St. Bonifatius (Oberheldrungen)

St. Boniface

The Evangelical Lutheran , listed village church of St. Bonifatius is in Oberheldrungen , a community in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . St. Boniface is part of the parish Regional Municipality Artern-Heldrungen in the parish area Artern-Heldrungen I (Heldrungen) in the parish of Eisleben-Sömmerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

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The simple, slate-roofed hall church was built in 1713. The massive church tower in the east is essentially medieval . It received a bulbous, eight-sided hood on which an open lantern sits. After 1830 a sacristy was added to the tower to the east. The nave has galleries on three sides , in the west it is two-story. It is covered with a plastered, wooden barrel vault. The baroque pulpit altar has two zones, the lower one with Corinthian columns , the upper one with a swinging pulpit cage with lateral volutes . The altarpiece, painted around 1800, shows Jesus and the Samaritan woman . The eight-sided baptismal font from 1847 with a late Gothic base and a large cup comes from the chapel of the Heldrungen fortress . The organ has 19 stops , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . It was built in the second half of the 19th century by Friedrich Gerhardt organ builder .

Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .

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