute Travers 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Night horn 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Mixture III
Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violonbass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
trombone 16 ′

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Blasius (Zella-Mehlis)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 18 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 14.6"  E