Dr. Martin Luther Church (Creidlitz)

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Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz

The Evangelical Lutheran Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz in Upper Franconia , a district of Coburg , dates from 1956 and is a listed building .

history

From the 11th to the 16th century, Creidlitz was part of the parish of the Coburg Fortress . In the course of the Reformation , the settlement was ecclesiastically assigned to the new parish in Seidmannsdorf . In 1840 the parish was changed to the Niederfüllbacher parish .

At the beginning of the 20th century the place wanted to become an independent parish. The increased population after the Second World War finally led to the establishment of a church building committee in the early 1950s. In 1954 the church council and the community decided to build a branch church in Creidlitz. The plans came from the Coburg architect Reinhard Claaßen , the construction costs were estimated at 171,000 DM . The foundation stone was laid on September 4, 1955, the topping-out ceremony followed on November 14, 1955 and the inauguration on August 26, 1956. The name refers to Luther's six-month stay at the Veste Coburg during the Augsburg Diet in 1530, when Creidlitz belonged to the parish of the Veste.

In 1959 the tower clock was put into operation and in 1970 an organ was installed. After the construction of a rectory in 1962, Creidlitz became an independent Protestant parish on November 1, 1964. The first pastor was Hans Kohler. After a 15-month vacancy, he was followed by Wilfried Beyhl, who later became Regional Bishop, from April 1, 1976 to December 31, 1985 .

description

The church is located on a southern hill in a prominent position above the village. The church was designed in accordance with the guidelines of the Evangelical Church Building Day , an association of theologians and building experts, adopted from 1946 to 1949 . The forms of the churches should no longer be based on urban planning principles, but solely on the needs of worship and congregation. The Dr. Martin Luther Church has a longitudinal, polygonal closed nave. The shape is based on the idea of ​​the community tent. It is an octagonal hipped roof building with a sideways set but attached tower with a pointed helmet. Above the southern entrance area between the entrance through the church tower and the sacristy adjoining the chancel there is a lectern-shaped canopy. A single-storey community room is built on to the west. The interior is spanned by a wooden beam ceiling and has a single-storey gallery on the west side.

The artist Günther Danco created a fresco on the windowless front wall behind the altar and a Luther window on the sloping wall under the gallery . The wall painting in red, violet and turquoise tones shows the Holy Trinity as a so-called mercy seat in the middle . A large circle of light surrounds the mercy seat. From it a widening beam falls on the altar. To the right and left of the ray, six apostles sit with their attributes. In 1996 two colored glass windows, the baptismal window and the Annunciation window, based on designs by Anita Rist-Geiger, were inaugurated on the sloping sides of the chancel.

Bells

Three bells poured 1956, the bell foundry Rincker in mind . The first bell with the strike note a 1 bears the inscription "A strong castle is our God" and a picture of Martin Luther. The second bell with the chime h 1 has the inscription "Verleih uns Frieden gnädlichen" and the third bell with the chime d 2 has the inscription "Jauchzet Gott alle Lande". The largest bell dates from 1958 and was donated by the Creidlitz municipality. It has the beat tone g 1 and bears the inscription "Oh country, country, hear the word of the Lord".

organ

The organ was installed in 1970 by the master organ builder Gerhard Schmid from Kaufbeuren. The work is a mechanical slider chest organ and cost around 30 thousand German marks . The instrument has ten stops on two manuals and a pedal . The four registers of the breastwork are built into a swell box . The organ has 652 pipes, 87 of which are made of wood, the largest being 2.5 meters long.

literature

  • Dieter Eberwein, Ruth Dinkel, Hans-Georg Kosuch, Alexander Rosenmeyer: Festschrift 50 years of the Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz . Widow Marie Link Druck, Kronach 2008.

Web links

Commons : Dr.-Martin-Luther-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Eberwein, Wilfried Beyhl: Creidlitz . In: Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region. Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 79 f
  2. ^ Festschrift 50 years of the Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz . P. 8 f
  3. ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 442
  4. ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 38
  5. ^ Festschrift 50 years of the Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz . P. 18 f
  6. ^ Festschrift 50 years of the Dr. Martin Luther Church in Creidlitz . P. 38 f

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 48 ″  E