St. Gangolf (Gangloffsommern)
The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Gangolf stands on a ridge away from the town of Gangloffsömmern , a community in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia . St. Gangolf belongs to the parish RG Straußfurt in Kirchenkreis Eisleben-Sömmerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The church patronage of the church, which was first mentioned in 1204, was transferred in 1216 by Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia to the Katharinenkloster in Eisenach . It is assumed that the current village church was a pilgrimage church or the seat of a monastery in the pre-Reformation period . It is assumed that there is a historical connection with the nearby church of the former Benedictine convent in Ottenhausen , which was built at the same time .
Building description
The nave and the church towers , which were presumably the westwork of the previous building , were built in the 12th century from travertine ashlar masonry . In 1785 the nave was rebuilt as a plastered travertine building with a mansard roof and dormer windows , but the towers were largely preserved in their original condition. The two uppermost floors of the slender towers were originally opened by a biforium made of columns with a cube capital on each side. These are now z. Sometimes walled up or covered by the modern tower structure. Around 1825 the domes of the towers were removed because they were dilapidated , but the towers were not torn down against the will of the parish, so that the tower domes could be restored in their current form in 1855.
The original end of the choir was replaced by a retracted, early Gothic rectangular choir with a staggered group of three windows in the east wall. In the south wall of the choir there is a small ogival gate with Gothic fittings . The ground floors of the towers were formerly open to the nave and the space between the towers by round arches and illuminated by small windows in the east. Stairs are now built in here. Both rooms were spanned with groin vaults; in the south it has now largely erupted. The fighters can still be seen on some arches . The space between the tower is covered with a modern barrel vault with stitch caps . The equipment with three-sided, two- story galleries in the nave as well as a patron's box and a wide altar prospectus in the choir took place around 1820/25. The older, wooden barrel vaults of the nave and choir and the mansard roof of the nave were reconstructed in 1996.
Furnishing
Only parts of two altarpieces remain from the medieval church furnishings . The six late Gothic carved reliefs with scenes of the Passion , the Calvary and the Entombment of Christ were added to the altar prospect when it was refurbished in the early 19th century. The smaller reliefs perhaps reworked or reproduced in the post-Reformation period. From another altar comes a pair of wings with eight carved figures of saints on the inside and two paintings with the Descent into Hell and the Resurrection of Christ on the outside. The paintings were created at the beginning of the 16th century. In the north-east corner of the choir there is a three-sided stone sacrament house with four rough saint reliefs, which was created around 1470/80. A large eight-sided baptismal font with concave sides from the 15th century stands today in the church cemetery .
The organ with 16 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1896 by Ladegast & Sohn .
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- Coupling : manual coupling, pedal coupling
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 31.3 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 1.5 ″ E