St. Kilian (St. Kilian)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Kilian is in St. Kilian , a district of the town of Schleusingen in the district of Hildburghausen ( Thuringia ). The listed building has been a motorway church near the Schleusingen junction on federal motorway 73 since 2006 .
history
A chapel bearing the name of the Franconian apostle Kilian stood at the beginning of an old forest road that leads to Vesser in the early Middle Ages . The first documentary mention was made in 1187 with a reference to a small church that was looked after by the Veßra monastery . In 1379 the patronage was transferred to the Counts of Henneberg . In 1419 Countess Mechtild had a hospital built next to the church. The Reformation was introduced in 1545 . In 1570 St. Kilian, which was previously looked after by the parish office in Schleusingen , became an independent parish. The church district comprised the neighboring villages of Breitenbach , Erlau , Raasen , Silbach , Altendambach and Hirschbach . On June 22nd, 1687 the church, the hospital and the rectory were destroyed by fire. From 1689 to 1691 the building was rebuilt, with the church being renovated in a baroque style. Silbach was re-parish to Hinternah in 1662 and Hirschbach to the newly founded parish Altendambach in 1856. In 1910 the hospital property was dissolved. In 1929 the district of St. Kilian was incorporated into Raasen, the place being renamed St. Kilian. Since 2002 the parish has 14 places with eight churches and the former parish offices in Altendambach, Wiedersbach and Bischofrod . After the commissioning of the federal motorway 73 , the parish church was named a motorway church at the end of 2006. In the following years the parishioners carried out extensive repairs on their own, which was re-consecrated on September 14, 2008.
architecture
The ensemble of choir tower church , attached rectory and former hospital stands on a hill . The foundation walls of the buildings consist of quarry stone masonry . The church and the attached parish hall (formerly the hospital) are plastered white and provided with gray, stylized corner stones. The nave has a half- hip roof , the parish hall has a hip roof . Both buildings are covered with red bricks and stand in contrast to the late Gothic, slated tower structure with arcades , Welsch hood and gilded tower decoration. The interior consists of the main house, with three arched windows each on the long sides, a three-storey gallery and a flat ceiling, which is separated from the chancel by a triumphal arch. The chancel has a rib-free cross vault and two arched windows on the east and south sides. The leaded glass windows show flower ornaments and a Christ head. They date from the late 20th century. The barrel-vaulted sacristy is located next to the chancel on the north side .
Furnishing
Three bronze bells hang in the church tower. The oldest and smallest bell is from 1688, the other two were cast in 1691. The organ on the western gallery was built in 1802 by Georg Kummer from Erlau. In 1853 it was repaired and partially rebuilt by Michael Schmidt, a forge from the forge . The pulpit with a baroque design was built around 1700. It can be reached via a staircase through the sacristy and is supported by four stylized palm trees with a bunch of grapes. Six figures carved out of wood, depicting the four evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John as well as the two apostles Peter and James , decorate the pulpit. In the chancel there is a baroque baptismal font made of sandstone from 1627.
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 ... . Frankenschwelle Verlag, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 272.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 9 ( pdf ).
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 42.7 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 34.5" E