St. Oswald (Schnett)

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St. Oswald, Schnett
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Oswald is located in Schnett , a district of the municipality of Masserberg in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ). The listed building dates from 1810 in its current form.

Building history

Schnett, which previously belonged to Crock , has been a parish branch of Heubach since 1647 . A chapel dedicated to St. Oswald in Schnett was mentioned as early as 1416 when the place was first mentioned. This was replaced by a new church in 1622, which in turn was followed by a new church in 1730 due to disrepair, which was destroyed by fire in 1790.

The replacement building had to be demolished in 1810 and was replaced in the same year by the fifth church building, which is still standing today. The church building has a substructure made of plastered rubble on which a crooked half - timbered structure stands. Externally it has a baroque design due to the shaped tower dome and the large mansard roof . In the interior, as on the arch above the altar, there is a classicist style. There is a two-storey gallery on three sides and a large organ gallery above the altar. The large and ambitious interior appears as a closed whole. It was designed in 1981 during the last major renovation, at the suggestion of the Gera restorer Kurt Thümmler, by the Schnetter residents with the ornaments of the traditional Schnetter chest painting. The colored ornaments led to the nickname "Flower Church".

Furnishing

In the church tower hang three cast iron bells from the years 1919 and 1950. The core of the organ is an older work by the Ilmenau organ builder Gottlieb Heinrich Fichtel and was built for the Langewiesen cemetery church at the end of the 18th century . Since the Langewiesener could not pay it, it was sold to the Schnetter community. In 1842, the organ builder Johann Michael Schmidt from Schmiedefeld converted it (using the prospectus of the previous organ, which was built by the organ builder Gottlieb Heinrich Fichtel from Ilmenau in the early 1790s) and gave it its current form. It has 23 stops on two manuals and a pedal . A renovation took place between 1996 and 1997 by the Stadtilmer organ building company Schönefeld. The altar and pulpit are from the construction period, the lectern with the year 1806 was probably in the previous church. The massive, very simple font dates from the 20th century.

literature

  • Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Großmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen ... nothing more than God's house - the gate of heaven ... Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 250.

Web links

Commons : St. Oswald  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 29 ( pdf ).
  2. ↑ The Schmidt organ in the Schnetter St. Oswald Church on the website of the church district.

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 54.8 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 3.6 ″  E