Evangelical Church (Saarlouis)
The Protestant church at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 2 in Saarlouis , Saarland, is a building in a historicizing style from the early 20th century. It is the parish church of the Evangelical congregation Saarlouis in the church district Saar-West of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
In Saarlouis, which was founded as a French fortress town in 1680, a Protestant community was only able to form after the fortress was handed over to Prussia in 1815 . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. arranged the conversion of the former fencing hall, the “Salle des Cadets”, into a church space for the Protestant parish of the garrison , which also looked after the civilian Protestants of Saarlouis. In 1889 the fortress status of Saarlouis was abandoned and in 1893 the pastor canceled the garrison. Instead, a pastor's office was set up for the Protestant civilian population. In order to document the new independence to the outside world, the Protestant parish wanted to build a new, representative church. Bastion V (Bastion Louise) was chosen as the location for the new church and the rectory on the advice of the Cologne building councilor Josef Stübben, who was called in as an expert for the urban planning of the city of Saarlouis, which was growing beyond the fortifications. Architect Carl-Friedrich Schlück (Saarlouis) designed the plans for the church building. The foundation stone was laid on August 22, 1904. The inauguration of the completed church was carried out on June 29, 1906.
The church was built on a base made of black basalt in yellow sandstone with red-edged doors and windows. The yellow sandstone that was used to build the church is mainly the material that was removed from the demolished fortress. The stones in turn came from Limberg via Wallerfangen .
The parsonage at Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 46, which was built in 1902 and was also planned by Carl-Friedrich Schlück, is in the vicinity of the church . In 1906 a garden hall was added.
Two oaks, which had been grown from acorns of the Wittenberg Lutheran oak, were planted in front of the church in 1910. Another oak, which is located on the back of the church, comes from the Sachsenwald and one of the linden trees from the place where Queen Louise died. In 1906 the property was fenced in .
Church garden
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Architecture and equipment
The church building is a hall church with a striking corner tower and numerous front sides in the style of historicism , which takes up numerous architectural styles. The tower, for example, has a neo-baroque hood , while the visible sides on the exterior combine elements of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance . The floor plan of the church is in the form of a Greek cross with galleries in the four cross arms. The church is a central building , which is emphasized inside by a light ribbed vault with a central rib network.
The elaborately designed main portal of the church is flanked by two pilasters that support a round arch with a keystone . Above it is a relief depicting the Lamb of God . The keystone of the round arch shows a cartouche with the monogram of Christ . The pilasters are decorated with a five-petalled flower with a heart-shaped stamp and cross, which are located between vine leaves and ears of wheat, which in turn symbolize the promise of redemption as bread and wine.
The interior decoration of the church was largely done by the architect of the church building, Carl-Friedrich Schlück. His work includes the pulpit and font as well as capitals and a double traffic light . Altar, pulpit and organ are arranged one above the other in accordance with the Wiesbaden program , which includes requirements for Protestant church building.
On the pulpit, which is decorated with plant elements, an octagonal basket integrated into the wall, there are bas-relief panels made of embossed copper , which depict the parables of the sower, the good shepherd, the good Samaritan and the prodigal son. The from Savonnières - limestone existing font has an ornament with roses. As a reference to the Jewish roots of the Christian faith, a menorah is placed in the chancel .
After the original windows had been destroyed in the Second World War , which according to tradition had partly colored glazing with portraits , coats of arms and border decorations, the Hungarian architect and glass painter György Lehoczky ( Saarbrücken ) designed four new windows under the north and south pores in 1955. The lead-glazed windows made of hand- blown real antique glass in strong, bright colors show the depictions "Matthew, Petrus, Markus", " Sermon on the Mount ", " Emmausweg " and "Lukas, Paulus, Johannes" and thus grab the sculptural representations of the evangelist symbols on the parapets of the galleries.
