St. Cyriakus (Heyerode)

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Heyerode, St. Cyriacus

The Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus is located in the middle of Heyerode , a district of the rural community of Südeichsfeld in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It is named after St. Cyriacus , one of the fourteen helpers in need. The parish of Heyerode belongs to the dean's office in Dingelstädt in the diocese of Erfurt .

description

The construction of the stone -faced hall church , made of ashlar, began in 1896. It has a three-sided, drawn-in choir in the northeast and a transverse rectangular drawn-in church tower in the southwest. The transverse gable roof of the tower, a roof turret mounted. The top floor of the tower, in which the belfry is located, has triforias as sound arcades on the transverse side . The nave , its four window axes are in the outer wall by buttressesdivided, is covered with a gable roof. The interior of the central nave is covered with a gable roof-shaped wooden ceiling , the side aisles have flat ceilings . The choir has a groin vault . The parapets of the two-storey, three-sided galleries are unadorned. A triumphal arch separates the choir and nave .

The organ with 16 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal , was built by Friedrich Ladegast & Son around 1900 . The organ was changed to neo-baroque style in the 1950s. The organ work has been renewed true to the orchestral organ type of the 19th century using the historic organ pipes by Oskar Ladegast from 1910. The disposition was reconstructed in this sense by new registers and supplemented. The organ was positioned from the arch of the tower in the church to the front on the gallery and built into a new thick-walled organ case .

The church was completely restored in 1905. The sacristy was expanded.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decree on the reorganization of the deaneries in the diocese of Erfurt
  2. ↑ Discover Thuringia
  3. ↑ Information on the organ
  4. ↑ Hey organ building

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 52.2 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 10.3 ″  E