St. Nikolaus (Judenbach)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nikolaus is located in Judenbach in the Sonneberg district ( Thuringia ).
Building history
On the old trade route, which led over the ridge near Judenbach and the Sattelpass to the north and connected the upper Main Valley with the area around Saalfeld , there was a chapel in the late Middle Ages, which, according to a handwritten chronicle from the 18th century, was in 1455 was expanded to a church. The church is consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra , the patron saint of merchants. The church is documented as a branch church of the Oberlind parish in 1529, which became an independent parish in 1674. The Sprengel included Neuenbau , Sattelpass, Hohenofen , Blechhammer and the infirmary near Hüttensteinach . The core of today's church was built in 1705. Major repairs were carried out in 1883/84.
Ten years later, renovations were carried out according to plans by the Sonneberger architect Adolf Meurers. The stairwell to the gallery was replaced by a new and spacious one, the organ was moved from the eastern choir to the western gallery, the altar and pulpit moved to the now much more spacious chancel and the interior was redesigned. The new inauguration was on August 11, 1895.
As part of a restoration in 1966, the restorer Hermann Müller from Plauen restored the color to a baroque design, with the ceiling, walls and chancel painted over in white. The entrance was redesigned with a vestibule extension.
architecture
The listed, simple hall church has three rectangular windows on each of the long sides and elliptical windows above. A half- hipped roof with an octagonal gable tower and Welscher hood on the western side forms the upper end . The interior is spanned by a barrel vault. There is a two-storey gallery on three sides.
Furnishing
The wood carving of the baptismal angel and the pulpit dates from 1707/08 and was created by the Coburg sculptor Georg Kaufmann and painted in color by the Sonneberg painter Michael Naundorf in 1717. The pulpit column is designed as a palm tree. The pulpit is decorated with five figures depicting Christ and the four evangelists . The sound cover has the shape of an elector's hat with a cross above and the dove below and is carried by two angel figures standing on the pulpit parapet.
The 40 gallery fields with scenes from the history of salvation were painted in 1730 by Michael Naundorf. The glass painting in the altar wall was created in 1961/62. In the bell tower hang three bells , a bronze bell cast around 1500, a bronze bell from 1964 and a chilled cast iron bell from 1957. The clock and striking mechanism were built in the 19th century. The organ with its late baroque prospect dates from the year 1729. It has 816 pipes and was reconstructed or restored in 2003/2004 by the workshop for organ building Wieland Rühle in Moritzburg .
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 260 .
Web links
- judenbach.de: St. Nikolaus ( Memento from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ suptur-sonneberg.de: Nikolauskirche zu Judenbach ( Memento from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 54.6 ″ E