Town church Bad Tennstedt
The Protestant town church (also: Trinitatiskirche) is an originally Gothic, several times modified basilica in Bad Tennstedt in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish Bad Tennstedt in the parish of Mühlhausen of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The three-aisled basilica is located on the slope of the Schulberg near the city wall. The choir is dated to 1418; In the north tower remains of the Romanesque predecessor structure are preserved. After a fire in 1636, the church was rebuilt in 1652–1659. In 1875 a restoration was carried out, in the years 1954–1969 an overall restoration took place.
architecture
Exterior
The choir side is oriented towards the market and shows a varied silhouette due to the asymmetrical choir side towers. The sturdy south tower with baluster parapet contains the sacristy in the basement and above it the ribbed vaulted library. The upper floors and the octagon with the tower room and the Welscher hood are accessible via a round stair tower. On the north tower, which is closed by a Welsche dome, Romanesque sound arcades can be seen in the approach . In the basement it contains a cross vault on corner pillars and round arches. The exterior is structured by buttresses and ogival windows. A console bust is attached to the choir; the choir apex window is designed with a profiled keel arch on consoles with finial .
The north side is designed as a representative display side, a stone staircase arbor with baluster parapet and a canopy with an onion dome forms the eye-catcher, in the west there is a portal with a framework and an added Gothic window above. The side aisle roofs , which are designed as tied roofs , whose originally lower course can be seen on the west wall, hide the basilica character of the church.
Interior
The three-aisled nave, which has been flat-roofed since the fire in 1636, is divided into three naves by pointed arches on octagonal pillars. In clerestory still small, walled-lancet windows are visible. A vault was originally available or at least planned. A three-sided gallery from 1657 and a semicircular organ gallery were provided with (heavily reworked) gallery paintings showing the remains of a cycle on the Old Testament below, Christ between angels and prophets above, and the Annunciation and Ascension on the front sides.
The choir, set off by a grooved triumphal arch, ends in a five-eighth end and has cross-ribbed and star vaults as well as painted heraldic stones. All structural elements were highlighted in yellow. In the choir is the manor's box with auricle and cartilage decorations. The opposite window to the library and the access to the pulpit are epitaph -like.
Furnishing
The columnar altar from around 1680 shows the Last Supper and the crucifixion of Christ in paintings with carved frames. Figures of the virtues faith and hope are arranged on the decorated entablature,
The artistically valuable, richly decorated baptismal font stands on an octagonal pedestal. It shows putti in niches in a black baptismal font , rich cartilage and masks in white with sparing gilding. The baptismal bowl is dated 1636. The pyramidal canopy shows allegorical and biblical figures and angels on two floors, crowned by a blessing Christ and was taken in 1682. The work is comparable to that of Burchard Röhl in the upper church in Arnstadt .
The Moses pulpit was created by Heinrich Seyfried in 1659 and is painted on the parapet and at the entrance with depictions of Christ and the twelve apostles. Obelisks and rich cartilage are attached to the sound cover , crowned by a figure of the risen Christ. The choir stalls date from the 18th century.
The organ is a work by Friedrich Gerhardt from 1881 with 35 stops on three manuals and a pedal . Portrait gravestones of pastors and inscription gravestones from the 16./17. Century are decorated with grotesques as well as scrollwork and shell work. The bells come from 1461 as well as from 1638 and 1641 by Jakob König from Erfurt.
A crucifix from around 1400 has been relocated. Another crucifix from around 1480/1490 is equipped with a crown of thorns made of hemp and real hair. The altar crucifix was created in the 18th century.
On the outside of the choir is a later revised Mount of Olives group with sandstone figures, originally from the first half of the 15th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 103-104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '13.3 " N , 10 ° 50' 0.7" E