St. Johannis (Urbach)
The Protestant village church of St. Johannis is in the Urbach district of the Menteroda community in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
history
The church tower, which already stood in Urbach in 1083, is one of the oldest church towers in Thuringia. It once had an apse . On the younger upper floor there are partially walled up arched windows. The octagonal bell storey and the curved hood are assigned to the 18th century. A groin vault with remnants of medieval colored plaster can be seen on the tower ground floor .
The nave , built as a five-axis rectangular building , was added to the tower as a hall church in its current form with quarry stone masonry and arched windows in 1838–1841 . The gable roof closes the building at the top.
Inside, bricked from the tower, there is a flat-roofed hall with two-story galleries on Tuscan columns. The choir arch is walled up.
The classical pulpit altar bears the coat of arms of the princes of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . The offering box is dated to the 16th century.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Church at www.suptur-bad-frankenhausen.de Retrieved on May 11, 2014
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '43.2 " N , 10 ° 36' 14.1" E