St. Moritz (Sonnefeld)

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The Evangelical Lutheran cemetery church of St. Moritz in Sonnefeld in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg dates from 1654.

St. Moritz cemetery church in Sonnefeld

Building history

In 1425 a Fechheim branch church was mentioned in Hofstädten . The church probably had its origin in a chapel of an Ottonian royal estate. With the elevation of the neighboring Sonnefeld to a parish in 1540 with the former monastery church as the parish church, St. Moritz was only used as a cemetery church. After the church was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1634 , a new church was built in 1654. Restorations were carried out in 1724 and 1856, among others.

description

The choir tower church stands high on a slope. It was probably formerly enclosed by a fortified churchyard. It is a simple ashlar building made of sandstone with a tile-covered gable roof and a slated gable. The windows and doors are all rectangular. The interior of the 14.8 meter long and 5.8 meter wide nave is spanned by a plastered wooden barrel. There are single-storey galleries with Tuscan wooden columns on three sides . The 3.9 meter long and 4.0 meter wide choir room on the tower base has a flat ceiling. In the vestry to the north, 3.4 meters long and 5.8 meters wide, there are Gothic building remains in the basement. The two upper floors of the tower were probably renewed in 1856 and provided with four classical gables. The upper floors are slated like the octagonal pointed helmet.

organ

In 1670 a small organ was installed, which was probably replaced by a new instrument towards the end of the 18th century. In 1856, the Neustadt organ builder Georg Christoph Hofmann built a new organ with a three-tower front . The instrument had seven registers on a manual and pedal . In 1969 the Sonnefeld municipal council sold the organ for 400 DM to the Protestant parish in Manau .

Web links

Commons : St. Moritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 134.
  2. ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 92.
  3. ↑ a b Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXVIII, Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, Landrathsamt Coburg. Jena 1902, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part I. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1971, p. 121.

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 10.6 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 25.9 ″  E