St. Marien (Breitenau)

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St. Marien in Breitenau

The core of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Marien in Breitenau in Upper Franconia , a district of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district , comes from a church that was probably built in 1298.

history

According to a parish register from 1560, the first church in Breitenau was built in 1298. The originally Romanesque complex was expanded by a tower above the altar house and a sacristy by 1500. The slated tower hood was rebuilt in 1605 after a storm. In the late 17th or early 18th century, the nave was rebuilt and expanded to its present form. The lords of the manor, located next to the church, were the church patrons. They had their hereditary funerals in church. From 1464 to 1596 this position was held by the von Bach noble family from Coburg. The Reformation was introduced in 1521.

The Breitenau parish originally belonged to the parish of Oettingshausen or the original parish of Heldburg . She gained her independence with the approval of the Würzburg Bishop Johann III. von Grumbach in 1464. As a result of the Thirty Years' War , the pastor's post was not occupied from 1638 to 1719. In 1873 there was a merger with the parish of Großwalbur with the pastor's office in Großwalbur, which ended in 1999 after a new merger with the parish of Gauerstadt . The church tower was renovated in 1950/52. The church was renovated in 1981/82.

Building description

Choir room
Ceiling painting

The choir tower church stands on a slope above Breitenau, characterizing the townscape. The 32 meter high church tower is characterized by a slate, octagonal floor and a round dome. The basement of the church tower with the choir, which is 4.4 meters long and 4.5 meters wide, and parts of the nave are made of medieval masonry. The choir has a flat ceiling and a medium-sized, rectangular window with ears on the east and south sides. A rib-less cross vault spans the sacristy north of the church tower, which is 4.5 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. A round arched triumphal arch is located between the chancel and the nave .

The nave is 13.8 meters long and 7.8 meters wide. The interior of the nave is characterized by a three-sided, single-storey, wooden gallery and spanned by a plastered flat ceiling. This is adorned with stucco decorations with acanthus and ceiling paintings. The big one represents the Trinity , in the middle God the Father and Christ sitting on the globe carried by the four archangels in clouds and underneath the dove , on the four sides the evangelists. Another ceiling painting in the chancel shows the institution of the Lord's Supper. The works of art were created around 1719 and are works by the Coburg court painter Johann Schuster. The windows and doors are rectangular with ears.

The pulpit on the north triumphal arch pillar dates from the 18th century. It rests on a winding column and is decorated with pictures and sayings. A large head carved in stone with a crown and wide eyes in the north-west corner at the entrance to the organ gallery is striking. It probably dates from the 16th century.

The organ is dated to around 1730. In 1810 it was prepared by the Neustadt organ builder Georg Christoph Hofmann, and restored in 1961 by the Ostheim organ builder Gebrüder Hoffman . The instrument has a total of nine registers on a manual and pedal. The three-part prospectus stands over a slightly curved floor plan.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Irmhild Tschischka: leafed through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . Writings of the Rückertkreis Bad Rodach eV, issue 29, Bad Rodach 2005, ISBN 978-3-943009-29-3 , p. 12
  2. ^ A b Paul Lehfeldt: Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXVIII, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, District Office of Coburg. Jena 1902, p. 33
  3. ↑ a b http://www.breitenau.net/kirche.htm
  4. ↑ a b c Michael Höchstädter: Breitenau. In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. published with a working group of the deanery by Eckart Kollmer, Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 107
  5. ^ A b Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg. Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 16
  6. ↑ http://www.breitenau.net/chronik-breitenau.htm
  7. ↑ a b In Luther's footsteps through the Coburg region Hiking and pilgrim guide on the Luther Trail through the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Coburg, p. 27 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luther2017-bayern.de
  8. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Old organs in the Coburg country . In: Yearbook Coburger Landesstiftung 15, 1970, p. 187

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 16 ″  E