St. Stephanus (Eckstedt)
The Evangelical Lutheran Village Church St. Stephen stands at Olle Weg 1, the municipality Eckstedt in district Sömmerda in Thuringia . It is named after St. Stephen . The parish Eckstedt belongs to the parish area Udestedt in Kirchenkreis Apolda Buttstaedt the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
Building description
From 1740 to 1744 the church was built on the site of a medieval predecessor in a uniform plait style. The plastered with quoins provided hall church was renovated in 1863/64. The nave has an elongated, octagonal floor plan . It is covered with a hipped mansard roof. The oval interior is provided with circumferential, two-story galleries in which boxes are built. He is with a wooden barrel vault spans, which is plastered and levels of stucco have. The retracted church tower in the west is connected to the nave by an intermediate building. He wears a pointy helmet . The portals are decorated with entablature and cartouches , the western one is structured with pilasters and has a gaff head in the gable .
Furnishing
The interior is conceived in the spirit of the Protestant central area: the pulpit altar in the east is answered by the patronage box and the organ in the west. The pulpit altar was built around 1750. It is structured architecturally. Above him are free-standing statues of Moses and Christ . The curly pulpit is decorated with angel heads. Christ and a pelican are depicted on the sound cover above. The wooden baptismal font dates from the middle of the 18th century, the base is designed in the shape of dolphins . The organ with 14 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built around 1900 by an unknown organ builder.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 50.7 ″ E