Holy Cross Church (Weißenburg)

The Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church in Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is a branch church of the parish of St. Willibald and is located in the northeast of the city in the Galgenbergsiedlung , near the Bundesstraße 2 at the Jahnstraße exit . The building with the address Jahnstraße 41 is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-607 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

Building history and description

In 1953 the construction of a new branch church in Weißenburg was considered and supported for the first time. The construction of the Holy Cross Church was due to the admission of 3,600 expellees with mostly Catholic faith in the predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran. The city of Weißenburg has become urgently needed. On August 30, 1964 it was consecrated as the second Catholic church in Weißenburg with a kindergarten , youth home, community rooms, parish library and apartments. It comes from the architect Alexander von Branca .

The central building rises above a square base and has a free-standing bell tower and annex buildings . The church is shaped like a Greek cross . Characteristic of the concrete construction are the high walls with Jura limestone facing , which are structured by layers of brick.

Furnishing

• Baptistery in early Christian style (located outside of the actual church building)
• Altar in the middle of the church; the rows of benches are grouped on three sides

organ

The organ was built in 2010 by the organ building company Sandtner . The instrument has 29 registers , including 4 transmissions from the Hauptwerk to the pedal, on two manuals and pedal.

I main work C – a 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. flute 8th' 4th Covered 8th' 5. Salicional 8th' 6th Octave 4 ′ 7th recorder 4 ′ 8th. Super octave 8th' 9. Cornet V, from b ° 8th' 10. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 11. Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – a 3 12. Hollow flute 8th' 13. Gamba 8th' 14th Vox cœlestis 8th' 15th Principal 4 ′ 16. Transverse flute 4 ′ 17th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 18th Octave 2 ′ 19th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 20th Quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 21st Trumpet harm. 8th' 22nd oboe 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 23. Principal bass 16 ′ 24. Subbass (= No. 1) 16 ′ 25th Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 26th Octavbass (= No. 2) 8th' 27. Covered bass (= No. 4) 8th' 28. trombone 16 ′ 29 Trumpet (= No. 11) 8th'

• Coupling : II / I, II 16 ′ / I, I / P, II / P, II 4 ′ / P

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catholic Heiligkreuzkirche in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Weißenburg : www.pfarrei-weissenburg.de, accessed on January 24, 2014
3. ↑ Holy Cross Church , www.pointoo.de
4. ↑ Comprehensive information about the organ (PDF; 5.3 MB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 41.7 ″  E