St. Wigbert (Großbrembach)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Wigbert is located at Platz der Demokratie 1 in Großbrembach , a district of the rural community of Buttstädt in the district of Sömmerda in Thuringia . The parish Großbrembach belongs to the parish of Apolda Buttstaedt the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The origins of the church go back to the 12th / 13th centuries. Century back. At that time the chapel with a choir tower, which was consecrated to Boniface , was built at this point . Parts of it can still be seen in the old sacristy . The chapel was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Century expanded by the addition of a yoke of the choir to the east. The altar is in this part today . On March 29, 1579, the construction of the nave began due to the merger of three communities to Großbrembach in the current dimensions. The choir tower, the oldest part of the church, was covered in 1674 with a dome that supports an open lantern . This year is on the weather vane. The church fell victim to the great fire of January 31, 1678. But already on July 9th 1679 the tower ball could be put back on. After completion of the interior work, the church was consecrated on February 9, 1690. Another attachment to the Chorsüdseite 1719. occurred After another fire was the in the years 1728/1729 nave in the then popular style of Baroque transformed, none of which can be seen anymore. During the reconstruction, the nave was given a hipped gable roof . In 1780 a fire damaged the church again. Extensive construction work began in 1953, as the church was closed at that time due to dilapidation . On May 3, 1996, lightning destroyed the tower's lantern . After four weeks, the tower ball and weather valve were put back on.
description
The large Wigbert dedicated Saalkirche has a strongly retracted choir tower and a longitudinally rectangular chorus of approximately the same width. The choir has two lancet windows on the east side . The current appearance of the nave is marked by renovations in 1674 and the beginning of the 18th century. The covered, two-flight staircase to the galleries on the south side was added as early as 1579 according to the inscription. The mighty saddle roof on the nave takes away the height effect of the choir tower. The attic was also used as floor storage until the 20th century . During a purifying restoration of the church in the 1950s, the galleries of the nave were reduced to one storey and shortened in the south. At the same time the baroque pulpit was removed. The spatial impression of height and width that has prevailed since then is determined by the coffered ceiling installed in 1674 on two beams and six slender columns made of wood. There are remains from the 17th and 18th centuries on the galleries and the ceiling supports. In the groin-vaulted sacristy remains of a painting from around 1500 were uncovered. Among the few preserved old pieces of church furnishings are an eight-sided baptismal font from the 16th century and a baroque crucifix .
The organ with 20 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built by Adalbert Förtsch in 1861 and restored by Gerhard Kirchner in 1960 .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 46.4 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 17.9 ″ E