Bergkirche Höhn
The Evangelical Lutheran mountain church in Höhn , Upper Franconia , a district of Neustadt near Coburg in the Coburg district , was inaugurated in 1910.
history
The four places on a plateau, Brüx , Höhn , Rüttmannsdorf and Weimersdorf, belonged to the parish of Neustadt since 1528 . Due to the distance of about six kilometers to Neustadt, the desire for a house of worship arose in the 19th century. In 1906, the then independent municipalities with around 320 inhabitants established a cemetery between Höhn and Brüx. The ducal administration approved the building of a church in 1909 after the financing was secured through donations. The foundation stone of the mountain church was laid on July 25, 1909 at the cemetery. The Neustadt master mason Bossecker and the Wildenheide master carpenter Schubert carried out the structural work.
The topping-out ceremony on August 13, 1910 was followed by the inauguration on October 30, 1910 in the presence of the ducal couple Carl Eduard and Viktoria Adelheid . It was the last new church to be built in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg . The church was built under the direction of the Coburg government and building councilor Artur Philibert based on a drawing by the church builder Robert Leibnitz from Berlin. The secret councilor Renné from Berlin bore the construction costs.
In 1912 Neustadt was re-parish to become the newly raised parish of Mönchröden . As it was built on parish land, the mountain church became the property of the four municipalities. With the incorporation of the four mountain villages into Neustadt on May 1, 1978, Neustadt became the owner of the church and was responsible for the structural maintenance. On November 3, 1981, the city concluded a user agreement with the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the Christ Church in Rödental .
In 1959/1960 the community had the church renovated and rebuilt. Among other things, new glass block windows were installed in the chancel for better lighting instead of two small windows, and the previously dark blue vault was painted white with stars. The cost, including a crucifix by the Munich sculptor Traxler, was 23,000 German marks . The inauguration was on October 30, 1960. In 1982 the facade and the roof were renovated. In addition, the upper floors of the bell tower were also slated. In 1990 the mechanical tower clock from the construction period was exchanged for a fully electric radio-controlled quartz clock.
At the suggestion of the then District Administrator Klaus Groebe , the so-called Thuringian mass took place for the first time on the evening of Christmas Day in 1966, commemorating the brothers and sisters across the inner-German border , which was about one kilometer away. Mette was last held in 1990 as part of a thanksgiving service.
description
The church, designed in the historicizing style, has a rectangular nave, which is spanned by a wooden cask. The north-east facing choir is not drawn in and polygonally closed. The ground plan consists of five sides of an octagon, which is spanned by a folded structure . Three bells hang in the 16 meter high church tower. The roofs and the church tower are covered with slate and the facade is plastered white and divided on the edges with red sandstones.
Four stained glass windows, which were designed by the Coburg company Knoch & Lysek, show Duke Carl Eduard in medieval armor with the coronation gown in prayer, opposite his wife Viktoria Adelheid in traditional costume at the time of the minstrels, and Christ and John .
Bells
When the church was built, three bells were hung, which were cast at the Schilling bell foundry in Apolda . The largest bell has a mass of eleven hundredweight and bears the inscription "Cast under the government of His Royal Highness the Duke Carl Eduard and Her Royal Highness the Duchess Viktoria Adelheid of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha". In the course of the First World War , the two smaller bells had to be removed to melt them down in 1915. The two replacement bells that were cast in 1929 and handed in during the Second World War in 1942 had the same fate . A new prayer and call bell with a weight of five hundredweight and the inscription from the book Jeremiah "O land, country, country, hear the word of the Lord!" And a peace bell with three and a half hundredweight and the inscription "He is our peace" were made in 1960 consecrated.
organ
At first there was only one harmonium in the church , which was replaced by another instrument in 1956. In 1967 the parish in Bremen bought a used organ from Walcker for 9,000 DM . In 1980 a renovation and expansion followed for 15,000 DM.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Coburger Zeitung, November 1, 1910
- ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Scheuerich: History of the city of Neustadt near Coburg in the twentieth century , second volume, 1993, p. 511f.
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 73.
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 11 ° 3 ′ 27.4 ″ E