Church of the Redeemer (Gerolstein)
The Protestant Church of the Redeemer ( ) in the Gerolstein district of Sarresdorf was built between 1907 and 1913 by the Berlin architect Franz Schwechten .
Building history
The new church was financed by the Evangelical Church Building Association (Berlin), which then gave it to the German Emperor Wilhelm II . Another not insignificant part of the money came from the private fortune of the emperor himself. The architect of the church, Franz Schwechten, had previously designed the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin .
Wilhelm II was personally present for the inauguration of the church on October 15, 1913.
Until 1945 the Church of the Redeemer belonged to the House of Hohenzollern ; the evangelical congregation of Gerolstein enjoyed hospitality in it. After the war, the church was donated to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
Furnishing
The interior of the church is lavishly furnished with extensive gold mosaics, round arches and a dominating dome - especially for a church in the diaspora . The mosaic decoration comes from the Hanoverian church painter Hermann Schaper and the Oldenburger Friedrich Schwarting (1883-1918). The painting of the church was entrusted to the Godesberg decorative painter Ludwig Ziercke , who came from Pomerania . The gold mosaics were carried out by the Puhl & Wagner company . All glass windows were created by Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt with partly heraldic and partly ornamental painting.
See also
literature
- Peter Daners: The Protestant Church of the Redeemer in Gerolstein (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 445). Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88094-854-2 .
- Udo W. Hombach: Gerolstein - Jerusalem. Churches and mosaics of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Germany and Palestine, Cologne, October 2015, online publication (amended version from December 2018, www.udo-w-hombach.de)
- Hedwig Judeich (ed.): Der Ammerländer Friedrich Schwarting (1883-1918). Church painter in the Empire . Diary entries with documents and images. Verlag Isensee, Oldenburg 1989, ISBN 3-920557-84-0 .
- Jürgen Krüger : The Church of the Redeemer in Gerolstein. An example for the church building program of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Langewiesche Verlag , Königstein i. Ts. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7845-0593-0 ( The Blue Books , 48 pages, 102 color images).
- Photo panels with exterior and interior views (PDF; 13.7 MB) In: Berliner Architekturwelt , 18th year, issue 5/6, August / September 1916, pp. 151–157
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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 24 ″ N , 6 ° 39 ′ 17 ″ E