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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Cross in Suhl in Thuringia was built between 1731 and 1739.
The Protestant hall building is designed in the Baroque style. The striking three-story church tower has a tail cap with a lantern and is crowned by a weather vane in the shape of the Polish eagle. The sovereign at the time was Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony and King of Poland. The three-part coat of arms above the entrance portal is a fantasy creation.[1] It shows elements of the Saxon coat of arms with the diamond wreath and the Electorate of Saxony swords, the Polish eagle and a hen, the heraldic animal of the Henneberg counts, and above it the Saxon crown.
Source:
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzkirche_(Suhl)
November 30, 2024
The church that defines the cityscape with a magnificent tower and entrance to the city. Inside a pulpit altar typical of the Baroque period with striking allegorical figures: Faith is on the left, love on the right.
Every Friday from May to the end of September there is a quarter of an hour of organ music on the extraordinary Eilert-Köhler organ, "Organ Point Twelve".
Year of construction: 1731-39
Architectural styles: baroque
Special features: Baroque pulpit altar, Eilert Köhler organ, unique in this organ is the combination of North German organ building with Thuringian architecture, the only instrument that is still preserved by Eilert Köhler, extensively restored and re-inaugurated in June 2007
Source and more: ekmd.de/kirche/kirchenkreise/henneberger-land/suhl/suhl/kreuzkirche
August 7, 2021
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