St. Laurentius (Neustadt an der Orla)
The Evangelical-Lutheran , listed hospital church St. Laurentius is in Neustadt an der Orla , a small town in the Saale-Orla district of Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Neustadt / Orla in the parish area Neustadt / Orla in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
In 1451 a chapel was consecrated to St. Lawrence . On the merian engraving of Neustadt from the middle of the 17th century, a church with a polygonal east end and a roof turret is already depicted. In 1721 the interior was redesigned. In 1914 the church was torn down to the ground and rebuilt by 1916. In 1973 the painting from 1916 was renewed. In 1984 the former hospital was demolished, but the church was preserved. Since the Reformation it has served as a cemetery chapel , and after 1945 also as a winter church .
description
The interior of the hall church has an ornamentally painted wooden beam ceiling , matching the single-storey galleries . The sacristy in the east is separated by a pulpit altar from 1721. Jesus Christ and the four evangelists are painted on the pulpit ; on the right and left are two carved figures from the 16th century depicting John and Mary . Three glass windows can be seen above the pulpit altar. Between the altar and the pulpit there is a winged altar from the former Augustinian monastery with a panel painting from 1495. In the center of the picture is Saint Wolfgang , in the wings it is Saints Peter and John the Baptist (left) and Saint Martin and Augustine (right) pictured. The back of the altar is only accessible from the sacristy, it shows Christ on the cross, Mary and John as well as the donor of the altar, left Katharina, right Margarethe. The origin of the work is unclear, it came to the hospital church in 1524. Next to the pulpit are carved statuettes of a former crucifixion group , on the north-east wall the corresponding crucifix , created at the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century. There are three wooden epitaphs from the 18th century in the choir and another epitaph in the nave. The gallery surrounds the room in a horseshoe shape. Its parapet is painted with sayings and ornaments . Two bronze bells hang in the roof turret. The organ with 6 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , was built in 1896 by the organ builder Hugo Schramm from Bürgel. There are apartments in the western part of the building . Around the church are tombs from the 18th century.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 2.2 " N , 11 ° 44 ′ 24.9" E