Trinitatiskirche (Gera)
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The Trinitatiskirche is a Protestant church on Heinrichstrasse in the city center of Gera. Originally the church was at the northeast end of the municipal cemetery. This was closed in 1900 and transformed into a park from 1933, today's Park of Youth .
history
Today's Heinrichstrasse was originally the western artery of the city of Gera. The medieval St. Wolfgang Chapel and the hospital, which was first mentioned on February 15, 1482, were built here outside the city walls . From 1609 to 1611, today's St. Trinitatis Church was built by Simon Reiske as a cemetery church in the Renaissance style. After the old St. John's Church was destroyed in a fire in 1639 that was set by plundering Swedish soldiers, the replacement services were held in the Trinity Church until the church was rebuilt in 1641.
In 1841 the old Wolfgang chapel was demolished. Its bell from 1518 came to the Trinity Church, where it was originally delivered to be melted down during World War II and returned in 1969. The outer pulpit of the chapel was attached to the east side of the Trinity Church. It dates from 1500 and is also known as the Tetzel pulpit .
From July 1, 1886, the Trinity Church was designated as the previous cemetery church for the parish church for the south of the rapidly growing city of Gera (including the then suburb of Pöppeln and the community of Debschwitz ). In 1899 a church tower was built on the east side; an originally planned second and third tower (which should symbolize the eponymous trinity) did not go beyond the planning.
During the restorations from 1968 to 1970, neo-Gothic redesigns were partially reversed and the gallery parapets rescued in the city museum were reinstalled. The painted beamed ceiling from the time it was built was exposed and restored. In 1970 the pulpit of the former castle church of Reinhardsbrunn in the Thuringian Forest (approx. 1615) and the font from the church of the excavated village of Culmitzsch were moved to the Trinity Church .
In 1998 Heinrichstrasse was redesigned in connection with the construction of the Gera-Arcaden shopping center . At the location of the church, where no less than six streets meet, a traffic roundabout was created, which is also known as the Trinitatiskreisel because of its location .
In the summer of 2007 the area around the church was redesigned in such a way that the church property was separated from the park owned by the city, creating a separate churchyard.
On the western outer wall of the Trinity Church there is a grave slab for Nicolaus de Smit , which was renewed in 1841 on the occasion of the 300th birthday of De Smits by the Gera armaments guild.
literature
- Hermann Winkler: 350 years of St. Trinity Church in Gera 1611-1961 , Gera 1961.
- Siegfried Mues / Klaus Brodale: City guide Gera . Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1995, ISBN 3-8112-0821-7
Sources and Notes
- ^ Ostthüringer Zeitung , July 4, 2007
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 12 ° 4 ′ 38.9 ″ E