St. Johannis (Esperstedt)
The Evangelical Lutheran branch church St. Johannis is surrounded by the churchyard in Pfarrgasse 65 of Esperstedt , a district of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . The parish belongs to the parish area Bad Frankenhausen in the parish of Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The first church was probably built in the 13th century, of which the choir tower and the square yoke of the choir have been preserved. The also preserved adjoining sacristy is late medieval . The church tower is, according to the fighters on the choir arch , only in the 15./16. Century originated. During this time, the cross vaults were also installed in the tower choir. The construction of a church is mentioned in the chronicle in 1551 , but this refers to the previous church of today's hall church , which was destroyed in the major fire in 1626 and rebuilt from 1636. The pulpit was erected in 1651, the saddle roofs of the church were slated in 1669 , the bells consecrated in 1673 and the new altar in 1692. In the first half of the 18th century, the interior was changed by adding boxes . During the great fire in the village in 1808, the tower's baroque helmet burned down and the bells burst. The hood with the lantern was rebuilt in 1809 and a tower ball with a weather vane was added in 1811 . From 1878 the church was extensively repaired after a planned new building had been rejected. From 1996 the church was renovated again .
Building description
The hall church with two axes has a recessed rectangular choir tower on the north side, a rectangular choir and on the east side a slightly recessed extension for the sacristy. The choir tower, chancel and sacristy are made of red sandstone from the quarries of the Kyffhäuser built. All three parts of the building have a beveled cornice .
Outside space
The masonry of rubble of the nave is above a narrow range steinsichtigen plastered . The gable roof is slated . There are two dormer windows on the south side . The eaves are provided with a wooden, profiled eaves cornice . The walls of the doors and windows are made of red sandstone, the windows are arched . On the south side there is a partly slated, partly plastered timber-framed extension under a pent roof as protection for the ground floor entrance and for the stairs to the galleries . The walls of the portals are rectangular or arched . The wooden doors date from the 19th century. The staircase with handrail on the north side leads to the patron's box . A flat-arched entrance was created on the south side of the choir tower in the 19th century, as was a round window for the floor with the bell cage . The sound arcades on all four sides of the tower have late Gothic, differently designed two-lane tracery windows . The eight-sided helmet and the lantern open at the bottom of the tower are slated. The clock faces of the tower clock are arranged on four sides in the hood.
inner space
The wide, short hall is spanned with a wooden barrel vault. The two-storey, three-sided, wooden galleries with their boxes, which were created with the new construction of the hall in the second half of the 17th century, determine the space. They rest on wooden supports with wooden saddles. The upper gallery rests on wide-span sill beams . On the south side, the gallery only extends to the east window, as the pulpit is further east . The organ is located on the upper west gallery . It has 12 stops , divided into a manual and a pedal , and was built in 1805 by P. Schindler. In the eastern part of the galleries, on the south and north sides, boxes are built in, as well as on the north side of the tower choir. The fields of the parapets of the galleries are framed by columns , on the first gallery they are worked as four-sided balusters , on the second gallery they are occupied with trapezoidal capitals . The parapet fields are decorated with a rustic panel painting with scenes from the Old Testament and New Testament, these were exposed and supplemented during the renovation in 1932. Under the north gallery, near the triumphal arch , there is a baroque confessional . The barrel vaulted sacristy was once connected to the choir. There is now an arched door in the wall. The pews are in a row.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '47.4 " N , 11 ° 10' 40.6" E