St. Boniface (Rockstedt)
The Evangelical-Lutheran , listed church of St. Bonifatius is in Rockstedt , a community in the Kyffhäuserkreis of Thuringia . The parish Rockstedt belongs to the parish area Ebeleben in the parish area Ebeleben-Holzthaleben in the parish of Bad Frankenhausen Sondershausen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The Romanesque church was built in the 12th / 13th centuries. In the 15./16. In the 19th century it was rebuilt, including the height of the choir in the choir tower and the tapering of the arch . The Church was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War . In 1678 the tower had to be stabilized with construction clips and anchors . As early as 1684, the upper part of the same and the adjoining nave to the west had to be repaired. In 1788 the nave was raised, a mansard roof was added and the windows there were given their current shape. The galleries and the wooden barrel vault were also repaired. In 1891 the pulpit altar in the chancel was removed and a pulpit with a polygonal base and rectangular sound cover was attached to the choir arch. In the west, an external entrance was created for the galleries, which was demolished again in the 1960s.
description
The tiled mansard roof of the nave of the hall church has three dormer windows on each of the long sides. The church tower in the east is covered with a slate hipped roof. On the southern roof surface a dormer window for the hour bell and the clock face of the tower clock . On the north side there is a walled up round arched portal , formerly the entrance to the choir and later sacristy . A large arched window was broken into on the east side in 1891 .
The interior of the nave has double-storey gray-painted galleries with red-brown painted parapets and is covered with a blue-gray painted wooden barrel vault. In the north wall there is a late Gothic tabernacle . The late Gothic hexagonal baptismal font comes from a broken church in Wiedermuth . The organ in the classicist prospect with 11 stops , divided into a manual and pedal , was built by Dittus in 1824. There the church is called St. Martin.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 5.3 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 43.4" E