St. Vitus (Zottelstedt)
The Protestant village church St. Vitus is in the Zottelstedt district of the city of Apolda in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .
history
Margrave Dietrich von Meißen had a village church built as a Romanesque church in 1210 . The west tower dates from the 14th century. The church had a historic altar , painted ceiling and an organ from the 17th century.
Furnishing
The current village church dates from the 18th century and was built on the previous church . The altar, the two galleries and the organ were built during this time. The font is also from this time.
The nave and the tower are now covered with slate . The roof of the nave has three dormers on the right and left . The ship also has arched windows in the walls. The pointed floor-level tower has a tower button.
Extensive renovation work has been carried out in recent years, during which a floor cut-out (in the north-east corner of the nave) and a painting of the church wall from the Renaissance period (in the south-west corner of the church wall) came to light. The baptismal font and an epitaph from 1733 as well as the sacrificial box from the 17th century are largely preserved in their original state and well worth seeing. The ceiling painting of the barrel ceiling has also largely been preserved.
Above the entrance on the north side of the bell tower there are three sandstone slabs with reliefs from around 1580, two of which can be assigned to the sons of the Weimar Duke Wilhelm : one is dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm (1562–1602), who was born in 1562 , the other to him Johann III born in 1570 (1570-1605).
The church has three hard-cast iron bells , all of which come from the Morgenröther hammer mill of Schilling & Lattermann. The largest is the f ' bell (349.228 Hz) with a diameter of 1,445 mm and a weight of 1,286 kg. The middle one has the strike note a ' (440 Hz) and with a diameter of 1,130 mm a weight of 680 kg. The smallest bell sounds in c ' (261.6 Hz) and weighs 356 kg with a diameter of 935 mm.
photos
Epitaph from 1733
Entrance door to the tower room
Offering box
Relief panels above the entrance portal of the church
Church organ
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Church at geo.viaregia.org.Retrieved October 4, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 16 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 39 ″ E