St. Gotthardt (Rohnstedt)

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Gotthardt Church Rohnstedt is the baroque hall church in Rohnstedt , a district of the city of Großenehrich in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . The essentially Gothic village church was built in 1693, including older parts of the previous church, which was consecrated to St. Godehard (Gotthart). In 1727 the west tower with a curved hood was completed, which was renewed in 1824. The Thuringian cultural monument characterizes the townscape.

history

Church from the north

On September 27, 979, Emperor Otto II gave possessions including "Ruohenstat" (Rohnstedt) to the Gandersheim monastery . In church terms, the place belonged to the archdeaconate of Jechaburg in the 12th century and had a Romanesque chapel. The medieval previous church was dedicated to St. Godehard, whose patronage was taken over by the baroque church. With the introduction of the Reformation by Günther XL. von Schwarzburg in 1539 Rohnstedt switched to the Protestant creed. In 1543 the Reformation was almost complete.

From the 1570s to 1873 the village church of Wenigenehrich was a branch of the mother church in Rohnstedt. From 1646 to 1649 Wolferschwenda was a branch.

In 1693 the nave was renewed using older components and in 1727 the tower. The tower was given a new dome and the church a new roof in 1824. In 1837/38 the interior was extensively redesigned. A weathered plaque on the north side commemorates the builder Weibezal from Geußen. The baroque interior was extensively redesigned in 1837 in the Biedermeier style. In the course of this, the Gothic winged altar was converted into a pulpit altar .

The morgue was built in the basement of the tower in 1951/52. For this purpose, a large round arch was broken into on the north side, which was framed with limestone. The church was re-roofed on August 18, 1955.

Between 1987 and 1993, the village residents contributed to a comprehensive renovation of the dilapidated church. The hall roof was re-covered with concrete roof tiles. In order to save costs, climbers from the Thuringian Forest repaired the church tower in 1987/88 and covered it with Preolit ​​shingles . With a button festival on May 29, 1988, the renewal of the tower button and the wind vane was celebrated. In 1988, a missing support pillar was removed and the western part of the south wall was rebuilt. Instead of the original wooden barrel, the interior was given a trapezoidal wood ceiling. In 1989/90 the floor, chairs and windows were renewed. The western third of the nave was separated and converted into a community room, as a result of which the western gallery was rebuilt and the organ moved. The pulpit altar was returned to its original form as a winged altar, later layers of paint were removed and restored. In 1990 the interior was painted, and the outer walls were plastered in 1991/92. The completion of the construction work was the rededication of the church with Regional Bishop Roland Hoffmann on the 300th anniversary of the construction of the building in 1993. In 2001, the tower dome was renovated and, from August to November of that year, new slate was added. On November 15, 2001, the ball button with the new weather vane was put on.

architecture

West tower

The geostete church is located on the northeastern outskirts of the village in the midst of the cemetery, the fence surrounding limestone masonry on the south side includes the adjacent building. The Gothic structure of the previous building has largely been preserved, especially the choir closure. The low hall church has a three-sided east end from medieval times and a retracted west tower.

The white-plastered nave rises above a low pedestal made of exposed rubble masonry of limestone. The western part of the south wall has been re-listed. A former window niche in the south wall indicates the inclusion of an old wall remnant from the previous building. Only the first words have been preserved on the inscription stone on the north side: "This wall was built in / 1838 [...]". The name of the builder Weibezal is no longer legible. A pointed arched choir window is let into the east side. The three tracks of the tracery in the lower area end in three passes , while the pointed arch has fish bubbles and colored lead glass. The nave is illuminated on the north side through two high rectangular windows with stone soffits and on the south side through three rectangular windows and accessed through the south portal. The portal has a roofed half-timbered porch with St. Andrew's crosses over a broken stone base.

The transverse rectangular west tower includes older parts. It consists of a walled-up shaft and a shielded helmet structure. The lower third of the tower consists of quarry stone masonry with large arched portals in the north and south and a round arched window on the west side. The two white plastered upper floors are only divided on the west side by a cornice. Strong wall anchors are attached to the three free-standing sides of the middle storey. The upper floor serves as a bell house and has round-arched sound holes on the three free-standing sides and a slotted window on the east side. The slated, wooden tower structure consists of a curved hood, above which an open lantern communicates to the six-sided French hood . A large white clock face and a gold-plated tip are attached to the south side of the tower spire. The hood from 1824 is crowned by a gilded tower knob and a weather vane that was renewed in 2001.

Furnishing

left wing of the altar: Elisabeth, Nikolaus, a bishop and Amalberga
Gothic carved altar
Female saint on the back of the altar, in the middle St. Ottilie

The interior is closed off by a trapezoidal ceiling made of wood. Above that, the old collar beam roof from 1838 and the system of the old round barrel have been preserved. The altar area is raised by one step.

The octagonal baptismal font in the shape of a cup over a base comes from the late Gothic period (16th century). Today it is set up in the entrance area and functions as an offering box. The modern baptismal font is modeled on the old one, also octagonal over an octagonal foot. The walled-up altar is closed off by a canteen made of red sandstone, which slopes downwards . The wooden lectern (instead of a pulpit) is modern, as is the baptismal font and the wooden church stalls that leave a central aisle free. The lecture cross dates from the 18th century.

