St. Marien (Poppenhausen)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Marien in the Poppenhausen district of the city of Heldburg in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ) dates back to 1858. The listed building dates back to a medieval church.
history
The Marienkirche already had its own pastor in 1516. During the Thirty Years' War Martin Bötzinger was pastor in Poppenhausen. Gustav Freytag processed the life and contemporary history he wrote in his main cultural-historical work, images from the German past . The community belonged 1641–1650 to the parish of Gellershausen and 1650–1661 to that of Heldburg .
An old stone in the church tower with the year 1619 is probably a remnant of the medieval church. The current tower is from 1747, the year can be seen on the north door. In 1827 the northeast side collapsed. In 1833 the church tower was restored. A new nave was built from 1827 to 1835 as a wooden structure, but it was demolished again in 1850. In 1858, today's massive nave was built in the neo-Gothic style according to plans by the master builder Ortmann from Hildburghausen .
Architecture and equipment
The church tower on the east side houses the choir with the chancel and the sacristy on the ground floor under a beamed ceiling . The sacristy table is an old sandstone altar plate. Framing pilasters and an intermediate cornice as well as a rectangular arched window to the east and nine paired arched windows to the south structure the tower facade. The roof construction is a slate pointed helmet made of two pyramids placed one on top of the other. Three chilled cast iron bells hang in the church tower, replacing three bronze bells that were melted down during the world wars .
Between the church tower and the nave with its covered in red brick gable roof is located in the interior a pointed arch triumphal arch . Four pairs of pillars, which support the stone star vault , divide the nave into main aisles and two side aisles. Arches and in some areas the vaults are painted. The single-storey gallery stands on three sides . The west facade is characterized by a large rose window and the elaborately designed portal with the pointed entrance door, above which the Bible saying "Blessed are those who hear and keep God's word" ( Lk 11.28 EU ). The south and north sides each have three large ogival tracery windows , under which there are small rectangular windows.
The organ on the west gallery is the work of the Schmiedefeld master organ builder Theodor Kühn and was built around 1880. It comprises ten registers on a manual and pedal . Before that, there was a small organ by Caspar Schippel from 1701 in the church .
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 , pp. 209-210.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 25 ( pdf ).
- ↑ The organ in the church in Poppenhausen on the website of the church district.
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 43 ′ 2.7 ″ E