St. Johannis (Werna)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed church St. Johannis stands on a hill of Werna , a district of the town of Ellrich in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia . The parish Werna belongs to the parish area Ellrich in Kirchenkreis Südharz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The baroque hall church was built in the 17th century from partly plastered rubble stones with cuboid corner stones . The retracted square choir tower , which protrudes into the nave , is part of a previous building from the 13th century. It has a slate - roofed eight - sided upper floor , behind whose sound arcades is the bell chamber. The tower is covered with a French dome . The interior , the middle part of which is spanned with a wooden barrel vault, has galleries on arcades on the long sides , above which a wooden flat ceiling . In the west the gallery is two-story, the upper one has a parapet made of balusters . The original baroque church stalls were retained. The richly decorated pulpit with the sound cover dates from the 17th century.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 1372.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 5 " N , 10 ° 42 ′ 18.8" E