St. Mariae (Freienbessingen)
The Church of St. Mariae is a Protestant - Lutheran branch church in Freienbessingen . It was built in the 17th century.
history
The church was built during the Thirty Years War . There are contradicting information about the exact time: the local chronicle gives the period 1614 to 1624, elsewhere it says 1636. Presumably, medieval building stock was included in the new building.
The interior was renovated in 1843, and the hood of the west tower was repaired around 1850. In the late 1930s, the architect Georg Bierbaum from Erfurt repaired the masonry on the tower and re-roofing the tower helmet with slate. The interior was also painted by Fritz Mannewitz from Jävenitz. In 1999 the church tower was re-covered, in 2006 and 2007 the roof of the church followed.
Building description
It is a hall church with a three-sided choir closure. The tower on the west side of the church has a square plan. Entrances are on both long sides in the western part of the church. A tombstone from the 14th century forms a cornerstone on the south-west corner of the church. It bears the inscription "Anno domini ... na uxor" written in Gothic capital letters. It was exposed in 2007 when the outer stairway to the tower was demolished.
In the interior there are two-storey three-sided galleries , to which stairs lead up in the north and south-west corners. On the north gallery there is a rulership, on whose parapet coats of arms were attached (originally carved, painted on after a loss in 1938). The names are (from left to right): von Seebach / von Boineburg , von Schlotheim / von Lützerode; von Heimburg / von Selchow , von Kutzleben / von Uslar; from Berlepsch / from Irschhausen, from Heilingen / from Swattenfels and from Hopfgarten / von Hausen, from Harstall / von Schierbrand. The ceiling forms a barrel vault made of whitewashed cover strips. The pews date from the baroque period .
The ground floor under the tower is now separated by a glass wall and serves as a winter church .
organ
The organ dates from the second half of the 19th century. In 1938 a repair was carried out by the organ building company Emil Hammer (Hanover). The organ on the upper floor of the tower is currently relocated and therefore cannot be played. Only the prospectus is still available.
An e-piano is owned by the parish and is used to accompany the church service.
Churchyard
In the churchyard, south of the church, there is a memorial to the victims of the First World War from 1922.
Web links
- The church on the side of the Bad Frankenhausen Supture
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 417