Evangelical Church (Dillingen / Saar)

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Evangelical Church of Wandel, Hoefer and Lorch with one of the two Lutheran empires

The Evangelical Church is the only Protestant church in Dillingen / Saar and belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The Dillingen community is assigned to the Saar-West church district.

The church district was created in 2009 from the merger of the Saarbrücken and Völklingen church districts. It is the largest in the Saarland in terms of area and extends along the Saar from Perl on the Moselle in the northwest to Rilchingen-Hanweiler in the south. 86,500 parishioners live in its 27 parishes. The superintendent of the church district Saar-West has its seat at Saarbrücker Ludwigsplatz.

Church history

Volkspark Dillingen with (from left to right) Protestant church, town hall, imperial post office and train station, 1908

Up until the 19th century there were hardly any Protestant people in Dillingen. Until the French Revolution , the Protestants in the Duchy of Lorraine did not enjoy free religious practice. Duke Leopold Joseph von Lothringen , father of the German Emperor Franz I Stephan , had banned his subjects from any other denomination except Catholic in 1698.

With the growing need for workers to run the Dillinger Hütte , workers of the Protestant denomination have also settled in Dillingen since the beginning of the 19th century. The majority of them came from the Bergisches Land . They were looked after by the pastor of the Protestant parish in Völklingen . With the transition of Dillingen and its surroundings to the Kingdom of Prussia in the Second Peace of Paris in 1815, an evangelical garrison pastor, Ernst Friedrich Kober, was available in neighboring Saarlouis from 1817 .

On June 28, 1825, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. through the highest cabinet order, all Protestants living in the districts of Saarlouis and Merzig together to form a parish in Saarlouis. The presbytery , consisting of two garrison soldiers and a civilian, was appointed by the fortress commander. The church service hall was the fencing hall of the Saarlouis fortress.

In Dillingen itself, since 1878, when the number of Protestants in Dillingen had grown to around 100 people, the Saarlouis garrison pastor Zehlke has held the evangelical service first in the old schoolhouse next to the St. Johann church , then from 1880 in a hall of the Catholic schoolhouse in the Stummstrasse (demolished in 1964).

Due to the increasing number of members, the parish under Pastor Christian Roscher acquired a building site for its own church in 1899. The civil parish of Dillingen / Saar subsequently made the building site in today's Merziger Strasse a gift to the parish. As chairman of the supervisory board of Dillinger Hütte, Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg approved the amount of 15,000 marks for the construction of the church. Other influential members of the community, such as Otto Friedrich Weinlig and Erich Karcher (both directors of the Dillinger Hütte), supported the construction as much as possible. The Gustav Adolf Foundation , the diaspora work of the Evangelical Church in Germany , named after the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf , made financial grants possible.

In 1894 the garrison parish in Saarlouis was dissolved and a Protestant civil parish was founded, which then also took over the pastoral care of the Prussian garrison. This was the first time the Protestants in the Saarlouis district had a civil pastor, August Rudolf de Haas , who initiated four church buildings in his community during his term of office:

In his letter to the Gustav Adolf Foundation, Pastor de Haas described the planned church building as a “bulwark of Protestant faith in Dillingen an der Saar” and justified the construction with militaristic purposes with regard to the Dillingen arms production: “that those who (Panzer -) Build plates, build yourself up in them. "

The Dillinger Evangelical Church, which was built in 1902, continued to receive pastoral care from Saarlouis and was only given the status of its own independent parish on July 1, 1926 by a decree of the Saarland Government Commission. The number of Protestants in Dillingen at this time was around 1000 people. The municipal area included the mayorships of Dillingen, Nalbach, Rehlingen and Oberesch.

Initially, Dillingen remained administratively connected to the rectory in Saarlouis. The first own Protestant pastor in Dillingen was Karl Zickwolff (1895–1964) from Sulzbach / Saar since 1927 . Zickwolf held his office in Dillingen until his retirement in 1964. In 1930 a parish and parish hall was built.

When the National Socialists came to power in Saarland in 1935, there were violent disputes in the community between supporters of the National Socialist-oriented German Christians and the Confessing Church , on whose side Pastor Zickwolf took the presbytery.

In 1961 a kindergarten was set up behind the parish hall.

First Protestant church building in Dillingen

In 1902, the construction of a neo-Romanesque hall church with aisle-like indicated side aisles and a corner-mounted tower with a high pointed helmet by the architect Karl Heinrich Brugger (1858-1931) from Baden-Baden and St. Johann an der Saar began . The certificate for the laying of the foundation stone on August 1, 1902 states:

Evangelical Church in Dillingen after the inauguration, 1903

“In the name of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. In the year of the Lord 1902, in the 14th year of the glorious reign of our Emperor and King Wilhelm II, on August 1st, the building commission was set up on this place in the immediate vicinity of the expanded and renewed railway station in the presence of the community representative , several pastors of the Saarbrücken Synod and a large number of members of the Evang. Community and other fellow believers from near and far, as well as with numerous participation of the fellow citizens of this place to the building of the evangel. Church in Dillingen, in which a confirmation hall is to be built at the same time, the foundation stone was laid.

