St. Johannis (Schleusingen)

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Johanniskirche

St. Johannis is the Evangelical Lutheran town church in Schleusingen ( Thuringia ). The former castle church stands next to Bertholdsburg Castle .

Building history

Interior panorama

A church in Schleusingen already existed in 1235. In 1454 the name St. Johannis was first documented. At the end of the 15th century a new church was built, which was consecrated in 1498. It was a three-aisled, Gothic hall church. The church tower is marked with the year 1483 as the start of construction. In 1608 it was raised to a height of 44 meters. There was a transition from a square to an octagon in the floor plan and the use of the arched frieze as a design element.

From 1725 to 1729 the nave was rebuilt as a Protestant preaching hall. The church tower houses the cross-vaulted sacristy on the ground floor and, like the aegidia chapel , which was formerly located next to the hall church, and the choir are remnants of the old church. The Gothic altar and choir room were separated and got a false ceiling for the organ . It was subsequently used as a chapel with around 50 seats. The Aegidia Chapel, which had served as the burial place of the Counts of Henneberg since 1566 , was integrated into the new, 21.4 meter long and 18 meter wide nave. Two large doors on the north and south side provide access to the church interior, which has a three-story, three-sided gallery and seats around 800. The prince's chair is on the west gallery, where there was a connecting passage to Bertholdsburg . During renovation measures in 1880, the original plaster stucco ceiling was replaced by a wooden, flat coffered ceiling and the triumphal arch with the figures of the apostles Paul and Peter was designed in the area of ​​the altar. During the restoration between 1989 and 1991, the central stalls were equipped with electric bench heating. In 2013 the church tower was renovated.

Furnishing

Altar, pulpit, organ

A stone crucifixion group on the north-western staircase is one of the oldest art treasures dating back to the 15th century. It shows Christ on the cross and Mary and John as figures huddled together. The baptismal font in the chancel was built around 1750. It is made of copper and designed as a calyx. Epitaphs adorn walls and pillars. On the east side in front of the choir are the principal pieces, the altar, the pulpit with a crowning pulpit cover and the organ. They are arranged one above the other in the middle and are decorated in white and green tones, decorated with a lot of gold leaf, as a baroque unit.

In the choir chapel there are carved figures in front of the east wall from linden wood, which are assigned to the 15th century and are probably the remains of an altarpiece. In the middle is a 140 centimeter tall figure of Christ, which is framed by the apostles Paul and Andrew on the left and Simon and Philip on the right, each 75 centimeters high. On the west wall there are bas-reliefs of the evangelists Lukas and Johannes , which are assigned to the Riemenschneiderschule.

Since 1924, four chilled cast iron bells with diameters between 1.1 meters and 1.6 meters and weights of ten to 37 hundredweight have been hanging in the church tower . Before that, there were four bronze bells from 1608, 1688, 1753 and 1792, which had to be handed in in 1917 and the beginning of the 1920s.

Aegidia Chapel

Aegidia Chapel

The aegidia chapel is separated from the church by a wrought iron grille from the 16th century. It is the burial place of the Schleusinger line of the Counts of Henneberg, which went out in 1583. After the death of his wife Elisabeth von Braunschweig in 1566, Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg-Schleusingen had the burial place of the Hennebergers relocated from the Veßra monastery to the Aegidia Chapel. Four tombstones cover the floor of the chapel. On the walls there are statues of all Henneberg rulers and their wives, going back to Wilhelm II , which were made by the Innsbruck sculptor Siegmund Buchlinger from 1558 to 1583.

organ

Organ in the case by Nicolaus Seeber (1726)

The organ was built in 1726 by the Römhild organ builder Nicolaus Seeber . In 1895 Theodor Kühn from Schmiedefeld converted the instrument into a two-manual organ with 36 stops and a pneumatic action. In 1940/41 Rudolf Kühn from Merseburg added a third manual and replaced the gaming table. After that the organ had 49 registers with 3074 pipes . Due to the poor condition of the organ, it was not possible to restore the instrument in the early 2000s. Therefore, between 2006 and 2009, Hey Orgelbau carried out a general overhaul that was equivalent to a new building. The original registers were incorporated into the sound concept as much as possible. Since then, the organ has had 39 registers and 2505 pipes, around 60 percent of which are historical.

The disposition of the current organ is:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdun 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola di gamba 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Gemshorn 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Cornet v 8th'
10. Mixture IV 2 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
12. Quintadena 16 ′
13. Wooden principal 8th'
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Saliconal 8th'
16. Vox Coelestis 8th'
17th Fugara 4 ′
18th Flauto Travers 4 ′
19th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Flageolet 2 ′
21st third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
22nd Harm. Progressia II-IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
III Oberwerk C – g 3
24. Dumped 8th'
25th viola 8th'
26th Principal 4 ′
27. flute 4 ′
28. Octave 2 ′
29 Quintlet 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Cymbel IV 1'
31. Wooden crumhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
32. Principal bass 16 ′
33. Violon bass 16 ′
34. Sub bass 16 ′
35. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Octavbass 8th'
37. Bourdon 8th'
38. Octavbass 4 ′
39. trombone 16 ′
  • Manual coupling : II-16 ′ / I, II-4 ′ / I, II / I (electrical), III / I (mechanical)
  • Pedal coupling: III / P, II / P, I / P (mechanical)
  • Super couple: II-4 ′, II-16 ′, II-4 ′ / P, I-16 ′ / P (electrical)
  • Brass steps: tremulant SW, tremulant OW, bells in C major (provided), bells in G major (provided)

Parish

Until the Reformation was introduced in the Henneberger Land in 1544, the community belonged to the Coburg chapter of the Würzburg diocese . In 1291 the Order of St. John was granted patronage rights by Count Berthold VII . The order was thus responsible for worship and pastoral care. A superintendent with the dean's offices in Ilmenau and Themar was established in Schleusingen after 1583. The Schleusingen parish includes the parishes of Frauenwald , Schmiedefeld, Waldau , Wiedersbach , St. Kilian , Hinternah with Schleusingerneundorf , Veßra Monastery, Eichenberg and Bischofrod . In 1989 it was merged with the Suhl parish to form the Henneberger Land parish. The town and its seven districts with around 2000 parishioners belong to the church district Schleusingen (as of 2006).

literature

  • Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Grossmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district Hildburghausen ... none other than the house of God - the gate of heaven ... . Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 235.

Web links

Commons : St. Johanniskirche (Schleusingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Grossmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen ... nothing other than God's house - the gate of heaven ... p. 236
  2. ^ Mathias Neumeister: The new Hey organ in the St. Johanniskirche in Schleusingen. In: INTERMEDIATE TONES Church music messages of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, 17th year, issue 3/2009, p. 3
  3. ↑ Description of the organ ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by organ building Hey. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hey-orgelbau.de
  4. ^ Development of the Protestant parish in Schleusingen

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 2 ″  E