St. Andreas (Bad Salzungen)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andreas is close to the Burgsee in the district and spa town of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . She belongs to the Dean's Office Meiningen of the Diocese of Erfurt . To the parish of St. Andrew in Bad Salzungen belongs filial community of St. Kilian in Bad Liebenstein .
location
The church of St. Andreas and the associated community center are located west of the Burgsee at the transition from Andreasstrasse to Erzberger Allee, southwest of the city center.
history
On May 3, 1914, the Catholic parish of Bad Salzungen, which was dissolved after the Reformation , was re-established with a service held in today's rectory.
The Englishman Simon Harwarth donated a church to the parish, which was built on a plot of land acquired by the parish in 1914 at the northern end of Andreasstrasse and consecrated on July 15, 1923 with the sister house built next to it. Due to the inflation at the time , the construction costs amounted to 77 trillion marks .
The building was extensively renovated from 1986 to 1989.
Furnishing
The altars date from the Baroque period and were obtained from churches and monasteries in Franconia. The large cross in the high altar was created in the 1920s by the Würzburg artist Ludwig Sonnleitner. The statues on both sides of the high altar depict the patron saint of the church, the apostle Andreas, and the holy brother Konrad von Parzham , who worked in Altötting and died in 1895.
The wall paintings in the choir are reminiscent of St. Boniface and Elisabeth of Thuringia . The fourteen Stations of the Cross painted by Gebhard Fugel are copies of a Munich Way of the Cross, the white medallions with the heads represent the twelve apostles.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '44.9 " N , 10 ° 14' 4.5" E