Emmaus Church (Leipzig)
The Emmauskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the east of the city of Leipzig , in the Sellerhausen district , on Emmausstrasse. It was built from 1898 to 1900 and is a listed building . With its striking, 66-meter-high church tower, it has a major impact on the cityscape .
history
The church was built after the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Leipzig-Sellerhausen had become independent through the parish of Schönefeld .
The first groundbreaking was on June 27, 1898, the laying of the foundation stone on September 11, 1898, the topping-out ceremony on September 10, 1899 and church consecration day on March 25, 1900.
architecture
The Emmaus Church was built according to the design of the Leipzig architect Paul Lange in the style of historicism , the architecture shows stylistic elements of the neo-Gothic as well as the neo-baroque .
The single-nave church is a masonry building with a facade in yellowish Ullersdorf clinker bricks, the floor plan of which follows the central building concept . Particularly noticeable is the 66 meter high tower with the neo-baroque octagonal tower spire, which is covered with colored glazed bricks and has a lantern-like top. The interior is dominated by the five colored glazed windows in the choir .
Remodeling and renovation
After the church survived the Second World War without major damage, it was transformed into a community center from 1971 to 1981, while largely preserving the historical substance. In the process, spaces were created under the galleries and in the tower that are necessary for the diverse community life. 1993–1994 the redevelopment of the church tower took place, the exterior redevelopment of the church lasted from 1993 to 1999.
organ
The organ was created in 1900 by Richard Kreutzbach (1839–1903) from Borna. It had 32 stops on two manuals and a pedal with pneumatic action . During the First World War, their tin pipes had to be given as a metal donation . In 1927 they were replaced by prospect pipes made of zinc from the organ building company Julius Jahn & Sohn from Dresden, and a register was added.
In 1937, the master organ builder Alfred Schmeisser from Rochlitz created a new console on the gallery balustrade and built in an electro-pneumatic action. The organ was rescheduled with 33 now registers (8-6-11-8), three manuals and pedals. In 1980 the gaming table was designed to be mobile. In 1983 the organ was thoroughly repaired and voiced , and in 1999 it was cleaned and re-voiced. It can be heard regularly at church services and concerts.
In 2017 it was completely overhauled by organ builder Gerd-Christian Bochmann (* 1943) from Kohren-Sahlis . The organ currently (as of 2018) has the following disposition :
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- System action: combined, type of wind chests: cone chest, stop action: combined, temperament: equal, pitch: 440 Hz
- Coupling : normal coupling, crescendo, sill, setting system Heuss
Bells
Originally there were three bronze - church bells in C major, weighing more than 70 hundredweight, cast by the Jauck company in Leipzig - the organ was consecrated on December 3rd, 1899. On June 3rd, 1917 they rang for the last time: the the middle and large bells had to be donated as raw material bell donations; they were smashed in the church tower for this and the community was compensated with 10,500 marks. The small bell was sold to the parish of Paunsdorf in 1924.
In their place came three chilled cast iron bells ; the chimes in E flat major weigh 66 hundredweight ; it was lifted into the tower on February 24, 1924. - There has been an electric bell since 1929.
The triad of the peal consists of the tones es ′, g ′ and b ′, cast in 1923 by Schilling & Lattermann .
photos
The church tower (north view)
Church tower clock and lantern
The main portal (top section)
View in May of the church and steeple
Northern side wing of the Emmauskirche Leipzig-Sellerhausen
View of the Emmaus Church before the green of spring blocks the view
View from the intersection of Wurzner Strasse and Cunnersdorfer Strasse
Varia
At the beginning of the 1980s, individual parishioners succeeded in having their voluntary hours worked in the Emmaus Church recognized by their companies as a NAW service (NAW = national construction work ). This led to the extraordinary circumstance for the GDR that in May 1981 the Emmaus community was awarded the medal of honor " Beautiful our cities and communities " by the National Council of the GDR National Front - together with a bonus of 100 GDR marks .
literature
- Church council of the Emmaus parish (ed.), Otti Margraf (red.): 100 years of the Emmaus church 1900–2000. With bibliography. Leipzig 2000 (brochure, DIN A 5, 28 pages, without ISBN)
- Heinrich Magirius (arr.): City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. (= The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. ) 2 volumes, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 , pp. 1053-1064
Web links
- Ev.-Luth. Sellerhausen-Volkmarsdorf parish
- http://www.emmauslukas.de/Geschichte_Emmauskirche.html
- http://www.kirche-leipzig.de/?ID=4893&kirche_id=234&style=1
Individual evidence
- ^ Otti Margraf (Red.): 100 Years Emmaus Church 1900–2000. Leipzig 2000, pp. 8-9
- ^ Otti Margraf (Red.): 100 Years Emmaus Church 1900–2000. Leipzig 2000, pp. 14-15
- ↑ According to information from the ORKASA organ database https://www.evlks.de/fiegen/kirchenmusik/orgeln/ - there is a link to the guest access, accessed on December 5, 2018.
- ^ Otti Margraf (Red.): 100 Years Emmaus Church 1900–2000. Leipzig 2000, pp. 12-13
- ↑ Rainer Thümmel in: Bells in Saxony - Sound between heaven and earth. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 323.
- ^ Church council of the Emmaus parish (ed.), Otti Margraf (ed.): 100 years Emmaus church 1900–2000. Leipzig 2000, p. 21. (Brochure, DIN A 5, 28 pages, without ISBN)
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 38.5 ″ E