St. Leonhard (Frankenhain)
The Protestant village church of St. Leonhard is a baroque hall church in the Frankenhain district of the Geratal community in the Ilm district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Frankenhain in the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Waltershausen-Ohrdruf of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The village church stands on a small, artificially created plateau at the foot of the Kirchberg. It was built as a hall by Johann Erhard Straßburger between 1719 and 1722 . It has an east-west orientation, with the tower forming the western end. The church hall was enlarged in 1907 by a sacristy to the east, which does not quite reach the height of the main nave. Steeple and nave are slated, the tower bears a tail dome with mounted lantern and a standing long on top finial with weather vane . The tower button was removed for restoration on October 13, 2005 and replaced on May 5, 2006 at a button festival.
Furnishing
The interior is characterized by the ceiling painting from 1750 by the Gotha court painter Johann Heinrich Ritter (around 1685 / 1690–1751), who also created the ceiling fresco of the town church in Waltershausen . The church has a three-sided double gallery, which opens to the chancel to the east. The baroque pulpit altar, which is crowned by a figure of Christ holding the victory flag, is worth seeing. The pulpit bears the coat of arms of the von Witzleben family . The ceiling paintings were restored with interruptions between 1977 and 1990. a. with the support of the partner community Walddorfhäslach . The church is illuminated by tall, narrow windows.
In 1742, the Arnstadt organ builder Johann Christoph Thielemann added a separate pedal to the organ . In 1839 Valentin Knauf from Großtabarz built a new organ with 28 registers on two manuals and pedal using old pipes and bellows , which was restored in 1987 by Norbert Sperschneider.
Surroundings
The cemetery that originally surrounds the church was deedicated in 1912 and relocated to the northern edge of the village. The cemetery chapel is also located there. The entrance to the former churchyard is still adorned today by a neo-Gothic sandstone portal that was created in 1866.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 413.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 27 " N , 10 ° 47 ′ 24.4" E