Bad Salzungen town church
The Protestant town church (also St. Simplicius ) of the district and spa town of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia is located in the city center on the church square in the immediate vicinity of the Haunschen Hof . The Burgsee is located about 100 meters to the southeast .
The parish Church of Peace is part of the parish of Bad Salzungen-Dermbach the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The first chapel on the Burgberg in Salzungen can be traced back to 1112. The construction was suggested by the imperial abbey of Fulda , which at that time had many possessions in the city. This explains the dedication to Saint Simplicius , a martyr whose relics have been venerated in Fulda since the early Middle Ages.
Until 1528 the provosts of the Allendorf monastery were the patron saints. Because of the collapse of walls, the church had to be rebuilt in 1380, presumably in the Gothic style . After the introduction of the Reformation in 1523/24, the city council took over responsibility for the church, which now served as the city church and was converted into a sermon church . The church was devastated in the Thirty Years War . In 1643 the nave and in 1653 the church tower could be completed again. On November 5, 1786, the church fell victim to a large city fire and was destroyed to the ground . From 1789 a new church in the classical style was built by Georg Veit Koch and consecrated on the 3rd Advent in 1791. A thorough renovation took place in 1908/09 .
From 1992 to 1993 extensive renovation measures were carried out on the church tower and the facade of the nave . Consideration was given to a jackdaw colony that has been detectable since 1983 , in which three to 18 breeding pairs of the jackdaw, one to three kestrel breeding pairs and occasionally a pair of barn owls nest. Four nest boxes were installed on the tower by the local branch of NABU . The nestlings have been identified by the Hiddensee ornithological station since 1993 . From 1993 to 2008 around 270 jackdaws, 50 kestrels and 35 barn owls were ringed. In November 2008, the Bad Salzunger Stadtkirche was the first church in South Thuringia to receive the NABU Church Tower Habitat Award . There was also a bat colony in the attic of the church .
After the last interior renovation, the town church was consecrated again on the 1st of Advent in 1998.
Building description
The hall church was built in 1789-1791 above the market square . The plastered building with 5 yokes has the bell tower in the east . The walls are structured by risalits , pilaster strips and superimposed windows. During the renovation between 1908 and 1909, the flat ceiling was replaced by a vault from Rabitz , which now characterizes the interior of the town church.
The interior is designed in a classical style. It has double galleries and boxes in the choir . In the east it is closed off by a two-storey window front to the side of the pulpit altar . The organ gallery is located above it. Lead glass windows were installed on both sides of the organ . The repainting in 1925 largely whitewashed the renovation carried out in the Art Nouveau style . During the last interior renovation, a bright church interior was created based on the renovation in 1908/09.
Bells
The oldest bell on the tower is the little bell. Monks from Reinsdorf poured them in the 14th century with a weight of almost 12 centners . The parish of Salzungen bought this Marienglocke - Ave Maria gratia plena - with the pitch G sharp to complement the bells in 1922. After the First World War , only the middle bell was left in the tower, which was cast in 1791 by Christoph Peter from Homburg in Hesse from the remains of the bells that had been destroyed in the great city fire of 1786. During the Second World War , this bronze bell was removed from the tower together with the large bell, which was first cast in 1851 and newly created in 1924 by the Schilling bell foundry with a weight of 32 quintals. The end of the war saved the middle bell from melting down. She returned from the bell camp in Hamburg in 1950. On January 29, 1964, a 40 hundredweight large bell was re-cast in Apolda, which was put into use on August 2, 1964. Thus was the bronze bells with the triad cis - e - gis completely again.
Furnishing
The altar of Maria Magdalena can be proven even before the new building.
organ
The organ was donated by Meiningen Duke Georg II in 1909 in recognition of the church choir . The draft for the instrument came from Max Reger , the Thomaskantor Karl Straube and the Frankfurt organ builder Sauer . The slider chest instrument has 41 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The prospectus is from the previous organ that the organ builder Holland had built.
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- Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Individual evidence
- ↑ The church at www.thueringen.info
- ↑ NABU Thuringia , accessed on May 8, 2014.
- ^ History of the town church
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the organ builder
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 44.6 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 4.3 ″ E