St. Veit (Crock)

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Parish Church of St. Veit

The Protestant parish church of St. Veit is a cultural monument in Crock , a district of the municipality of Auengrund in the Hildburghausen district ( Thuringia ). The church is located on a hill about 800 meters from the village. It is surrounded by a defensive wall with loopholes.

History and architecture

The church reformer Bonifatius overthrew the Irminheiligtum on the mountain nose of Crock and had three crosses erected here.

The predecessor building was a chapel consecrated to St. Vitus , which was built in the eighth century, its appearance is not known. A pilgrimage developed . In a register of the living and the dead from 1452, believers were mentioned who had given money for the new church. This chapel was also used for pilgrimages and after a while it became too small. With the help of the surrounding communities , the late Gothic church on the Irmelsberg was built in 1489 under the direction of Provost Kilian von Bibra . The parish did not have its own pastor at that time, the next clergyman lived in Eisfeld . With the Reformation , an evangelical pastor came to the parish, on his instructions the figures of saints and the high altar were removed from the church. Only the tabernacle and the late Gothic baptismal font remain from the former furnishings . The conversion to a Protestant preacher church took place around 1559, the two galleries and the stalls were installed.

In the course of time, the church burned down several times and was repeatedly rebuilt. During the renovation in 1908, the organ was moved from 1731 to the west gallery. It was built by Johann Christian Dozauer from Hildburghausen. The west tower was damaged in World War II and repaired in 1946. The keystones of the vaults in the chancel show the Thuringian lion , the Kurschwerter, the hen, the spoked wheel and the diamond wreath. This is interpreted as an indication of the continued existence of the pilgrimage. In times of the GDR the state of construction deteriorated, the rainwater penetrated through the leaky roof. The renovation work made possible by donations lasted from 1980 to 1985. In the interior, the paintwork from the construction period could be exposed. During the renovation in 1908, some roof beams were removed because of the installation of the galleries and the organ. Although the building was secured by tie rods , it sustained severe damage to the roof structure. In order to make the repair possible, the Thuringian State Monuments Office, the urban development subsidy, the district, the municipality and the German Foundation for Monument Protection made funds available. The four-axis hall structure has a retracted choir of two yokes with 3/8 end.

On the south side of the ship is a sundial , the hour digits of which are arranged in a semicircle by the stonemasons as Styrian numerals, also called spar numerals, in the sandstone.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Veit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pages of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
  2. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , page 195
  3. ↑ Irmin shrine
  4. ↑ Irmin shrine
  5. ^ History
  6. ^ First pastor
  7. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , page 195
  8. ↑ renovations
  9. ↑ Keystones
  10. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , page 195
  11. ↑ Roof renovation
  12. ↑ Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Grossmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen ... nothing more than God's house - the gate of heaven .... Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 47.

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '26.7 "  N , 10 ° 53' 2.3"  E