St. Michael (Großkochberg)
The Church of St. Michael is located in the Großkochberg district of the Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel community in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .
location
The church is south-west near the Goethe -Gedenkstätte, on a the moated castle converted former water castle in the village.
architecture
The originally late Romanesque choir tower church (around 1200) with a single nave was redesigned in the late Gothic style in the 15th century .
The church tower was given a baroque dome in the 17th century.
Furnishing
The wooden barrel vault is painted. At the end of the 17th century the nave was given a gallery and pulpit as well as a baroque choir . The pulpit is from the 18th century.
The winged altar from 1490 is assigned to the early works of the Saalfeld School . In its central shrine are under delicate tracery - canopies Maria with child and Archangel Michael Ursula and Bartholomew between the Holy.. On the wings inside left: Lucia, Appollonia, Katharina, inside right: Peter, John the Evangelist and Paul. On the outside of the wing on the left: St. Michael as the soul weigher, on the right the unicorn Annunciation. The predella painting under the central shrine is dedicated to the fourteen holy helpers in need.
The organ was built in 1875 by Carl Lösche from Rudolstadt with two manuals and pedal as well as twelve sounding voices.
In the cemetery there are tombs that testify to the stone carving skills of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
- Website about the church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer, Volume 1: Thuringia and Bypassing, p. 184. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4
- ↑ Lieselotte Swietek village churches in Thuringia publishing house Thuringia, 1990, ISBN 3-86087-014-9 , pages 44/45
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 25 ″ E