St. Jodokus (Rödersdorf)
The Evangelical-Lutheran , listed church St. Jodokus is in Rödersdorf , a district of Göschitz in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Rödersdorf belongs to the parish area Dittersdorf in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
As early as 1193, the building of a church is reported. Rödersdorf was once a place of pilgrimage with a Pietà , which was considered miraculous . Indulgences were sold twice a year, at Pentecost and in autumn . From this tradition, the parish fair in autumn was preserved. To promote the house of God, Pope Benedict XII. 1340 an indulgence, which Bishop Withego I of Ostrau confirmed in 1341. In the indulgence letter of 1340, Jodocus is named as the patron saint . In 1480 the Gothic church was rebuilt by the Teutonic Order . It was destroyed by lightning in 1598, but rebuilt in the same year.
description
Construction of the late Gothic hall church began around 1480 . Some of the tower walls date back to the middle of the 14th century. Construction continued into the 16th century. The hall church has a higher, drawn-in yoke for the choir supported by buttresses , which has an asymmetrical polygonal end. The 53 meter high Gothic church tower , covered with a slate-covered , pointed helmet , is attached to the northeast of the choir. The top floor has round arched sound arcades . 3 church bells hang in it .
The interior of the choir and the ground floor of the tower are covered with groin vaults. The nave has a flat ceiling . The remains of two late Gothic stained glass windows show a crucifixion group and Saint Jodokus . In the triumphal arch a large depends crux gemmata . The carved winged altar , created around 1515, comes from the Saalfeld school . In the center of the shrine is a Pietà, flanked on the left by Bartholomew and on the right by an unidentifiable bishop. Ursula and Lucia are shown in the left wing, Anna selbdritt and Katharina are shown on the right . The painting on the back is only partially preserved. Barbara and Dorothea can still be seen on the left wing . The resurrected one stands in the simply designed burst . The predella contains a modern representation of the Holy Communion , freely based on Leonardo da Vinci . Another carved altar, which is significantly older than the main altar, is attached to the south side. There are no cracks or predella. A sacrament house stands on the east wall. A baptismal font from the Renaissance period , dated 1608, shows two reliefs , one with the baptism of Jesus , the other with Jesus' blessing of children . A door in the north wall leads to a lower chapel . Here a piscina with its drainage hole is still preserved. In the room are a number of not very well preserved figures from one or more Gothic carved altars. The organ , built by Ernst Poppe in 1895 , has 14 registers, divided into 2 manuals and a pedal.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '50.4 " N , 11 ° 51' 7.6" E