St. Valentin (Ringleben)
The Evangelical-Lutheran , listed church of St. Valentin is located in Ringleben , a district of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . The parish Ringleben belongs to the parish area Oldisleben in the parish of Bad Frankenhausen Sondershausen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The hall church consists of components of different ages. The choir tower was built in the late 12th century. It is covered with a slate-roofed , high, transverse hipped roof with four tower clocks , from which a roof turret rises. There are biforias on the north and south sides of the choir tower . The storey above with the bell cage has pointed arcades that were not used until the 19th century. Three church bells hang in the belfry .
The elongated late Gothic choir , closed on three sides, has two large ogival tracery windows . The simple nave from 1720 has rectangular windows. It has three-sided, two-storey galleries from the time it was built and is spanned with a wooden barrel vault. A winged altar stands in front of the pulpit altar from 1720 . In the shrine , Jesus Christ is enthroned under a canopy , flanked by the 14 helpers in need . On the outside of the wings there are paintings with the flagellation of Christ and Christ's crowning of thorns . The predella is modern, the burst was lost.
The church furnishings include a kneeling, carved baptismal angel from around 1720. The eight-sided baptismal font in the shape of a chalice is from 1751. The organ with 26 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1876 by Julius Strobel .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 11 ° 13 ′ 13.2 ″ E