Cemetery chapel (Haselbach)
The Protestant cemetery chapel in Haselbach , a district of the city of Sonneberg in southern Thuringia , was consecrated in 1925. The chapel is a protected architectural monument.
history
Haselbach belonged to the Steinach parish. In 1850 the place laid out its own cemetery and from 1866 prayer hours were held in the new schoolhouse for the first time. Regular services followed after 1897.
At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the increased importance of Haselbach, there were efforts to have an own church, which finally ended in 1924 with the decision of the municipality to build a morgue with an attached chapel for church services. The Thuringian Evangelical Church supported the parish with a loan for the interior work. The building manager Friedrich Gläser from Steinach designed the building, which was built in 1924/25. The chapel was consecrated on July 26, 1925. In 1934 Haselbach became an independent parish, which in 1997 was united with the parish of Spechtsbrunn .
The interior was renovated in the mid-1970s. A lack of repairs to the roof and outer walls led to the chapel being closed from 1988 onwards. In 1992 the church was consecrated again after extensive repairs by the municipality.
architecture
The cemetery chapel was built in neo-classical forms as a mortuary with a large prayer room, which can also be used for church services, with a sacristy and a choir entrance . Initially, the eastern morgue and the prayer room were separate. They were later integrated as a side wing into the prayer room.
The solid construction has a gable roof with a central, cross-crowned roof turret . The northern gable side is characterized by an apse , the eastern eaves side by a flat extension, the morgue. The other two sides of the building with the entrance portals structure pilaster strips , architraves and triangular gables.
A two-tone beamed ceiling spans the prayer room, with a massive vaulted choir in the north and a single-storey gallery on the south side. The stalls and colored glazing are part of the construction-time equipment. A bronze bell, which was acquired in 1921 from Franz Schilling Söhne in Apolda for Camburg and in 1954, and a bronze bell cast in 1925 by Christian Störmer in Erfurt , hang in the roof tread. An electrical bell system was installed in 1966.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 329 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uta Baumfelder: The Chapel in Haselbach ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 44.8 ″ E