St. Wigbert (Häselrieth)

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St. Wigbert, Häselrieth
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Triumphal arch

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Wigbert is in Häselrieth , a district of the city of Hildburghausen in Thuringia . The listed building is the first cycle path and pilgrimage church on the Werra Valley cycle path .

Building history

The date of a first church at this location is not known. The church is dedicated to St. Wigbert , who was also the patron of the Hersfeld Stiftsland . One of the oldest parts of today's church is the approximately seven by seven meter choir in the church tower, which is spanned by a Gothic ribbed vault with rosette keystone. The south and east sides each have a pointed arch window, while the east is designed as a colored Christ window. In the north wall there is a sacrament house and a late Gothic door that leads into the sacristy with a ribless cross vault . Conversions are documented for the years 1549 and 1576.

In 1740 the church tower was raised to its current height. The three-storey stone block building has a sloping onion dome with an arcade top and a smaller onion as well as a tower button and a weather vane . The neo-Romanesque nave was built in 1869 as a replacement for a dilapidated previous building. Four large arched windows, framed by side pilasters and an upper arched frieze, divide the south and north facade. Entrance portals are on the west and north sides.

The approximately sixteen by twelve meter interior of the nave is spanned by a wooden coffered ceiling, which is painted as a sky in pastel tones with light blue and white stars. The walls, the single-storey gallery with its balustrade and the wooden pews are designed in ocher and gray to blue . The chancel with the altar , separated from the nave by a pointed triumphal arch with rainbow symbols, is characterized by strong colors in red and ocher as well as blue and gold. The lead glass windows were renovated from 1992 to 1994.

Furnishing

In the church tower there are three steel bells from the Bochum Association from 1920 to replace three bronze bells that were handed in during the First World War. The organ , which was built by master organ builder Michael Schmidt from Schmiedefeld in 1870, is on the west gallery . The instrument has 21 registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedal. It is still in its original condition and needs extensive renovation due to pests and defective inner workings. The baptismal font and the pulpit, both built at the end of the 19th century, have a neo-Gothic design .

particularities

  • The attic is home to a large colony of the great mouse- eared bat species .
  • On June 19, 2011, the Wigbertkirche was opened as a new cycle path church as part of a festive event . The church is open daily between May and October and offers cyclists on the Werratal cycle path in particular a wooden pavilion as a resting place and public toilets.

literature

  • Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Großmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen ... nothing but God's house - the gate of heaven ... Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 115.

Web links

Commons : St. Wigbert Church (Häselrieth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 17 ( pdf ).
  2. ↑ The Schmidt organ in the Häselriether Church of St. Wigbert on the website of the church district.
  3. ↑ Südthüringer Rundschau, September 19, 2013
  4. ^ Church in Central Germany, Press Release 91, June 15, 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 27.8 ″  E