St. Nicolai (Lippersdorf)
The Protestant Sankt-Nicolai-Kirche Lippersdorf in the municipality of Lippersdorf-Erdmannsdorf in the Thuringian district of Saale-Holzland was built in 1630 and changed considerably in 1718. The parish Lipper-Erdmannsdorf belongs to Regional Rectory valleys villages in the parish of Eisenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
location
This church is located north of Lindenstrasse am Kirchberg in the north-western end of the village.
history
The origin of the church is said to be in the 12./13. Century, when German settlers founded the place Lippersdorf on cleared land. The external shape of the church can be traced back to the years 1630 and 1718. Romanesque and Gothic details have been preserved . The church tower was built in 1766/67.
description
The hall church has a retracted, rectangular choir tower and a sacristy instead of the apse in the east, which was broken off in 1630 . The tower was rebuilt in 1766/67 using spoils from the previous medieval building . On its east side there is a pointed biforium , the fragment of an arched frieze and two figural, late Gothic consoles . Today's characteristic appearance of the church with the slate-roofed , octagonal tower tower, the curved dome and the lantern goes back to the renovation of 1718. This also includes the sacristy and the regularly arranged windows and portals . Major repairs were carried out in the second half of the 18th century.
The interior has two-story galleries to the north and west. The southern pore was removed. On the south side of the triumphal arch is the stone pulpit by Georg Sonnenkalb, built in 1639 . It is painted in a popular style with Christ Salvator and the Evangelists. The pulpit door and the sound cover were carved and painted around 1718. In the sacristy there is the implemented frame of a late Gothic sacraments with remains of the frame. There are also two slender figures of saints from an altarpiece from the same period, two small saints who were transformed into angels in 1934, and a man of Sorrows from the beginning of the 16th century.
The artistic design and equipment of the church
The late Gothic winged altar from 1500 shows a Pietà . Next to it are the apostles Johannes , Maria Magdalena and Maria Kleophae . Other saints are depicted on the side wings . During the restoration in 1934, the predella was added.
On the south side of the triumphal arch is the stone pulpit by Georg Sonnenkalb, built in 1639 . It is painted in a popular style with Christ Salvator and the Evangelists. The pulpit door and the sound cover were carved and painted around 1718. In the sacristy there is the implemented frame of a late Gothic sacraments with remains of the frame. There are also two slender figures of saints from an altarpiece from the same period, two small saints who were transformed into angels in 1934, and a man of Sorrows from the beginning of the 16th century.
The altar shrine next to the pulpit was most likely made around 1510 by the carver Johann Linde and / or his workshop in Jena. On the shrine are depicted: St. Margaret of Antioch , St. Nicholas as church patron, a crescent moon Madonna , St. Valentin and St. Catherine .
The painter Johann Conrad Schöning from Ronneburg painted the coffered ceiling of the church in 1718/1719 . He designed their 55 fields in different shades of red on a blue background with biblical scenes and people. The banners with quotations from the New Testament, which are held by them or which are attached to them, open up salvation history to the viewer as a comprehensive creed . In the nave , scenes from the Old Testament are depicted on 40 fields. The 15 pictures on the ceiling of the choir show the twelve apostles and the three figures of the Trinity .
The sacraments are kept in the style of the transition from the late Renaissance to the Baroque .
In the prospectus of Johann Wilhelm Rockstroh is the organ that Christian Ernst Friederici built 1738th It has 11 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal . The organ was rebuilt by Ernst Poppe & Sohn.
- Two stained glass windows decorate the sacristy windows in the choir tower.
- Donated to the glory of God in 1907, created by the Wilhelm Franke Naumburg glass workshop , successor to Domglas Naumburg
- In both windows the sacraments of baptism and communion.
The restoration since 1996
Since reunification, the roof has been renovated in 1996, drained in 2001, and in 2002 the church was newly plastered and the inside was renovated. A water ingress severely damaged some of the panels on the ceiling. They have been restored since 2010.
Interior photos 2013
Church ceiling
A plaque from the church ceiling
Chest in the church (wood from 14th century)
old stove in the church
literature
- Friedegard Hürter: Fall of Man and Beatitude. The rescue of the Lippersdorf picture Bible. In: Monuments. ISSN 0941-7125 . 23rd vol., No. 2, April 2013, pp. 36–37.
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
- The renovation of the church
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the church district
- ^ Paul Weber: An altar workshop in Jena at the end of the Middle Ages . In: Alexander Cartellieri : Contributions to Thuringian and Saxon history. Festschrift for Otto Dorbencker . Gustav Fischer Verlag , Jena 1929, pp. 205–224, there p. 216.
- ↑ Friedegard Hürter: Fall of Man and Beatitude. The rescue of the Lippersdorf picture Bible. In: Monuments. 23rd vol., No. 2, April 2013, pp. 36–37.
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ^ Information on restoration by the workshop for organ building Karl Brode
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 45.4 " N , 11 ° 47 ′ 47.5" E