Oberkirche | |
Other Name: | German: Bergkirche |
Fullname: | German: Kirche Unserer Lieben Frauen am Berge |
Pushpin Map: | Germany#Thuringia |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Location: | Bad Frankenhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Thuringia |
Country: | Germany |
Denomination: | Lutheran |
Previous Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
Functional Status: | Ruin |
Style: | Gothic |
Completed Date: | 25 April 1382 |
Tower Quantity: | 1 |
Tower Height: | 56m (184feet) |
Province: | Protestant Church in Central Germany |
District: | Kirchenkreis Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen |
The Oberkirche (pronounced as /de/, "Upper Church"), also German: Kirche Unserer Lieben Frauen am Berge ("Church of Our Lady by the mountain") or German: Bergkirche ("Mountain Church"), in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany, is a Gothic church building. Its 56adj=midNaNadj=mid leaning tower has the largest overhang of all German towers at to north-east and is a landmark of the town.[1]
Due to gypsum and salt leaching in the lower-lying soil, the top of the approximately 56adj=midNaNadj=mid church tower, which has a Baroque dome with two lanterns, was tilted from the vertical (equivalent to 4.93°) in 2013.[2] [3] [4] This makes the tower one of the most crooked towers in Germany. Measured by the overhang (deviation of the top of the tower from the perpendicular), it has the highest value of all German towers. It is more inclined than the Leaning Tower of Pisa which had an inclination of 3.97° in 2011.[5]