Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Jelenia Góra)

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Hirschberger Gnadenkirche

The Exaltation of the Cross Church is now Roman Catholic , formerly as Grace Church of the Holy Cross Evangelical Church building in Jelenia Góra ( German  Hirschberg ) in the Polish province of Lower Silesia .

history

View from the middle of the 18th century

The church was created as one of the six Protestant church buildings that were allowed to be built in Silesia according to the Altranstadt Convention . The building was built from 1709 to 1718 based on a design by the Tallinn architect Martin Frantz , who is based in Liegnitz, based on the model of St. Catherine's Church in Stockholm .

In 1806 a fire destroyed the towers of the stairwell and the church dome. These were rebuilt between 1810 and 1811.

On 25 October 1957 she became the Roman Catholic Cross Raise church rededicated. The church was registered on October 10, 1963 under the number A / 1995/996 in the register of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . Since 2006 it has been a pilgrimage church of the diocese of Liegnitz due to the transfer of relics of the Holy Cross .

Until 2012 the church served as a garrison church and belonged to the Silesian Military Deanery .

architecture

The church was built on the plan of an equal-armed Greek cross . A dome rises above the crossing , which is crowned by a two-story tower, but which has no lantern windows . The daylight comes from four semicircular windows in the gable walls of the side aisles and from high, semicircular windows in the side walls. A low sacristy was added behind the altar . There are four octagonal turrets next to the dome .

Interior

The interior is equipped with wooden galleries . The paintings in the vaults (including Ascension Day ) were created by Felix Anton Scheffler and Johann Franz Hoffmann . In the center of the dome is a dial with signs of the zodiac .

The baroque high altar dates from 1727. The organ front above the high altar was also made in 1727. The old baroque organ pipes were partly replaced by new organ pipes in 1905.

  • Baroque main altar

  • inner space

  • Dome painting

  • Ascension of Christ

  • Detail of the organ prospectus

pulpit

The pulpit , donated by Melchior Berthold, a merchant from Görlitz , was carved out of a block of sandstone in 1717 and shows a. a. two reliefs that relate the exaltation of the brazen serpent by Moses and the crucifixion of Jesus in a typological interpretation .

  • pulpit

  • Moses points to the exalted brazen serpent, the sight of which heals

  • Mary as Mater Dolorosa looks to Christ raised on the cross

Historic cemetery

The church is surrounded by the Gnadenfriedhof with 19 historically significant burial chapels from the Hirschberg patrician families (A / 1996/617, September 1, 1959). Next to the church is the cantor house (A / 2149/1101 / J, February 10, 1992).

Pastor

From 1896 to 1928 Adolf Schmarsow was senior pastor of the Gnadenkirche.

literature

  • Andrea Langer: The grace church "To the cross of Christ" in Hirschberg. On the Protestant church building in Silesia in the 18th century. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-07470-8 .

Web links

Commons : Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Jelenia Góra)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jelenia Góra - Protestant Church, today Garrison Church of the Holy Cross, ul. 1 Maja. In: dolnyslask.pl/de, (last) accessed on October 4, 2018 (History of the Hirschberg Gnadenkirche).
  2. ↑ List of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. P. 37, accessed on December 6, 2013 (PDF; 2.1 MB; Polish).
  3. ↑ The biblical basis for this - and in a broader sense for the naming of the church - was provided by Nicodemus ' nocturnal conversation with Jesus, who interprets the Old Testament story of Moses ( Numbers 21: 4–10  LUT ) as follows: “And like Moses has exalted the serpent in the desert, the Son of Man must be exalted so that all who believe in him may have eternal life ”( John 3 : 13-17  KJV ). The so-called typos (archetype, model, promise) corresponds with the antitypos (fulfillment); d. H. here figuratively: Just as (then) the sight of the brazen snake protected against the fatal effects of the snakebite, so the worship of the cross saves (today).
  4. ^ Re: [SCI] Personal history books from Silesia / Pastors von Hirschberg. In: genealogy.net. August 10, 2001, accessed October 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Schmarsow was a member of the Masovia Corps .

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 14.7 "  N , 15 ° 44 ′ 39.4"  E