St. Georg (Mellingen)
The Protestant village church of St. Georg is in the community of Mellingen in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . It is located with the churchyard in the old center of the village north of the river Ilm. and belongs to the parish Mellingen-Umpferstedt in the Weimar parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
As early as 1282 at the latest there was a church dedicated to St. Michael in the village . It was abandoned in the course of the Reformation in favor of the Church of St. George, which has been documented since 1333. Remains of her tower were visible until 1843. The Georgskirche suffered great damage in the Thirty Years War . The roof was completely destroyed. The first repair work began in 1667, but soon a complete reconstruction. The church tower was dismantled and completed in 1669 (as evidenced by an inscription above the west door) with a tail cap and a small octagonal attachment.
The nave was redesigned in 1724–1730. This included a three-sided end of the choir with 13 large windows and six skylights, a wooden barrel, double galleries , a pulpit altar on four floors with rich baroque architecture , which at the bottom takes up the entire width of the chancel . The roof was covered with slate .
A bell , which was cast in 1721 by the bell founder Johann Christoph Rose in Oßmannstedt , was placed in the nave in 1984. Since 1990 it has been replaced by a new bell that was cast by the Carl Metz company from Karlsruhe. It bears the monogram of Christ and the inscription Soli deo gloria anno 1990 .
1964–1966 an interior renovation took place; 1987 demolition of the stem and rebuilding; For the first time since 1730 a general overhaul of the organ by Johann Benjamin Witzmann (1807) took place in 2006 .
Web links
- Information about the church on kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
- Website of the church building association ( Memento from August 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 31.2 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 44.3" E