St. Georg (Neustadt / Harz)
The Evangelical Lutheran , listed parish church of St. Georg is located in Neustadt / Harz , a district of the Harztor rural community in the Nordhausen district of Thuringia . The parish Neustadt belongs to the parish area Ilfeld in Kirchenkreis Südharz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
During the great fire in Neustadt on September 10, 1678, the church burned down completely, and all inventory was lost. Reconstruction began in 1679 and lasted until 1705. In 1693 the first service could be held in the half-finished church. In 1706 two baptismal angels were given to the church , nothing is known about their whereabouts. The baroque baptismal angel now hanging in the church was restored in 1960. On November 21, 1712 the organ of the organ builder Johann Georg Papenius was inaugurated. It has not been preserved. Today the organ of the organ builder Friedrich Ladegast , inaugurated here on September 1st, 1985, is in the church. It was built for the church of Eythra , the place had to give way to the brown coal mining .
description
The baroque hall church with polygonal choir and recessed square church tower in the west was built from rubble stones . The tower got its current high octagonal helmet in 1871, at that time still decorated with four corner turrets, which were removed when it was re-roofed in 1972. Ernst zu Stolberg donated two bells in 1698 , the small one was melted down for armament purposes during the First World War , the large one returned from Hamburg damaged after the Second World War and was re-cast in Apolda in its old form. The ground floor of the tower has a groin vault .
The wide nave is covered with a compressed wooden barrel vault, in the choir it is shaped as a semi-dome . The three-sided wooden galleries have parapets with balusters . In the west the gallery is two-story, the upper one, on which the organ stands, is arched. The organ with 17 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal , was built by Friedrich Ladegast in 1875 and restored in 1985 by Norbert Sperschneider, Gerhard Kirchner's successor . Ernst zu Stolberg's wife, Christiane Elisabeth von Gladebeck, donated the baroque pulpit altar in 1705/1706 . Under the pulpit there is a painting about the Last Supper from 1707. A medallion from 1681 with a floating Christ crowns the pulpit.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 37.7 " N , 10 ° 50 ′ 8.1" E