St. Marien (Suhl)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Marien in Suhl in Thuringia was built between 1487 and 1491 as the city's oldest church. It is therefore also called the main church.
history
In the middle of the 14th century there was a church on the Suhler Kirchberg, which belonged to the parish of Schmalkalden and thus to the regional chapter of Mellrichstadt and the diocese of Würzburg . In 1487 the construction of the main church of St. Mary began in the city center. The work was finished in 1491. The Henneberg rulers carried out the Reformation in 1544. In April 1590 the church burned down during the first big fire in Suhl. The new building was destroyed by a city fire in 1634 during the Thirty Years War . The church was rebuilt between 1647 and 1650 and consecrated on October 8, 1654. The next town fire followed on May 1, 1753. Today's church was built after 1757 in the late Baroque style by the master mason Johann Philip Kober according to plans by the building scribe Ludwig August Hoffmann. The church was consecrated on November 1, 1761. The tower was completed in 1769 and in 1770 the church was rung.
layout
The church is designed as a hall with a steep gable roof . Arched windows on two levels structure the yellow plastered facade, in which there are two stone reliefs and three building inscriptions from the previous buildings. The church tower has a square floor plan and a Welsche dome with a lantern at the top. Staircases with round floor plans and spiral staircases are attached to these on both sides . The representative west side is characterized by the entrance portal, wide pilaster strips and a halo with a pelican in the gable triangle. The choir with the buttresses is partly from the previous buildings.
Furnishing
The interior of the listed church is designed in the Rococo style. It is characterized by the three-storey gallery on three sides of the nave and the pulpit altar in the choir. The gallery balustrades bear shellwork and angel heads. With the artistic pulpit altar made of wood, the altar, the pulpit and the organ , with a magnificent prospect, are arranged one above the other. Figures of Moses with the tablets of the ten commandments and John the Baptist decorate the altar. Representations on the church ceiling show angels with the flamed sword and the ten commandments and symbolize God's right, an angel with the cross and the Bible symbolize God's devotional love and forgiving grace. In the sacristy there are wall and ceiling paintings from the 17th century.
The blacksmith Johann Michael Wagner built the organ in 1757–62 with around 3000 pipes. It has two manuals , a pedal and 29 registers on a sliding drawer with a mechanical action. A restoration took place in 1971/72.
literature
- Uwe Jahn: Monuments in Suhl . Kleine Suhler Reihe (41), Suhl July 2014, p. 8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.thueringen.info/hauptkirche-st-marien-suhl.html
- ↑ http://www.glaube-und-heimat.de/2011/10/27/immer-wieder-immer-schoner/
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 37 ″ E