Church of the Redeemer (Strasbourg)

Church of the Redeemer with rectory

The listed organ

The Erlöserkirche ( French : Église Saint-Sauveur ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church building within the Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in the Cronenbourg district (formerly Kronenburg) of Strasbourg .

description

The church and the attached rectory were built in the neo-Renaissance style by Gustav Oberthür (also written as Gustave Oberthur ) from 1904 to 1906 and consecrated in 1907. The church is richly decorated both inside and outside: elaborately designed portals, frescoes , wheel chandeliers , stained glass windows , which make it a successful creation of sacred historicism in Alsace . Another striking feature of the furnishings is the programmatic gallery of portraits of important representatives of the Reformation , to each of which a glass window in the nave is dedicated: Luther , Bucer , Calvin , Melanchthon , Zwingli .

The interior of the church was restored from 1988 to 1996.

organ

In the Church of the Redeemer there is an organ that, like several other instruments in Strasbourg, was built by the Dalstein-Haerpfer house according to Albert Schweitzer's specifications . The instrument, which has been classified as a Monument historique since 1981, was slightly modified in the 1930s by the builder Frédéric Haerpfer and in the 1960s by Ernest Muhleisen, but returned to its original state of 1907 in 1986 after nine months of restoration.