St. Georg (Nägelstedt)

St. George

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Georg is in Nägelstedt , a district of Bad Langensalza in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . She originally came to the court of the commander in the lower village. The parish Nägelstedt belongs to the parish area Großvargula in the parish of Mulhouse the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

description

From the former Teutonic Order Church, under the patronage of Hermann von Salza , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order since 1222, the cross-shaped components with the church tower in the middle have been preserved. Traces of an apse and a Romanesque funnel window can also be seen. Remnants of side aisles suggesting a basilica cannot be detected. The tower has pointed arched sound arcades with early Gothic, chalice-shaped capitals . He got his slate-covered pointed helmet later. The bell is from 1499. Between the square choir and the south arm of the transept is a chapel named 1584.

The nave , which is covered with a mansard roof , was not built on older foundation walls until the 18th century . In the south is the entrance to the galleries . Above the portal in the west is a walled-up window with a coat of arms , marked 1554. The choir and the crossing have groin vaults , the southern transverse arm and the chapel are flat-roofed , the latter with the beginnings of vaulted ribs . In the northern cross arm there are walled-in fighters . The nave is covered with a wooden barrel vault. The ceiling painting shows the Ascension of Christ . The galleries are two-story, their parapets show scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament , painted in grisaille , created in the 18th century.

The pulpit altar from 1741 has a polygonal floor plan , the altar panel shows the birth of Jesus Christ as well as Moses , John the Baptist and the virtues of faith and hope. There is a stone offering box in the choir . The organ is in the organ prospectus , decorated with fluted pilasters , tendrils and horns of plenty . It has 19 stops , divided into 2 manuals and a pedal , and was built in 1830 by Johann Gottlieb Schulze .

Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .

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