Holy Cross (Seßlach)
The Roman Catholic Heilig Kreuz cemetery chapel in the Upper Franconian community of Seßlach in the Coburg district dates from the beginning of the 18th century.
history
The chapel was built in 1705–1708 by the Seßlach master builder Hanns Michael Schmitt in front of the city walls. It replaced a small, dilapidated path chapel from the late Middle Ages that stood in front of the Rothenberger Tor. Pastor Hermann Flender had donated the church. The consecration followed in 1713 . In 1754 the church received a gallery , which was renewed in 1907 as part of a renovation for the installation of an organ .
description
The chapel stands in front of the Hattersdorfer Tor. It is bounded east by the road to Dietersdorf and west by the cemetery. The hall building has a recessed rectangular choir with bevelled corners and three high rectangular windows. It is spanned by a plastered flat ceiling with a simple stucco frame and a central mirror over a strongly profiled valley. A strongly receding choir arch with profiled fighters connects the chancel with the nave , which has two wide window axes with high rectangular windows. In the gable end and the north-eastern longitudinal front, rectangular entrances are arranged in the middle. Above the interior there is a flat plastered ceiling over a profiled groove. The ceiling is decorated with a system of double, rectangular stucco central frames with connecting round medallions. The inner frame is made of strong acanthus garlands. The wooden organ gallery on the north-western side has two slender supports. The straight parapet has bulged balusters between square pillars.
The exterior consists of plastered sandstone cuboids with painted cuboid lines. A profiled, all-round base, Tuscan pilasters on the building edges and drilled profile frames on the doors and windows, each made of stone, structure the facade.
A tiled pitched roof , hipped over the choir conclusion forms the upper end. There is a slate, eight-sided roof turret made of wood above the choir ridge . It has round-arched, blind-clad sound openings, a pressed hood, a low lantern with rectangular openings, a small hood, a point, a knob , a cross and a weather vane.
Furnishing
The high altar , consisting of a marbled wooden structure with gold-plated decor and a stone stipes with simple wooden paneling, comes from a Coburg workshop. It was originally an early Baroque altar, which was transformed into a Renaissance altar at the end of the 19th century, among other things by changing the carved decoration and the setting . The structure is framed by two Corinthian columns placed inwards . To the side in front of the columns are wooden statues of the Bamberg bishopric founders , the imperial couple Heinrich II and Kunigunde . A floating angel grows out of acanthus cheeks on the flanks of the structure. In the middle section there is a carved frame with acanthus decoration with a rounded arch and the altar leaf , which shows Christ carrying the cross as an oil painting on a canvas. The work of the Nuremberg artist T. Weiß dates from 1900. A cartouche with a laurel wreath shows the dedicatory inscription. The high altar is crowned by a rosary medallion and a small wooden Vesper picture , which shows Mary clasping the body of Jesus with her hands, and a glory of rays with the Jesus monogram.
The left side altar is of the same origin and designed similarly to the high altar. The oil painting on the altar panel shows a depiction of St. Joseph on his death bed, which was probably made around 1708. On the side consoles there are standing angels as wooden figures, the right angel with a carpenter's angle. The figures probably date from the 17th century and are probably works by the Kulmbach sculptor Johann Georg Schlehendorn. A statue of a bishop with a kneeling, praying child forms the upper end.
The right, much smaller side altar is dated to the late 17th century. Like the other two altars, it was redesigned in the 19th century. The version has been renewed several times. Wooden figures on pedestals in front of them depict St. Anthony of Padua on the left and St. Francis on the right . The middle field with a rectangularly framed altar panel shows a five-figure group of crosses on an oil painting from around 1700. The altar excerpt consists of a framed altar leaf with an oil painting with the martyrdom of St. Barbara and above it a small wooden figure of St. George on horseback.
The wooden pulpit , probably from the construction period, is marbled. It has an eight-sided body. There are five wooden statues on small acanthus consoles in front of the parapet. They are depictions of the Mother of God Mary, St. Joseph, St. Heinrich and Kunigunde and St. Antonius. The chairs are made of natural oak wood with classicistic carved decor. It is the work of the Sesslach carpenter Andreas Rathgeber, probably made in the second quarter of the 19th century.
On the south-western outer wall is a sandstone crucifix , probably made around 1800. At the foot of the cross are two putti, holding the handkerchief of St. Veronica .
organ
In 1907 the Bayreuth company Wolf & Sohn installed the organ . The instrument has six registers and a pneumatic cone loader on a manual and pedal . The three-part organ prospectus consists of two small round arch fields in the middle and high rectangular fields on the sides and is decorated with simple new renaissance carvings.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Karl Ludwig Lippert: Bayerische Kunstdenkmale Landkreis Staffelstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1968, p. 201 f.
- ^ A b Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1980, p. 140.
- ^ A b 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 , p. 82.
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 21.3 " N , 10 ° 50 ′ 25.7" E