St. Martin (Kunitz)

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Church in Kunitz

The Protestant village church of St. Martin is in the northeastern district of Kunitz in the city of Jena in Thuringia .

history

In 1491, Bishop Dietrich I von Naumburg confirmed in writing proof of a church in Kunitz. The current nave was built until around 1773 (inscription above the portal on the south facade) instead of a previous medieval building that was destroyed by fire in 1764 as a baroque Protestant hall church with two galleries. The ceiling is designed as a wooden barrel with colored paper wallpaper. The stucco cartouche with the inscription “Soli Deo Gloria” attached to the altar arch is one of the sparing decorations in the church. The tower was supplemented with its pointed dome based on a design by Carl Spittel in 1860, and the pulpit altar now in the transition to the tower was renewed. The baroque pulpit that was dismantled in the process has been preserved as a fragment. The design created by Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan in 1857, however, was discarded.

In the parish of Golmsdorf , to which five churches belong, four churches, including the Kunitz, were not accessible at the time of reunification due to construction defects. The Kunitzer Martinskirche was largely restored from the mid-1980s through civic engagement (donations and work). First of all, the roof structure had to be stabilized and the roof and tower hood re-covered. Around 1990 the plaster and the color of the exterior facades followed. By 1998 the interior was restored in the colors of the Baroque period (galleries) and the 19th century (pulpit altar). In July 2010, a new bell was installed in the church: three bronze bells that had cost 50,000 euros and were financed by donations. The Consecration of the bells of the peal found 3 October 2010 to coincide with the Kunitzer House Bridge Festival instead. The consecration had been postponed until October because in the summer months there is a nursery for the great mouse- eared bat, a protected bat species, in the Martinskirche .

graveyard

The Martinskirche is surrounded by a cemetery with a massive wall made of broken and house stones. Two preserved and at the beginning of the 2010s restored or partially renewed gravestones commemorate local pastors and their families in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

literature

Helga Sciurie: Churches around Jena. An introduction to its history and symbolic meaning, Jena 2000.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JC Zenker: Historisch-topographisches Taschenbuch von Jena 1836 and its surroundings. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, resprint edition 2011, pp. 124–126.
  2. ↑ Kerstin Vogel: Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan: Architect and chief building director in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1848 to 1884. Vol. 1, Diss. Weimar 2009, p. 104.
  3. ^ New bells in Kunitz.Retrieved on May 11, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 20.6 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 9.6 ″  E