Apostle Church (Hildburghausen)
The Evangelical Apostle Church is in the city of Hildburghausen in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .
history
In 1711, Duke Ernst allowed the Huguenots who had fled France to settle outside the city gates. This is how the Neustadt, founded in 1710, flourished . In 1721 a separate Evangelical Lutheran congregation was formed, which held its services in the orphanage, which is now a hospital.
The Apostle Church, also known as the orphanage church, was built from 1755 to 1774 in the style of the late Renaissance and early classicism . After the connection to the orphanage was broken in 1819, it was called the Neustädter Kirche . In 1824 the union with the Reformed community took place. From 1820 to 1910 the building was a cemetery church . It was used for the laying in of the dead and for blessings and sermons . After the court church was closed in 1847, the church received the wooden statues of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist from the castle church . In 1975 the Apostle Church was granted the status of a main church in the city because the Christ Church had to be closed because it was dilapidated. After the rededication of the Christ Church in 1993, church work shifted again. The Apostle Church was then set up as a winter church and for special events.
description
The interior is simple and furnished with two galleries . The altar and parish room is 24 meters long and 17 meters wide. In the east are the altar, the pulpit and the organ gallery.
Opposite the pulpit altar was the royal box . It was not until 1783 that the organ of the fortress Heldburg , a work of the organ builder Johann Christian Dotzauer , was installed. In the entrance hall, the church tower was raised to 34 meters from 1833 to 1834 . A small organ by Rudolf Böhm with five registers was given to the church for the 650th anniversary in 1974. From 1975, renovation and maintenance measures were carried out. The wheelchair path has also been set up. In 1985 a Ludwig nun honor and in 1988 an Ecumenical Children's Day took place. The peaceful resistance to the SED regime then began . An emergency backup to combat sponge infestation was initiated in 2000. At the same time the church was painted inside. Since then concerts have taken place and special occasions have been celebrated here. The main organ was set up in 1934 by Richard Voigt from Halberstadt behind the baroque prospect of the previous instrument by Dotzauer. The instrument has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
Web links
- Church information on the parish website
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 10 ° 43 ′ 48.5 ″ E