St. Vitus (Leutersdorf)

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The church

The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Vitus is the focus of a fortified complex that characterizes the townscape on the highest point of the village within the largely preserved defensive wall in the municipality of Leutersdorf in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . The parish Leutersdorf belongs to the parish Vachdorf in the parish of Meiningen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

Until it was incorporated by the Veßra monastery, the place was the seat of an influential original parish in the Werra valley . The massive Romanesque church was torn down down to the basement of the church tower in 1757 and immediately rebuilt year after year according to its current appearance.

description

At the east end of the north wall of the nave of the 1758-built church hall standing bell tower . Its lower floors made of quarry stones , especially the east wall and parts of the nave, are remnants of the previous building. According to tradition, this building was a church of the Knights Templar built in 1129 . The tower was the former northern arm of the transept of the Romanesque building. The southern arm and the apse were demolished. Its founding could still be seen in the ground decades ago. At the same time as the nave , the three step-shaped upper floors of the tower were built from slate - roofed half - timbering , including its eight-sided hood on which a lantern with a tower ball sits. The nave is covered with a half-hip roof. The interior has double-storey galleries running on three sides and is spanned by a coffered ceiling with a painting of the Annunciation . The church furnishings are from the construction period. An altarpiece with a crucifixion group between columns is dated 1763 in the Rococo period. The Lord's Supper is depicted on the altarpiece . The organ with 13 registers , divided into a manual and a pedal , was built by Nicolaus Seeber around 1720 and renovated by Rösel & Hercher Orgelbau in 1999 . The organ and the pulpit are an object of ecclesiastical art for the visitor. In 1999 the church was completely renovated.

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
  • Paul Lehfeldt , Georg Voss : Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia . Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. Volume I, 1st division. Meiningen district. District court district Meiningen. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1909, p. 426 ff . ( Digitized version [accessed on March 16, 2020]).

Web links

Commons : Kirchenburg Leutersdorf (Thuringia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Vitus on EKMD. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Information on the organ. In: orgbase.nl. Accessed April 21, 2020 (German, Dutch).
  3. ^ The church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '10.7 "  N , 10 ° 33' 28.8"  E