St. Kilian (Westhausen)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Kilian is in Westhausen , a parish in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ). The listed Kilian's Church, which characterizes the townscape, is located in the immediate vicinity of the largely walled cemetery in the middle of Westhausen.
The late Gothic building dates from 1466. The eight-meter-long and seven-meter-wide high choir, including the chancel, is spanned by a combination of cross and net vaults with four keystones. The middle window of the choir , with the colored representation of the crucified Christ as the risen one , is the center of the choir room. The nave with an approximately square floor plan and a gable roof is spanned by a coffered ceiling. The organ on the west gallery was created in 1750 by the Hildburghausen organ builder Johann Christian Dotzauer . It was extensively restored in 2015–2017 by master organ builder Jörg Stegmüller.
The base of the three-story church tower with four bells has a Romanesque core and a tapering tower dome from 1876. The oldest bronze bell was cast in 1520.
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. 325.
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district Hildburghausen-Eisfeld
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 33 ( pdf ).
- ↑ 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 ... . P. 325
- ^ The Dotzauer organ in Westhausen on the website of the church district.
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 57.3 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 38.8 ″ E