At the moment there were: Government President: Mr Zur Nedden, Trier, Royal District Administrator: Mr Helfferich, Saarlouis, Mayor: Mr Schuh, Dillingen; Directors of the Dillinger Hütte: Mr. Otto Weinlig and Mr. Erich Karcher, both members of the Protestant community; Local chaplain: Pastor August de Haas, Saarlouis.

Since Dillingen, formerly part of Lorraine, became Prussian in 1815, the few evangelicals who lived scattered around had been assigned to the Saarlouis garrison community and had been pastoring from there since 1817. At times there were none, at other times only very few Evangelicals in those years were in the area and nearby.

When the number of Evangelicals in Dillingen had grown to around 100, Garrison Pastor Dr. Zehlke held evening services once a month and his successor, Garrison Pastor Roscher, held services in a Catholic boys' school hall. The number of evangelicals grew, particularly as a result of the enlargement of the hut, so that the desire for a chapel of their own was stirred and was welcomed by the loyal friend of the diaspora, the Gustav Adolf Association. After the purchase of a building site, which was approved in February 1899, the hut's supervisory board approved the proposal of its chairman, Mr. Geh. Commerzien-Rat Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg generously the gift of 15,000 marks; Other donations arrived and the community formed a church building collective association, so that the architect Brugger-St. Johann in July 1902 received ministerial approval.

On August 3, 1822, the military-fiscal building in Saarlouis, which had been converted into a garrison church, was inaugurated, and today, after 8 decades, the evangel. Congregation in Dillingen with a joyfully moved heart in deep gratitude to the Almighty and all who have given her a helping hand, the foundation stone for the first evangelism. Church building in the district of Saarlouis in the hope that the plans for the new building of a church that are being strived for in the district town of Saarlouis will soon be realized and that the bells of Saarlouis and Dillingen greet each other with an iron mouth as a symbol of our dear faith!

May God the Lord protect this building with grace and give that this house will and will remain a foster place of pure evangelical faith, a monument of helping brotherly love, a source of constant new workforce, a reminder to strive for all high and noble goals, a planting place of genuine love for the fatherland , so that here too the mighty words of our great reformer Dr. Martin Luther come true: "A 'strong castle is our God."

Then rivers of blessing will go out from this house and fill the hearts and houses of all who are in evangel. Faithfulness with us and after us here serve our God in spirit and in truth. Lord God! Amen. Dillingen, August 1st, 1902. (The signatures of 22 people follow.) "

Evangelical Church after its completion, 1903

The inauguration of the sacred building took place on June 21, 1903 as part of a great ceremony and a pageant through the city. The general superintendent of the Rhine province Philipp Valentin Umbeck (1842-1911) presented the community with a precious Bible with silver fittings as a gift from the Prussian Queen and German Empress Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . The dedication inscription of the empress read: "What good would it do a person if he could win the whole world and still harm his soul."

The polygonal east-facing apse was decorated as a chancel with stained glass windows. The windows were created by the well-known workshop Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt. The central window depicted "Jesus on the Easter meadow". The surrounding windows showed the apostles Peter and Paul, the altarpiece the deposition of Jesus from the cross. To the left of the apse was a lower baptistery, to the right of the apse on the chancel arch the pulpit.

The organ on the gallery opposite the apse came from the workshop of the Saarlouis organ builder Mamert Hock . The room was closed with a wooden trapezoidal vault.

The neo-Romanesque church building largely complied with the requirements of the Eisenach regulation , which was adopted at the Eisenach Church Conference from May 30th to June 5th, 1861 with the participation and participation of well-known building councils such as Friedrich August Stüler from Berlin, senior building officer Christian Friedrich von Leins from Stuttgart and building council Conrad Wilhelm Hase from Hanover had been decided.

The church building was severely damaged in the Second World War in the explosion of an ammunition train in the Dillingen station on August 27, 1944 and in later bombardment in the war winter of 1944/45.

The repair work lasted until 1948 (inauguration on July 20, 1948). A second renovation took place between 1952 and 1953.

Luther oaks in front of the church

The initiator of the church building in Dillingen , August Rudolf de Haas , clearly expressed his attitude loyal to the empire and the emperor, also visually. Not only with the choice of style for his new church buildings in the form of the neo-Romanesque style promoted by Kaiser Wilhelm II , but also with the planting of two Luther oaks: For example, two oaks that had been grown from acorns of the Wittenberg Lutheran oak were taken by de Haas in 1910 before the Dillinger Church planted.

