St. Wigberti (grains)
The Evangelical Lutheran , listed Upper Church of St. Wigberti is elevated in the walled cemetery of Körner , a rural community in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . The Upper Church St. Wigberti belongs to the parish of grains in the parish area grain Menteroda in the parish of Bad Frankenhausen Sondershausen the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The church is first mentioned in 1314. The current building is mainly from the 2nd half of the 15th century. It was later repaired and restored in 1993.
description
The hall church standing on a pedestal is built on the one hand from quarry stone and on the other hand from stone , partly from Opus spicatum . It has a three-sided end in the east and a transverse rectangular Romanesque church tower in the west , which is aligned with the north wall of the nave . In the upper part of the tower is made of ashlar masonry . T. paired arched windows . The bell cage is hidden in the slate-covered tower , in which hangs a bell that was cast in 1380. A pointed tent roof rises above it and is flanked by small corner towers.
The elongated nave has late Gothic tracery windows . On the north side there is a large three-lane tracery window with lying quadruples . On the choir and on the south side the windows have two lanes with different shapes in the tracery .
The northern staircase to the galleries dates from the 18th century. The central part of the interior between the galleries is covered with a barrel vault that dates from the 17th century. The fields of the parapets of the two-storey, three-sided gallery are painted with ancient scenes from the Old Testament and New Testament , they date from the beginning of the 19th century. The stained glass of the choir windows from 1911 shows scenes from the life of Jesus Christ . The church furnishings include a medieval block altar , inscribed 1516 in lowercase letters on the front , and a simple pulpit altar from 1725. There is also a tombstone for Johann Georg Christoph Schäfer 1777.
The organ with 24 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1875 by Robert Knauf & Sohn .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 40.9 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 4.7" E