Church of the Redeemer (Ludwigshafen)
The Erlöserkirche ( ) is a Protestant church in Ludwigshafen 's Gartenstadt district . It was built from 1930 to 1931 according to the plans of the local architects Karl Latteyer and Otto Schittenhelm .
history
The building cooperative Gartenstadt eGmbH , founded in 1909, built the first houses from 1914. The Protestant residents were initially looked after by the Mundenheim Christ Church . After the First World War , the population continued to grow, so that in 1922 a separate pastoral care district was set up. Construction of the church began in 1930. It was integrated into an assembly that included a pastor's apartment, a children's school and a children's and old people's home. On November 15, 1931, the Church of the Redeemer was inaugurated.
The church windows were dented by the pressure wave from the tank car explosion at BASF in 1948. They have been replaced and the interior has been renovated. In 1955 the organ and the exterior plastering were renovated. In 1969 and 1994 further renovations took place. In 2011 the three Protestant congregations in the garden city, the Redeemer, the Johannes and the Trinity congregations, merged into one congregation.
description
The Church of the Redeemer stands in the center of the garden city. The simple hall building , covered with a hipped roof , has a semicircular end. The front facade is structured with three blind arches. The 34 meter high, free-standing bell tower is connected to the north wall of the church by flying buttress arches .
Inside is the first row of frescoes in a Protestant church in Ludwigshafen. The cycle, which depicts scenes from the life of Jesus, was designed by Adolf Kessler . The organ was built by the Walcker workshop . The chimes consists of four bronze - bells from the bell foundry Bachert :
| year | Ø (mm) | kg | volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1.306 | 1,323 | it 1 |
| 1960 | 1,115 | 853 | ges 1 |
| 1960 | 896 | 502 | b 1 |
| 1960 | 765 | 306 | of the 2nd |
literature
- Friedhelm Borggrefe: On the way to the port of hope. 150 years of the Protestant Church in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-31-4 .
- Friedrich Schmitt: Ludwigshafen church building . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1985.
- Hans Caspary (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
Web links
- Redeemer Church in Ludwigshafen-Gartenstadt
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 18 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 21.9 ″ E