Pulpit
The pulpit dates from 1630 and is the transition from the late Renaissance to Baroque attributed. The six-sided pulpit was donated by Hans Sager and attached to the first ship piers. She sits on a Fratzenbug what the founders emblem is attached. The pulpit is made of oak wood, carved and has little decorative gilding from the 1630 / 1640th The carvings show in the corners of the basket Corinthian columns supporting a curved beams with symmetrical tendrils Friesen. Between the columns, decorative arcades are with shell niches and statues of the Evangelists and the fact of Jesus Christ. The foot wide ledge contains solid, girlandenbehängte strapwork cartouches. The pulpit is threefold rise kinked around the pillar. Is strapwork frieze and tracery structure are of interlocking circles on the parapet. The pulpit wearing a sounding board with Eckvasen. Between the vases Rolling Papers are attached. In the middle sits a dome and it is a Balusterkreuz.
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