St. Martin (Hüpstedt)
The Catholic village church of St. Martin is in Hüpstedt , a district of the municipality of Dünwald in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . The parish of St. Martin belongs to the dean's office in Dingelstädt in the diocese of Erfurt .
history
The first mention of a church in Hüpstedt can be found in a document from Archbishop Werner of Mainz dated March 7, 1268. In the middle of the 16th century, the Commander of the Order of St. John at Weißensee took over the church patronage . After the introduction of the Reformation , the Commander, who remained Catholic, had to leave the city. With the secularization , the patronage fell to Prussia from 1802 . Today this patronage no longer plays a role, but the state of Thuringia pays lump-sum state benefits to the diocese of Erfurt every year . The old church was either dilapidated or too small. In 1737 the construction of today's church began. The building was completed in early summer 1740. It was inaugurated on June 29, 1740. The church was expanded in 1864.
In the early 1960s, the interior of the church was completely redesigned. The background was the Second Vatican Council . The high and St. Mary's altars were replaced, the choir expanded and the pews replaced. The church was painted in white and gray tones. In the early 1980s the church was renovated again. The baroque decorative elements in the nave were emphasized again in the painting. A baroque altar from the Mühlhausen Kilianikirche was erected.
Building description
The hall church was built in 1740. It is a compact building with five axes with a three-sided end of the choir and a slate-covered roof tower in the west, in which three bells hang from the previous church. In autumn 1927, the tower , which was previously covered with a hipped roof , was given a baroque, copper-covered tower with a hood and lantern . The nave is covered with a flat gable roof. The interior is spanned by a flat cross vault on buttresses , the stucco of which consists of simple ribbon work . The high altar , created by the sculptor Stolze in 1749, has winding pillars decorated with acanthus . The crucifix in the middle is flanked by figures of Peter and Paul . Above it is the risen one with an angel.
The previous church already had an organ. Today's organ with 19 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal, was built in 1852 by Johann Michael Hesse the Younger and restored in 1917 by Karl Brode & Sohn.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 39.3 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 26.1 ″ E