Umpferstedt village church
Umpferstedt village church
The tower of the church in Umpferstedt is so striking that even the oldest municipal seal depicted it. The church stands slightly elevated in the middle of the village on a square lined with lime trees. The church was originally a Romanesque choir tower church. The Romanesque double sound openings to the east and south have been preserved on the upper floor.
A bell from 1742 by Johann Christoph Rose hangs in the tower. It came back from the bell cemetery in Hamburg in 1950 with several hairline cracks. It therefore had to be recast by the company Franz Schilling und Söhne in 1964. Today it rings together with a bronze bell cast by Franz Schilling Söhne in Apolda in 1931.
The late Gothic pointed spire from the 16th century rises above the storey. It received new cladding between 1974 and 1976. The choir and nave are attached to the tower.
A stone cross crowns the gable end. The windows and doors of the nave date from different periods. The year 1592 is inscribed above the entrance door with a round, profiled jamb in the middle of the north side. Opposite to the south, a round-arched gallery staircase and a door from 1766 have been walled up. The interior space is dominated by the almost equally high round choir and triumphal arches. In the middle room is the baptismal font, where local children have been baptized for 500 years.
The upper gallery surrounded the nave on four sides. In 1964, the upper gallery collapsed on one side during a church service. This prompted a renovation of the church interior. In the process, it was very simply redesigned with a double three-sided gallery. In the choir is the stone altar with a new mensa, which bears a baroque altar cross with a Gothic corpus. The basket of the pulpit altar from the previous century is attached to the southern triumphal arch pillar. The church's most valuable decoration is the Annenaltar from 1490, with five figures under simple canopies in the shrine. In the middle is St. Anne with the small figures of Mary and the infant Jesus in her arms. At her side are eight saints with their attributes.
The organ was built by Marcus Kaul & Michael M. Raithelhuber (Württemberg). It was installed in 1997/99 and replaced the Sauer organ from 1936. Its console with positive is located in the nave, while the main and pedal divisions are in the 2nd rear gallery. The organ was consecrated on 26.06.1999.
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Germany
Umpferstedt
99441
Kirchgasse 2