Christ Church (Bad Pyrmont)
The Christ Church is the Evangelical Lutheran town church of Bad Pyrmont in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony . It was built from 1872 to 1877 according to plans by August Orth in the neo-Gothic style. It was named Christ Church in 1949.
history
The current core town of Bad Pyrmont emerged from the villages of Oesdorf and Holzhausen and the spa area in between with the Pyrmont Castle . The historic village church of Oesdorf is St. Petri . In 1953 Holzhausen got its own St. Johannes church . The need for a central church in the spa area arose from the leaps and bounds of civic bathing in the 19th century.
A plot of land in an elevated position not far from the foyer was acquired for the new church and made accessible from the spa center with a flight of stairs . The building was designed by the renowned Berlin architect August Orth from the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont .
In 1953, the historic interior painting was replaced by a simple light paint.
In addition to church services, concerts and lectures take place in the Christ Church.
From 1967 to 1998 the writer and poet Detlev Block was pastor at the Christ Church.
Building design
The church is designed as a four-bay wall pillar church with a ribbed vault . The wall pillars are divided below the window arches into a dazzling column and a column , so that the impression of a very narrow aisle is created. Around the polygonal apse there is a low ambulatory that serves as a sacristy . The bell tower with a stone helmet rises above the portal in the south .
Furnishing
Facility
The pulpit, the galleries, the candlestick crown and the benches have been preserved from the original furnishings. The altarpiece is a modern crucifixion group . Above the passage from the vestibule to the nave hangs the half-relief praying angel , which the Berlin sculptor Friedrich Drake (1805–1882) from Bad Pyrmont donated to the church.
organ
The organ made by Alfred Führer with 27 registers on two manuals and a pedal was installed in 1972 and re-voiced by Hillebrand in 2003 .
Peal
The three-part bell was cast in 1979 by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| No. | Casting year | Caster | Diameter (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Chime | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1979 | Rincker, Sinn | 1296 | 1290 | it' | LORD, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS TO MAKE AND KEEP PEACE. |
| 2 | 1979 | Rincker, Sinn | 1153 | 907 | f ' | LORD, KEEP OUR CITY AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE IT . BLESS LANDSCAPE, CURE AND BATH. |
| 3 | 1979 | Rincker, Sinn | 1025 | 637 | G' | CALL US, LORD, AT THIS PLACE, COLLECT THE CHURCH FOR YOUR WORD NOW AND ALWAYS . |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 14.9 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 19.4" E