St. Kilian (Effelder)

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Evangelical Church Effelder

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Kilian is in Effelder , a district of the Frankenblick community in the Sonneberg district ( Thuringia ). The listed hall church is characteristic of the town due to its exposed location on a spur tip.

local community

In the 11th century, the Counts of Schweinfurt founded their own church in Effelder , which was assigned to the district of the original parish in Fechheim . According to a documentary mention dated 1069 and 1071 respectively, the Margravine Alberada von Schweinfurt is said to have given Effelder a chapel as an initial gift to the Banz monastery . However, the incorporation did not take place until 1242. The founding documents of the Benedictine monastery were, however, partially forged in the 12th century. In 1148 the Effelder Chapel was designated as a church, for which a pastor is documented in 1232 who was also responsible for Mupperg . A fief deed dated November 30, 1523 is the oldest written document in the parish. In 1528 the patronage of St. Kilian is documented.

In the late Middle Ages , Effelder became an independent parish with 18 villages. The Sprengel also included the later independent parishes of Steinach until 1660, Mengersgereuth until 1726 and the Meschenbach branch church, which was separated off in 1903 . Today the parish includes Effelder, Seltendorf , Welchendorf , Rückerswind and Döhlau .

Building history

The western choir yoke and the eastern part of the nave of the original fortified church are of Romanesque origin . The sacristy attached to the south is younger. In the second half of the 14th century, the choir and a larger nave were built as part of an expansion . The current superstructure of the tower was erected in 1648 after a lightning strike had destroyed the roof of the tower above the choir 17 years earlier. In 1667, the interior received new galleries and an early Baroque painting, which was redesigned in 1696 with a white painting and painting of the gallery balustrades with biblical stories and in 1743. In 1789 a tower clock with clockwork was installed. Today's neo-Gothic version of the interior was created in 1892 during major reconstruction and renovation work. The biblical pictures on the balustrades of the galleries were painted over. In the 1990s, among other things, the choir was restored and the roof structure and the roofs of the nave and the tower were repaired. In 2006 the interior was painted.

architecture

The nave of the hall church has a gable roof , rectangular windows on the long sides and the entrances to the west and south. In the east is the altar in the recessed, polygonal closed choir. The choir is the substructure of the slated, octagonal church tower, which is 31.5 meters high and has a pointed spire. In the nave, which is spanned by a beamed ceiling , there are two-story galleries along the north and south sides. The west side is characterized by the single-storey organ gallery. A triumphal arch separates the nave from the raised choir area, which consists of a choir bay with a groin vault in the west and the choir room with a ribbed vault with two painted keystones in the east . The pointed arched choir windows are in two parts and have Gothic tracery. The sacristy has a barrel vault and a piscina on the north side .

Furnishing

The pulpit dates from the 17th century and was redesigned in 1892. It is arranged on a winding column with an Ionic capital and has a sound cover with a figure of Christ. The neo-Gothic sandstone baptismal font was built in 1892. The stone altar decorated with neo-Gothic tracery was erected in 1926. The crucifix was made by the Schalkau technical school for drawing, wood carving and modeling in 1892 . The stained glass window with the crucifixion of Christ dates from 1914, the other two with depictions of Luther and St. Kilian from 1983.

The organ was built by the Hildburghaus organ maker Johann Christian Dotzauer in 1740 and acquired by the community in 1747/48. In the two-manual instrument, which originally had 15 registers , the works in the organ are not placed one above the other, but one behind the other. New versions were made in 1782 and 1892, repairs and alterations, among others, in 1841, 1845 and 1860 by Georg Christoph Hofmann from Neustadt . Today (as of 2013) the organ is not playable.

There are three bells hanging in the church tower . These are a steel bell from the Bochumer Verein from 1923, a medium bronze bell from 1470 with the inscription: "Gloria in excelsis deo" and the small bronze bell that was cast by Paulus Seeger in Gotha in 1710 , came to Effelder in 1922 and the inscription: "My sound should move everyone to go to church, whoever comes hears God's word and brings a lot of blessings from it."

The grave for Wolf Christoph von Schaumberg , who died in 1607, is located under the choir. The grave slab with the family coat of arms is now in the nave, as is that of his second wife.

On the south wall of the church there are tombstones of various pastors. To the south of the church there are still remnants of the former defense in the form of a quarry stone wall.

literature

  • Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 184 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 34.2 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 37"  E