St. Vitus (Nessetal-Westhausen)
The St. Vitus branch church is located at Hochheimer Straße 44 in Westhausen , a district of the rural community Nessetal in the Thuringian district of Gotha . The patron saint is St. Vitus .
Community membership
The parishes of Wangenheim and Goldbach in the Gotha parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany merged in January 2013 to form the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Emmaus Goldbach-Wangenheim. The parish village of Westhausen also belongs to this large parish. The service only takes place every two weeks.
description
The church tower of the striking building on the northern edge of the village can be seen from afar. The simple, quarry stone plastered hall church , which is covered with a hipped roof, was built in 1715-18. It has a Gothic tower on the southeast corner . He wears a drawn-in, high tail hood , which is crowned by a lantern . Its ground floor has a groin vault . The facades are structured by the natural stone framed walls of the high rectangular windows and corner stones . The church was changed in the 18th century. The nave is spanned by a mirror vault. The galleries from the construction period are two-story. The pulpit from the 18th century is three-dimensionally decorated. Eckhard Kucher cast a bell in 1576. The larger bell was picked up during World War II . It was brought back intact after the war.
The German Foundation for Monument Protection supported the construction work on the tower dome.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Parish Emmaus Goldbach-Wangenheim
- ↑ Foundation aid for German monument protection
- ↑ Thuringian General of August 16, 2016
- ↑ German Foundation for Monument Protection, notification of November 25, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 59.2 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 24.4 ″ E