Christ Church (Schwarzenacker)

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The Christ Church is a Protestant church in Schwarzenacker , a district of Homburg , the district town of the Saarland Saarpfalz district . The church is the parish church of the Protestant parish Schwarzenbach in the deanery Homburg the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . The church is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments .

The Christ Church in Schwarzenacker
View from the north of the church building
View inside the church
View from the chancel to the organ gallery

history

The planning in the late 1950s was the responsibility of the building department of the regional church council in Speyer . The architects were senior building officer Otto Stahl, building officer Richard Hummel and civil engineer Roth. The architects' office Wohlfahrt in Homburg was responsible for the local construction management.

The foundation stone was laid in June 1958, the inauguration on November 27, 1960. The financing of the construction project was largely secured by donations from the parish.

In 2000/2001 the church was restored.

Architecture and equipment

The nave and the tower are made of red-brown sandstone . The church building is slightly rounded at the front and is intended to symbolize the security of Noah's Ark or a tent in its entirety . In the upper area of ​​the side walls there are lead-glazed concrete tracery windows, which are designed in the shape of a stylized dove and are reminiscent of the baptism . These tracery windows are also in the tower. They were designed in 1958-60 by the sculptor Günter Maas (Saarbrücken), who also created the concrete relief "Last Supper" above the entrance portal .

In the chancel , in the wall of the church front and in the northern side wall in the area of ​​the baptismal font there are smaller round windows that were created by the sculptor Margot Lebert ( Landau ) in 1958–60 . The altar , pulpit and baptismal font also come from her .

The ceiling of the nave is formed by a barrel vault , which is clad with dark wood.

organ

The organ in the organ gallery was built in 1989 by the organ builder Rensch ( Lauffen am Neckar ). It replaces a small positive organ with four registers that was built in 1920 by GF Steinmeyer ( Oettingen ). The slider chest instrument has 19 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The playing and register actions are mechanical. The console has three manuals, with the third manual serving as a coupling manual. The pedal is designed as a radial pedal. The acquisition of the Rensch organ was made possible by donations and an organ fund.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Reed flute 4 ′
4th Octave 2 ′
5. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Scharff III 1'
7th Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
8th. Principal 8th'
9. Pointed flute 8th'
10. Open flute 4 ′
11. recorder 2 ′
12. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
15th Pedestal 16 ′
16. Octave bass 8th'
17th Chorale bass 4 ′
18th Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th bassoon 16 ′

literature

  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 3-925036-15-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church district: Prot. Deanery Zweibrücken On: www.evkirchepfalz.de, accessed on July 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on July 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Christ Church. On: kih.deevine.de ( Church in Homburg ). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on December 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Christine Maack: This is how a church should sound . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , November 13, 2004. Accessed July 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b c Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Information on the Christ Church Schwarzenacker. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Organ of the Christ Church (prot.) ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Information page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on July 29, 2012.

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 3.8 ″  E