St. Martin (Sopoten)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed church of St. Martin is in Sopoten , a district of the city of Saalburg-Ebersdorf in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The parish Zoppoten belongs to the parish area Zoppoten in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The church was built shortly after 1200. The Teutonic Order later provided for an expansion of the church by expanding the small chapel , consisting of an apse and choir , around the nave to a rectangular hall church . The walls of the eastern part of the building have been preserved. The former semicircular apse was removed. The church was rebuilt in the 15th century. In 1791 it was given today's windows and the roof tower in the south, which is crowned by a lantern . Until then, the three church bells hung in a free-standing belfry in front of the church.
The current design of the interior , covered with a wooden cross vault, is the result of the renovation in 1910. Under the painting of the interior of the church in the area of the chancel, wall paintings from the Romanesque period were discovered Church has been covered again. The galleries and the patronage box stand on carved columns from the 17th century. The parapet of the box is decorated with portraits of Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon , Frederick the Wise and King Gustav Adolf of Sweden and the coat of arms of the von Reitzenstein family .
The organ with 17 registers , divided into two manuals and the pedal , was built in 1910 by Ernst Poppe & Sohn and overhauled in 2006 by the Vogtland organ builder.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 1424.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 26.4 " N , 11 ° 41 ′ 45.2" E