Church of the Brothers of Mercy at Piața 700
| Church of Mercy at Piața 700 | |
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| Construction time: | 1748-1757 |
| Inauguration: | March 19, 1757 |
| Builder : | Johann Lechner |
| Architect : | Kaspar Dissel |
| Style elements : | Baroque |
| Towers: |
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| Location: | 45 ° 45 '20.7 " N , 21 ° 13' 29" E |
| Address: | Strada Sfântul Ioan Timișoara Timiș , Romania |
| Purpose: | Greek Catholic Church |
| Diocese : | Diocese of Lugoj |
The Church of the Brothers of Mercy at Piața 700 ( Romanian Biserica Mizericordienilor din Piața 700 ) is a Greek Catholic church and a listed historical building in Strada Sfântul Ioan at Piața 700 in the western Romanian city of Timișoara ( German Timişoara ).
history
Opposite today's Timișoara 700 market square, the foundation stone for the first hospital, the so-called Barmherzigenspital , and the first pharmacy in the Banat was laid in 1735 in what was then Johannesgasse . Construction work was completed in 1737. The hospital was donated by the Order of St. Nepomuk , the patron saint of Catholics in the Banat, and entrusted to the Order of the Brothers of Mercy . In 1737 six friars moved from Germany to take care of the sick. These were also called the black priests .
Between 1748 and 1753 a Roman Catholic church in Baroque style was added to the hospital and consecrated on March 19, 1757. However, this was destroyed and completely cremated during the revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire by Hungarian revolutionaries. In 1851 the church was rebuilt. Under communist rule it was closed in 1948 and used as a storage room by the nearby Banat National Museum . After the Romanian Revolution , the church was taken over by the Greek Catholic Church and reopened in 1990. An eye clinic operates in the old hospital today.
organ
Bishop Josef Lonovics of Krivina mentioned in his visitation files from 1835 to 1838 an organ with 6 registers, which is the first small organ from the Timișoara Cathedral , which was made by the Viennese organ builder Johann Hencke (1697–1766) . After the new organ was built in the cathedral, it was moved here. In 1942 it was rebuilt by the organ building company Carl Leopold Wegenstein . The organ was destroyed during the communist dictatorship and found damaged on the gallery in 1990.
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literature
- Martin Eichler, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru, Martin Rill: Temeswar - Timișoara. A pearl of the Banat . Wort + Welt + Bild Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810825-6-2 , p. 207 .
Web links
- Pictures of the church: picture
- primariatm.ro , Biserica Greco-Catolica si Manastirea "Popilor Negri" vedere dinspre Spitalul Militar , in Romanian
- welcometoromania.ro , Biserica călugărilor mizericordieni, Biserica greco-catolică , in Romanian
- edition-musik-suedost.de , Franz Metz : Timisoara / Church of the Brothers of Mercy , 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 246 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , 134 TM-II-mA-06164.01, in Romanian
