Christ Church (Dudweiler)
The Christ Church is a church of the Protestant parish Dudweiler / Herrensohr in Dudweiler, a district of the Saarland state capital Saarbruecken . The parish is assigned to the Saar-Ost parish of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
A Lutheran congregation had existed in Dudweiler since about 1575 , but it almost completely ceased to exist during the Thirty Years' War . As a result, regular occupation of the Dudweiler pastorate was only possible again at the beginning of the 18th century. In the second half of the 19th century, there was a population growth in the course of industrialization , which was also accompanied by a rapid growth of the Protestant community in Dudweiler. The Protestant church at that time, a building erected in 1738, which was attached to an older bell tower still preserved today , the so-called "Old Tower", could no longer offer enough space to the steadily growing industrial community.
For this reason, the plan to consider a new building had already been discussed in the presbytery in 1873 . The first draft, a neo-Romanesque central building , did not receive any state supervisory approval in anticipation of excessively high construction costs and alleged problems with the acoustics and was put on file. Several alternative designs followed by 1879, all of which were rejected by the community. Finally, in was the Berlin Ministry of Public Works -built plan into action. In addition, at the same time, a gift of grace that had previously been promised to the congregation was granted. Architect Carl Schäfer (Berlin), employed in the Department of Church Construction at the Ministry of Public Works since the beginning of 1878, was responsible for the construction plan. At the time the foundation stone was laid on April 18, 1881, the Protestant community in Dudweiler comprised around 5,000 members, so the construction of the new church was urgently required. The local construction management was the responsibility of the Neufang (Saarbrücken) building councilor. On November 1, 1882, the completed sacred building was inaugurated. The old church, except for the tower, was demolished in 1908 and until then served as a syringe house .
On July 31, 1944, the church was severely damaged by a downed American fighter plane.
After the war damage had been repaired, the church was able to reopen on November 1, 1947, although the rich interior was not restored.
In the years 1964 to 1965, the church was subjected to restoration and conversion work according to plans by the architect Rudolf Krüger (Saarbrücken) , during which the galleries in the two transepts were removed. In 1984 a new restoration took place under the architect, building officer Heinrich Otto Vogel ( Trier ), which was followed in 1998 by a restoration of the tower.
In May 2009, the church had to be closed because of serious damage to several points of support of the supporting beams of the roof structure. The necessary renovation work, which u. a. also the partial renovation of the stairs inside the tower, which has already taken place, can only be carried out in several construction phases due to the high costs. In November 2014 the church was put back into service. The renovation work has not yet been completed and is ongoing.
Architecture and equipment
The Christ Church was built from different colored sandstone in the neo-Gothic style. A Greek cross served as the floor plan . The polygonal cross arms of the choir and the two cross arms have five sides. The four-story bell tower with a pointed helmet stands in the longitudinal axis of the building and forms the end of the western transverse arm. In the corners of the cross arms there are further polygonal structures, in which the sacristy and a baptistery are housed on the east side , while they accommodate staircases on the tower side .
In the 1960s, the interior of the church was permanently changed. In addition to the removal of the galleries in the southern and northern arms of the cross, the altar moved from the choir to the crossing , and the church pews were rearranged around the central altar area. In its original state, the interior was designed in accordance with the recommendations of the Eisenacher Regulativs . So was z. B. the organ , not like today in the choir, but opposite the altar on the gallery above the main entrance portal .
The church's furnishings include the altar and baptismal font created in 1964 by the sculptor Albert Schilling ( Arlesheim / Switzerland ) . The windows with motifs from the Old and New Testaments were designed in the years 1980–1981 by painter and graphic artist Werner Persy (Trier).
The church is in possession of a peal of four bells of the Bochum Association , which were cast in 1924 and 1963.
Until 1938 a figure of Christ was placed in a wall niche between the staircases to the church building, which was a scaled-down copy of the Christ sculpture created by Bertel Thorvaldsen for the Frauenkirche in Copenhagen in 1822 . It was removed with parts of the stairs for traffic reasons.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1984 by the Gustav Cartellieri Orgelbau company. The slider chests -instrument has eight registers , spread over two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:
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literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
- Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change: Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss . Düsseldorf 2002.
- Claudia Maas: The work of the architect Heinrich Otto Vogel - new building and monument preservation under the aspect of "historical memory". Dissertation Saarbrücken 1993.
- Gottfried Schabert: Since when has the Protestant church in Dudweiler been called "Christ Church"? Historical posts. Dudweiler history workshop. Volume 8, Dudweiler 2004, pp. 127-129.
- Carl August Hertel: 50 years of Dudweiler new church 1882–1932. Dudweiler 1932
- Rudolf Saam: Chronicle of the Christ Church Dudweiler. Saarbrücken 1977.
- Rudolf Saam: For the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the Christ Church (Dudweiler). Bonn 1982.
Web links
- Literature on Christ Church (Dudweiler) in the Saarland bibliography
- Evangelical parish Dudweiler / Herrensohr
- Christ Church in Dudweiler # 1 (video with sound)
- Christ Church Dudweiler, when the bells call (video with sound)
- Bells ringing Christ Church Dudweiler to Mettenschicht 1 (video with sound)
- Bells ringing Christ Church Dudweiler to Mettenschicht 2 (video with sound)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ parishes on: www.evangelisch-im-saarland.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the state capital of Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e Directory of the new Protestant church buildings in the Rhineland 1860–1914 (1927) (PDF) On: duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de. Retrieved June 12, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Information on the Christ Church Dudweiler at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ a b c Christ Church on: www.kirchengemeinde-dudweiler.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ Lena Sauer: Christ Church will reopen from November 9th. On: www.dudweiler-blog.de, November 5, 2014. Accessed June 12, 2015
- ↑ Christ Church, Saarbrücken-Dudweiler On: www.kirchenbau-dokumentation.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
- ↑ The organ of the Christ Church in Dudweiler on: www.organindex.de. Retrieved June 12, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 40.7 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ E