Kreuzkirche (Schleusingen)
The Evangelical Lutheran, listed church, is located next to the church cemetery in Schleusingen , a small town in the Hildburghausen district of Thuringia . The cruciform church belongs to the parish Schleusingen in the parish area Schleusingen in Kirchenkreis Henneberger Land of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
At the place of today's church, at that time still in front of the city wall , a chapel with the name Heiligenkreuz was built in 1454 and from 1530 the church cemetery was moved to this place. The chapel fell into disrepair after the Reformation.
The construction of the new Gottesackerkirche began on December 10, 1600. It was temporarily inaugurated on November 10, 1602. The interior work dragged on until 1604.
The church no longer has a bell tower . There used to be a small hexagonal ridge turret for the death knell in the middle of the roof with a floating angel with a trumpet as a weather vane . The roof turret had to be removed because it was dilapidated . The small death bell bears the year 1401 and is said to have come to Schleusingen only in 1546. It is now in the roof structure of the Kreuzkirche and is posted for the Protestant funeral services .
description
In the second half of the 19th century, a retracted, rectangular choir was added to the massive, stone-faced hall church in the east and colored glazing in 1894 during a renovation. The rectangular, with a saddle roof covered nave six window axes has on the longitudinal sides in the ground circular window and the upper floor ogival windows, separated by a cornice . On the west side is the ogival portal , above a cornice in an ogival wall niche stands a figure of Christ from 1894 between two ogival windows.
The interior , spanned by a flat coffered ceiling resting on floor-to- ceiling wooden pillars , was redesigned in the second half of the 19th century and provided with a single-storey gallery , the parapet of which consists of balusters . In the triumphal arch a large hanging crucifix from the early 16th century. A life-size sculpture made of cypress wood has stood on the right at the transition to the chancel since 1963. This was designed by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher and stands as a reminder and in memory of the victims of the two world wars. On the east wall and in the choir there are twelve tombstones from the late 17th century and the first half of the 18th century.
The organ with 11 registers , divided into two manuals and pedal , was built in 1896 by an organ builder from Schmiedefeld and expanded to twelve registers in 1949 by an organ builder from Merseburg. It has a mechanical action.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 41 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 28.1 ″ E