St. Marien (Eishausen)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Marien is in Eishausen , a district of the Straufhain community in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ).
history
A church in Eishausen was first mentioned in 1075 in the diocesan register of Coburg. From 1317 it was an independent parish which also looked after the places Steinfeld , Adelhausen , Massenhausen , Stressenhausen , Streufdorf and Seidingstadt . From 1451 to 1460 the knights of Hesseburg had a new church built, which was named Lorenzkirche. The Reformation was introduced in 1525 . Since only 13 inhabitants lived in Eishausen after the Thirty Years War , the place was assigned to the parish of Streufdorf in 1646. In 1739/40 the community caused the church to be demolished due to its dilapidation. By 1749, under the lord and court lord of Eishausen, Carl Johann von Heßberg , today's church building, which has since been called the Marienkirche, was built. Extensive repairs were carried out inside from 1985 to 1987. The roof was re-covered in 1994 and the tower hood was renewed in 1998. The outer facade has been renovated in sections since 2008.
architecture
The stately choir tower church stands on a small hill. Her appearance characterize a high nave with red gabled roof and a six-storey tower with octagonal verschieferter onion dome , over a lantern and a small onion dome and a helmet top. The facades are structured with strongly profiled cornices and protruding wall pilasters made of colored sandstone. The five-axis longitudinal facades have a rectangular window in each axis on each of the three floors, so that the interior is flooded with light when the sun is shining. The rectangular interior is sober and strict. It has a stuccoed flat ceiling and a circumferential, two-storey gallery . The pulpit emerges from the lower gallery above the altar . The organ is located above in the upper gallery. Behind the altar there is a separate parish room, which is used as a winter church, and the sacristy under the church tower, which has a late Gothic, ribless cross vault . Under the church there is a crypt in which the Lords of Heßberg are buried.
Furnishing
There are three bells hanging in the church tower. The oldest bronze bell is from 1833. The organ is said to come from the workshop of Theodor Kühn from Schmiedefeld and is dated to the period after 1870. It has two manuals and 24 registers. Two old epitaphs hang in the community room .
literature
- Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Grossmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district Hildburghausen ... none other than the house of God - the gate of heaven ... . Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 76.
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '27.9 " N , 10 ° 44' 14.3" E