St. Peter and Paul (Graefentonna)
The Protestant parish church of St. Peter and Paul , consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul , is located at Kirchstrasse 3 in Gräfentonna .
history
The church stands on the site of an earlier one from the 15th century. As early as 1670 a new building was planned due to the dilapidation of this church. In 1677 the place fell to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . Demolition began on April 10, 1690. The demolition material was used for the new building. The foundation stone was laid on April 20, 1691, the church consecration on November 13, 1692.
The crypt of the Counts of Gleichen has been there since 1525 with ten gravestones . The church was restored in 1985 and the altar in 1988 .
The church is the main church of the parish Gräfentonna, to which Burgtonna , Aschara , Eckardtsleben , Illeben and Wiegleben also belong.
Building description
The choir tower church with 8 tracery windows with various Gothic ornaments dates from the 2nd half of the 15th century. After a fire in 1833, the upper floor of the church tower and its eight-sided, slate-covered helmet had to be rebuilt. The church has three round arched portals in the middle of the west, south and north sides with pedestals and fighters . The portal in the west bears the year 1691 in its keystone . About the overlying tracery windows were arms of the same and Schoenburg walled in by the 1543rd The portal is flanked by statues of Saints Peter and Paul. The north portal bears the year 1742.
The church tower is flanked by extensions , the southern one from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century on the ground floor is vaulted . It originally served as a sacristy . The northern extension dates from the 18th century. 1691/92, the church became a hall with two-storey lofts rebuilt . The eight full pillars and the four corner pillars, which stand on high pedestals , have Corinthian capitals adorned with acanthus leaves. They divide the building into a three-aisled hall church . The balustrades of the galleries and the pedestals are decorated with biblical depictions.
Furnishing
The church's mighty, multi-story high altar dates from the Middle Ages. The pulpit from 1646, like the carved altar with its late Gothic reliefs , originally designed for the Grimmenthal pilgrimage church , came from the decaying pilgrimage church to the castle church in Gotha . After the renovation, they were moved to the previous church in Gräfentonna, which was later demolished. Parts of the altar, the reliefs and the large cross can be dated to the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century. When it was installed in Gräfentonna in 1692, parts were added.
The pulpit is located on the freestanding central pillar of the interrupted south pore, opposite the glazed patronage box .
The baptismal font with acanthus foliage carried by two putti comes from the 18th century, the organ prospectus from 1859. The organ with 2 manuals , a pedal and 21 stops was built in 1898 by Albin Hickmann.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 33.3 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 45.8" E