The most valuable piece of furniture is the Gothic winged altar from the 1510s in the reconstructed form from 1989/90. The veil boards and the profile strips have not been preserved . The original predella was new in the 17th century taken and shows the Last Supper. The back of the central shrine and the outside of the double doors show damaged panel paintings from the late Gothic period with female saints as half-figures, including St. Ottilie . The inside houses 14 carved figures, of which only a few can be reliably interpreted due to the removed attributes. Seven figures stand in the 1.60 x 0.70 meter central field, from left to right: Simon Zelotes , James the Elder with a hat, a saint with a book, Simon Petrus (?), A saint with a later supplemented book and palm fronds, a saint with a pouch book and a saint with a book ( John ?). The left wing shows four figures: Elisabeth (cloth with crown, jug and beggar), Nicholas with the crosier and three lumps on the book, a bishop with palm fronds and Amalberga . On the right wing three figures can be seen, a crowned saint without attribute, a saint with a pouch ( Matthew ?) And on the right George with the dragon.

organ

Organ behind the historical prospectus from 1738
Profiled cornices and gilded veil work

The late baroque organ case dates from 1738, when the Rohnstedt organ builder Johann Nikolaus Steinmetz (1698–1774) built a work with eleven stops and an independent pedal . Steinmetz first learned the carpentry trade and later got into organ building. Before 1738 he built new organs in the nearby Gebesee and Haßleben . A repair by Julius Strobel has been proven in Rohnstedt in 1877 . Since the interior work and the pipes were missing, the Herbert Löbling company from Zimmersupra (formerly Erfurt) built a new plant in 1992; Windchest , action and console have been completely renewed. The single-manual instrument is based on a four-foot position and has seven registers. The splendid and unusually wide prospectus has nine axes. In the middle rises a raised round tower that extends to the flat ceiling. It is flanked on both sides by a low flat field, a pointed tower and again a flat field. On the outside, polygonal towers adjoin, which are decorated with side veils . All pipe fields have veils at the top and are separated by richly decorated pilaster strips . The cornices are profiled several times. The disposition has been as follows since 1992:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Coarse 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Peal

Small bell from 1920

The newly erected church tower received a large bronze bell in 1739 from Paul Hiob Hahn from Gotha (diameter: 0.87 meters). In 1850 and 1856 two more bronze bells were purchased by Gebr. Ulrich from Apolda (0.72 and 0.60 meters in diameter). All three were delivered for armaments purposes and melted down during the First World War. In 1920 they were replaced by three cast steel bells from Schilling & Lattermann from Apolda . They bear the following inscriptions: "Ring bell, ring peace" (large bell), "Ring peace in every heart" (middle bell), "When my day ends, you ring me home" (small bell).

literature

  • Friedrich Apfelstedt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Volume 1: The subordination. Fr. Bertram, Bertram, Sondershausen 1886. Reprint: Donhof, Arnstadt 1993, ISBN 3-86162-013-8 , p. 76.
  • Friedrich Apfelstedt: Local history for the residents of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Volume 1. Eupel, Sondershausen 1856, p. 193 ( online )
  • Stephanie Eißing: Handbook of the German art monuments . Part: Thuringia. In: in cooperation with the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , pp. 1013 .
  • Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology (Ed.), Dietrich Wiegand (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Volume 5. Kyffhäuserkreis (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany ). E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937940-94-6 , pp. 105-107.
  • Fire Brigade Association Rohnstedt e. V. (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1025 years Rohnstedt. 979-2004. Rohnstedt 2004.
  • Ottomar Hahn: Local history for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Eupel, Sondershausen 1914.
  • Hartmut Haupt : Organs in North and West Thuringia (= training and knowledge ). Bad Homburg, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-932366-00-X .

Web links

Commons : St. Gotthardt Church (Rohnstedt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology (ed.), Dietrich Wiegand (edit.): Cultural monuments in Thuringia. 2014, p. 106.
  2. ↑ Fire Brigade Association Rohnstedt e. V. (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1025 years Rohnstedt. 979-2004. 2004, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Apfelstedt: Heimatskunde for the residents of the principality Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Volume 1. Eupel, Sondershausen 1856, p. 193 ( online ), accessed on May 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fire Brigade Association Rohnstedt e. V. (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1025 years Rohnstedt. 979-2004. 2004, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Fire Brigade Association Rohnstedt e. V. (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1025 years Rohnstedt. 979-2004. 2004, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Fire Brigade Association Rohnstedt e. V. (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1025 years Rohnstedt. 979-2004. 2004, p. 6.
  7. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments. Thuringia. 2003, p. 1013.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology (ed.), Dietrich Wiegand (edit.): Cultural monuments in Thuringia. 2014, p. 107.
  9. ↑ Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders, Volume 1: Thuringia and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 288 .
  10. ^ Heinrich Frankenberger, Wolfram Hackel: Dispositions of the organs in the churches of the subordinate and suzerainty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1870–1883. Pape, Berlin 1991, p. 66.
  11. ↑ Organ builder Strobel (PDF file; 41.6 kB), accessed on May 26, 2014.
  12. ^ Main: Organs in North and West Thuringia. 1998, p. 80.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 57.7 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 7.5 ″  E