De Haas also carried out this symbolic planting before the Protestant church building in Saarlouis , which was built a little later and also initiated by him . The Wittenberg Luther Oak is where Martin Luther publicly burned the papal bull Exsurge Domine on June 15, 1520 in front of the Wittenberg city wall near the Elster Gate, where the contaminated belongings of those suffering from the plague were usually burned so that demonstratively did not comply with the church's order to revoke his theses. At the same time, at the instigation of Philipp Melanchthon, books on ecclesiastical law and scholastic theology were burned. Although the Wittenberg Luther oak, which was later planted at the site of the cremation, was felled in 1813 during the French occupation of Wittenberg, a new one, today's Lutheran oak, was planted in 1830 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg confession . Pastor de Haas' Dillinger Luthere oaks come from their acorns and were preserved after the old neo-Romanesque church was torn down.

His demonstratively anti-Catholic and pro-German attitude became pastor de Haas' professional undoing after the German defeat in the First World War and the subsequent administration of the Saar region by the League of Nations : He was expelled from the Saar region in February 1919 by the government commission of the Saar region and was not allowed to visit the Saar region for his entire life enter more.

Today's church building

Inside view with a view of the organ
inside view

In 1965 structural assessments showed that the old church was in a very bad condition due to the damage caused by the Second World War. On June 25, 1967, the congregation celebrated the last service in the old church building and moved into the Protestant parish hall for the duration of the construction work. The pews were handed over to the Protestant parish in Creutzwald in Lorraine, Dillingen's French twin town.

The historicist church building was demolished under Pastor Helmut Wirths in 1967 and replaced by a new building made of exposed concrete in 1968–1969. The foundation stone was laid on January 14, 1968. The new building was inaugurated on August 31, 1969 in a festive ceremony.

The building belongs to the architectural epoch of so-called brutalism (derived from béton brut , literally 'raw concrete', the French expression for exposed concrete ). The building material concrete is left visible in the church building with its unevenness and the impressions of the formwork. The new church offers 420 places, 120 more than the neo-Romanesque previous building. Since 1900, when the congregation still had 400 members, the number of members had increased to 3,250 in 1968.

The plans for the new church came from the Saarbrücker architects Wandel, Hoefer and Lorch , which also made the designs for the construction of the New Synagogue in Dresden and for the Jewish Center in Munich .

The responsible architects were Günther Mönke and Hubertus Wandel .

Narrow ridges between the flat surfaces of the concrete slabs create a uniform horizontal structure. These also include the tower, which is placed on the left in front of the entrance area and integrated into the multi-part structure. Bells and organ come from the neo-Romanesque church building. The architect Hubertus Wandel, who built the new building in collaboration with civil engineer Möhnke, compared the entrance area with "a high, narrow gorge that one has to cross to overcome the noise of the street and to quietly worship". The exposed concrete building, which is defensive and sealed off from the outside, is reminiscent of defensive structures such as flak towers and bunkers from the Second World War. Slits of light and narrow ribbon windows are reminiscent of loopholes.

Above the floor plan, an irregular polygon, the wall surfaces inside fold up into a sequence of niches (baptismal font, altar niche, organ niche, choir niche), which are assigned to the various liturgical functions. The expansive semicircle of the gallery leads over to the front and, like the arched arrangement of the rows of chairs, supports the strict concentration of the spatial structure on the altar.

The wedding chapel is entered through a reused arch of the old church. It is illuminated through a deep cut in the tower. The roof structure consists of a steel structure that is smoothly plastered on the underside.

The interior receives its natural lighting from a band of windows running around the top, which supposedly removes the seam between the wall and the ceiling, which appears to float weightlessly. In addition, narrow slits of light were let into the edges of the walls. The stained glass windows under the gallery were designed in 1969 by the Saarbrücken painter Hellmut Collmann (1918–1996). The windows were made by the Saarbrücken glass painter Josef Freese. Organ and singing lofts on two different levels are connected by a staircase. The wooden gallery cladding gives the impression of having been brutally slit open in the middle, so that the wooden panels shattered and frayed and seem only loosely connected to their fastening. Likewise, the asymmetrical, sharp-edged, sloping organ case, the longitudinally arranged window slits and the lamps hanging down on long cords of cables create a plunging spatial impression that can give the feeling of an external threat. The painful experiences of the Second World War and the subsequent nuclear threat of the Cold War, as well as the erosion of the church as a result of the secularization of society, can be taken into account here as a background.

