St. Heinrich, Parish church in Fürth, Germany
St. Heinrich is a Roman Catholic parish church in Fürth's southern district, built 1908–1910 to plans by Munich architect Hans Schurr as a neo-baroque Wandpfeilerkirche with a short transept. Its white plastered exterior carries dark red tiled roofs; a tall tower with a clock, arched belfry windows and a green copper onion dome topped by a cross stands on the left, and a rounded apse with a circular window is flanked by steep roofs and a small spire crowned with a star.
St. Heinrich was built from 1908 to 1910 to plans by the Munich architect Hans Schurr as a neo-baroque wall-pillar church with a short transept. It was consecrated on 23 October 1910 by Bamberg Archbishop Friedrich Philipp von Abert. In 1922 it was raised to parish church, and in 1926 the neo-baroque rectory followed at Kaiserstraße 113.
The church was consecrated on 23 October 1910 by Bamberg Archbishop Friedrich Philipp von Abert to Saint Henry, founder of the Bamberg diocese, and his wife Kunigunde; today only Henry's name is used. The high altar painting of St. Heinrich is by Paul Thalheimer. The parish grounds around the church were laid out in 1919.
The church stands in Fürth's Südstadt, with the neo-baroque parish house of 1926 across the street at Kaiserstraße 113. The green area around the church was laid out in 1919. The tower clock with Roman numerals and gold hands faces the street, so it can be read from outside even when the church is closed.
The smallest of the four bells, tuned c1–es1–f1–as1, dates from 1910, the year the church was built. The three larger bells were melted down for war purposes in 1942 and replaced in 1953 by casts from Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher, Westphalia.
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