St. Marien (Graefenthal)

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City Church of St. Mary
Burial place

The Evangelical Lutheran town church of St. Marien in Graefenthal in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia was first mentioned in a document in 1340. It is characteristic of the location on a north slope on a slate rock below the Wespenstein Castle .

history

The first documentary mention of the Graefenthal town church, which was originally a pilgrimage chapel, was made in a letter of indulgence in 1340. Contz Steinbach was a pastor around 1386. In 1503 there were five altars in the church. In 1525 Sebastian von Pappenheim introduced the Reformation and on Maundy Thursday 1530 Martin Luther preached in the church. After a city fire in 1554, the church was rebuilt , which was then a fortified church . Due to dilapidation, the church was rebuilt in its current form from 1724 to 1731. To finance the building of the church, a fee of one pint for a measure of beer was levied. A restoration took place in 1840. A major church renovation followed in 1915/16. The interior of the baroque church was given an Art Nouveau version . The work was completed on October 1, 1916 with a rededication. From 1989 to 1993 an interior renovation was carried out. The church is a listed building.

Furnishing

Sanctuary

In the center of the sanctuary is the altar and above it the pulpit, which until 1972 were connected to one another as the pulpit altar . The altar crucifix dates from 1716, the altar candlesticks are dated 1613. The grave slabs of the ancestors and relatives of Christoph Ullrich von Pappenheim († 1599) hang on the walls. Opposite the main entrance, he is shown as the last ruling Count von Pappenheim of the Graefenthaler line with his wife Magdalena on an epitaph .

The burial place of the noble family von Pappenheim is located under the chancel . The Gothic crypt is the oldest part of the church. The vaulted ceiling is decorated with paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries.

The interior has a three-storey gallery and is spanned by a flat ceiling, which is adorned with a painting depicting the Transfiguration of Christ.

The 38 meter high church tower shows the year 1518 above the north window of the third floor of the tower. It was originally part of the castle fortifications. There is a passage on the ground floor for access to the city. In the tower hang the small baptismal bell from 1592 and bells from 1923, which replaced bells melted down in 1917.

organ

organ

The first organ was built in 1726 by the organ maker Jahn from Meura . This was poorly executed and was replaced in 1730 by an instrument by Johann Georg Fincke . In 1880 the organ builder Loesche built a new building with 20 registers, which, however, sounded bad due to the cramped conditions in the organ gallery.

In 1916, today's organ was installed by Johannes Strebel's Nuremberg Organ Building Institute as Opus 244 and inaugurated together with the church. The instrument had 29 registers , five of which were missing since it was rearranged in 1945, on two manuals and pedal . The wind chests are designed as pneumatic pocket drawers with standing pockets. In 1992 the organ building company Rösel & Hercher from Saalfeld restored the instrument.

Game table (detail)
Manubriums of the paddocks and the swell
Manubrio of the main and pedal work
Opus sign on gaming table

Disposition:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Harmony flute 8th'
Covered 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Covered 16 ′
Aeoline 8th''
Lovely covered 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flute principal 8th'
Viennese flute ′ 8th'
Vox coelestis 8th'
Violin principal 4 ′
Flauto traverso 4 ′
Flautino 2 ′
Cornettino III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Contrabass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Subtle bass (from HW) 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
violoncello 8th'
trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Super octave coupling: II
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 5 fixed combinations (p, mf, f, ff, tutti), 1 free combination, manual 16 ′ down, tongues down, hand register down, automatic piano pedal, crescendo roller

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e Missing since 1945.
  2. ↑ 1945 rebuilt to 8 ′.
  3. ↑ 1945 rebuilt to 4 ′.

literature

  • Church leader Gräfenthal / Großneundorf, published by Orgelbauverein Großneundorf e. V.

Web links

Commons : St. Marien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation: List of monuments of the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt (PDF; 632 kB)
  2. ^ Organ building news . In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau . tape 37 , no. 2/3 . Leipzig October 15, 1916, p. 22 .
  3. ↑ a b Rösel Orgelbau: Disposition of the Strebel organ in Gräfenthal

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '34.8 "  N , 11 ° 18' 17.2"  E