St. Crucis (Espenfeld)

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St. Crucis Church

The Protestant village church of St. Crucis is in the Espenfeld district of the city of Arnstadt in the Ilm district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Arnstadt in the parish of Arnstadt-Ilmenau of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The Romanesque fortified church , a choir tower church from the middle of the 13th century, was surrounded by double defensive walls, of which the inner one has been preserved.

The massive church tower , the apse and the altar are said to have already existed with the cemetery in 1255 .

The nave and baptismal font date from the first half of the 12th century.

After 116 years this complex is again the seat of a parish office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 96/97
  2. ↑ The Church at www.ilm-kreis.de Retrieved December 1, 2013
  3. ↑ The Church at www.espenfeld.de. Accessed December 1, 2013

Web links

Commons : St. Crucis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 38.5 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 35.6 ″  E