Margrave Church of the Holy Cross

The church in July 2012

The Margrave Church of the Holy Cross is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Aha , a district of the town of Gunzenhausen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is a parish church in the Aha / Pflaumfeld / Unterwurmbach parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-142 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The postal address is Aha 167.

The hall church was built in 1721 by Carl Friedrich von Zocha according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli in the so-called margrave style. Only the basement of the tower remained of the previous building. In the second half of the 18th century there was probably a renovation. The tower tiles are colorfully glazed. The pilaster strips are rusticated . The coat of arms of the Margraves of Ansbach was attached to the west facade in a flat central projectile with a gable . The four-axis hall building with retracted choir and two-story gallery contains blind windows . The altar received a motif of Jesus Christ as an altarpiece in 1866 . The three-storey church tower by Johann David Steingruber is located by the church choir and is crowned by a dome with a point.

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

• Open Churches Bavaria
• Parish Aha

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of the Holy Cross , List of Monuments of the City of Gunzenhausen at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on November 25, 2015)
2. ↑ Description of the church on pointoo.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '51.1 "  N , 10 ° 45' 5.5"  E