St. Marien (Wetzdorf)
The Protestant-Lutheran listed former pilgrimage church of St. Marien is at the southern entrance to Wetzdorf , a district of the municipality of Harth-Pöllnitz in the Greiz district in Thuringia . The parish Wetzdorf belongs to the parish area Niederpöllnitz in the parish of Gera the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The core of the hall church is of Romanesque origin. It has a retracted, transversely rectangular choir tower , which is arranged between the nave and the low, late Gothic choir , which was built in place of a broken apse . The choir consists of a yoke , which is spanned inside with a ribbed vault, has a 5/8 end. The windows in the nave and choir were changed in the 18th century. The choir tower has a slate-covered top floor with sound arcades for the bell chamber , in whose bell cage hangs a church bell that was cast by Nikolaus Riemann from Naumburg in 1454. The tower is covered with a bulbous dome on which an open lantern sits.
The nave, equipped with three-sided galleries , is covered with a coffered ceiling. The simple church furnishings come from the 17th and 18th centuries. On the north wall of the choir is a Gothic tabernacle . On the south side of the pointed triumphal arch that stands pulpit . The organ with eight registers , divided between a manual and the pedal , was built in 1888 by Carl Friedrich Zillgitt and converted in 1920 by Emil Heerwagen .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 1379.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 54.3 " N , 11 ° 56 ′ 18.2" E