St. Bonifatius (Großburschla)

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St. Bonifatius (Großburschla)
Arcades and north aisle
Capital of a biforium
capital

The Protestant village church of St. Bonifatius is a later rebuilt Romanesque church in the Großburschla district of Treffurt in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Großburschla in the parish of Mühlhausen of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The monastic foundation in Großburschla, made under Abbot Werinhar von Fulda , dates from the year 980 . The first building of the Romanesque church complex was destroyed in a fire in 1008 and renewed between 1130 and 1150. The first renovations took place in the 14th century and after the Thirty Years' War . A building archaeological investigation and restoration of the church carried out in the years 1965–1968 revealed many details of the originally Romanesque construction. The pillars and columns with sparsely ornamented capitals , the double arcades in the chancel and the original beamed ceiling were secured and partially supplemented. The color scheme chosen by the restorers is based on the original black and red ornamentation and colored design of the columns, pillars and arcades. The building is one of the most valuable and best preserved Romanesque church buildings in the Wartburg district.

architecture

The building, which is rectangular in plan, is what was once a three-aisled basilica , which was later converted into a two-aisled pseudo - basilica . The interior is finished with a flat ceiling. The arcades show the Saxon column change . The pillars are decorated with set circular services at the corners, the pillars have cube capitals . The cornice above is decorated with a leaf frieze. The central nave and the north aisle run through to the east wall. The wall between the main choir and the northern side choir is opened by two coupled biforias, each of which is decorated with a central column over an Attic base and rich figural and vegetable ornamentation on the cube capital and the fighter. The pillar between the biforias is decorated with a leaf frieze in the capital. Remains of a Romanesque choir screen are preserved in front of the chancel .

Furnishing

A crucifix is ​​believed to be from the end of the 15th century. A Gothic lamentation relief from around 1480 can be seen on the east wall . The organ is a work by Albin Hickmann from 1906 with 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal , the disposition of which was changed by Rudolf Böhm in 1950 . The choir organ was built by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company in 1968.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 531.

Web links

Commons : St. Bonifatius (Großburschla)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Scherf: Architectural and art monuments in the city and district of Eisenach. In: Eisenacher Schriften zur Heimatkunde Heft 12, Eisenach, 1980, pp. 54–56.
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 10.7 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 28 ″  E