Christ Church (Sulzbach-Rosenberg)

View from the new town

The Protestant Christ Church in Sulzbach-Rosenberg is located in the Sulzbach district. The two towers of the Christ Church and the Catholic Marienkirche characterize the townscape of Sulzbach next to the castle. It was built by the architect Gustav Gsaenger and is typical of the sacred architecture of so - called post - war modernism .

history

Altar with altar mosaic

The Christ Church was built between 1955 and 1958 after the joint use of the Marienkirche ( Simultaneum ), which had existed since 1652, was dissolved.

From 1964 to 1997 the musicologist Jürgen-Peter Schindler worked as cantor and church music director at the Christ Church.

description

As a hall structure, the church has around 800 seats, including a gallery on continuous supports on the right-hand side. There is a large community hall in the basement. Externally, the church quotes the surroundings of the new town with medieval echoes.

Opposite the continuous benches in the church, which emphasize the horizontal with the gallery, the slender reinforced concrete pillars convey a strong vertical tendency.

The altar wall is dominated by a marble mosaic that extends from floor to ceiling and was designed by Angela Gsaenger, the architect's daughter. It represents the heavenly Jerusalem according to the revelation of John .

organ

The organ of the Christ Church was built in the years 1958-1960 by the organ building company Friedrich Weigle (Stuttgart-Echterdingen) with 33 stops on three manuals and pedal . In 1989, the organ building company Schmid ( Kaufbeuren ) installed the instrument in a new case and added 10 stops. In 2003 the instrument was re- intoned and expanded to include a further register, a cymbal star and a glockenspiel. Today the organ has 45 registers on three manuals and a pedal. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Breast swelling C – g 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Reed flute 8th' 3. Gamba 8th' 4th Principal 4 ′ 5. Night horn 4 ′ 6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th recorder 2 ′ 8th. third 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Mixture IV-V 2 ′ 10. Trumpet 8th' 11. oboe 8th' 12. Chip. shelf 8th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 13. Pommer 16 ′ 14th Principal 8th' 15th Hollow flute 8th' 16. octave 4 ′ 17th Small set 4 ′ 18th Cornett II-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 19th octave 2 ′ 20th Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 21st Trumpet 16 ′ 22nd Trumpet 8th'

III Oberwerk C – g 3 23. Singing dumped 8th' 24. Prefix 4 ′ 25th Hollow flute 4 ′ 26th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 27. octave 2 ′ 28. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 29 Sif flute 1' 30th Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′ 31. Chip. Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 32. Principal 16 ′ 33. Violon 16 ′ 34. Sub-bass 16 ′ 35. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 36. octave 8th' 37. Capstan flute 8th' 38. third 6 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 39. octave 4 ′ 40. Pipe whistle 2 ′ 41. Rauschbass V 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 42. Choral bass III 4 ′ 43. trombone 16 ′ 44. Trumpet 8th' 45. Clarine 4 ′

• Coupling: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Secondary register : Zimbelstern, wind harp, glockenspiel
• Playing aids : 128-fold setting system

literature

• Heribert Batzl: Sulzbach-Rosenberg - art and art places . Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1968, 48 pages
• Roland Kurz (among others): To the glory of God - 50 years of the Christ Church Sulzbach-Rosenberg . Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9807612-7-7

Web links

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

• Homepage of the community
• Description of the church in the Wiki of the Christ Church Congregation, accessed on January 4, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information and development of the disposition for the organ of the Christ Church

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 24 ″  E