Christ Church (Koblenz)
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The Christ Church is a Protestant church in Koblenz . It is the first new Protestant church in Koblenz, which was completed in the course of the southern expansion of the city in 1904, and belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
history
After the Prussian fortifications were abandoned in 1890 and the city was subsequently expanded to the south, a boulevard was built along the former wall with the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Ring). After the Protestant community of Koblenz had already received a house of worship with the Florinskirche in 1820, the Christ Church was built as the first Protestant church from 1901 to 1904 on the new Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring by the Berlin architect Johannes Vollmer with the help of Heinrich Jassoy . Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt created all the glass windows in 1903 . Including u. a. the representations "Jesus the Good Shepherd" and "Peter and Paul".
The neo-Gothic church was not completed until 1904. According to the original plan, it should have been completed for the 100th anniversary of the Protestant community in Koblenz in 1903. It was the third major new church building after the Catholic parish churches of St. Josef (1897) and Herz Jesu (1903).
The Christ Church was badly damaged in the air raids on Koblenz during World War II . During the subsequent reconstruction between 1951 and 1954, extensive changes and extensions were made according to plans by the Trier building councilor Heinrich Otto Vogel (1898–1994).
Construction and equipment
Outside
The architecture of the Christ Church had to take into account the Catholic parish churches of St. Joseph and the Heart of Jesus, which were also created in the course of the southern expansion of the city. In contrast to the other two churches, it is deliberately designed asymmetrically and more simply structured. The brick building with high gable walls is built over a large area and clad with sandstone and tuff blocks . A mighty tower rises at the intersection , which was originally equipped with a much higher roof, but was rebuilt flatter after the Second World War. The style of the building with few portals and tracery windows adopts characteristics of the English late Gothic . The arched vestibule on the east side of the tower was used to give way to the higher classes . On one of the pillars of the vestibule is the following inscription: “ Since this church was finished, they wrote nineteen fourteen. "
Inside
The interior of the hall church consists of two unequal wide naves . After the reconstruction, these were separated from each other by walling. The narrower nave on the east side was originally divided into two floors. The former net vault has been replaced by a simple ceiling construction. The main room has a circumferential gallery on two sides .
A neo-Gothic font and a twelve-armed brass chandelier have been preserved from the original furnishings . A war memorial , created in 1924 by R. Wilms, in the form of a tuff sculpture in memory of the fallen of the First World War hangs on a pillar . It shows the figure of a warrior in armor with a sword over a lion figure and the coat of arms of the city of Koblenz.
organ
The organ was built in 1955 by the organ builder Willi Peter from Cologne . The electro-pneumatic instrument has 35 stops on three manuals and a pedal .
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Parish
The Christ Church in the parish Stadtmitte-Vorstadt-Rhens belongs to the "Evangelical Church Community Koblenz-Mitte", which also includes the Florinskirche in the old town and the Evangelical parish hall in Rhens .
Monument protection
The Christ Church is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and registered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Südliche Vorstadt at Hohenzollernstrasse 2a .
The Christ Church has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.) / Ingrid Bátori, Dieter Kerber, Hans Josef Schmidt (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz.
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The mundane monuments and the suburbs. (= The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 1.) Munich / Berlin 1954.
- Herbert Dellwing (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.1: City of Koblenz. Southern suburb and Oberwerth. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-590-31033-2
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 3, 3). Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
- Karina Schories: The Evangelical Christ Church in Koblenz. Unpublished master's thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2009. (Copy in the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Boppard)
Web links
- The Christ Church in Koblenz in: Ev. Parish of Koblenz-Mitte
- Christ Church in: regionalgeschichte.net
- Evangelical Christ Church, Koblenz in: picture index of art and architecture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documents on this can be found in the Linnemann archive.
- ↑ More information about the organ
- ↑ Evangelical Church Community Koblenz-Mitte in: Evangelical Church District Koblenz
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 18 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 36.4" E