St. Johannis-Pauli (Lower Saxony Werfen)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed church of St. Johannis-Pauli is in Niedersachswerfen , a district of the Harztor rural community in the Nordhausen district in the Free State of Thuringia . The parish Niedersachswerfen belongs to the parish area Niedersachswerfen in Kirchenkreis Südharz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The previous building was built by monks from the Fulda monastery and named after the early Christian martyrs John and Paulus . The neo-Gothic hall church was built from hewn quarry stones with a bossing in 1868 after the previous building was demolished according to a design by Conrad Wilhelm Hase . Which consists of a central nave existing and two aisles nave has a single-nave transept , a recessed choir with standard 5/8-final and a high church tower with a pointed helmet in the West. The interior is spanned by a ribbed vault. The galleries and the columns are made of brick . The carved winged altar , which comes from the previous building, has a figure of Our Lady in the center, accompanied by 24 saints. A painting with the Entombment of Christ dates from 1678.
The organ with 14 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1870 by Julius Strobel and rebuilt in 1965 by Rudolf Böhm .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 14.2 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 57.1" E