Ortisei (Kindelbrück)

Evangelical town church St. Ulrich

The Protestant town church St. Ulrich is a listed church building in Kindelbrück , a rural community in the district of Sömmerda ( Thuringia ). Originally the building had the function of a market church. The parish belongs to the parish of Kindelbrück in the parish of Eisleben-Sömmerda.

History and architecture

A church that contained parts of a previous church was first mentioned in Kindelbrück in 1440. After that, while the older parts of the building were retained, a large single-nave church was built, which ends with a polygonal choir . The tower is on the north side. The construction process has not been definitively clarified. The building was badly damaged in the town fire in 1761 and rebuilt from 1782 to 1784. During this measure, the ship was raised and expanded. High-quality travertine blocks were used as building material . Only the west window has been preserved from the substance of the construction period, but the tracery is missing , the other windows were installed as part of the reconstruction in the 18th century. The southern wall was obviously rebuilt in parts, as the building inscription 1607 attests to. There is no further information. The choir walls are structured by high tracery windows and buttresses . On the east side there is a large sacristy , which presumably comes from the previous building. The round-arched portal on the east side is marked 1568, it slides into a Gothic window. The construction of the north tower began in 1502 and was completed in 1522. The built-in choir wall in the north is divided by two lancet windows. Presumably it was part of an early Gothic predecessor church, which had to give way to the new building from the 15th century. Both windows are darkened by the sacristy. The first floor of the tower opens to the east through a high pointed arch. The room used to be open to the west, but has now been walled up. The stairs on the wall led to the upper floor of the tower, but are no longer accessible. The tower room and the sacristy have a groin vault. The ribbed vault in the choir is caught on the north side by two shield arches that are placed in front of the older wall. The sacrament niche on the northeast wall of the polygon is from the construction time. There is a two-story, three-sided gallery in the ship. The stands on the north side are accessed via a corridor. Two tombstones are set in the floor of the church.

Furnishing

All the furnishings date from after 1761

An architecturally structured essay rises above the Gothic altar block, the altar leaf is a picture depicting Mary.
The bulbous pulpit is located on the southern side of the triumphal arch.
The font is six-sided.
The organ has a varied prospectus , the work is outsourced.

Bells

The two bells were cast by Johann Georg Ulrich in 1762. Both bells had to be delivered in 1942 during the Second World War, one came back in 1949. Two new bells have been hanging in the tower since 1982.

Events in the political turning point

During the GDR era , building materials were scarce or not available, and churches were not supported by the state. Thus the state of construction deteriorated. The roof of the dilapidated building was leaking, either the building had to be demolished or renovated. For the purpose of paying for repair work, 250,000 DM were collected. After five years of activity, the pastor left the community, after which the donations disappeared, and the altarpiece was no longer in its place. The 32 registers of the organ no longer had pipes and the console no longer existed. The money that had disappeared was no longer found, so another collection was carried out. The nave is usable again, but the frescoes were not allowed to be renovated because the monument office has strict regulations regarding the colors, which are very expensive.