St. Laurentius (Freienorla)
The Evangelical Lutheran branch church of St. Laurentius is located in Freienorla , a community in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia . It is named after St. Lawrence of Rome . The Church of St. Lawrence is part of the municipality part Pritschroda the parish Freienorla the parish area Langenorla the church district Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
Built in 1500 and later changed little church hall with a roof turret has a south retracted slightly elongated choir with three-sided final. In the choir there are two sacrament niches from the time it was built. In a cultivation of half-timbered , the over which was loft accessible Patronatsloge .
In 1821 the church was extensively repaired. The flat ceiling of the nave is painted. The interior was restored from 1981 to 1985. The walls have no buttresses . The high, two-lane windows in the choir are fitted with renewed tracery . Remains of painted saints on the apex of the choir come from the time of construction , and traces of demolition of the sacristy can also be seen on the south side of the choir . The keel- arched portal in the south of the nave with garments made of filigree framework is walled up today. Today there is a baroque tomb in it , the inscription of which has been weathered to the point of illegibility.
The interior is otherwise characterized by modern renovations. The surrounding two-storey galleries on the north and west sides of the nave, some of which date from the 18th century, were given their present form in 1821. Their parapets have balusters or are painted.
The front of the Arch standing classical pulpit and the damaged font in the form of a vase , which stands on a cubic pedestal, also originate from 1821. On the gallery of the chorus, the parapet is painted, there is a small organ with carved brochure . It has 9 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , and was built in 1746 by Justin Ehrenfried Gerhardt. It was repaired in the 1980s.
There are two bells in the roof turret . The older one, cast by Melchior Mörinck from Erfurt in 1611, bears the inscription : ANNO MDCXI (1611) GOS ME TO ERFURDT HIERONYMUS MOERINCK IN THE NAME OF GOD. In 2007 Rudolf Perner cast the second smaller bell.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '7.7 " N , 11 ° 32" 31.9 " E