Evangelical Ulrich Church (Augsburg)
The Protestant St. Ulrichs Church is a parish church in Augsburg , which is located directly next to the Catholic basilica St. Ulrich and Afra . This ensemble of the two churches, which are very unequal in size and at right angles to each other, form a structural unit, is unique in its kind. The parish of the Protestant St. Ulrichs Church also includes the Holy Spirit Chapel in the Holy Spirit Hospital .
history
The end of the church was a vestibule that served the pilgrims from Ortisei as a kind of market hall and as a burial place for the citizens of Augsburg. As early as 1457, the first conversion into a Benedictine preaching house for the parish of Ortisei took place. Around 1500 with the rebuilding of the basilica, the Ulrichskirche also got its present form. It is possible that the open arcades facing north were walled up even then. In 1526 the church was given to the Protestants as a parish church. In 1537 there was an iconoclasm there .
After several changes of ownership, the church finally became Protestant with the Peace of Westphalia . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the building underwent several redesigns, several canvas paintings were purchased and the altar was given its current altar structure. In 1709/10 the parish under Marx Loeser decided to fundamentally rebuild the church, which was now in need of renovation, whereby the church was given its present-day appearance. The Protestant Holy Cross Church served as a structural model . In the interior, the wooden coffered ceiling has now been replaced by a barrel vault . The stucco work was carried out by the sculptor Matthias Lotter based on designs by the Augsburg goldsmith Abraham Drentwett .
During the Second World War , the church was largely unscathed. In the post-war period the facade was painted yellow. In the course of a step-by-step renovation from 2002 to 2007, however, the church was given its original gray color with white borders; harmoniously fitting and reversed like the Catholic Church, which has white facade surfaces with gray edging, back.
architecture
The church is laid out in a north-south direction. A flight of stairs leads from Ulrichsplatz to the entrance on the main facade in the north of the church. The baroque facade with volute gable , a clockwork in the middle of the facade and a small onion dome was added in the years 1709 and 1710 based on the model of the Evangelical Holy Cross Church .
Furnishing
The church has a gallery in heavy wooden architecture with panel paintings by various masters as well as a striking pulpit on the west wall. The altar on the south wall, which is the common wall to the Catholic sister church, is a Lutheran sacrament altar with a Last Supper painting by the baroque painter Johann Heiss from 1693. Above and behind the altar is the organ.
organ
Earlier organs
In 1721 Christoph Leo began to build an organ for the Ulrichskirche. In the first section the main work and the pedal were created. The installation of the Rückpositiv followed in 1732, so that the organ had a total of 24 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal. In 1769 the well-known organ builder Johann Andreas Stein rebuilt the instrument. In 1888 the organ building company GF Steinmeyer built an instrument for the Ulrichskirche as Opus 360 with 22 registers, 10 of which were taken from the old Leo / Stein organ. In 1927 the same organ building company built a completely new organ. This had 38 registers on three manuals, the Rückpositiv remained empty. This was filled by the Augsburg organ builder Max Offner jun. 1961 with six registers.
Today's organ
Due to the increasing frequency of repairs, the organ building company Klais Orgelbau was commissioned to build a new organ for the Ulrichskirche. In 1987 the new instrument with 48 registers (23 of them from the previous organ) was built into the baroque case. Your disposition is:
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- Pair : I-II, III-II, III-I, IP, II-P, III-P
- Playing aids : typesetting system (installed in 2007), Tutti
literature
- Horst Jesse: The history of the Evangelical Church in Augsburg , 1983
- Eckhard von Knorre: Evang. Ulrichskirche Augsburg , 1995
- Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .
Web links
- Website of the Evang. St. Ulrich Church
- Photos of church furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '43 " N , 10 ° 54' 0.5" E