St. Georg (Rittersdorf)
The Protestant village church of St. Georg with a high church tower is located in the middle of the cemetery on a hill on the edge of the Rundling village of Rittersdorf in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish association Tannroda in the parish of Weimar of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
For the first time a pastor was mentioned in a document in 1474 , as was the church, but the stones indicate a higher age. The Romanesque choir tower church with apse in the nave is said to have been a castle church . From choir and triumphal arch are fighters remains preserved. The tower floor, now the sacristy , has a barrel vault . There are double arched windows and arched doors walled up in the house . On the south-west side there is a pointed arch window with the year 1595. In 1716 wooden barrels, galleries and rectangular windows were built based on the model of the Thangelstedt church . In 1767 the tail dome with a lantern and a helmet was attached.
The baroque pulpit altar is set in scene with the triumphal arch opening covered with boards.
From 1994 onwards, the house of God was extensively renovated and re-opened. In October 1998, in which was the country prison Untermaßfeld originating organ inaugurated.
Web links
- Information about the church on kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Private website on Rittersdorf ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 4.9 ″ N , 11 ° 14 ′ 10.7 ″ E