Reformed Church of Mary

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Reformed Church of Mary
View from the north, with the prayer room on the second floor, 2008

View from the north, with the prayer room on the second floor, 2008
Construction year: 1902
Architect : Károly Nagy junior, László Jánosházi
Style elements : English Gothic
Space: 359 people
Location: 45 ° 44 '53.6 "  N , 21 ° 13' 7.2"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 44 '53.6 "  N , 21 ° 13' 7.2"  E
Address: Strada Timotei Cipariu
Timișoara
Timiș , Romania
Purpose: Hungarian Reformed Church
Inscription on the wall of the Reformed Church on Mary
A plaque on the Reformed Church commemorates the beginning of the uprising

The Reformed Church on Maria ( Romanian Biserica Reformată din Elisabetin ) is a Hungarian Reformed church on Bulevardul 16 Decembrie 1989 , it is located between Piața Sfânta Maria and Strada Timotei Cipariu in the III. District Elisabetin of the western Romanian city Timișoara ( German  Timişoara ).

To the northeast of the building is the chapel built in 1906 by László Székely with the statue of St. Mary , in the place of which the leader of the Hungarian peasant uprising György Dózsa is said to have been executed in 1514 .

The sermons of the pastor of the church, László Tőkés , in which he practically criticized the conditions in Romania, were the spark of the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 , which ultimately spread to the entire country. A plaque on the gable of the building commemorates these events with inscriptions in four languages.

description

After the Reformed church left the Augsburg and Helvetian congregations, which had been united in 1824, an independent Reformed congregation emerged in Timisoara. The red brick building was built in 1902 according to the plans of the architects Károly Nagy junior and László Jánosházi from Budapest in the English Gothic style and consists of eleven apartments and the prayer room of the Hungarian Reformed congregation on the second floor. One of the apartments was László Tőkés' parish apartment, which he was to evict in 1989. The area of ​​the prayer room is 250 square meters, the pulpit there was built by Jakob Fischer .

organ

The pneumatic organ with a manual and pedal was created by Carl Leopold Wegenstein in 1903 for 1,800 crowns . Your disposition is as follows:

manual
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Pedal C – h
Sub bass 16 ′

gallery

  • Postcard from 1910

  • Postcard from 1911

  • Reformed Church of Mary 2010

See also

Web links

Commons : Reformed Church at Mary  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timișoara / Temesvár / Temeschburg / Temišvar in anul 1911 - Elisabetin, Biserica reformata - Oficiul Parohial Reformat , April 17, 2008, in Romanian ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Martin Eichler, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru, Martin Rill: Temeswar / Timișoara. A pearl of the Banat, Wort + Welt + Bild Verlag, 2010, Munich, ISBN 978-3-9810825-6-2