St. Nikolaus (Weitramsdorf)
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Nikolaus in Weitramsdorf in Upper Franconia in the Coburg district dates back to 1803 in its current form.
history
Weitramsdorf originally belonged to the Gauerstadter church district. A chapel or church, first mentioned in 1412, was built in neighboring Schlettach and was also responsible as a branch church for Weitramsdorf. The patronage of the church was St. Nicholas . The Reformation was introduced in the 1520s . As a result of the first Protestant church visitation by the Electorate of Saxony in 1528, Schlettach then became an independent parish, which was also responsible for the little church in Weitramsdorf, which was built in the meantime. The church had the church completely renovated in 1617 under the direction of the Coburg master builder Peter Sengelaub , who had planned, among other things, the school building of the Casimirianum in Coburg . In the course of the Thirty Years' War Schlettach was totally destroyed in 1634. The church there had been badly damaged and was no longer rebuilt. Weitramsdorf therefore became the parish's new parish seat in 1656.
Between 1801 and 1803 a renovation followed, with an enlargement of the nave and a renewal of the roof turret, and a redesign of the church in the margrave style . The carpentry work was carried out by Georg Fischer from Einberg and Johann Adam Hübner from Coburg did the masonry work. It was the only major church building project under the Coburg Duke Franz Friedrich .
As part of a renovation in 1899, the parish had stained glass windows installed on both sides of the altar. The interior was repaired and redesigned in 1947 under the direction of the architect Reinhard Claaßen . The altar was renewed with a crucifix by the Weitramsdorf artist Heinz Neupert, the old pulpit was replaced by a new one by the Weitramsdorf wood sculptor Karl Groß and a new baptismal font by the Coburg sculptor Edmund Meusel was installed. During a renovation in 1977/78, the church was given its interior and exterior appearance in the original architectural style from 1803. After the interior was renovated in summer 2003, the church was given the name St. Nicholas in memory of the former church in Schlettach.
Building description
The small church standing on a hill above Augraben, next to the cemetery, in the center of the village is a rectangular hall building with a three-sided, closed choir that tapers slightly and a roof turret . The slated octagonal roof turret is in the middle of the church house roof and has a tail dome.
The altar and parish room is 14.6 meters long and 7.8 meters wide. It is spanned by a flat ceiling with a haunch , which is decorated with stucco framing and in the middle a triangle in clouds and rays , the eye of providence . The interior is characterized by a simple altar, above it the pulpit on the east wall, a donated chandelier and two-story galleries on the long sides. The organ gallery is on the west side. The galleries are supported by Roman-Ionic wooden columns. Three high arched windows on the long sides, including one on the sloping side of the choir, structure the facade. In the center of the gable side is the entrance portal with a round arched door, which is decorated with fascia in the arch, on pillars, framed by Ionic pilasters with entablature and broken flat arched gable. In the flat arched gable there are shields with the name of Duke Ernst Friedrich and the diamond-shaped wreath coat of arms, under him an order, under the crown and in rococo scrolls .
The sacristy is located east of the nave in an annex. It has a flat ceiling and rectangular windows.
organ
In 1680 the parish bought an organ with a manual , no pedal and four stops. This was expanded to include a pedal and two registers in 1721 . In 1739, the Coburg organ builder Paul Daum installed a new instrument with manual, pedal and ten stops for 100 Reichstaler and the old organ. Major repairs are documented for 1796 and 1834. Daum's work was replaced in 1921 because it was unusable by a modern organ with two manuals, a pedal and 18 registers, which Georg Hoecke from Dachwig bought as a bargain for 30,000 marks.
The present organ is a new building by the Göttingen organ builder Paul Ott from 1965. It has a main work with six registers, a Rückpositiv with five registers and a pedal with three registers. The wooden case is completely closed. It consists of a three-part prospectus with a raised pointed tower and rectangular fields drawn in like a wing, flanked by protruding lattice fields with bars, behind which the pedals.
Parish
In addition to Weitramsdorf, the parish of Gersbach and Schlettach belong to the church district .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Axmann: Weitramsdorf . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 215 f.
- ^ A b 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. 99
- ^ Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXXII. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jena 1906, p. 471
- ^ A b Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part II. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1971, p. 221 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 43 ″ E