St. Johannis (Wasserthaleben)
The St. Johannis Church (also Johannes Church , previously Liebfrauenkirche ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Wasserthaleben in the Kyffhäuserkreis and belongs to the parish area of Großenehrich .
history
The current building was built in 1590. It served as a replacement for a chapel to Our Dear Women , which was mentioned for the last time in 1583 and was located on the Kirchberg near Wasserthaleben. The church was rebuilt several times in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1688 the dome of the church tower was repaired, and the sacristy was added in the first half of the 19th century . The interior was renovated from 1840 to 1843.
Building description
It is a hall church . The choir polygon is flush with the nave in the east. In the west is the tower in the width of the nave, on the east side the sacristy with a crooked hip roof . The masonry consists of limestone rubble , which was originally plastered, but has been exposed in large parts for several decades. The ogival main portal is incorporated into the base of the tower. Above this is a rectangular, weathered sandstone inscription stone. There is a round window above. The upper tower floor has small rectangular openings on the west and south sides. In the bell storey there are coupled pointed arch windows facing north, south and west. They serve as sound arcades . On the east side there are two arched openings to the left and right of the roof stop. The squat and curly tower dome has a lantern and pointed helmet and is crowned by a weather vane and a cross.
The roof of the nave is covered with concrete roof tiles. There are three arched windows on both sides. A simple rectangular entrance portal is under the east window on the south side. A round arch portal in limestone walls is framed by the two eastern windows on the north side.
A barrel vault extends over the nave . A gallery surrounds the room on three sides. The simple gallery parapet is decorated with friezes with broken corners. Two estate estates of the Princely Domain had used one of the Frisians in the former Müller estate until 1834.
Furnishing
Three bells hang in an iron belfry on wooden yokes. The oldest bell was made in the foundry Gebrüder Ulrich from Apolda in 1885. The other two date from 1925, cast by Franz Schilling & Sons in Apolda.
The baptismal font is made according to the inscription in 1854 by Joh. Hurr [...] from Westgreußen. The initials "AK" are attached to its foot.
A slim-proportioned early classical pulpit altar dates from around 1790/1800. Lateral pillars rest on the elongated substructure and pedestals . The entablature zone is cranked, in the curved end of the gable the eye of God can be seen in a triangle with a large sun . A cartridge on the pulpit contains the initials of Christian Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .
A stone offering box on a rotated column at the entrance bears the year "1607" and the names "HANS ROBOCK" and "HAN [...] ER M [...]" (possibly Hans Sauer, bricklayer)
On the south side of the choir are the gravestones for Rudolph Friedemar Marschall (January 8, 1665– May 3, 1665) and Maria Catharina Marschall, born von Werther (January 25, 1635– March 9, 1667). On the southern gallery there is an epitaph for the Prince of Schwarzburg bailiff Johann Heinrich von Windheim (September 29, 1688– June 9, 1734), created by the court artist Christian Johann Biedermann (before 1694 - after 1740).
organ
The single-manual organ dates from 1845. It was made by Julius Strobel from Frankenhausen as his first work. It is restored and perfectly playable (as of 2016).
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In the neighborhood
Gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the churchyard. A memorial to those who fell in World War I was erected in 1921 outside the church on the south side.
literature
- Rainer Müller (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Thuringia. Kyffhäuserkreis 5.1-5.3. E. Reinhold Verlag, 2014
Web links
- The church on the side of the Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen church district
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 28.7 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 45.7 ″ E