Christ Church (Schweinfurt)

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The Christ Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the northern part of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia. The church is located on Bundesstraße 286 , which is called Maibacher Straße here.

history

The first plans for the construction of a new church date back to 1939. The Christ Church goes back to an emergency church that was built immediately after the Second World War in the Gartenstadt district on Benno-Merkle-Strasse. Here, a former Wehrmacht barracks had been converted into a place of worship, and the architects Rudolf Metzger, Schweinfurt, and Kurt Frank, Nuremberg , equipped it with a chancel, an entrance area and a roof turret. The church existed for 20 years.

In 1963 an architectural competition was announced. The architect Günter Memmert from the Palatinate town of Speyer emerged as the winner. Construction management was handed over to Heinz Gassmann from Schweinfurt. The cornerstone ceremony for the new church took place on June 13, 1964, and the topping-out ceremony was held on December 11, 1964. On November 21, 1965, Oberkirchenrat Koch inaugurated the new church. The Protestant parishes in Dittelbrunn and Hambach are also assigned to the church.

architecture

The architecture of the Christ Church is characterized by simple, cubic forms. The church itself is designed like a halved cube and forms a unit with the adjacent campanile on a square floor plan and the rectory. The church presents itself defiantly because it was made of roughly hewn shell limestone on the outside . Only the high ribbon of windows with triangular structure loosens up the exterior.

Inside, the important elements of the Schweinfurt post-war churches can also be found in the Christ Church: The interior was designed as a unit without a choir or aisles. The center is merely a pedestal on which the acts of worship are performed. The light band, which runs just below the flat ceiling of the church, also illuminates the interior evenly on all sides. Inside, the simple sand-lime brick material on the walls refers to the industrial city of Schweinfurt.

Furnishing

The center of the liturgical furnishings are the altar, pulpit and baptismal font . All three were made by the Niklashauser Hofmann company from Franconian shell limestone. The goldsmith Margarete Korn-Diergarten made the seven-armed candlestick on the altar pedestal in 1967. Instead of an altar sheet, a broken cross set into the wall was placed behind the altar. It was created by the painter Curd Lessig from Würzburg .

The organ on the opposite gallery forms the counterpart to the cross. The prospectus of the instrument was worked in five parts, while the work with its 20 registers was created in 1969 by the company Otto Hofmann and Sons from Ostheim before the Rhön . The bells in the campanile ring the so-called Gloria motif. They go back to donations from the private citizen Bertold Gundrum and the Horten concern and were cast by the Rincker brothers from Sinn.

literature

  • Erich Schneider: Evangelical churches in Schweinfurt . In: Great Art Guides . tape 201 . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-7954-1143-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Schneider: Evangelical churches in Schweinfurt . In: Great Art Guides . tape 201 . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1997, p. 42 .
  2. ↑ a b Erich Schneider: Evangelical churches in Schweinfurt . In: Great Art Guides . tape 201 . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1997, p. 41 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 23.8 ″  E