St. Martini (Großengottern)
The Protestant village church of St. Martini is in the lower village of Großengottern , a district of the Unstrut-Hainich community in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
history
Like the Walpurgis Church in the upper village of Großengottern, which is also late Gothic, the St. Martini Church is older than the written evidence shows. A pastor has been resident in Großengottern since 1280 . The Martini Church as the oldest church is documented in 1318. Both churches have hardly been structurally changed since 1500 . The many similarities end in appearance and are applied to the church and place seals. The choir and tower were built around 1500, further alterations were made between 1617 and 1647, and the east window was changed in the 19th century.
architecture
The building is a quarry stone building with a three-sided choir and a retracted west tower with a pointed helmet and corner towers. The building is accessed through a pointed arch portal in the south with crossed bars. The room, which is closed with a wooden barrel vault, is surrounded by a three-sided, two-storey gallery from 1698. At the same time the pulpit altar was created and provided with wooden figures of the apostles Peter and Paul. The unusually large organ is a work by Johann Michael Hesse the Younger from 1842 with 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 533-534.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Church at www.grossengottern.com Retrieved February 6, 2014
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 7.8 ″ E