Christ Church (Oberhausen)

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Ev. Christ Church in Alt-Oberhausen, built by Max Nohl in 1864

The Protestant Christ Church was built in 1864 and is therefore one of the oldest buildings in the Oberhausen district of Alt-Oberhausen . It is also the oldest church building in the Protestant church in Alt-Oberhausen.

history

As early as 1853, nine years before Oberhausen's mayor's office was founded, the first Protestant services were celebrated in the Rubbert residential building on Mülheimer Chaussee. On June 12, 1854, Adolf Feld took up his post as the first Protestant teacher. From November 10, 1857, the first school building was available on today's Nohlstrasse. This building, today's Adolf-Feld-Schule, had a small brick bell tower on the gable. On weekdays the bell rang for class, on Sunday for church service. Since the population in the Lipper Heide grew rapidly as a result of coal mining ( Concordia colliery ), railway construction ( main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) and industrialization , the school building soon became too small as a place of worship and the construction of a church was necessary. August Koenigs, who had been elected first Protestant pastor in (Alt-) Oberhausen by the provisional church council in 1859, was particularly committed to this building. He managed to raise the necessary funds through collecting trips to the Netherlands and through financial support from the Gustav-Adolph-Verein zu Mülheim an der Ruhr , a branch of the Gustav-Adolf-Stiftung . Even before the completion of the church, the Protestant parish of (Alt-) Oberhausen became independent on March 3, 1864. At that time this church comprised around 2000 souls.

architecture

The plans for the construction of the church were drawn up by the Cologne architect and royal master builder Maximilian Nohl , whose work is shaped by the Berlin Building Academy , the Schinkel School and, in particular, by Friedrich August Stüler . The Christ Church in Oberhausen is the only church that was built according to his plans and cost estimates. His first drafts were too bold for the royal government in Düsseldorf and the royal consistory in Koblenz and had to be changed. Shortly after the laying of the foundation stone (May 28, 1863), Nohl died on June 9, 1863. The historicist , eclectic church building was completed on August 4, 1864 under the direction of the architect and Essen district builder August Kind (1824–1904). Erected using neo-Gothic , neo-Romanesque and classicistic elements in the round arch style, the church building was characterized by the use of brick and extensive iron structures.

Furnishing

In 1874 the galleries were built into the nave . In 1924 and 1937 the apse and sacristy were redesigned. As a result of a bomb attack on Easter Monday 1943, the church burned down completely. The church ruins suffered from weather damage in the post-war period. In 1950 and 1951 the church was rebuilt. The points of the neo-Gothic inspired pinnacles on the corners of the building and tower, which are significant for the design and original appearance of the church , were removed or not restored. Inside the church, the restoration of the side galleries was waived. The former wooden pillars were replaced by reinforced concrete columns. The church interior received a reinforced concrete ceiling, which was underlaid with a cassette . The pyramidal helmet made of slate, which was shortened during the reconstruction and rests on the octagonal upper floor of the brick tower of the church, reaches a height of 36.5 meters.

The choir windows in the apse, designed with motifs from the Old and New Testaments, were created by the Dutch glass painter Henk Schilling , the son of the glass painter Henk Schilling the Elder. Ä. (1893-1942). These windows date from 1959, when the Oberhausen architect Heinrich Feuge (* 1929) carried out a further redesign of the church in the spirit of the 1950s. The windows represent the last work of art created by their creator in concretizing imagery and are under the following biblical themes:

  • The expulsion from paradise ( Genesis 3)
  • The dove as a sign of the new covenant (Genesis 8, and Exodus 32)
  • Christ as the Lamb of God in the middle of time ( Isaiah , 53, and 1st letter of Peter , 1)
  • The dove as a sign of the Holy Spirit ( Acts , 2, and Revelation , 8 and 9)
  • Hope and Paradise (Revelation, 12 and 13, and 21 and 22)
Parish hall of the Protestant Christ Church in Nohlstrasse

The church and the associated parish hall at Nohlstrasse 2–4 are registered as objects 25 and 26 in the list of monuments of the city of Oberhausen .

