Laasdorf

Laasdorf is a municipality in the south of the Saale- wood - country circuit in Thuringia. It is part of the joint management Southern Saale valley.

Geography

The municipality is located in the valley of the lower Roda at close range the independent city of Jena. Laasdorf is thus one of the valleys villages. The neighboring towns are Zöllnitz and Rutha in the west, and Gröben Schlöben in the north, Podelsatz in the northeast, Gernewitz, Hainbücht and Stadtroda the east and Rausdorf and Großbockedra in the south. In East-West direction, the road L 1077 runs as a northern bypass at the place over, the connection to the AS Jena Centre (formerly Jena -Lobeda ) creates the west of the A 4, and to the east at Stadtroda the AS Stadtroda the A 4.

History

The first mention Laasdorfs 1323 is associated with the monastery Roda. In addition, landlords and the princely office Burgau had possessions here. The Burgauerstrasse Office subjects are first mentioned in 1421-1425. After dissolution of the monastery in the 16th century Reformation, this proportion came to the Office Roda.

Attractions

The main attraction of the place is The Protestant church. You heard as a branch church with Gernewitz to the parish church in the county Stadtroda Eisenberg. 1554 was the pastorate of Lehn pin deans to Naumburg.

The Bauausrichtung ( tower to the east), typical of the pre-Reformation Christian churches, suggests that the church was built on the foundations of the earlier church. Thus, the church hall was with roof tower ( tower and ship form a covered entity ) to reflect a part of the earlier building 1770/71 built. The slate- clad and well - covered tower carries a tail dome surmounted by a lantern, which is topped by finial and weather vane.

Almost completely preserved is originally from the 18th century interiors. The free-standing altar pulpit is the dominant element of the choir. Two late Gothic carved flank the pulpit, which probably once part of a medieval altarpiece. The painting on the base of the altar table ( " predella " ) of 1912 is a work of Gera painter Paul Neidhardt and shows the representation of Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

The nave has to wear a three-sided gallery ( "horseshoe gallery "), whose long sides painted parapets. The short side of the gallery is limited by a broken wooden balustrade. The second gallery was 1972/73 significantly shortened. The ceiling on the organ loft is the work of Sigismund Christian Voigt from Uhlstaedt from 1773.

1885 poured Karl Friedrich Ulrich, the two bells of the church. After the great bell had to be delivered for the purposes of war, today calls the small with the inscription "My sounds call to the steps of the temple " for the service.

Personalities

• Johann Paul Friedel ( born April 17, 1694 Laasdorf, † May 5, 1776 in Königsee ), Protestant theologian