St. Catherine (Ernstroda)

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The church

The Protestant village church of St. Katharina is in the Ernstroda district of the city of Friedrichroda in the Gotha district in Thuringia .

Böhm organ

history

In the 16th century there were u. a. four churches owned by Reinhardsbrunn Monastery : Johanniskirche ( Altenbergen ), Aegydienkapeele ( Cumbach ), Blasiuskapelle ( Friedrichroda ) and the Katharinenkapelle in Ernstroda. However, the Reinhardsbrunn abbot elevated the Ernstroda Church to a parish church in 1457 by means of a foundation document and furnished it ten years later with a sale of indulgences . The church is named after St. Catherine of Alexandria .

Today's striking and worth seeing village church was built in 1599. The church tower of the previous church was included in the construction of the church . It is a hall church with a retracted, just closed choir and a wooden ceiling that was painted in 1625. The ground floor of the tower has a groin vault . The parapets of the two-story galleries were painted in 1625. The beautiful font dates from 1618 and was moved to its current location in 1930.

In the 17th century, the bell founder Paul Seeger from Gotha cast a bell for the church.

In 1817, in the course of a renovation and the renewal of the roof thresholds, doors and windows, the organ builder Ratzmann from Ohrdruf installed the organ . It is worth mentioning that every Ernstroda household had to take the organ builder into food during the two-year construction period. The organ was replaced in 1874 by Friedrich Knauf , behind whose prospectus Rudolf Böhm installed a new organ in 1980.

After the political change , the facade was restored, including the remaining rough plastered areas on the east gable and the north facade. This construction work and that on the tower were completed with the button festival on July 19, 1990. In 1991 a radio-controlled tower clock was installed.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organ database: Ernstroda , accessed on February 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ The church on www.b19-architekten.de , accessed on February 24 2016th

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '54.4 "  N , 10 ° 37' 9.9"  E