Christ Church (Wernigerode)

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Christ Church

The Christ Church is the Protestant church in the Hasserode district of Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt .

Architecture and history

The church in Lutherstrasse, not far from its confluence with Friedrichstrasse , was built in 1908/1909 in neo-Romanesque style. The stone-built church was designed by the architect Meyer .

The furnishings and the ornamental painting date from the construction period.
The altarpiece and cross in oak with the artistically carved body of Christ in linden wood were created by the company Gustav Kuntzsch , Institute for Church Art, Wernigerode.
The oldest piece of equipment is a crucifixion tablet created by Adam Offinger in 1598 for Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig . Originally it belonged as an altarpiece to the chapel of Gröningen Castle . The organ of the Christ Church is the work of the organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann ( Zörbig ). It was built in 1909/1910 (2 manuals , pedal , 24 registers ) and rebuilt in 1974 by organ builder Erwin Lägel ( Orgelbau Schuster , Zittau ).

I main work C – f 3
1. Pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Reed flute 08th'
4th octave 04 ′
5. Dumped 04 ′
6th Fifth 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 02 ′
8th. Mixture IV 02 ′
9. Trumpet 08th'
II breastwork C – f 3
10. Dumped 08th'
11. Principal 04 ′
12. Reed flute 04 ′
13. Nasard 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Forest flute 02 ′
15th third 00 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
16. Sif flute 01'
17th Zimbel II 02 ⁄ 3 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Octave bass 08th'
20th Bass flute 08th'
21st Pommer 04 ′
22nd octave 02 ′
23. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I (also as super octave coupling), I / P, II / P.
  • Playing aids: Fixed combinations (pp, mf, f, ff)

Below the organ gallery there are two other former altarpieces, which depict the offering of Jesus in the temple and Gethsemane and date from 1702.

The nearby former Konkordienkirche is used as a Christian kindergarten.

literature

  • Helga Neumann: The churches in Wernigerode. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 1994, ISBN 3-928977-22-9 , p. 27 f.
  • Ute Bednarz in: Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt I: Administrative region Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 999.
  • The Evangelical Christ Church Wernigerode-Hasserode, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the Christ Church. Ev. Christ Church Wernigerode-Hasserode (Ed.), Harzdruckerei GmbH, Wernigerode 2009.

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Peter A. Merkel: The building of the Christ Church. In: The Evangelical Christ Church Wernigerode-Hasserode. Wernigerode 2009, p. 24.
  2. ↑ Opus Directory ( Opus 319 ) of Orgelbauanstalt of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig , accessed on July 18, 2018th
  3. ↑ The organ of the Christ Church in Hasserode , accessed on July 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Since 2012, the Evangelical Christ Congregation Wernigerode-Hasserode has been united with the Church Community Schierke to form the Evangelical Christ Congregation Wernigerode-Schierke (document on the union of the Evangelical Church Congregations Christ Congregation Wernigerode-Hasserode and Schierke to the Evangelical Church Congregation Christ Community Wernigerode-Schierke, Evangelical Church Congregation Wernigerode-Schierke . January 2012 [Official Gazette of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany No. 2/2012 of February 15, 2012, p. 87 f.]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 31.5 ″  E