St. Marien (Bad Berka)
The Protestant Church of St. Mary is in Bad Berka in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . The parish belongs to the Weimar parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The foundation walls of a Romanesque chapel were uncovered in 1906 during excavation work in the area of today's Liebfrauenweg, hence the field name "Liebfrauenweg", which is still preserved today.
The location of today's church island was chosen for reasons of flood protection. The construction of a monastery and church began on the elevated church island in 1240 . Parish and monastery churches were dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Cistercian convent was dissolved after the Peasants' War in 1525. A big fire in 1608 also destroyed the church, rectory and school.
In 1727, Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar sponsored the reconstruction of the church tower, which was celebrated with a button festival on November 1, 1731 . A stag as a weather vane showed that Berka was the center of a hunting area of the Weimar dukes.
Using the foundation and outer walls of the old Gothic monastery church, the uniform, stately baroque building of the new church was erected in 1735. The Gothic pointed arch on the east wall and the sandstone walls at the rear entrance bear witness to the older architectural history. In 1739 the sculptor Böhme created the pulpit structure. Two pairs of Corinthian columns, painted in blue since the last renovation, support the pulpit. The formerly floating sky was removed in 1954. The baptismal font depicting the baptism of Jesus by John dates from 1739 and was later changed. The church was consecrated in 1741.
The windows were donated in 1899 by Mr. Mirus from Weimar. The last interior renovation of the church took place in 1989 under the advice of the Weimar restorer Horst Jahresling .
organ
The organ was installed in 1742/43 by Heinrich Nicolaus Trebs from Weimar on the second gallery on the west side. Johann Sebastian Bach made the disposition . In 1922 the organ builder Böttcher from Weimar converted the organ from mechanical to pneumatic action and placed it on the first gallery. In December 1988 the organ was demolished and in May 1991 the new organ built by the company Böhm from Gotha was consecrated. It has 26 sounding registers with 1,859 pipes on the main work, upper work and pedal and is again based on the mechanical principle. Only the largely original prospectus from 1743 was taken from the old instrument .
Bells
There are three bells in the tower. The largest with the strike note es 1 was cast in 1609 by Hieronymus Möringk from Erfurt. The two younger ones are two bronze bells with the striking tones g sharp 1 and c sharp 2 , which were cast in 2015 in the Maria Laach monastery.
| photo | Foundry / casting location |
Font type | year | Ø (mm) | Weight (kg) | Nominal | Bell decorations and inscriptions |
Bell story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Hieronymus Moering [k] (Erfurt) | bronze | 1609 | 1280 | 24 Ztn. | es1 | Shoulder five rib-bounded bands in two and four / ANNO M • DC • IX IN BERCKA I HANG I • GIVE MY KLANGK (E) ME • ALL CHRISTIANS RVFF ME • HIERONYMVS MOERINGK IN ERFFVRDT GOS ME // ✿ I RVFF WITH MY KLANGK VND SCHALL DIVINE SERVICE FOR THE CHRISTIANS ALL • O CHRISTIANS, WITH THE DIVINE • SHINE • LIVE THE HER [T] ZEN D [EIN] • G [EMEIN] • / wide frieze of acanthus volutes Wolm seven round hoops ( blending in) | 1608 fire; three bells completely melt; 1609 wooden bell chair with three bells on today's Friedensplatz [formerly Glockenhausplatz]; 1674 wooden belfry destroyed by fire; 2nd World War delivered to Hamburg (11-23-27); 29.10. 1949 return (2nd list January 19, 1951 ) |
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Maria Laach | bronze | 2015 | (?) | 771 | g sharp 1 | Shoulder foliage frieze Flank relief Christ on the cross / SOLI DEO GLORIA / Flank (other side) / ANNO DOMINI 2015 // WAS I WAS IN MARIA LAACH // FOR ST.MARIEN AT BAD BERKA // CASTED // Foundry mark / Wolm between two round tires / FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, THESE THREE; LOVE IS THE GREATEST AMONG YOU / | 1609 bronze bell Hieronymus Moering [k] (Erfurt); 1674 bell burst; 1693 bronze bell Johann Christoph Geyer (Erfurt); 1730 new bell tower; Thrown from the tower with a small bell in 1762 ; 1762 bronze bell Johann Georg Ulrich (Apolda); 1917 delivery and melting down; 1919 chilled cast iron bell Schilling & Lattermann (Apolda and Morgenröthe); Depended in 2015 |
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Maria Laach | bronze | 2015 | (?) | 304 | c sharp 2 | Shoulder foliage frieze flank relief flank (other side) / ANNO DOMINI 2015 // WAS I WAS IN MARIA LAACH / / FOR ST.MARIEN AT BAD BERKA / / CASTED // Gießerzeichen / Wolm between two round hoops / I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES / | 1609 bronze bell Melchior Moering [k] (Erfurt); 1674 melting of the "eye"; 1693 bronze bell Johann Christoph Geyer (Erfurt); 1730 new bell tower; Burst in 1762 (thrown from the tower); 1762 bronze bell Johann Georg Ulrich (Apolda); Loss of World War I (melted down); 1919 chilled cast iron bell Schilling & Lattermann (Apolda and Morgenröthe); Depended in 2015 |
See also
literature
- Ludwig Häfner: Bad Berkaer church buildings. Bad Berka 2006. Online: Part 1 (PDF; 67 kB), Part 2 (PDF; 83 kB).
Web links
- History and photo gallery of the church on the website of the church district Weimar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary. In: bad-berka.de, accessed on April 29, 2017.
- ↑ City history. In: bad-berka.de, accessed on April 29, 2017.
- ↑ The Church website. In: ev-kirche-bad-berka.de, accessed on August 12, 2013.
- ↑ Bad Berka Church District. In: kirchenkreis-weimar.de, accessed on April 30, 2017.
- ↑ Bell history: information on which previous bells existed and where the hanging bell was during its existence .
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 11 ° 17 ′ 7.9 ″ E