Albert Schweitzer Church (Tübingen)

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Albert Schweitzer Church

The Albert Schweitzer Church in Tübingen is located on the tub at Herbstenhof 23 . It is named after the theologian, musicologist and doctor Albert Schweitzer .

architecture

The church was planned by the architect Karl-Heinz Angst. It was built in the mid-1980s as a masonry and reinforced concrete structure with white plaster on the inside and outside. The roof structure consists of wooden trusses and wooden ceilings that are left visible on the inside. The sloping roofs are covered with titanium zinc sheets.

The tower of the church stands on the highest point of the property. The construction axes of the building run directly from south to north and from east to west. The tower with the bell rises at their intersection. The diagonal axes of the building are also important. The south-east emphasizes the entrance, the north-east the position of the altar, the north-west the Albert Schweitzer mosaics and the south-west the triangular window in the club room.

Artistic arrangement

The colored glass windows in the church service room and in the club room come from Karin Auberlen: in the church service room 1986 the watercolor painting (orchard meadow) as the starting point for the main glass painting window (reverence for life: blessing hand of God - receiving human hand), in 1988 the triangular window in the club room ( Pelikan : respecting the opposites of life and sacrificing life for other life) and 1993 the north wall window (peace covenant of God with Noah; good shepherd). Uli Gleis designed the curved wall in the community hall with a mosaic of Albert Schweitzer pictures and texts. As a highlight for the architect, there is a place in the community hall that he calls “ecumenical window view”, from which the cross of the Catholic Church of St. Paul can be seen above the altar cross . It is marked on the floor with a different colored tile.

organ

The organ of the Albert Schweitzer Church was built in 1987/88 by the organ building workshop Richard Rensch in Lauffen am Neckar and inaugurated on March 6, 1988. In February 2009 the organ was overhauled. Originally it had a temperature control according to Kirnberger III, which was changed to Janke III in 2009.

The organ comprises three manuals and a pedal, whereby the first manual is a coupling manual and only the second and third. Manual with playable voices are stored. There are also “color registers” , which are taken from manuals II. And III. are playable from.

Disposition:

II. Manual
Principal 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV
III. manual
Covered 8th'
recorder 4 ′
flute 2 ′
Color register (either II or III)
Pointed flute 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
Flute bass 8th'
tenor 4 ′

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Tübinger Blätter, volumes 73–75 (1986), p. 91, the topping-out ceremony of the church is reported.
  2. ^ A b c Karl-Heinz Angst: Idea, draft and planning - explanations by the architect. Retrieved October 29, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Katrin Seeger: The Rensch organ of the Albert Schweitzer Church. Retrieved October 29, 2014 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '25.7 "  N , 9 ° 2' 44.5"  E