St. Bonifatius (Gorsleben)
The Protestant village church St. Bonifatius is a Gothic hall church in the district of Gorsleben of the community An der Schmücke in the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis . It belongs to the parish of Gorsleben in the Evangelical Church District Eisleben-Sömmerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The church, which originally served as a monastery church, is located in the middle of the old cemetery . The stately late-Gothic church is built in quarry stone masonry with ashlar elements. The retracted choir is closed with a five-eighth end and with a rib vault and was built according to dendrochronological dating 1496/1497 (d). The nave with a flat ceiling is connected to the choir by the pointed triumphal arch . The ship is built without buttresses and connects to the west of the multi-storey tower structure with pointed helmet and weather vane , which is dated 1518. The church portal was added in 1569.
Inside the ship is closed off by a flat ceiling. A three-sided gallery and a glazed mansion box on the north side with Old Testament representations on the parapet surround the nave. A keel-arched sacrament niche with a partially preserved crown can be seen in the choir.
Furnishing
A late Gothic altar retable comes from the last quarter of the 15th century. In the shrine, the Descent from the Cross can be seen in a room that is marked as a church space by ribbed vaults and tracery windows. This representation is flanked by two saints in the shrine and three saints on the wings. The richly carved pulpit from the end of the 17th century is carried by an angel figure. On the parapet, allegorical representations from the Bible, framed with twisted vine leaves columns, can be seen in relief, on the sound cover the risen Christ. The baptismal font with fluted cuppa is a work dating from 1564. A wooden Wappenepitaph with military emblems was created in 1687, a ganzfiguriges Luther portrait with swan in the 17th century. The organ is a work by Johann Friedrich Hartung from 1784 with 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal , which was rebuilt in 1880 by Friedrich Meißner.
Surroundings
Above the entrance gate to the cemetery from 1568, the "Death of Gorsleben" is depicted as a skeleton in stone with a pointed gable above, the scythe is also the shadow stick of the sundial .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 478–479.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 11 ° 10 ′ 49.9 ″ E