St. Bonifatius (Tröchtelborn)
The Protestant village church St. Bonifatius is a post-Gothic hall church in Tröchtelborn in the Gotha district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of St. Bonifatius in the Gotha parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is known for its important baroque organ.
History and architecture
The village church Tröchtelborn is a hall church with a wooden barrel and a choir closed on three sides; it dates from the years 1603 to 1605. The nave of the Romanesque predecessor building from the 11th century stood on the side facing away from the defense tower. The current church was built in a transitional period, the builders chose the post-Gothic style with filigree tracery windows , although the Gothic had not been common for about a century at that time. The motivation for installing additional buttresses on the choir in 1701 could be justified with structural requirements. At the same time, the builders built a staircase extension and the top of the tower was re-covered.
In April 1945 the church was damaged by artillery fire and only poorly repaired. In 1984, the West German partner congregation donated the slate tiles and copper nails for an urgently needed new covering of the leaky church roof. The moisture damage had already spread from the leaky roof to the wooden barrel, and the laths of the roof structure no longer allowed for a technically solid attachment of the tiles. Likewise, the stability of the ring anchor had to be called into question; there was a large crack on the tower. Under these circumstances, the church, which was already under monument protection, had to be cleared in 1988 and, after an inspection, closed by the building authorities in 1990. With funds from an emergency security program of the Thuringian church building administration, renovation work was carried out from 1992 to 1996, the German Foundation for Monument Protection contributed with an additional donation of 130,000 DM celebrated a "button festival".
Furnishing
The furnishings were converted into a baroque version through renovations and extensions. These include two galleries from the 18th century with paintings, a baptismal font from the same period and the largely original organ from the workshop of Franciscus Volckland . The pulpit altar is a work from the middle of the 18th century. The impressive baptismal font from the beginning of the 17th century has a six-sided basin and is decorated with relief depictions of the baptism of Christ in the Jordan, the sacrifice of Isaac , the angel of the Last Judgment , the scouts from Canaan with the grapes and two unclothed children and angels. A crucifix was created at the end of the 14th century. Three sandstone reliefs from the beginning of the 17th century in the manner of Hans Friedemann the Elder probably belonged to an earlier pulpit from this time and show the representation of Christ and the evangelists Mark and Luke.
organ
The organ is a work by Franciscus Volckland from 1767 with 24 stops on two manuals and pedal . The prospect pipes had to be delivered for war purposes in 1917. After 1950 the organ was rebuilt with changes to the layout . Between 1994 and 1996 the organ was restored to its original state. The disposition is:
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Pairing :
- Main work - positive
- Pedal - major work
- Pedal - positive.
- Secondary register and playing aids : Modulatio Manual (channel tremulant), calcanten alarm clock, valve main work, valve positive
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 1241-1242.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 30.3 " N , 10 ° 49 ′ 6.7" E