Gnadenkirche (Militsch)

Mercy Church in Milicz

The Grace Church of the Holy Cross in Milicz (Pol. Milicz , milicz county , Lower Silesia ) emerged as one of the six in a row of Altranstädt Convention established Protestant church building in Silesia.

history

Representation of the church around 1750

View inside the church

The church building at night

The half-timbered church was built from 1709 to 1714 by Gottfried Hoffman from Oels with the support of the Maltzahn family .

Next to the church building with three gallery floors is a bell tower with three bells donated by the Maltzahn family at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1789 its height was reduced by 10 meters due to the risk of collapse.

After 1945 the Catholic Church took over the church building, and since 1994 it has served as the parish church of St. Andreas Bobola . In 1955 the bronze chandelier, the pulpit and the baroque baptismal font came to Poznan in the Poznan Cathedral .

Baron von Salisch donated the Sauer organ with 33 registers .

The church was registered on February 25, 1966 under the number A / 1326/1542 in the register of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Web links

Commons : Gnadenkirche Militsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian-Erdmann Schott : Militsch (Milicz). In: kulturwerk-schlesien.de, (last) accessed on May 27, 2016 (history; list of literature)
• Marius Zippe: Churches as big as town halls. In: Mitteldeutsche-kirchenzeitungen.de, May 29, 2009, (last) accessed on May 27, 2016 (300 years of Silesian Gnadenkirchen)

literature

• Fritz Gleisberg: The Gnadenkirche to the Holy Cross before Militsch. Verlag Unser Weg, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-87836-220-X .
• K. Dawidziuk: Dzieje Milicza. Milicz 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. (PDF; 2.12 MB), page 125 (Polish), accessed on March 30, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 40.2 ″  N , 17 ° 16 ′ 20 ″  E