St. Johannis (Urbach (Nordhausen district))

St. Johannis

The listed Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis is located in Urbach , a municipality in the Nordhausen district of Thuringia . The parish Urbach is part of the parish area Urbach in Kirchenkreis Südharz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

description

The hall church , built from quarry stones in 1851, is only partially plastered. It has a retracted church tower in the east, which has an eight - sided slate - roofed tower, behind whose sound arcades is the old belfry . On it sits a bulbous hood , which is crowned by an open lantern with a tower ball . The first floor of the tower is from the previous building. It serves as a vestibule and has a barrel vault . The nave has three-sided galleries . There are wooden flat ceilings above them , and the area between them is covered with a barrel vault. The organ with 18 registers , divided into 2 manuals and a pedal , was built by Friedrich Christian Knauf in 1841 and restored by Rudolf Böhm in 1961 .

literature

• Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , pp. 1256–57.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Johannis on EKMD
2. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 46.3 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 4.2"  E