The other windows, five-lane arched windows above the galleries, had previously been glazed with so-called bench or table glass without any decorative or pictorial representation. After decades of exposure to exhaust fumes and acid rain , traces on the windows had become unmistakable, so that in 2005 the first preparatory work for replacing the windows began. Three artists were invited by the presbytery to work out preliminary designs, of which the design by the glass painter Saskia Schulz ( Stuttgart ) received the majority of the committee after repeated discussions. In 2010 the three "flower windows" were created with floral motifs that appear on the glass in different color intensities. This was achieved by the artist etching hand-blown, clear, genuine antique glasses or flashed glasses accordingly and matting them with sandblasting . The restrained depictions of twigs with leaves and flowers with their restriction to one color each (red, green and blue) take into account the bright, multicolored windows by György Lehoczky. The Mayr'sche Hofkunstanstalt ( Munich ) was responsible for installing the windows in autumn 2010.
organ
The first organ in the church was built in 1901 by Mamert Hock (Saarlouis) for the Saarlouis garrison church and later transferred to the Protestant church, consecrated in 1906. The cone chopping instrument with pneumatic playing and stop action had 22 stops , distributed over two manuals and a pedal .
During the First World War in 1917, the presbytery agreed to give up the zinc pipes of the organ for war purposes and to procure replacements for them. In 1928 the organ building company Schwenkedel ( Strasbourg ) installed a new motor and a general overhaul of the organ .
After the Second World War , the presbytery decided to have the pipework made makeshift again. In the summer of 1950, the master organ builder Lothar Hintz (Saarbrücken) received the order for this. The restoration was to take place in individual sections, whereby the gallery above the main entrance portal was temporarily planned as the new location of the organ as part of this work, but this was not implemented for architectural reasons. Furthermore, Hintz should also make an adjustment to the organ brochure. As a result, the previous symmetrical five-part prospectus in the neo-baroque style, which together with the altar and pulpit formed a harmonious ensemble according to the specifications of the Wiesbaden program, was replaced by a free pipe prospectus without a case. In addition to the visual change, there was also a change in the sound image, as only a few of the original registers remained after the work was completed. On July 1, 1952, the restored instrument was consecrated. In 1982, Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ) installed an electric game and stop mechanism. Organ builder Werner Rohé ( Eschringen ) took over the maintenance of the organ in the mid-1980s.
In 2001, the Hock organ, parts of which were reused in 2002 by Thomas Gaida ( Wemmetsweiler ) for the new organ for the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Wustweiler , was replaced by a used instrument from the organ building workshop Führer ( Wilhelmshaven ). This organ was originally built in 1966 for the Luther Church in Leer ( East Friesland ) and was bought in 2001 by the Saarlouis Evangelical Church. When the instrument was moved from Leer to Saarlouis, organ builder Anton Škrabl made some changes by making the upper work swellable. Furthermore, a third cymbal was replaced by a salicional 8 ′ in the main work, a quintad 8 ′ by a viol and an aliquot by a vox coelestis in the swell, and an open principal 16 ′ was added to the pedal. After the renovation work, the instrument has 41 stops, divided into 3 manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
literature
- Literature on the Evangelical Church (Saarlouis) in the Saarland Bibliography
- Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
- György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901–1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 3-938070-49-8 , p. 176 ( [1] [accessed September 7, 2012]).
- Evangelical Church Community Saarlouis (ed.): Evangelical Church Saarlouis. Festschrift for the presentation of the new church windows. 1st Advent, November 28, 2010
- Church music committee of the Evangelical Church Saarlouis (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the organ, December 2, 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de, accessed on July 25, 2013
- ↑ parishes on: www.evks-data.de ( Evangelical Saarland ), accessed on 25 July 2013
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Mittelstadt Saarlouis (PDF; 166 kB), accessed on July 25, 2013
- ↑ a b c d Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Saarlouis (city center), Schultz, glass window. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Evangelical Church on: www.saarlouis.de. Retrieved July 25, 2013
- ^ A b Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Saarlouis, city center, Evangelical Parish Church. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Press release of September 4, 2007 on the Open Monument Day on September 9, 2007 at: www.saarland.de
- ↑ a b c d e f Flyer with information about the Evangelical Church Saarlouis at: www.kantoreifreunde-sls.de. Retrieved July 25, 2013
- ↑ Contact Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Saarlouis: Contact & Imprint On: www.evangelische-kirche-saarlouis.de. Retrieved July 25, 2013
- ↑ a b The organ of the Evangelical Church in Saarlouis On: www.organindex.de. Retrieved July 25, 2013
- ↑ a b c Joachim Fontaine: Festschrift for the inauguration of the organ, December 2, 2001. 2001, pp. 3–5.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 6 ° 44 ′ 53.5 ″ E