St. Bartholomew (Cheb)
The St. Bartholomäuskirche was a Bartholomäus church from the Gothic period in the historic city center of Cheb in the Czech Republic .
The Gothic single-pillar church, 60 feet long and 30 feet wide with a butt angled east end, donated by a von Asch family and built by the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star , originally bordered directly on the inner Bruckort tower. The main entrance, a profiled pointed arch portal from around 1320, was located in the middle of the south wall (today walled up). Today's entrance is to the west on the side of the Coming , a one-story, unadorned building from the Baroque period , which is directly connected to the church. The St. Wenceslas Chapel, donated by Niklas Walther von Hof in 1347, built with a southern connection to the St. Bartholomew Church, was demolished in 1945 after damage.
In the parish of St. Bartholomäi, until 1945 under the patronage of the knightly crusaders with the Red Star, around 2230 Catholic and 33 Evangelical-Lutheran residents lived in 1905 in the urban area from Eger / Cheb south of the market square to the Imperial Castle. The larger parish of St. Nicholas under the patronage of the city of Eger had around 21,107 Catholic, 1,667 Evangelical-Lutheran, around 550 Jewish and 3 non-denominational residents. (Eger homeland. History of a German landscape in documentaries and memories., 1981 Egerer Landtag, Amberg, parishes in the Egerer Kreis, p. 174)
The church of the Kreuzherren was badly damaged in an air raid at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945) and rebuilt in the 1960s. The former facility was removed in favor of a free exhibition space. Parts of the interior are in the Cheb Museum in the Pachelbelhaus .
literature
Lorenz Schreiner (ed.): Monuments in the Egerland. Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia. With the participation of the State Archives in Cheb / Eger under Jaromir Bohac as well as Viktor Baumgarten, Roland Fischer, Erich Hammer, Ehrenfried John and Heribert Sturm , Amberg in der Oberpfalz 2004, p. 150 with an archive recording before 1945.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 55.2 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 9 ″ E