St. Bartholomäus, Church building in Illesheim, Germany.
St. Bartholomäus is a Lutheran parish church in Urfersheim, built in the 12th–13th century as a hall church. It has a nave under a hipped roof and an eastern choir tower with an eight-sided spire; the sacristy adjoins the tower's north wall. The white-walled facade carries a round window, a stone crucifix and two dormer windows, while the tower holds a clock face.
The core of St. Bartholomäus dates from the 12th or 13th century, when the aisleless church was built. In 1710 it was converted into a preaching church in the Margrave's style, with the pulpit of 1629 placed above the altar. The building is listed as a Bavarian monument under number D-5-75-133-5.
The church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew, and its 1629 pulpit stands directly above the altar, a placement created when the interior was rebuilt as a preaching church in the Markgrafenstil in 1710. The wooden barrel vault and two-tier galleries around the nave shape how services are experienced today.
The church stands in Urfersheim, a village part of the Illesheim municipality in Middle Franconia. The entrance is on the west side of the nave, while the choir tower with the clock and belfry closes the east end; the sacristy is attached to its north wall. Inside, a staircase separated by a wall from the former choir leads up to the two-tier galleries.
The pulpit dates from 1629 and stands directly above the altar, set into a wall niche that separates the former choir in the ground floor of the choir tower from the stairway. The nave is covered by a trapezoidal wooden barrel vault, with two-tier galleries running around it.
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