Apostle Church (Neuburg an der Donau)
The Apostle Church in Neuburg an der Donau is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Apostle parish in the east of the city with the suburbs Heinrichsheim , Marienheim , Herrenwörth , Fleischnershausen and Rohrenfeld .
Community and building history
The community area was initially supplied by the only Protestant church in the center of the city. Due to the influx of refugees and ethnic German repatriates after the Second World War , the city grew considerably, especially due to the new construction areas in the east of Neuburg. The city pastor was Johannes Zwanzger at the time . The growing number of Protestant Christians made it necessary to build another Protestant church. The Apostle Church was consecrated as a subsidiary of the Christ Church in the Ostend settlement area at the same time as the Catholic sister church St. Ulrich. Since then, the Apostle Church has been the siting church for Jagdgeschwader 74 .
The church was built from 1961 to 1964 according to plans by the architect, government master builder Helmut Philipp Christian Prechter from Harburg. The reinforced concrete body is completely clad with pale limestone and has high external walls. The asymmetrical hexagonal floor plan was interpreted by the builder as the guarding and protective hands of God.
The 26 m high church tower with the patinated copper roof and the white cross as well as the forecourt with fountain and plane trees can be seen from afar. The rectory and parish hall form a joint ensemble with the church. Immediately to the west is the only Protestant kindergarten in the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district , which is run by the Apostle Church.
The symbol of the house of God were the Twelve Apostles , who hung as stone sculptures on the outer wall and gave the church its name. The sculptor Ernst Steinacker used green Main sandstone as a material . Due to environmental influences, significant flaking and cracks formed, which made an acceptance necessary in November 2016 for safety reasons. They are currently stored in the Bundeswehr's sheltered rooms.
inner space
The interior of the Apostle Church is characterized by the large fresco "Heavenly Jerusalem". It is considered one of the central works of the socially critical Munich artist Günther Danco . In the center, the heavenly Jerusalem seems to emerge from the blue of the flood. Next to it an angel can be seen who is setting the standard. The sun and moon have darkened. An originally existing band of fire in red, orange and yellow tones at the bottom of the fresco was probably willfully and irreparably painted over in the 1970s.
In the center are the altar and baptismal font. The font used to be in a baptismal font in front of the large window, to which one had to go down a step. For safety reasons, the baptismal area was raised. The interior designed by Hans Engelhardt is still in use unchanged.
The acoustics of the Apostle Church are very good and are often used for concerts and sound recordings.
A total of around 350 people can be seated in each of the eleven pews during the service or a concert. There are also 150 seats on the gallery. The baptismal font can be postponed if this is necessary for events.
Altar cross
The altar cross is a successor to the Mainburg altar cross in the deanery church St. Matthäus (Ingolstadt) and was purchased in the late 1970s / early 1980s. As in the other churches, the cross on the altar shows the words of Jesus "I am the life" in the crossbar and "I am the light of the world" from the Gospel of John in the longitudinal bar . The designs for all the crosses and for the candlesticks were made by the freelance painter and graphic artist Helmut Münch (1926–2008), who lived in Ebrantshausen / Mainburg. The cross is said to have been forged from armor plate in the workshop of the blacksmith Josef Unger in Mainburg and is a reminder that the Apostle Church is the Evangelical local church in Neuburg.
Stained glass window
In 1983 the originally transparent seven side windows on each side were replaced by 105 × 110 cm colored glasses. They were designed on the subject of “God's tenderness” according to Ps 84 LUT by the Selbitz sister Christamaria Schröter . The glass windows were donated by Neuburg citizens of both denominations and the confirmation years of the 1980s and made by the Bavarian court glass painting Gustav van Treek in Munich.
organ
On the gallery is the organ , built in 1967 by the Nenninger organ builder in Munich, with 17 registers on two manuals. She has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.
Bells
Four bells with a total weight of almost 30 quintals hang in the bell tower. They were cast in the 1960s by the Karl Czudnochowsky bell foundry in Erdingen , which among other things also made most of the bells in Munich's "Old Peter" :
- fis` + 3: (700 kg) - "O land, land, land hear the Lord's words" Jeremiah 22:29
- ais` + 1: (360 kg) - "For us, Lord, you will create peace" Jeremiah 26:12
- cis`` + 3: (219 kg) - "Let us be truthful in love" Ephesians 4:15
- dis`` + 2: (160 kg) - "He has commanded his angels that they should keep you on all your ways"
literature
- Building and designing in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Edited by the regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Worms 2013, p. 17.
- Heinz Gruhn, Friedrich Kraft (ed.): Deanery Ingolstadt Evangelical in the middle of Bavaria . Erlangen 1989, pp. 114-116.
- Manfred Mayer: 1949–1999 50 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community in Mainburg . Mainburg 1999, p. 33.
- Ernst Steinacker: The sky is open. Open the unknown . Rothenburg osT 1993.
- Ernst Steinacker: Ernst and Ingrid: Golden Wedding Ernst and Ingrid Steinacker. Gunzenhausen 2007.
- Ernst Steinacker: Spielberg Castle. A landmark of Altmühlfranken . Nördlingen, 3rd edition. 1996.
- Ernst Steinacker. Sculptor and painter. Sculptures in bronze, stone and wood . Painting, Gnotzheim 2005.
- Ernst Steinacker, Hans Roser : Carrying God in your heart. Monasteries and saints of our homeland . Gnotzheim, 1999.
- Photo book of the Evangelical Lutheran Apostle Church, Neuburg an der Donau, 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Türk: Pictures of Work - An iconographic anthology . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2000, ISBN 3-531-13358-6 , p. 124.
- ↑ Christamaria Schröter: Zärtitäten Gottes - Calendar 1993. Presence-Verlag, Gnadenthal 1992.
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 5 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 4 ″ E