St. Crucis (Wolfis)

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The Church of St. Crucis in Wölfis
Interior panorama St. Crucis
Pulpit altar St. Crucis
Ratzmann organ St. Crucis
St. Crucis ceiling painting

The St. Crucis Church is the Protestant village church from Wölfis , a district of Ohrdruf , in the Gotha district in Thuringia .

history

A first monastery courtyard at Wölfis was mentioned on March 13, 779 in a diploma from Charlemagne . The original building of the monastery courtyard was a church, which was first mentioned in 1185 in the possession of the monastery von Herrenbreitungen . This St. Bonifatius Church was replaced by a new building in 1701/1702, which fell victim to a large fire on January 20, 1735, which destroyed the church and the rectory, both school buildings and another 199 buildings. The church documents also fell victim to the flames.

With the use of donations, a new church could be built, the construction of which was supervised by the ducal chief architect Johann Erhard Straßburger . Construction began on June 15, 1735, the inauguration on October 16, 1736. Work on the ceiling, which was richly decorated with stucco , dragged on until 1773.

Parish

The parish branches Tambuchshof, east of the village with land and forest property, and Heerda, below the Hühnerberg, which both are still field names in the military training area in Ohrdruf , formerly belonged to the church .

Today, St. Crucis is itself a branch church of the Crawinkel parish in the Waltershausen-Ohrdruf parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Architecture and equipment

The building measures 29.1 × 12 m. It has three galleries and a pulpit altar in the Rococo style in the apse. The organ was created by the Ohrdruf organ builder Georg Franz Ratzmann in 1819. It is the successor to a Thielemann organ that was completed by Thielemann's journeymen Johann Stephan Schmaltz .

The ceiling painting of the church was created in 2008 by the painter Gert Weber . It represents the way of the cross of Jesus.

Web links

Commons : St. Crucis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.suptur.de/verzeichnis/visitenkarte.php?mandat=103212 , accessed on February 9, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.glaube-und-heimat.de/2011/03/04/eine-gemeinde-im-aufbruch/ , accessed on February 9, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.webbs-online.de/seiten/habenmalerei.html , accessed on February 9, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 35.7 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 43.5"  E