Church of the Resurrection (Leipzig)
The Resurrection Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Leipzig-Möckern . It is located at Georg-Schumann-Straße 184 and has been part of the Sophienkirche in Leipzig since 2014.
Service in the prayer room
Because of the long way to the Gnadenkirche in Wahren , the assembly hall of the Möckern community school (now the 39th school) was set up and consecrated as a prayer room for the community of Möckern in 1886. The first service took place there on August 1, 1886. On October 1, 1888, Möckern finally left the Parochial Association with Wahren, and the independent parish of Möckern was created. The last service in the prayer room took place on November 3rd, 1901 (22nd Sunday after Trinity ).
Construction as an emergency church
1896 asked the country consistory on, "whether the development of church life there is far enough along to get closer to the church." The church council then decided to choose a building site. The result was that the old church on Hallische Strasse should be designated as a church building site. On February 27, 1900, however, the church council decided to refrain from building a church due to low financial resources and instead to build an emergency church for a maximum of 40,000 marks on the area west of the old Gottesacker, which was owned by the manor Baroness von Fuchs-Nordhoff to build. For part of the construction costs, 20,000 marks, which the state consistory had already promised for the construction of the church, were to be used. The state consistory also granted this amount on April 4, 1900 on the condition that the builder of the Anger-Crottendorf emergency church , Paul Lange , designed and led the construction of the emergency church , and that construction began in 1900, so that the building would be completed by spring 1901 at the latest.
On September 24, 1900, it was decided to purchase the property, and on October 2, the building tender was issued, so that the earthworks could begin on December 10. A foundation stone was not laid, as it is not common in emergency churches. As a result of the severe winter, construction work came to a standstill before Christmas and could only be resumed on March 11, 1901. The erection of the framework began at the end of March , and the topping-out ceremony was held on May 7th. The church was consecrated on November 10, 1901, the 23rd Sunday after Trinity and the birthday of the reformer Martin Luther . The total cost of the construction (excluding the organ) was 52,708.13 marks, of which 33,229.52 marks were accounted for by carpentry and masonry work. In 1926 the church was given its current name.
architecture
The emergency church was mostly built in half-timbered construction and was later to be replaced by a solid construction, but this never happened. The design comes from the Leipzig architect Paul Lange. This is how a north-south orientation, originally 28 meters long, was created in the shape of a Latin cross. The nave is 13 meters wide and the transept is 18 meters wide. The height of the interior is 18 meters, it offered space for 602 seats. In 1921 the church was named Resurrection Church , which also refers to its location in the old cemetery. Numerous structural damage made repairs necessary again and again, a renovation between 1974 and 1981 fell victim to the original chancel, including the sandstone altar and pulpit, as well as the smaller turrets. Today the church is equipped with a simple wooden altar. The large altar crucifix, an Oberammergau carving, was attached to the organ gallery. The pulpit was taken over from the broken church in Magdeborn near Leipzig.
The 90 centimeter high font was made from white, gray-veined marble. The inscription “Donated by Ed. Rohland / Möckern in 1901 ” . The baptismal font, which is made of copper, is inserted into a round recess. A dove in a halo is engraved in the bottom of the bowl as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The edge bears the inscription “Let the little children come to me and do not prevent them, for such is the kingdom of God. Marci 10.14 " LUT .
Pork Mendelssohn Organ
The Church of the Resurrection is known for its organ , the oldest instrument of its kind in the city of Leipzig. It was built in 1766/67 for the old reformed church, which was located in the rooms of the old office building at Thomaskirchhof from 1707 to 1900 . The work with 24 registers by university organ builder Johann Emanuel Schweinfleisch was accepted by Thomaskantor Johann Friedrich Doles .
After Johann Gottlob Mende had carried out an overhaul in 1840/41 , the town council decided to commission the Gewandhaus music director Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to check the results. Mendelssohn was a member of the Reformed church and was very interested in organs. However, the acceptance was ultimately carried out by the organist at the time.
Another renovation by Carl Bernecker took place from 1870 to 1873. Bernecker enlarged the organ to three manuals and adapted it to the romantic tastes of the time. That is why it was assumed later that the organ was only built in 1872.
