St. Wigbertus (Hermstedt)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Wigbertus , named after the abbot and missionary Wigbert , is located at Dorfstrasse 55 in Hermstedt , a district of the town and rural community of Bad Sulza in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . The parish Hermstedt belongs to the parish Apolda III Kirchenkreis Apolda Buttstaedt the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
description
The church was built in 1641 on the remains of the previous church from the 14th century. The hall church , which is still Romanesque in parts, has a retracted, longitudinally rectangular early Gothic choir . The heavily chamfered, ogival windows were only used during the restoration after a fire in 1641. In 1848 her roof tower in the east received an eight-sided slated essay in which the belfry is located. Above it is a hood topped with a lantern . In the bell cage hang a bronze bell cast by Johann Christoph Rose in 1742 and a chilled iron bell made in 1919 by Schilling & Lattermann .
The interior , spanned by a wooden barrel roof , has three-sided, two-story galleries . The pulpit altar with its architectural structure dates from the 18th century, the goblet-shaped unadorned baptismal font from the 16th / 17th century. Century.
The organ with 19 stops , divided into two manuals and a pedal , was built by Johann August Poppe in 1829 , restored by Paul Laubs in 1942 and rebuilt by Norbert Sperschneider in 1993 .
From 1992 to 2006 the church was completely renovated.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 37.3 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 11.2 ″ E