Saxon Lutheran Church in Bolonya
Saxon Lutheran Church in Bolonya
Address:
Strada Doctor Ion Cantacuzino 2
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
GPS coordinates:
45.6497745198, 25.6005862126
History
The site of the church was once the chapel and cemetery of the town leprosy hospital and shelter. References to leprosy date back to 1413, and the first specific mention of the hospice dates back to 1463. The Gothic chapel dedicated to St. Barbara, whose existence is confirmed in 1477, was built next to it. After the end of the epidemics, the hospital was converted into an inn, but the chapel was abandoned after the Reformation, damaged in the battles and raids of the 17th century.
In Bolonya, a predominantly Hungarian suburb of Brasosó, the number of Germans gradually increased from the 18th century onwards, thanks to the expansionist and assimilationist policies of the Saxons. In 1713, the Saxons of Bolonya designated the ruined St. Barbara's Chapel and the adjacent wooden prayer house as the site of their Lutheran services. In 1718 they were joined by Hungarian Lutherans who had been driven out of the town centre. The two communities took turns using the chapel and the prayer house. In 1739, Lutheran pastor Szeli József bought an organ and in 1741 a bell tower was built. In 1755, Empress Maria Theresa approved the enlargement of the chapel, but work did not begin until 1776, when the building was demolished and replaced by the larger church that still stands today It was consecrated by the parish priest Georg Preidt on 19 July 1778. The Saxons and the Hungarians took turns in using the new church, but friction between the two communities continued, and in 1783 the Hungarians built their own Lutheran church, moving out of the Saxon one.
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