St. Peter and Paul (Niederspier)
The Evangelical Lutheran , listed church of St. Peter and Paul stands on a plateau in the southwestern district of Niederspier , a district of the city of Großenehrich in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . The Niederspier parish of the Oberspier parish in the Sondershausen II parish in the Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The church has its origins in the 8th / 9th centuries. Century. A Romanesque chapel built during this period was expanded over the centuries until it finally had the current shape of a hall church since 1515 . A year 1515 is said to have been above the entrance to the churchyard. The nave and the subsequently added, equally wide, straight closed choir in the east, including the church tower, were built from unplastered rubble.
The four-storey church tower in the west is made with corner stones and a steep slate-covered pyramid roof with flanking corner turrets. The formerly bronze bells were melted down during the First World War. In 1921 the community received new chilled iron bells, cast by Schilling & Lattermann . On its east side under a protective roof hang an hour and a quarter hour bell.
The nave and the choir are covered with a steep, tiled, half- hip roof. The roof of the nave is provided with two dormer windows on the north and south sides . In the 17th century, the outer walls were raised, a two-storey gallery was built in, due to the small width only on the north and west walls , and porches for the two portals were created on the north side, the main portal and a portal that leads to the galleries and in the winter church leads. According to a document found in the tower knob, after a lightning strike in 1738, the nave was covered with a wooden barrel vault and the high groin-vaulted ground floor of the tower was opened to the hall through a high pointed arch . From 1987 the exterior and interior were renovated. Wall paintings on the north, east and south walls of the choir were partially exposed.
The pulpit altar was created shortly after 1731 by Christian Johann Biedermann. Its structure is two-story. The simple wooden baptismal font dates from the second half of the 20th century.
The three-part organ front, raised in the middle, has a crowning cornice with a leaf frieze . In front of the organ pipes, the fields below are decorated with foliage. The organ with 16 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1857 by Gottlieb Knauf .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish area Sondershausen II in the parish of Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 18 " N , 10 ° 50 ′ 38.3" E