Holy Cross Church (Ansbach)

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Holy Cross, north side
Interior view, east
Interior view, west

Heilig Kreuz is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Ansbach ( Deanery Ansbach ) named after the Holy Cross .

Parish

In 1461/78 Heilig Kreuz was built south of Ansbach as a pilgrim chapel in the late Gothic style. After the plague broke out in Ansbach in 1519 and claimed many deaths, the cemetery was relocated outside the city in 1521 and the pilgrim church was rededicated as a cemetery church. In 1601/12 the church was expanded to the north and east and the tower was raised. The Heilig Kreuz parish has existed since 1992. The district includes the southern part of Ansbach.

Church building

The nave has a rectangular floor plan and a 5/8 end towards the east. On the south and north sides, it has five axes with buttresses and two-part windows with deep fluted windows with fish bladders and other tracery. The 5/8 end also has buttresses and three-part windows of the same design on its three sides. There is a buttress on each of the north-west and south-east corners. The pointed arch portal is in the middle on the north side. The nave has a gable roof that is hipped to the east. The four-storey tower with a square floor plan adjoins the windowless west side of the nave slightly to the south. On the third floor it has lancet windows on the east and west sides and dials on the south and north sides. The bell storey has pointed arch sound openings on all sides. The tower ends with an octagonal pointed helmet on which a crucifix is ​​attached. In the tower hang bells that were made in 1925 by the Hamm foundry in Regensburg.

The single-nave hall has a flat wooden ceiling with star-shaped ornamentation, which was designed by Franz Herterich (1798–1876). A stone gallery has been drawn in on the west side, which serves as the installation site for the church organ. The wooden altar wall on the east side of the hall was also designed by Franz Herterich in the Gothic style. The altarpiece by the Ansbach painter Georg Friedrich Bischoff (1819–1873) shows the risen and blessing Christ. Right in front of the altar is the baptismal font, which was created by Reinhart Fuchs. A wooden pulpit is attached to the south wall. Two epitaphs made of Solnhofer stone are walled in on the west wall: 1) Friedrich von Haldermannstetten († 1585). The relief shows the deceased with both women under Christ with the victory flag. The architectural frame is provided with atlases and inscriptions. 2) Relief of a donor family under the Crucified, which was probably made at the end of the 16th century. On the other walls of the hall and on the pillars of the gallery are bronze epitaphs with coats of arms and inscriptions from the 15th to 17th centuries. Century attached.

organ

In 1981 the company Weigle , Echterdingen, built the organ . The instrument has a mechanical action with slider drawers and has 16 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – a 3
01. Reed flute 8th'
02. Principal 4 ′
03. octave 2 ′
04th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
05. Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
06th Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Breast swelling C – a 3
07th Coupling flute 8th'
08th. Dumped 4 ′
09. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Forest flute 2 ′
11. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
12. Oktavlein 1'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Gemshorn 8th'
15th octave 4 ′
16. bassoon 16 ′

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 22-23 .
  • Hans Sommer with e. Working group d. Dean's office (ed.): It happened in the name of faith: Protestant in the Ansbach deanery (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-87214-248-8 , p. 54-56 .

Web links

Commons : Holy Cross Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organ in Ansbach at an-klang.info, accessed on October 19, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 44.4 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 18 ″  E