St. Michael (Steinbach)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Michael was built in 1905/06 in today's Sonneberg district of Steinbach in the neo-Romanesque style.
In 1904 the parishes of Köppelsdorf , Steinbach, Hüttensteinach , Mönchsberg and Jagdshof separated from the parish of Oberlind and united in the new parish of Köppelsdorf. In particular, the industrialists William Swaine and Günter Schoenau, who owned porcelain factories in Hüttensteinach, supported the separation because they promised the porcelain workers a stronger counterbalance to social democracy through an independent local community. As a result, the church house, which is now a listed building, was built according to a design by the Saalfeld building councilor Karl Rommel, which was consecrated on September 23, 1906.
The neo-Romanesque hall church has an outer wall made of slate, which is structured by sandstone elements, and slate-covered roofs. The nave with its three-sided galleries is spanned by a wooden ceiling with multiple trusses under a gable roof . The ceiling is decorated with stencil paintings by the Coburg painter Arthur Wang. The stilted, polygonal apse in the east is vaulted. The church tower , standing on the south-west corner, has a sloped roof attachment with a Welscher hood and a keuz-crowned lantern . Three chilled iron bells, cast by Schilling & Lattermann in Apolda in 1920 , hang in the tower. In the cross-crowned west facade is the main portal above which three-lane arched windows are arranged.
The lead glazing in the apse and gallery windows from the construction period shows a figural glass painting by the Naumburg Institute for Glass Painting and Artistic Glazing Wilhelm Franke. The organ from 1908 comes from Wilhelm Sauer . The neighboring, two-story rectory was also planned by Karl Rommel.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 511 .
Web links
- suptur-sonneberg.de: Michaelskirche zu Steinbach, church leader ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 34.1 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 49.8 ″ E