Holy Cross Church (Coburg)
The Holy Cross Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Coburg (Hintere Kreuzgasse 15). From 1870 to 1918 the hall church was the garrison church of the Thuringian Regiment No. 95, whose barracks were nearby.
Building history
In the years 1401 to 1407 a larger chapel was built near a ford through the Itz , at the site of the veneration of a Holy Cross relic , today's late Gothic choir with a ribbed vault. The three-aisled nave was added in 1413, although the bell tower on the northwest corner remained unfinished and the south aisle was not implemented. After a flood in 1555, parts of the church had to be rebuilt. From 1735 to 1739 the church was extensively redesigned according to plans by Johann David Steingruber. The ridge of the roof of the main building has been increased to the level of the chorus and by the incorporation of a flat, stuccoed ceiling boards as a substitute for a vault was a church hall . The west gallery was replaced by a three-sided rotating, two-story gallery and as a gateway in northern choir angle a hipped roof stair tower built. The west portal, adorned with Wimperg and sculptures, was dismantled to a simple little door, with new entrances being created on the north and south sides. In 1867 colored glass windows were installed on the north side and in 1935, donated by Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria , in the choir.
The choir made up of the final yoke and two long yokes has seven pointed arched windows. It is 14.5 meters long and 8.0 meters wide. Dendrochronologically , the roof structure of the choir was dated to 1406. A gable roof spans the choir . It has a wingspan of about 9.1 meters, a height of about 9.8 meters, a length of about 15.6 meters and an incline of around 65 degrees. The construction consists of 15 rafters with three collar beam layers. The end of the choir is polygonal.
The nave, consisting of the main nave and the north aisle, which are separated by three columns, has a maximum length of 19.6 meters and a width of 15.0 meters.
The interior decoration included, among other things, a Marien altar from 1515 from the school of Tilman Riemenschneider , which is now in the Veste's art collections . The Renaissance baptismal font was installed in the castle chapel of the Ehrenburg in the 16th century and was placed in the Holy Cross Church in 1691.
After the Reformation , in 1545, the church lost the parish status it had gained in 1407. In 1952 the community became independent again. Along with St. Moriz, it is the second core town of Coburg with around 4,000 members.
organ
In 1621 an organ was erected and probably the first organ was built. In 1688 the instrument was replaced by a new one and the old organ was sold to Einberg in 1694 . The work had two manuals and 18 registers . After several repairs to the dilapidated work, the instrument had to be replaced in 1872 by a two-manual new building by the organ builders Köllein and Hasselbarth from Großtabarz . The present organ was built in 1968 by the Göttingen organ builder Paul Ott . It has two manuals, a pedal and 26 stops. The nine-part main organ case probably dates from around 1735. It shows the rhythmic alternation of round and pointed towers with flat panels in between. In 1998 the organ was renovated.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X .
- Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saskia Hilski: The development of the roof structures in the city of Coburg up to the 30 Years War. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 60 (2016), p. 102 f.
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaus: Old Orgeln im Coburg Land, Part III. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1972, p. 82 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '54.09 " N , 10 ° 57' 53.33" E