Mariä Himmelfahrt, Catholic church building in Bad Berka, Germany.
Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Roman Catholic filial church in Bad Berka, in the Weimarer Land district of Thuringia. The expanded church, consecrated in 1962 to plans by architect Erwin Gramsel, has an altar of Ehringsdorfer travertine and a Madonna by Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott. A Way of the Cross by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher was hung inside in 1997.
The predecessor chapel of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt was built in 1918. After the Second World War the congregation had outgrown it, so the church was enlarged to plans by architect Erwin Gramsel and re-consecrated on 26 August 1962 by auxiliary bishop Joseph Freusberg. From 1820 to 1968 the community belonged to the parish of Weimar, then became an independent parish until its reincorporation into Herz Jesu Weimar in 2008.
The parish belonged to the parish of Weimar from 1820 to 1968, then became independent until its reincorporation into the Herz-Jesu parish of Weimar in 2008. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and a Madonna by Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott stands inside.
The church stands in Bad Berka in the Weimarer Land district of Thuringia and is a filial church of the Herz Jesu Weimar parish in the Diocese of Erfurt. It is a small village church, so visitors should arrange access through the parish rather than expect regular opening hours.
The 1979 Schönefeld organ has four stops on one manual with a coupled pedal, and both key and stop action are mechanical. The source gives the disposition but not the individual stop names, so the instrument is best described by its builder, year and four-register specification.
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