St. Peter and Paul (Schweinitz)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed church of St. Peter and Paul is in Schweinitz , a district of the town of Pößneck in the Saale-Orla district of Thuringia . The parish Schweinitz belongs to the parish area Langenorla in church circle Schleiz the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
It was originally a late Romanesque church with a choir tower , as the corner stones reveal. The church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . It was rebuilt around 1660, the current nave in the west was not rebuilt until 1719 using older masonry, as the heavily weathered year 1719 on the west side attests. The church tower was in 1714 a slate-roofed tower on which an octagonal pointed helmet sits. In it hangs a bronze bell from 1766. The second place has been empty since the First World War .
The choir has replaced the Romanesque conche . The two yokes of the choir have a star vault on consoles and are decorated with keystones . Above the altar is a lamb of God , surrounded by heraldic and stone carving marks . The interior has three-sided galleries , the parapets painted in the style of the early 20th century. The wooden coffered ceiling was installed in 1719. A Gothic sacrament house is still preserved on the north wall .
The church furnishings include a late Gothic shrine from the Saalfeld school from around 1500. The dominant figure in the middle section is Mary with the child , below her the prophets Jeremiah , Isaiah and Daniel . On the left are Barbara and Margareta (or Helena), on the right Katharina and Dorothea . On the side wings, Simon Petrus , Nikolaus and Jakobus the Elder are depicted on the left, Andreas on the right , perhaps Wolfgang and Bartholomäus are also depicted. Abraham and Isaac are depicted on the tablets above . On the outside the birth of Jesus by the Archangel Gabriel and on the right the birth of Christ and in the same picture the Annunciation to the Shepherds are painted. In the predella there are reliefs of the Annunciation , the birth of Christ and adoration . The closed state shows panels . The small round panes in the windows, dated 1664, show Salvator (Savior), Justitia (Justice), Misericordia (Mercy), Pelican (symbol of sacrifice), the risen Lord and finally the Lamb of God. The discs with Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton date from 1914. The organ with nine registers , divided into a manual and pedal , was built in 1857 by Johann Friedrich Schulze .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 . Page 1132–33
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 11 ° 36 ′ 39.5 ″ E