St. Mauritius (Bad Sulza)
The Protestant Church of St. Mauritius is the town church of Bad Sulzas in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .
history
The previously Romanesque church in Bad Sulza, probably in large parts , fell victim to a town fire in 1714. There are remains of the original polygonal choir and the added windows and wall remains, especially on the south wall. The patronage , which was Catholic until the Reformation, cannot be proven for the church and the main altar. Only one vicarie was dedicated to Johannes Evangelista . Based on the city arms, a St. Mauritius patronage was constructed in the 30s of the 20th century . There is no historical evidence for this.
In 1717 the church was rebuilt in a baroque style and inaugurated that same year. 1722–1726 the west tower was added and with bells and a weather vane with the coat of arms of the Ernestine Wettins .
The interior was rebuilt several times so that the crypt is today's sanctuary . The simple baroque hall has three galleries , the upper one of which is circumferential. The second gallery bears the organ by Adam Eifert from Stadtilm from 1883. This was extensively rebuilt in 1976 by the Gotha organ builder Rudolf Böhm and restored in 1999 for 100,000 DM. The baroque pulpit by the plasterer Abondio Minetti stands in the raised choir. A free-standing cafeteria rises above the pulpit with three openings to the ground floor. In front of it the modern altar, to the right of it is the baptismal font , to the left a modern small organ that was donated in 1976 by Sister Margarete Berlin .
Behind the pulpit there are two choir windows, a donation by Carl Spaeter .
The three rectangular choir windows were fitted out by the Wilhelm Franke Naumburg workshop . The inscription in the apex window is dated 1908. In the window sII the Saxon coat of arms of the Duke of Saxony-Altenburg is also shown with the workshop inscription.
Domglas Naumburg has been the successor company with archive documents since 1966 .
On the south wall, in the closed south portal, there is a mosaic of a Pietà by the Sulza painter Karl Holfeld to commemorate the victims of both world wars : “Our dead and missing. 1914-1918, 1939-1945 ". Their name book is displayed underneath.
In 2005 the tower roof , parts of the nave , the crypt and the chandelier were restored.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrei Zahn, Patronage Cadastre Middle Saale Valley - under construction -
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran parish Bad-Sulza / Thuringia . Retrieved from the Internet on October 3, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 11.4 " N , 11 ° 37 ′ 29.4" E