Friedenskirche (Merzig)

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The Protestant Peace Church in Merzig
View inside the church
View of the gallery with the Walcker organ

The Peace Church is a church of the Protestant parish in Saarland Merzig 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

When the Protestant community of Merzig was founded in the diaspora of the Prussian Rhine Province in 1851 , its area covered an area of ​​around 1000 square kilometers, but only about 200 Protestant residents lived there. These were mostly Prussian administrative officials with their families. The Protestant church services initially took place in the hall of the courthouse in Merzig, before a royal gift of grace and donations from the Gustav Adolf Association enabled the building of a church.

The foundation stone for the new church was laid on July 28, 1863 . Architect Carl Friedrich Müller ( Saarlouis ) was responsible for the construction plans . The inauguration of the completed church could take place on November 9, 1865.

In 1888 gas heating was installed in the church. During restoration work in 1924, an organ was installed on the west cross-porch .

The church suffered significant damage during the Second World War , which was repaired between 1948 and 1958.

As part of an external renovation by the architectural office Mönke & Wandel ( Saarbrücken ), which took place between 1963 and 1964, the pinnacles on the buttresses were removed. An extensive renovation in 1977 under the direction of the architect Kurt Desloch ( Schwalbach ) served to modernize the interior. The following year, the exterior was also renovated again .

A major construction project was carried out in 1995 when the church was expanded by adding a sacristy to plans by the architects Weinand, Plegnière and Ahr (Merzig).

In the years 2006/07 renovation work took place outside.

The last time the interior was redesigned in summer 2014 by the artist Eberhard Münch ( Wiesbaden ) and his wife. The church became the "Friedenskirche Merzig". Until then, the choir was dominated by mosaics with the names of soldiers who fell in World War II. This has been resolved in the new concept. The memory of the victims of the war is now on the back of the church. There, in previously unused niches, a glass stele from Münch's hand was set up, which takes up the "in memoriam" of the mosaics. Before that, a memorial book was installed that gives the names and, in part, the fates of the fallen and also mentions the civilian victims for the first time. A glass stele with the Ten Commandments and a quote from the Beatitudes has been added to the niche on the back left as seen from the altar.

Architecture and equipment

In the Protestant Church in Merzig is one of sandstone built neo-Gothic hall church . It consists of a three-bay nave with a 5/8 choir closure on the east side. In the west, the church building has a recessed vestibule with a lowered ridge line. A small octagonal tower with a pointed helmet sits on the west gable . Originally, the corners of the nave and some buttresses, which illustrate the yoke division, were emphasized by a total of ten pinnacle turrets, but these were removed in the 1960s as part of an external renovation. On the two straight choir segments on the east side of the church there is a basilical extension that can be seen as a special feature.

The church's furnishings include a crucifix and a candlestick, which the community received as gifts from Queen Augusta of Prussia .

organ

When the church was consecrated in 1865, only one harmonium was available to the congregation . It was not until 1924 that the first organ could be purchased, which was installed on the gallery.

Today's organ was built in 1992 by the Walcker company ( Kleinblittersdorf - Bliesransbach ). The asserted on the gallery sliderchest -instrument has 14 (16) register , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The pitch is 440 Hz. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Duplicate 2 ′
5. Mixture 4f 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. flute 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8 ′ (Tr. I principal 8 ′)
14th Dacked bass 8th'
Trumpet 8 ′ (Tr. I trumpet 8 ′)
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P as steps

literature

  • Schreiber, Gotthard: The first 50 years of the Protestant parish Merzig. Festschrift for the anniversary celebration . Merzig / Saar 1901.
  • Engel, Wilhelm: 375 years of the Evangelical Church on the Saar, 1557–1950 . Saarbrücken 1950, p. 122.
  • Presbytery of the Evangelical Church Congregation Merzig (Ed.): Festschrift for the centenary of the Evangelical Church Congregation Merzig . Mettlach n.d. (1951).
  • Saam, Rudolf: Contribution to the building history of neo-Gothic churches on the Saar. On the life and work of the builder Carl Friedrich Müller. In: Saarbrücker Hefte, Heft 48, pp. 17–51. Saarbrücken 1978.
  • Gollub, Elisabeth: Small Chronicle of the Evangelical Church in Merzig . Merzig 1990.
  • Church district association on the Saar (ed.): Of towers, pulpits and altars. A guide to Protestant churches in Saarland . Saarbrücken 2015.
  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 , p. 666 .

Web links

Commons : Friedenskirche (Merzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015
  2. ^ Church district Saar-west on: www.evangelisch-im-saarland.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Retrieved August 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Directory of the new Protestant church buildings in the Rhineland 1860–1914 (1927) (PDF) On: duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Information on Ev. Merzig Church On: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Short guided tour through the Friedenskirche Merzig On: www.evangelisch-in-merzig.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015
  7. ↑ The organ of the Ev. Church Merzig On: organindex.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 31.7 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 21.2"  E