organ

Hey organ prospectus
Hey organ console

The first organ was delivered in 1876 by the Beyenburg company Ibach , it had 21 stops on 2 manuals and a pedal . The original mechanical action was replaced by pneumatic ones when the organ was rebuilt in 1908 by Paul Faust , and the number of stops was increased to 30. The instrument was destroyed when the church burned down on Easter Monday 1943. Immediately after the church was rebuilt, the Aachen company Georg Stahlhuth & Sohn delivered a new organ with 40 stops on 3 manuals and a pedal in 1951. The action of the instrument, which was equipped with a Rückpositiv , among other things , was electro-pneumatic. Today's Hey organ with 32 sounding stops on 3 manuals and pedal was installed in 2001. Their sound pattern is based on organs from the late Bach period, which is why historical tempering was used. The orientation towards a late baroque sound design also brings with it an opening for tone colors that are already somewhat more fundamental, which is expressed in the presence of the string registers salicional and gamba. The Echowerk , which was set up spatially as a breastwork above the console, performs the function of a continuo work to accompany soloists or a choir placed on the gallery in addition to the representation of echo passages in literary play or improvisation .

Disposition

The disposition , the reproduction of which follows the spelling on the gaming table, is:

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Copel 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Wooden flute 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff III 1'
Dulcian 8th'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Cymbelstern
nightingale
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Echowerk C – g 3
Covered 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
flute 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Technical specifications

  • Action:
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: electric
  • Wind supply:
    • Wind pressures: 60 mm water column for the Echowerk, 70 mm water column for the Rückpositiv, 75 mm water column for the main work, 85 mm water column for the pedal
  • Mood :

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A house of worship for the newcomers in Oberhausen . Article from February 12, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on February 13, 2014
  2. ↑ Short Church Guide , p. 2
  3. ↑ Congregation book of the Evangelical Christ Church Congregation Oberhausen (Rhld.) 1964 , p. 12
  4. ↑ A treasure chest for the anniversary . Article from December 13, 2013 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on January 14, 2014
  5. ↑ Ilona Schmitz-Jeromin: Church guide through the Christ Church in Alt-Oberhausen . Oberhausen 2014, p. 5
  6. ^ History of the Christ Church . Website in the portal christuskirche-oberhausen.de , accessed on April 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Peter Bruckhoff: Longed for, built, received . In: Evangelical Christ Church Community Oberhausen / Rhld. (Ed.): 150 Years of the Christ Church 1864–2014. A commemorative publication . Oberhausen 2014, p. 59
  8. ^ Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Volume 18, Walter De Gruyter 1989, ISBN 978-3-11011613-7 , p. 502 f.
  9. ↑ Randolf Jeromin: The years from 1954 . In: Evangelical Christ Church Community Oberhausen / Rhld. (Ed.): 150 Years of the Christ Church 1864–2014. A commemorative publication . Oberhausen 2014, p. 45
  10. ↑ Ilona Schmitz-Jeromin, p. 7
  11. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Oberhausen, as of November 6, 2013 , accessed on January 14, 2014
  12. ↑ see also the disposition of the Hey organ of the Evangelical Christ Church in Oberhausen , accessed on August 6, 2017, differs in individual details from the console lettering.
  13. ↑ Design as French Cromorne
  14. ↑ executed as a breastwork above the play cabinet

literature

  • Norbert Aleweld: The builder Maximilian Nohl 1830–1863. Habelt, Bonn 1980. (= studies on building research , 10th) (also dissertation , Technical University Aachen, 1979), ISBN 978-3774917712 , 576 pp.
  • Norbert Aleweld: The Christ Church in Oberhausen and the Friedenskirche in (Mönchengladbach) -Rheydt: two church buildings by the Iserlohn master builder Maximilian Nohl . Der Märker, Volume 49, Issue 3, 2000, pp. 118-124
  • Congratulations. Stories from 150 years around the Ev. Christ Church , ed. v. Michaela Breihan, Oberhausen 2013, 72 pp.
  • Brigitte Rösner u. a. (Ed.): Desired - built - preserved. The history of the Christ Church on Nohlstrasse in Oberhausen , Oberhausen 2014, 48 p. As well as comment and documentation appendix, 138 p.
  • Association for the promotion of new organs at the Ev. Christ Church e. V. Alt-Oberhausen (Hrsg.): The Hey organ of the Ev. Christ Church Alt-Oberhausen Oberhausen, 2001, 24 pp.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '19.3 "  N , 6 ° 51' 26.2"  E