St. Wolfgang and St. Jakobus (Holzhausen)

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Church of St. Wolfgang and St. Jakobus

The listed Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Wolfgang and St. Jakobus stands on a hill above the village, surrounded by the cemetery , in the Holzhausen district of the city of Heldburg in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

Originally there was a small chapel on the site of the current church , which was mentioned in a document in 1462. It was a subsidiary church of the city of Heldburg . In 1722 the chapel was rebuilt and was a parish church until the end of the 19th century . Today it belongs to the Westhausen parish office .

Twenty pictures of the biblical story are depicted in the gallery fields . The baptismal font with the year 1666 was taken over by the chapel. The altar is below the gallery.

Web links

Commons : St. Wolfgang and St. Jakobus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Cultural development concept for the model region of the Hildburghausen and Sonneberg districts . October 2014, p. 21 ( pdf ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 8.3 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 57.9 ″  E