Christ Church (Salzburg)
The Protestant parish church AB, Christ Church in the city of Salzburg is located in the right old town . The historicist building from the 19th century, which has remained largely unchanged to this day, is a listed building and is one of the as UNESCO World Heritage excellent historical city center of Salzburg . The parish of the Christ Church was the first Protestant parish to be founded in the province of Salzburg after the return of the evangelical believers who had been expelled in the 18th century.
The Christ Church was the main church of the Evangelical Superintendent of Salzburg and Tyrol until 2005 . Since they moved to Innsbruck in 2005, it has been the second main church in the diocese.
history
After the well over 20,000 Protestant believers were expelled from Salzburg in the 17th and 18th centuries and accepted into Prussia and other countries ( Salzburg exiles ), a Protestant congregation with around 400 members was founded again after the situation changed around 1850. It was the first Protestant community in the city and state of Salzburg and consisted primarily of immigrant merchants from the kingdoms of Württemberg and Bavaria at the time, as well as members of the military. In Austria, the Protestant patent of Emperor Franz Joseph I only brought about equality between Protestant and Catholic parishes from 1861 onwards , so that the construction of Protestant church buildings with towers and windows was also possible. The Salzburg community therefore considered building such a church.
The construction of the Christ Church came about through the provision of financial means by leading personalities from several parts of Germany, including King Wilhelm I of Prussia and King Georg V of Hanover . The Weimar history painter Friedrich Martersteig contributed - encouraged by the first pastor of the Salzburg community, Heinrich Aumüller , who came from Coburg - to help build the church with the proceeds from an art lottery organized for this purpose. The foundation stone was laid in 1863 and the Christ Church was consecrated on September 8, 1867. Danish prisoners of war were also involved in the construction of the church.
Soon after the inauguration, a school was attached to the church, which existed until 1938. The Salzburg poet Georg Trakl was baptized in this church on February 8, 1887 . In 1988 Pope John Paul II celebrated an ecumenical service in the Christ Church with the then Bishop of the Austrian Evangelical Church A. B. during his visit to Austria .
Today's Evangelical Parish A. u. H. B. Salzburg Christ Church with more than 4400 parishioners is still the largest evangelical parish in western Austria after the separation of several independent parishes in the 1990s.
Building description and equipment
Essentially, the building and furnishings have been preserved in their original form, the original interior painting has been lost. Overall, the building concept follows the specifications of the Eisenach regulation , with which church construction in Germany was to be standardized, in an exemplary manner . The free-standing historic brick building, framed by artificial stone and conglomerate from Untersberg , combines neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque elements. It was built according to the plans of the architect Jacob Götz . The main portal side with its richly structured facade tower in the middle faces the Elisabethkai and thus open to the Salzach . A balcony runs above the tower clock floor, and above it an octagonal bell floor with an octagonal pointed tent roof.
The simple nave has an open roof structure with a hammer-beam ceiling in the English Gothic style . It has a surrounding wooden gallery and a pulpit from the construction period on three sides. The retracted gothic groin vaulted chancel lies between two sacristies and has a detached polygonal apse.
The apse windows destroyed in the Second World War were recreated by Albert Birkle and replaced in 1950. The middle one shows Christ as Good Shepherd , the left Peter before the heavenly Jerusalem and the right John the Evangelist . Two, laterally offset, small window areas are reminiscent of the eviction of the Salzburg Evangelicals.
On two canvas paintings by Friedrich Martersteig (1868) the oath of loyalty of the Salzburg exiles from 1731 and the departure of the Protestants from Salzburg are shown. There is also another picture of Martersteig in memory of the inauguration of the church, on which he is also depicted.
The Protestant parsonage adjoining the church and a former school building in Schwarzstrasse with a romanized facade were also built from 1868 to 1869 according to plans by Jacob Götz. The rectory is also a listed building.
organ
Contrary to the Salzburg custom in the second half of the 19th century, an "outside" organ builder was won over to build the then new organ : Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer from Oettingen in Bavaria . In 1868 he built an organ with 15 registers as Opus 66 , which in Salzburg was the first instrument to have a cone chest. Theodor Mann played the organ on August 21, 1884 and said in his travelogue, which was published the following year, that the organ was one of the best he had seen. He passed on the disposition , praised the beautiful intonation, then the soft and noiseless playing style and the dense bellows .
Disposition 1868
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At the end of the 1970s, the church management decided to have the organ rebuilt by Herbert Gollini . He removed the gaming table in favor of a gaming cabinet, built in slider drawers and changed the layout .
Bells
The slender church tower houses 4 bells from the Oberascher bell foundry in Salzburg. They sound in the tones: f´, a´, c´´, d´´. Except for the "Glaube" bell (bell 2), which was cast in 1865, all the other bells are from 1964.
Picture gallery
View from Schwarzstrasse
Relief above the main entrance
Wooden ceiling
Rectory
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b New beginning in the 19th century. Evangelical Parish AB and HB Salzburg Christ Church, December 1, 2013, accessed on April 11, 2015 .
- ^ History of the Christ Church in Salzburg , website at christuskirche.at, accessed on March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Explanation of the memorial picture of the church inauguration in the Christ Church.
- ↑ Inscription on the back of the altar cross.
- ↑ christuskirche.at , accessed on February 21, 2014.
- ↑ Plaque on the outside wall of the church.
- ↑ christuskirche.at , accessed on February 21, 2014.
- ↑ This date is given in Dehio Salzburg 1986 , Salzburg Neustadt, Evang. Christ Church, page 632. On archiv.evangelisch.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the year 1952 is given as the date of completion.
- ^ Dehio Salzburg 1986, Salzburg Neustadt, Evang. Christ Church, page 632.
- ^ Theodor Mann: From my travel folder. (Continued) . In: Urania . Music magazine for organ building and organ playing in particular, as well as for musical theory, church, instructive singing and piano music, ed. by Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg , Vol. 42, No. 4 (Erfurt 1885), pp. 51-53. Quoted from: Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982, p. 164.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 15.2 " N , 13 ° 2 ′ 23.5" E