Kežmarok wooden Protestant church
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The wooden Evangelical Church of Kežmarok is located in the northern Slovak town of Kežmarok in the traditional Spiš landscape and is one of the so-called articulated churches . It is consecrated to the Holy Trinity. Right next door is the new Protestant church from 1898.
The church was built according to the resolutions of the Ödenburger Landtag of 1681, d. That is, outside the city walls, without solid foundation walls, tower and bells and only made of wood. Nails also had to be made exclusively from wood. This happened at the expense of the evangelical community. The first church was built in the years 1687–1688, but no known image of this church exists to date. Only a late Renaissance baptismal font from 1690 and stone tombs from 1688 have survived from this church. The new baroque building was completed in 1717. Protestants from Northern Europe financially supported the construction and fundraising was arranged in both Sweden and Denmark.
The plan is in the shape of a Greek cross. The organ was built by organ builder Vavrinec Čajkovský from Leutschau . The baroque altar with Mary under the cross is flanked by Moses and Aaron.
The church has space for 1,500 believers on the ground floor and the six galleries. In 1985 the church was declared a national cultural monument. After the end of communism in 1989, the church was extensively renovated in the 1990s: the renovation cost 15 million SKK and was financed by the Slovak government, the city of Kežmarok and donations from the emigrated Carpathian Germans in Germany, Austria and the United States.
Since 2008 the church has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage : “ Wooden churches in the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountains ”.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 20 ° 25 ′ 42 ″ E