Christ Church (Kronach)

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Christ Church
Portal on the north side

The Christ Church is an under monument protection standing Evangelical Lutheran Church building in the Upper Franconian town of Kronach .

location

The church building is located east of Kronach's old town at the southeast end of Strauer Straße. The main axis of the church runs with a deviation of about 30 ° clockwise approximately in a north-south direction along Johann-Nikolaus-Zitter-Straße.

history

Due to the history of the city, which belonged to the Catholic monastery of Bamberg for several centuries , Protestant Christians were only granted citizenship in Kronach after the secularization of the monastery in 1803. While around a third of the population is Protestant today, the Protestant parish only had around 400 members when it was founded in 1859. Nevertheless, with financial support from the Gustav-Adolf-Werk, the parish was able to build its parish church, which was consecrated on September 25, 1861. The plans for the construction come from Kreisbaudirektor Zeitler, the work was carried out by master builder Georg Zeuss. The Christ Church was given its current name on September 28, 1986.

The two smaller portals that flank the large main portal on the north side were not set up in their current form until the second half of the 20th century. Originally the portals were located higher up the building and served as access to the gallery , which could only be reached via two covered stairs on the outside of the building.

On July 18, 2014, the dials on the east and south sides of the church tower , which had been affected by the weather, were removed. Both were restored together with the signal box of the tower clock by a company based in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and reassembled on the church tower on October 28, 2014.

Building description

The Christ Church is a simple hall church that was built from sandstone blocks in the neo-Gothic style . Over the lesser of two portals flanked big entrance on the north side rises with a spire provided facade Tower , another large portal leads to the east side of the building. On the south side, the retracted, polygonal closed choir , on the west side of which the sacristy building is located, forms the end of the church building.

organ

The organ was built by the organ builder Steinmeyer . The instrument is arranged romantically . It has 28 registers on three manuals and a pedal .

I Swell C – g 3
1. Pommer 8th'
2. Hollow flute 8th'
3. Violin principal 4 ′
4th Covered flute 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
9. Quintad 16 ′
10. Principal 8th'
11. Salizional 8th'
12. Paddock 8th'
13. octave 4 ′
14th Gemshorn 4 ′
15th octave 2 ′
16. mixture 2 ′
17th Trumpet 8th'
III Oberwerk C – g 3
17th Viol 8th'
18th Vox celeste 8th'
19th Dumped 8th'
20th Flute harmonique 4 ′
21st Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
23. Sub-bass 16 ′
24. Octave bass 8th'
25th violoncello 8th'
26th Chorale bass 4 ′
27. Reed flute 2 ′
28. bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, III / III (super coupling), I / P, II / P, III / P

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedwald Schedel: Kronacher Christ Church has its dials again. inFranken.de, October 28, 2014, accessed on October 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 27.2 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 38.6 ″  E