St. Johannis (Gemünda)
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Johannis in Gemünda in Upper Franconia , a district of Seßlach in the Coburg district , dates back to 1515.
history
A church consecrated to St. Bartholomew is handed down from 1401, when the Lords of Lichtenstein ruled the village. According to a building inscription, the late medieval choir dates from 1515. In 1537 the church was called the parish church. Before 1549 the church was enlarged. Between 1566 and 1568 the parish had the dilapidated church tower replaced by a new building with a height of 35 meters and galleries built into the nave . Johannes Molerus was the first Protestant pastor to preach in the church from 1590 after the Lords of Bibra had introduced the Reformation. Major repairs are documented for 1695 and 1736. In 1787 the nave was extended by 3.6 meters during a renovation, the outer walls were raised by 0.9 meters and a wooden gallery was added. The completion of construction is documented with the year under the coat of arms of the Würzburg bishop.
After the end of the reign of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg , the Counts of Ortenburg became patron saints of the church in 1806 . Tower repairs were carried out in 1836, new bells followed in 1850 and in 1923 the tower was re-roofed. An interior restoration, including the insertion of glass paintings by the Munich artist Josef Reisel in the choir windows, was carried out by the parish from 1950 to 1954. Renovations took place between 1980 and 1982.
Building description
The Johanniskirche stands on a small hill at the end of the lower village street in the southwest of Gemünda.
The Saalbaukirche has a retracted Gothic choir to an axis with a three-eighth end. Four pointed arch windows with tracery in fish bubbles, two with three lanes and two with two lanes, illuminate the choir, which is spanned by a plastered flat ceiling. The choir opens towards the nave, which has been shifted to the south in the axis, in a rectangular shape with rounded corners. The facade of the choir consists of unplastered sandstone blocks. It is structured by strong, single-stepped buttresses with steep shed roofs and attached gables decorated with tracery as well as all around by a plinth and cornice with a valley.
The nave has three axes and is also spanned by a flat plastered ceiling with a wide hollow. In each of the three sides of the building there are arched entrances in the middle, walled up in the south, above a low and on each side a high, arched window. The interior is characterized by a single-storey, wide wooden gallery running around three sides. This stands on Tuscan pillars and has parapets that are divided by posts and circular fields with frame fields in between. The stairways are arranged in the corners. The outer walls of the nave with its hipped gable roof consist of plastered chunk and ashlar masonry. The corner pilaster strips and the arched frames with wedge stones on the windows and doors are made of unplastered sandstone . At the north portal there is an additional roof with a cornice and to the left of it with two shields the coat of arms of the Würzburg bishopric with crown, sword and crook as well as the year 1787. Above the west portal is the alliance coat of arms with ceiling, crest, helmet and jewel of the hereditary patron saints of Lichtenstein and von Heßberg . A closed, pointed arched entrance in the north wall and two walled-up pointed arch windows in the south wall are evidence of late medieval masonry.
The church tower on the northern flank of the choir has four storeys, which are separated on the outside by cornices . The sacristy is located in the base of the tower, spanned by a groin vault and connected to the chancel by an ogival entrance. A few rectangular windows or light slits on the lower floors and four ogival sound openings, three of which are equipped with tracery, characterize the tower. On the third floor of the east side there is an alliance coat of arms of those of Lichtenstein and von Heßberg, on the second floor of the north side there is an alliance coat of arms of those of Bibra and von Wolfskeel with the year 1567. A slate pointed helmet over a profiled eaves forms the upper end.
Furnishing
A neo-Gothic retable from 1907 with a preaching painting from 1920, a work by Julius Hellmer from Kassel, stands over a probably late medieval stone stipes of the altar .
In the corner between the tower and the north-eastern choir closing side there is a tabernacle that is dated to the 1515th A dome protrudes from the wall above the rectangular niche. Next to the niche are two statues on pointed consoles that depict male saints with a book. A wrought-iron niche door with a sliding bolt lock forms the end.
The pulpit is located on the southern arch pillar and is dated around 1787. It was probably changed in 1901 and has a simple four-sided body made of wood. The font, dating from the 17th century, is made of sandstone.
organ
In 1746 an organ was set up above the altar. In 1902, the Nuremberg organ builder Johannes Strebel replaced the baroque organ. The instrument is on the west gallery and has two manuals , a pedal and twelve registers . The organ prospectus consists of three round fields. The middle field is higher and is framed by two columns on volute brackets. Vases form the upper end. On the upper cornices there are segment gable legs and a round arched gable in the middle. The front panels of the lower case show cranked frames. In 1999 the instrument was restored by the Hey company .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg. Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 86
- ^ A b c d Karl Ludwig Lippert: Bavarian art monuments, district Staffelstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1968, p. 113f.
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1980, p. 124
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 28.7 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 20.6 ″ E