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Evangelische Kreuzkirche

Beschreibung

This second protestant church in the historical center of Bretten dates back to 1687 when Lutherans and reformed Protestants were still two different confessions and the Lutherans of Bretten didn’t have their own church. The tragedy of the time caused the destruction of the Kreuzkirche, also called Lutherkirche, in the city fire of 1689, only two years after its completion. It was rebuilt after the end of the Palatine War of Succession and inaugurated in 1702 being even more unadorned those times than today. The attached tower was built much later and both the ceiling and the gallery were painted in 1740. It was widely renovated in 1957 and got wonderful interior paintings. The church houses a mechanically very special organ which pipes work by separate air input.