Apostle Church (Ludwigshafen am Rhein)

Apostle Church

Church in the city ensemble

monument

inner space

The Apostle Church is a Protestant church in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

history

The church was built between 1892 and 1894 according to plans by the Berlin architect Johannes Otzen in the early Gothic style using brickwork. The construction was carried out by the Gebr. Hoffmann construction company in Ludwigshafen. The inauguration took place on October 28, 1894. The first organ was supplied by the Sauer organ building company in Frankfurt an der Oder. It was not until 1919 that the church was given the name Apostle Church . It is a listed building .

The Apostle parish arose as a daughter parish of the Protestant Parish I (the later Luther Church ). On April 20, 1895, it was separated from this and, under the direction of the previous pastor of Oggersheim , Johann Georg Bickes, became an independent pastor's office for the districts north of the Ludwigshafen-Neustadt railway line. The chemist Heinrich von Brunck (BASF) belonged to the first presbytery .

The monument in front of the church was inaugurated on Easter Sunday 1926. It stands for the 470 fallen and missing from the Protestant parish of the First World War. The Hemshöfer sculptor Theodor Joanni created the monument, which testifies to this day that the district was affected by the World War.

In 1994 the church was restored in accordance with a listed building, but without restoring the original painting. Today the Apostle Church is the best preserved Protestant church building from the time before the First World War in Ludwigshafen and a first-class monument for the city.

organ

The first organ in the Apostle Church was built in 1894 by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer (Frankfurt / Oder). The instrument had 24 or later 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1952, the organ builder Steinmeyer built a new instrument with 39 registers on three manuals and pedal and a free pipe prospect . Today the instrument has 45 registers (including two pedal transmissions) and 2 effect registers on three manuals and pedal.

I Rückpositiv C – g ³
1.	Singing dumped	8th'
2.	Quintad	8th'
3.	Prefix	4 ′
4th	Idleness	4 ′
5.	recorder	2 ′
6th	Quint	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	Cymbel IV	¹ ⁄ ₂ ′
8th.	Krummhorn	8th'
	Tremulant
	Cymbelstern

II Hauptwerk C – g ³
9.	Gedacktpommer	16 ′
10.	Prefix	8th'
11.	Reed flute	8th'
12.	Viol	8th'	(n)
13.	Octav	4 ′
14th	Capstan whistle	4 ′
15th	Quint	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
16.	Forest flute	2 ′
17th	Mixture IV-VI	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
18th	Cornett V	8th'
19th	Trumpet	8th'
20th	Clarine	4 ′	(n)

III Swell C – g ³
21st	Dulcian	16 ′
22nd	Wooden flute	8th'
23.	Salizional	8th'
24.	Ital. Principal	4 ′
25th	Coupling flute	4 ′
26th	Rohrnasat	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
27.	Octav	2 ′
28.	Night horn	2 ′
29	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
30th	Scharff V	1'
31.	Trumpet	8th'	(n)
32.	Upright shelf	8th'
33.	Rohrschalmei	4 ′
	Tremulant

Pedals C – f ¹
34.	Principal bass	16 ′
35.	Sub bass	16 ′
36.	Pomeranian Bass (= No. 9)	16 ′
37.	Octavbass	8th'
38.	Gemshorn	8th'
39.	Dolkan	4 ′
40.	Singing Cornett	2 ′
41.	Reed flute	2 ′
42.	Mixturbass V	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
43.	trombone	16 ′
44.	Trumpet (= No. 19)	8th'
45.	Head trumpet	4 ′

Coupling: I / II, II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P (also as super octave coupling), II / P, III / P
annotation

(n) = register added subsequently (1994)

Bells

In the tower of the Apostle Church there are 4 bells that were cast in 1959 by the Rincker bell foundry (Sinn, Lahn). It is the third bell, the two previous bells had to be given for war purposes.

No.	Surname	Casting year	Foundry, casting location	Weight (kg)	Nominal	Inscription, ornament
1	Death knell	1959	Rincker (Sinn, Lahn)	1652	of the ^1st	Have peace among one another (Mark 9.50) Symbols: ChiRho cross, doves
2	Our Father Bell	1959	Rincker (Sinn, Lahn)	913	f ¹	Be happy in hope. (Rom.12.12) Symbol: cross
3	Wedding bell	1959	Rincker (Sinn, Lahn)	558	as ¹	Stay in my love (Joh 15,9) Symbol: Luther rose
4th	Baptismal bell	1959	Rincker (Sinn, Lahn)	398	b ¹	Be firm in your faith. (Colossians 2,7) Symbol: anchor cross

Individual evidence

^ Apostle Church Ludwigshafen: Monument. Accessed January 31, 2018 (German).
^ Organ experience, concerts on the Steinmeyer organ. Retrieved April 18, 2013 .
↑ The bells of the Apostle Church. Retrieved April 18, 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Apostlekirche - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Parish of the Apostle Church in Ludwigshafen

49.487638888889 8.4325Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 57 ″ E

[1] Apostle Church Ludwigshafen: Monument. Accessed January 31, 2018 (German).

[2] Organ experience, concerts on the Steinmeyer organ. Retrieved April 18, 2013 .

[3] The bells of the Apostle Church. Retrieved April 18, 2013 .