St. Nikolaus (Pfersdorf)
The listed Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Nikolaus stands above the village as the highest building in the Pfersdorf district of the city of Hildburghausen in the district of the same name in Thuringia .
A church is said to have existed even before the first documentary mention of the place on April 12, 912. The current church still has components from the Romanesque period, especially the sacristy , which had to be structurally secured from 1974 to 1978, whereby a window from the pre-Reformation period was exposed. Its current shape with a baroque tower and nave goes back to construction work in 1714. The nave was enlarged and the galleries built. The village cemetery with a dry stone wall , proven since 1578, surrounds the church. There was also an internal row of crypts with burial rights for the landlords .
Under the bells in the tower there is a bronze bell from 1506, cast in Franconia . The name "Maria Magdalena" and "Sant Nikolas" are written in Latin on it. The organ from 1716, a work by the Hildburghausen organ builder Caspar Schippel , is the oldest surviving work in the entire district.
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 24 ( pdf ).
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 218.
- ↑ The organ in the Pfersdorfer church on the website of the church district.
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 11.7 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 14" E