Mountain Church (Osnabrück)

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Church building on Bergstrasse

The Osnabrück mountain church is located in the Westerberg district . It was consecrated in 1893 as the first Protestant Reformed church in Osnabrück.

location

The mountain church is located on the hill of the Westerberg just west of the Osnabrücker Ring , which surrounds the city ​​center . In the immediate vicinity are the Stüvehaus and the Stadthaus , which represent the former location of the city ​​clinic . To the west of the church is the residential area of ​​the Westerberg.

history

The Berlin architect Otto March planned the construction of this first Evangelical Reformed church in Osnabrück in the neo-Romanesque style. One of the appraisers of the building was Cornelius Gurlitt , who also sponsored the building. He also directed the tender for the building, in which Otto March's design prevailed against Karl Doflein .

The church is considered to be the first "grouped" church in Germany. Here, for the first time, the church, group rooms and other rooms for congregational purposes were combined with the sexton's apartment and the pastorate. This makes it virtually a prototype of modern community centers.

The city's magistrate issued the building permit on June 10, 1892. The foundation stone was laid on July 8 and the rectory was roofed in winter. The church was inaugurated on November 1, 1893. The construction of the tower, however, dragged on until 1896.

With a painting of the interior in which flower patterns, lettering and the symbols of the four evangelists are shown, they broke with Calvin's strict ban on images .

As one of the few Osnabrück churches, it was spared the destruction caused by the air raids on Osnabrück during World War II.

On April 22nd, 2012, the church reopened after almost two years of renovation. The interior painting, whitewashed during a renovation in the 1950s, was exposed again.

organ

The present organ was the workshop in 1980 Alfred leader , Wilhelmshaven built. It has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The organ's slide chests are equipped with mechanical action . The following disposition was created at the time of construction:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Double principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
octave 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1'
Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
Beard pipe 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
octave 4 ′
trombone 16 ′

Bells

The tower houses one of the oldest bell ensembles of the Bochumer Verein, cast in 1893. The tones are g sharp ', f' and d '.

Web links

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

literature

  • Monika Kramer: 100 years of construction of the evangelical-reformed mountain church Osnabrück
  • Heimat-Jahrbuch Osnabrücker Land 1993 , Pfotenhauer, Ankum, ISSN 01712136

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimat-Jahrbuch Osnabrücker Land 1993 , p. 194
  2. ↑ Martina Schwager: Bergkirche in Osnabrück shines in its old splendor after two years of renovation . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from April 13, 2018, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Disposal sheet of the Alfred Führer Orgelbau workshop, Wilhelmshaven, 1980
  4. ↑ The notation of the registers follows the representation on the disposition sheet.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 8.9 ″  E