Friedrichskirche - Gotha, TH, Deutschland - Baroque Architecture on Waymarking.com

The Protestant Friedrichskirche, also called Siechhofskirche, is the smallest church building in Gotha. It is considered the oldest baroque central building in Thuringia.
Already in 1347, a hospital for lepers (the Leprosorum, also called Sonder- or Siechhof) with a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas was mentioned on the eastern part of the corridor outside the city, Schlichte, on the country road to Erfurt. However, the Romanesque building was demolished in 1715 in order to build today's Friedrichskirche on its foundation walls. Duke Frederick II of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg, who had the church rebuilt by the Gothic master builder Johann Erhard Strassburger in gratitude for an illness he had overcome, gave the order and gave the name to the church. On 19 July 1715 the foundation stone was laid for the church, which was consecrated in December of the same year.
The ground plan of the church is a Greek cross with four equally short arms, the corners are formed as quarter-circle niches. The building consists of plastered quarrystone walls, only the corners of the building and the window and door frames are made of hewn sandstone. The roof, covered with red beaver tails, is crowned by a ridge turret covered with grey slate, the cross-section of which is also in the form of a Greek cross.
On the southern façade of the church there is a bell cage with a bell.

Style: Baroque Type of building (structure): Large religious building (church, monastery, synagogue...) Date of origin:: 1715 Architect(s): Johann Erhard Strassburger Web site of the object (if exists): [Web Link] Address: Erfurter Landstraße 31 99867 Gotha, TH Deutschland

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