The altar cross made of colored stoneware, on which the entire room is visually arranged, was created by Saarbrücken ceramist Brigitte Schuller. The paraments were designed by the Heusweiler textile artist Dorothea Zech. Altar, pulpit and baptismal font come from the Ottweiler company Menzel.

Harry Leid made the copper-clad entrance door from Scheidt .

In 1999 an extension was built for the children's church service.

Bells

The first bells from 1903 with the tones f, as and ces (300 kg, 600 kg, 1300 kg, material: bronze) came from the bell founder Franz Schilling from the bell foundry in Apolda and were based on the bell ringing of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem .

A request from the Dillingen community to Empress Auguste Viktoria with the request for French gun bronze from the Franco-German War of 1870/71 to be used for bell casting was refused on March 25, 1903. The bells bore the following inscriptions:

  • Mk 10.14  NIV : Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.
  • Mt 11,28  LUT : Come to me, all you who are laborious and burdened: I will refresh you.
  • Rev 2,10  LUT : Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

During the First World War , the middle and large bells were confiscated and melted down for war purposes. In 1924 the church tower received three new cast steel bells (450 kg, 900 kg, 1300 kg) from the Bochumer Vereinm with the tones e, g and b. The bell inscriptions read:

  • God is our confidence
  • Love the brothers
  • We are looking for the future city

Because these cast steel bells were badly damaged by shrapnel during World War II, new bronze bells with the previous tone sequence were commissioned from the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg in 1962 . The new bell inscriptions now read:

  • The Lord is our confidence when the evil enemy challenges us.
  • Jesus Christ commanded us that our life should be love.
  • Man has no place to stay, we are looking for the future city.

These bells were removed from the old neo-Romanesque church tower and hung up again in the new church tower.

organ

Prospectus of the Walcker organ

The first organ came from the workshop of the Saarlouis organ builder Mamert Hock . After the Second World War, the organ had become unusable due to the effects of the war. The congregation chant had to be accompanied by a harmonium until 1956 .

Then the Walcker organ building company built a slider chest organ with 19 registers and 1,600 pipes. This organ was then installed again in the new building and expanded in the 1980s and 1990s (trumpet register, gem horn register, tremulant) so that the organ can also be used for concerts.

The registers of the instrument are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Gemshorn 2 ′
6th Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture V-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. Copper principal 4 ′
10. Night horn 4 ′
11. Swiss pipe 2 ′
12. Terzian II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
13. Sharp III 1'
14th Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Octave bass 8th'
17th Drone 8th'
18th Forest flute 4 ′
19th Mixture IV-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′

Pastors of the parish

  • 1927–1964: Karl Friedrich Zickwolff
  • 1964–1965: Fritz Huber
  • 1965–1971: Helmut Wirths
  • 1971–1974: Günther Barthel
  • 1975–1990: Heinz-Jürgen Schneidewind
  • 1990–2009: Hubertus Hahmann
  • 1993-2009: Hanne Hahmann
  • since 2009: Martin Ufer

School priest

  • 1972–2000: Helmut Buchner
  • 2000–2002: Thomas Bergholz
  • since 2002: Tim Jochen Kahlen

Institutions of the parish

In addition to the church, the parish has a parish hall (land as a gift from the parish of Dillingen / Saar in 1928), a day-care center (since 1961), a residential building with an office and library and a rectory.

swell

  • Drafts and construction plans of the old neo-Romanesque church in the Saarlouis Protestant parish archive

literature

  • Joachim Conrad: Prussian-pragmatic-Protestant. The Protestants come with the Prussians. In: Association for local history in the Saarlouis district e. V. (Ed.): Our home. Bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape, 42nd volume, issue No. 1, Saarlouis 2017, ISSN  1437-0905 , pp. 16–24.
  • Wolfgang Dittgen et al., Evangelical Church Community Dillingen / Saar (Hrsg.): Centenary church building anniversary '03, Evangelical Church Community Dillingen. Dillingen / Saar 2003.
  • Evangelical Church Congregation Dillingen (Ed.) 50 years Evangelical Church Congregation Dillingen, 10 years trombone choir. Festschrift for the church week from June 27 to July 4, 1976, Dillingen / Saar 1976.
  • Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, archive, Dillingen holdings, Protestant church (Dossier K 596).
  • Martin Klewitz: The Protestant church building between 1800 and 1945. In: The Protestant church on the Saar yesterday and today. Saarbrücken 1975, p. 255.
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Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Dillingen / Saar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church district Saar-West on evangelische-kirche-saar.de, accessed on June 10, 2017.
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  3. ↑ Helmut Wirths (ed.): Evangelical Church in Dillingen, 1903–1969. Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration on August 31, 1969 on behalf of the presbytery of the Evangelical Church Community, Dillingen / Saar 1969, p. 7.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '23 "  N , 6 ° 43' 34"  E