With the construction of the new reformed church on Tröndlinring , which also received a new organ, the instrument had become superfluous. When the old building was demolished, the organ was owned by the City of Leipzig. After a tour with a sound test on May 21, 1901, the organ with 3 manuals , pedal and 30 sounding voices came into the possession of the resurrection community for 2,500 marks through negotiations between the master carpenter von Zimmermann and city building officer Otto Wilhelm Scharenberg . The case was erected on August 19, 1901.
From 1982 to 1984 a reconstruction was carried out according to the knowledge of the time with the removal of the third manual and the associated pipework, as well as a general repair by the Greiz organ building company Hartmut Schüßler. The case was given a new color scheme, but otherwise remained unchanged.
After the foundation of the pork-Mendelssohn-Orgel e. V. through Cantor Holm Vogel , around 40,000 euros could be collected for another organ restoration, which was carried out from February to November 2004 by the organ construction company Ekkehart Groß from Waditz near Bautzen . The aim was to restore the condition of 1841. On October 3rd, 2004 the instrument was inaugurated again. It now has 25 sounding stops on two manuals and a pedal .
Since 2004, the Möckern Organ Days have taken place every autumn in the Church of the Resurrection. Organists such as Holm Vogel and Matthias Eisenberg have already played at the Organ Days .
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Remarks
- S = pipework newly installed by Hartmut Schüßler in 1984
- G = pipework newly installed by Ekkehart Groß in 2004
Ball monument Möckern
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On the jewelry square in front of the church is the Möckern ball monument , a sandstone block with the casts of 4 smaller (6 pound ) bullets at the corners and a large (10 pound) at the apex. The memorial commemorates the victory of the Silesian army Blücher - York (today's spelling: Yorck) in the Battle of Nations on October 16, 1813.
The memorial was erected by the “Society for the Celebration of October 19th” , which was founded during the celebrations for the first anniversary of the battle. It was originally set up on June 3, 1850 in a field near the Leipzig – Magdeburg railway line north of the current location. So that visitors can find the monument better, it was moved to a new location as early as 1858, at today's Georg-Schumann-Straße / corner of Slevogtstraße. When the area of this site was to be built on, a new monument site had to be found again. In 1903, the municipality of Möckern proposed that the ball monument be erected directly in front of the newly built church. When the implementation was completed on October 9, 1903, the appearance of the monument was slightly changed; so the fence surrounding the memorial was not put back up. More recently, the bullets have been broken out several times by vandalism, which has repeatedly caused stone damage. In 1988, for the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Nations, the monument and its base were restored in every detail.
Inscriptions
Front:
"16. OCTBR. / 1813 "
; Back:
"GAL. 5.1. "
; right side:
"VICTORY / OF THE SILESIAN ARMY / BLÜCHER - YORK"
. On the left there are the outlines of an iron cross .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance of the Evangelical Lutheran. State consistory of February 7, 1896 (quoted from Lorenz 1926, p. 17 f.)
- ↑ Compilation of the revised invoices for the emergency church in Möckern (quoted from Lorenz 1926, p. 35)
- ↑ Thomas Nabert; Christoph Kühn: Möckern. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1998, p. 25
- ^ Paul Weinmeister: Contributions to the history of the Evangelical-Reformed congregation in Leipzig 1700-1900 . Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1900, p. 189 .
- ^ William A. Little: Mendelssohn and the Organ . Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-539438-2 .
- ↑ Hans Jürgen Sievers (Ed.): In the middle of the city. The Evangelical Reformed Church in Leipzig from the immigration of the Huguenots to the Peaceful Revolution. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-374-01811-4 , p. 103 .
- ↑ For the disposition cf. The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. Volume 2, p. 1126
- ↑ Gal 5,1 LUT : Christ set us free to be free! So stand firm and don't let the yoke of bondage be put on you again!
literature
- Heinrich Lorenz: The Resurrection Church in Leipzig-Möckern. For their 25th anniversary. Friedrich Schumann, Leipzig 1926
- The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. Volume 2, edited by Heinrich Magirius u. Hanna-Lore Fiedler, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, pp. 1121–1127, ISBN 3-422-00568-4
- Markus Cottin et al .: Leipzig monuments. Edited by the Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1998, pp. 120 f., ISBN 3-930076-71-3
Web links
- Ev.-Luth. Sopienkirchgemeinde Leipzig-Lützschena, Stahmeln, Wahren, Lindenthal, Breitenfeld, Möckern
- For the restoration of the sacristy window
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 3.3 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 43.1 ″ E