Dankeskirche (Bad Nauheim)
The Dankeskirche is the central Protestant church in Bad Nauheim .
history
In the second half of the 19th century, the baroque Wilhelmskirche in the former village of Nauheim, which was used at that time, had become too small for the up-and-coming spa Bad Nauheim . As a replacement, a new church was planned from 1893, the construction of which was supported by a church building association from 1897. After a long discussion about the location, the church should no longer be built in the old town center, but in the spa gardens . It took the location of the first Bad Nauheim bathhouse. The name refers to the thanks of the Bad Nauheimers for the healing springs . The inauguration took place on June 21, 1906 in the presence of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhine and the entire government of the Grand Duchy.
building
A neo-Gothic hall church was built in 1903–1906 based on a design by Ludwig Hofmann made of dark lung stone from basalt quarries in Londorf .
The floor plan on a Latin cross is closed to the east by a choir with a five- eighth end. Two smaller choral side towers and especially the northern transept upstream, with a pointed spire crowned 70-meter-high main tower (model could the towers of the Church of St. Elizabeth in Marburg have been), determine the external image. The base of the tower is also the roofing of a drive for carriages.
The interior of the nave is characterized by a vault , which is structured by ribs, and galleries on three sides . The architectural sculptures , altar and pulpit - all committed to historicism - come from Ludwig Gievers , the font in the choir from Constantin Starck . The original stained glass windows are preserved:
- South transept: Jesus at the Bethesda pond , so-called “bubble window”, by Adolf Schell and Otto Vittali
- Choir window: scenes of the birth , crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus from the workshop of Staiger and Weitlich in Cologne-Nippes
- Above the organ gallery: David plays the harp in front of Saul and the angels singing "Glory to God in the highest " above the shepherd's field in Bethlehem , by Hans Müller-Hickler
- West rosette : Face of the dying Christ after a drawing by Johannes Starck
A modern, abstract work of art by Tobias Kammerer consisting of three panels was installed under the three choir windows , which takes up the themes of the choir windows and is intended to reinforce them.
Under the south gallery is a baptismal font from the 12th century, the church here from the predecessor of the community, the church Wilhelm translocated was.
The four bells come from the Rincker bell and art foundry in Sinn . They were cast in 1955 in the tones b 0 , c 1 , d 1 and f 1 and together weigh 10,108 kg.
organ
The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1906 by the organ building workshop Eberhard Friedrich Walcker . The instrument was rebuilt between 1964 and 1965, based on the model of a Callinet organ in Masevaux . Today the instrument has 52 stops on 3 manuals , a cornet work and a pedal . The registers of the swellable cornet work can be individually switched to each manual work and to the pedals. The choir positive can also be played from the 3rd manual . On October 15, 2011, the reconstruction of the historic Fernwerk was celebrated with an organ concert.
Due to the poor condition of the instrument, numerous registers are currently (as of 2018) unplayable. A new organ is therefore planned, the total cost of which is estimated at more than one million euros.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Super octave coupling: II / I, III / III, III / I, I / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / III, III / I
- Playing aids : four free, four fixed combinations, 8120-fold typesetting system , on / off choir organ, swell mechanism
literature
- Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf (arrangement): Dehio manual of German art monuments, Hesse II, administrative district Darmstadt. 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, p. 43.
- Klaus Fedler: 100 years of the Church of Thanks. A laborious way to become the "Dom of the Wetterau". In: Festschrift 100 years of the Dankeskirche in Bad Nauheim 1906–2006. Bad Nauheim 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, p. 46; Fedler, p. 14.
- ↑ Barbara Wilhelmi: Information on the pictures in the choir room and on the artist Tobias Kammerer . Reproduced information sheet. Bad Nauheim, no year
- ↑ Frank Scheffler: The organ . In: Festschrift 100 years of the Dankeskirche in Bad Nauheim 1906–2006. Bad Nauheim 2006.
- ↑ More information on today's disposition ( memento of the original from December 9, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mysterious sounds from the church dome in: FAZ from October 15, 2011, p. 57
- ↑ Wolfram Ahlers: In the middle of the song the sound stops . In: FAZ . February 3, 2018 ( online ).
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 53.3 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 29.6" E