Evangelical Church (Sulzbach / Saar)

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The Protestant Church in Sulzbach / Saar
View inside the church
View from the chancel to the gallery and organ prospect

The Evangelical Church Sulzbach is the parish church of the Evangelical congregation in Saarland Sulzbach in the church district Saar-East of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The church was built between 1852 and 1854 according to plans by the architect C. Rüger ( Berlin ), who initially also took over the construction management. As the church building had become too small due to the population growth , it was decided to expand and remodel it. These construction measures were carried out from 1897 to 1898 according to plans by the architect Heinrich Güth ( Saarbrücken ). The extension included an extension to the west, a widening by adding a side aisle into which a wooden gallery was built, as well as the construction of the bell tower, which can be seen from afar .

In 1960 the church underwent a restoration under the direction of the architect Sattler. Further restorations took place in 1999–2001 and 2006. Master painter Hermann Schappert (Sulzbach) was responsible for carrying out the last restoration work.

Architecture and equipment

The church is considered to be the first church building in neo-Gothic style on the Saar. The interior of the church is spanned by a flat wooden ceiling, which is supported by cantilever supports on brackets . The wooden gallery runs in an L shape on the west and south sides of the nave and rests on columns. The gallery itself has a row of arcades with columns that separate the aisle from the nave .

A baptismal font by the sculptor Andreas Weber from 1999 and a painting entitled “People under the Cross” by the painter Rosemarie Rauch (Sulzbach), which she donated to the parish, are part of the church's remarkable furnishings . Further items of equipment are the three choir windows made in 1898 from the glassworks of the Wagner-Vopelius company, which depict Jesus with the lamb and 2 evangelists ( Matthew , Mark , Luke and John ) with their symbols on each side , the painting "The rose-scattering angel" the 19th century, the new windows from 2001 and the chandelier in the church interior.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1967 by the Emil Hammer Orgelbau company and has 25 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The wind chests are slider chests; the action mechanism is mechanical. The instrument has the following disposition :

I main work Cg 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Mixture 4-6f
8th. Dulcian 16 ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork
(swellable Cg 3 )
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Coupling flute 4 ′
12. Principal 2 ′
13. Sesquialtera 2f
14th Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Sharp symbol 3f
16. shelf 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Principal 8th'
19th Gemshorn 8th'
20th Night horn 4 ′
21st Field flute 2 ′
22nd Mixture 5f
23. trombone 16 ′
24. Trumpet 8th'
25th Clarine 4 ′

Bells

In 1954, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast for Ev. Church in Sulzbach three bronze bells with the striking notes: dis ′ ′ - fis ′ ′ - gis ′ ′. The bells have the following diameters: 684 mm, 575 mm, 512 mm. They weigh: 225 kg, 130 kg, 100 kg. The bells are among the last bells cast by the Saarlouiser bell foundry.

literature

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de, accessed on September 2, 2012
  2. ↑ parishes on: www.evks-data.de ( Evangelical Saarland ), accessed on September 2, 2012
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Regional Association Saarbrücken (PDF; 10.2 MB), accessed on September 2, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c Information on the Prot. Parish Church Sulzbach at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on September 2, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Cultural monuments in Sulzbach and the surrounding area On: www.stadt-sulzbach.de, accessed on September 2, 2012
  6. ↑ History of the Church ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.kirche-sulzbach.de, accessed on September 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kirche-sulzbach.de
  7. ↑ The organ on Organindex.de
  8. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 569 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 519 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '49.4 "  N , 7 ° 3' 38.7"  E