Christ Church (Karlsruhe)

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Christ Church Karlsruhe with the body dragon monument in front of it

The Christ Church is a Protestant church in Karlsruhe . It was built from 1896 to 1900 by the architects Robert Curjel and Karl Moser (Karlsruhe and Zurich ) at the Mühlburger Tor , the beginning of the western city .

history

Christ Church with old spire (around 1980)
Rosette of the front entrance

The first plans for the building of the church go back to the years 1888 to 1892. After an architectural competition, Curjel and Moser were commissioned to carry out the project, for which they initially revised their competition design. The church was consecrated on October 14, 1900.

During the Second World War, in June 1942, the church bells had to be given to the church in order to be melted down for armament purposes - like most of all bronze bells in Germany.

The Christ Church itself was badly damaged by air raids in World War II , first on the night of bombing from September 2nd to 3rd, 1942 during the major attack on Karlsruhe and a second time from December 4th to 5th, 1944. This included major damage Windows and vaults to damage the rose window of the front entrance. The rebuilding of the church began immediately after the end of the war. In the years 1985 to 1988 the original tower helmet was also reconstructed.

A Cross of Nails from Coventry has been in the church since 2011 .

local community

The congregation at the Christ Church has almost 6,000 members (as of January 2016). It covers an area of ​​heterogeneous social structures and milieus. These include densely built-up inner-city streets in the south with many students and a high proportion of people with a migration background, a new development area in the former American settlement in the north with predominantly young families and middle-class, academic quarters.

The cultivation of church music has a tradition at the Christ Church. There is an oratorio choir , a chamber choir and a group of winds who help shape the service and give concerts on a regular basis. Young musical talent is carried out in cooperation with the Ev. City church in the Cantus Juvenum singing school.

organ

Choir with altar wall by Fridolin Dietsche , behind it the raised Klais organ

The concert organ of the Christ Church was built in 1966 by the organ building company Johannes Klais (Bonn). The instrument had 57  registers (about 5000 pipes) on four manuals and a pedal . The game actions were mechanical, the stop actions electric.

In the years 2008–2010, practically all registers that were high-quality voiced at the time were integrated into a new organ with unchanged sound. The disposition was expanded to include registers from the father and grandfather generation Klais, so that late baroque, romantic and contemporary organ literature can also be performed. The organ today has 81 stops, 3 transmissions and one extended stop.

I main work C – a 3
Hauptwerk A
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gemshorn 8th'
5. Beat 8th'
6th Octav 4 ′
7th Coupling flute 4 ′
8th. Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Octav 2 ′
10. Mixture V-VI
11. Cymbel IV
12. Cornet III-V 8th'
13. Trumpet 16 ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
Major work B
15th Drone 16 ′
16. Horn principal 8th'
17th Solo gamba 8th'
18th Slack harmonique 8th'
19th Covered 8th'
20th Wide octave 4 ′
21st Cornet Mix III
22nd tuba 8th'
II Positive C – a 3
23. Principal 8th'
24. Reed flute 8th'
25th Salicional 8th'
26th Quintad 8th'
27. Octav 4 ′
28. Wooden truss 4 ′
29 Dulciana 4 ′
30th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
31. Octav 2 ′
32. Forest flute 2 ′
33. Sif flute 1'
34. Scharff IV-VI
35. Wooden dulcian 16 ′
36. Krummhorn 8th'
III Swell C – a 3
37. Pommer 16 ′
38. Wooden principal 8th'
39. viola 8th'
40. Pipe border 8th'
41. Principal 4 ′
42. Night horn 4 ′
43. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
44. Flute 2 ′
45. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
46. Mixture V
47. Basson 16 ′
48. Hautbois 8th'
49. Trumpet harm. 8th'
50. Clairon 4 ′
IV. Manual C-a 3
Kronwerk
51. Wooden dacked 8th'
52. Reed flute 4 ′
53. Principal 2 ′
54. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
55. Overtone III
56. musette 8th'
Echowerk
57. Salicet 16 ′
58. Violin principal 8th'
59. Lovely covered 8th'
60. Aeoline 8th'
61. Vox coelestis 8th'
62. violin 4 ′
63. Distance flute 4 ′
64. Vox humana 8th'
65. Rohrschalmey 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
66. Pedestal 32 ′
67. Theorbo (No. 57) 32 ′
68. Principal 16 ′
69. Violon bass 16 ′
70. Sub bass 16 ′
71. Drone (No. 15) 16 ′
72. Salicetbass (No. 57) 16 ′
73. Quint 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
74. Octav 8th'
75. Covered 8th'
76. cello 8th'
77. Choral bass 4 ′
78. Peasant flute 2 ′
79. Bass cornet III
80. Basszink III
81. Backset V
82. trombone 16 ′
83. Sarrusophon (No. 65) 16 ′
84. Trumpet 8th'
85. Trumpet 4 ′
  • Mechanical coupling : II / I, IV K / I, IV K / II, IA / P, II / P, IV K / P
  • Electrical coupling:
    • Normal coupling: III / I, III / II, IV E / I, IV E / II, IV E / III, IB / P, III / P, IV E / P
    • Super octave coupling: IB / I, III / I, III / II, III / III, IV E / I, IV E / II, IV E / III, IV E / IV, IB / P, III / P, IV E / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: IB / I, III / I, III / II, III / III, IV E / I, IV E / II, IV E / III, IV E / IV
    • Hypercouple: IB / P
  • Secondary register: Glockenspiel, Zimbelstern (Chimes)
  • Playing aids : Fixed combinations (p, f, tutti), free combination, split combinations, piano pedal, register cuff, wind throttle,

9999-fold setting system , crescendo roller .

Bells

Peace bell (f °)
  1. Peace bell (midday bed bell , Gloriosa), f 0 , 9160 kg, 2410 mm diameter
  2. Christ bell (Schiedglocke, Dominica), c 1 , 1730 kg
  3. Cross bell (drawing bell ), d 1 , 1520 kg
  4. Trinity bell (prayer bell), f 1 , 893 kg
  5. Holy Spirit bell (wedding bell, blessing bell), g 1 , 583 kg
  6. Luther bell (baptismal bell), a 1 , 450 kg

Peace bell

On September 24, 2004, on the occasion of the Bell Days in Karlsruhe, the large peace bell was cast in the Bachert bell foundry. Emil Wachter took on the artistic design of the bell . The Karlsruhe Peace Bell is the largest church bell in Baden-Württemberg.

1000 people contributed to the cost of the bell and are engraved as donors. Every day at 12 o'clock she reminds us to pray for peace for around five minutes. The following day, a smaller peace bell weighing 320 kg and tone c 2 was cast on the market square in Karlsruhe for the Strasbourg cathedral .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various . In: Heinz Schmitt (ed.): Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7617-0264-7 , pp. 686 (publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives).
  2. ↑ The Klais organ of the Christ Church in Karlsruhe. Website for the organ under the responsibility of the Cantor Council of the Christ Church. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ 100 years of bell casting in Karlsruhe - casting of the peace bell for the Christ Church. European Bell Days website. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ Casting of the first European peace bell - Public casting of the bell on the market square at night. European Bell Days website. Retrieved February 1, 2011.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  E