St. Walpurgis (Großengottern)
The Protestant village church of St. Walpurgis is located in the upper village of Großengottern , a district of the Unstrut-Hainich community in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It is known for its large baroque organ made by the important organ builder Trost.
history
Like the Martinikirche in the lower village of Großengottern, which was also influenced by the late Gothic and was first mentioned in documents in 1318 , the Walpurgis Church is older than the written evidence shows. A pastor has been resident in Großengottern since 1280 . The Walpurgis Church was first mentioned in a document in 1494 with a reconstruction and extension. Both churches have hardly been structurally changed since 1500. The many similarities end in the appearance and are applied to the church and place seals.
The Walpurgis Church was built on the existing foundation walls and the walls of a previous church. In addition, the rectory and the gateway to the church are located next to it .
architecture
The hall church is built from quarry stone masonry. The rectangular nave with a three-sided choir was built in 1478, the west tower bears the inscription with the date 1494. Changes were made in the 18th century and 1851/1852. Restorations took place in 1952 and 1993–1995. A pointed arch portal and arched curtain windows can be found on the tower, while pointed arch windows are arranged on the nave and tracery windows are arranged on the choir. The interior is finished with a wooden barrel vault and surrounded by a two-story wooden gallery from 1739.
Furnishing
In the east there is a neo-Gothic pulpit altar with pinnacles and tracery . In the tower room there is a Romanesque font with a round arch frieze on the cupa . In the chancel there is another baptismal font from 1739. A late Gothic Coronation Altar with carved figures of St. Catherine and Walpurga is now in the church of St. Wigbert (Erfurt) . Colored stained glass with biblical motifs from 1908 can be found in the choir. An altar crucifix was created in the first half of the 18th century. A tombstone for a knight of Großengottern has been preserved on the outer northern portal.
organ
Since 1717 the church has had a valuable organ by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost with 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In the years 1848/1849 Ernst Siegfried Hesse revised the action and the manuals and exchanged individual stops. In 1878 the organ was damaged by lightning strikes. Friedrich Petersilie restored the organ and replaced some registers. A proposal to fundamentally change the organ was not carried out. Between 1940 and 1947, Rudolf Kühn restored the organ under the guidance of Rudolf von Beckerath. In 1999 the organ was restored by Eule Orgelbau Bautzen according to the original plan. The disposition is:
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- Other registers: Cymbelstern C, Cymbelstern G
- Pairing : : manual coupler, pedal coupler - manual, pedal coupler - Brustwerk.
- Secondary register and playing aids : tremulant , check valve
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 533.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 50.7 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 29.6 ″ E