St. Severi (Blankenhain)

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Church of St. Severi in Blankenhain

The town church of St. Severi is located in Blankenhain near Weimar in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . With its 43 meter high tower is a landmark of the city. The Gothic sacred building dates from before 1500; the parish belongs to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Location and dedication

The once Roman Catholic church is located on the highest point in Blankenhain and was surrounded by a cemetery . Like its mother church Severikirche in Erfurt , it is consecrated to Severus von Ravenna , who was bishop in Ravenna from around 342 to around 344/346 .

history

View from the choir into the nave with galleries and organ

The parish dates back to 1366 or earlier. In 1431 the tower was built as a defense tower , access was only possible via a ladder at a height of 10 meters.

The town church was built in 1481–1497 as a late Gothic hall church with a high triumphal arch . The builder was the rule of Count Carl von Gleichen . The church was reformed in 1525 , according to tradition, Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton had appointed the Protestant pastor for Blankenhain.

In 1779 the entrance concept of the church was changed. In 1782, the installation of the organ was completed with the organ prospect that still exists today . Renovations took place in 1885 and 1886, and most of the furnishings that still exist today, such as the pulpit, banks and galleries, were installed. In 1886, the then owner of the Weimar porcelain factory financed the production and installation of the glass windows in the choir and south extension.

In 1926 the pointed tower hood fell down after a lightning strike and was reconstructed in a different form.

In 1969 the tower was re-covered with slate during the tenure of Pastor Martin Giersch . In 1981, during the tenure of Pastor Martin Steiger, the interior of the church was restored under the direction of Horst Jahresling . A Gothic crucifix from the Weimar region has been hanging on chains from the ceiling in the choir room since 1981 as an optical and theological focal point.

In 2008, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the organ, the interior renovation of the church began during the term of office of Pastor Günter Widiger: Under the direction of architect Dieter Müller, bricklayers and cleaners, master electrician Manfred Fritsche, master painter Siegfried and Jürgen Locke and many volunteer helpers had already been working in the church Church, whereby the color version by Horst Jahresling from 1981 was retained. This was all made possible thanks to numerous private and commercial donors; Since 2002, almost EUR 70,000 in donations have been collected for the organ and church renovation.

Interior design

During the time of the Catholic Church there were probably five altars. The small wooden door of the sacrament shrine at eye level in the left wall of the chancel, for example, has survived from that time.

The seven carved figures of a late Gothic table altar are remarkable from the medieval furnishings. The Gothic half-relief figures probably come from the Saalfeld school, show the Coronation of Mary, for example, and come from the Marienkirche Bad Berka. The sacristy, built with groin vaults , is painted with strong colors, as is customary in the Gothic period. In one of the two rooms, which is set up as a prayer room, an unusual Christian figure hangs in the window niche, without any limbs or painting. The valuable carving from the 16th century comes from the floor of the Rottdorfer church and came back in its last "raw" state after its restoration.

A large tomb, decorated in moderate Rococo, stands in the nave on the northern part of the triumphal arch. There is the praying figure of Faithfulness and Innocence on the left, next to her the dove on an oak branch, and on the right Eternity, a snake in his hand, an overturned urn at his feet. More tombstones can be found in the church.

To the left of the Holy Family there is a small stained glass window from the 16th century; it shows a kneeling abbot with a crook in his right hand and a church in his left hand.

organ

Furtwängler & Hammer organ from 1908 with the historic organ brochure from 1782

In 1782, master organ builder Schulze from Paulinzella built a new organ . Only the wooden prospectus remains of her. From 1908 the company Furtwängler und Hammer from Hanover installed the 27-stop pneumatic organ. On the 100th anniversary of its existence, it was extensively restored by the Eule company and re-inaugurated on August 31, 2008 by Oberkirchenrat Reinhard Werneburg.

Disposition
I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Dolce 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Intoxicating fifth II
10. Cornett Mixture III-IV
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
12. Lovely covered 16 ′
13. Violin principal 8th'
14th Concert flute 8th'
15th Salicional 8th'
16. Aeoline 8th'
17th Vox coelestis 8th'
18th Covered 8th'
19th Principal 4 ′
20th Soft flute 4 ′
21st Progressive II-III
Pedals C – d 1
22nd Contrabass 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. cello 8th'
25th Principal bass 8th'
26th trombone 16 ′
  • Side trains: manual coupler II-I; Pedal Coupler IP & II-P; Upper octave coupling I & II; Sub-octave coupling II; Grundstimmen-Unteroktavkoppel II to I; Pipe work storage; Calcareous
  • As push buttons: Piano, Mezzoforte, Forte, Tutti, Piano-Pedal, Forte-Pedal, key register, register swell, button register, shutter release
  • Roller, sill
  • Baroque prospectus of the previous organ by Schultze, Paulinzella 1776, with 106 silent prospect pipes by Furtwängler & Hammer, Hanover 1917
  • Pneumatic pocket drawer; Recorder 2 'controlled by cone valves in the wind chest

Peal

The three hard-cast iron bells in the church tower come from the Ulrich & Weule company from Apolda / Bockenem , they were cast in 1922. The large one with 1,950 kg has the sound tone es , the middle one with 1,100 kg the sound tone ges and the small one with 500 kg the sound tone b . At the same time, the church was the second church in Thuringia to have an electric bell device.

Of the previously existing Bronze - church bells from 1801 the large and medium-sized during World War I as "had metal donation be given". The small bell could stay and has been hanging in the nuns' church in Blankenhain, which again belongs to the Catholic community, since 1969.

graveyard

From the cemetery a rococo gravestone of the Gottschalk family and the tomb of Count Ludwig von Gleichen-Blankenhain and his wife as well as that of Count's son Gottfried von Hatzfeld have remained in place.

project

Since 2019, a project called “Vivendium” has been under discussion that provides for a comprehensive change to the church. Supported by the parish, church district, EKM, Diakonie, City of Blankenhain and the International Building Exhibition (IBA), according to the project, the church is to become a therapy church and in a larger overall context (church, rectory, church garden, hospital, hospital park, nursing home of Diakonie and Old School) are posed and understood. Whether, how, when and with what money this can, should and will happen is currently (February 2020) still open.

Web links

Commons : St. Severi Church (Blankenhain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.iba-thueringen.de/sites/default/files/projekte/downloads/VIVENDIUM-IBA_Machbarkeitsstudie_2018-2019_22.01.2019_0.pdf on page 5 of the pdf document, accessed on February 14, 2020
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160517123757/http://www.blankenhain.com/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/amtsblatt/Amtsblatt_2008-09-13.pdf , accessed on February 13, 2020
  3. ^ Source: Information from retired pastor Martin Steiger, Weimar, on January 31 and February 5, 2020
  4. ↑ http://www.blankenhain-online.de/index.php/stadtkirche-stseveri , accessed on February 13, 2020
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160517123757/http://www.blankenhain.com/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/amtsblatt/Amtsblatt_2008-09-13.pdf , accessed on February 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Disposition, accessed on February 13, 2020
  7. ↑ Ernst Fauer: Chilled iron bells from the Ulrich & Weule bell foundry . In: Apoldaer Geschichtsverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Apoldaer Heimat - Contributions to the nature and local history of the city of Apolda and its surroundings . Issue 36. Apolda 2018, p. 35-41 .
  8. ↑ http://www.blankenhain-online.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=119 , accessed on February 13, 2020
  9. ↑ The church on kirchenkreis-weimar.de. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ vivendium.de , accessed on February 13, 2020
  11. ↑ vivendium.de , accessed on February 13, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 25.6 ″  E