Friedenskirche (Nuremberg)

Friedenskirche in Nürnberg-St. Johannis

Portal of the Friedenskirche

The Nuremberg Church of Peace is located in the St. Johannis district of Nuremberg at Palmplatz 11. The planning for the construction began in 1916. After that, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace was to be a memorial and memorial for the entire city. It was built between 1925–1928 according to a design by the architect German Bestelmeyer . During the Second World War it burned down in 1944 after a bomb attack.

From 1950 to 1952 it was rebuilt after severe war damage.

The entrance portal was designed using styles from Romanesque church architecture. Inside the wide hall there are pieces of equipment from the church of the Holy Cross Pilgrims' Hospital , which was destroyed in World War II , the altar in the choir from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut , who was originally donated for the Augustinian Church , was named for the master of the Peringsdörfer altar . The three windows of the choir head show colored glazing based on designs by Adolf Schinnerer from 1928. The altar of the Holy Helper on the south side of the choir dates from the middle of the 15th century. In front of the church there is a small fountain with Christian symbols. It was created in 1928 based on a design by German Bestelmeyer; the figures come from Philipp Kittler , the cast from the art foundry Lenz .

organ

The organ was built in 1956 by the Steinmeyer organ building company. The slider chest instrument has 48 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The tractors are electric.

I Rückpositiv C – g ³
Wood-covered	08th'
Quintad	08th'
Tin principal	04 '
recorder	04 '
Super octave	02 '
Quintlet	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
Bell tone	01 ³ ⁄ ₅  '
Sharp	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
shawm	08th'
Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g ³
Praestant	16 '
Principal	08th'
Reed flute	08th'
Silbermanngamba	08th'
octave	04 '
Smalled up	04 '
Major third	03 ¹ ⁄ ₅  '
Intoxicating fifth	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
Schwiegel	02 '
mixture	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
Trumpet	08th'

III Swell C – g ³
Tube bare	16 '
Wooden principal	08th'
Lovely covered	08th'
Viol flute	08th'
Principal	04 '
Coupling flute	04 '
Fifth	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
octave	02 '
Forest flute	02 '
third	01 ³ ⁄ ₅  '
Sifflet	01'
Plein jeu	02 '
bassoon	16 '
oboe	08th'
Head trumpet	04 '
Tremulant

Pedals C – f ¹
Revelation	16 '
Sub-bass	16 '
Large school	10 ² ⁄ ₃  '
Octave bass	08th'
Thought bass	08th'
Chorale bass	04 '
Night horn	04 '
Octave cornet	02 '
Pipe whistle	02 '
Rauschpfeife	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
trombone	16 '
Trumpet	08th'
Clarine	04 '

Coupling: I / II, II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Playing aids: 3 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, fixed tongue combination, fixed mixture combination, fixed principal combination

Bells

A total of eleven bells hang in a steel bell cage in the spacious bell room, including the peace bell, the heaviest Protestant church bell in Bavaria. Overall, the peal of the Friedenskirche is one of the bells richest and with a weight of around 20.5 tons, it is also one of the heaviest in southern Germany.

Tabular list of the bells
No.	Surname	Casting year	Foundry, casting location	Mass (kg)	Diameter (mm)	Percussive ( HT - ¹ / ₁₆ )
1	Peace bell	1928	Franz Schilling sons, Apolda	8330	2344	f sharp ⁰ −3
2	John's bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	3523	1693	h ⁰ −2
3	Luther bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	2270	1487	cis ¹ −2
4th	Bishop Meiser Bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	1588	1370	dis ¹ −1
5	Children's church service bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	1280	1237	e ¹ −3
6th	Prayer bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	1126	1185	f sharp ¹ −2
7th	Lazarus-Spengler bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	0794	1047	g sharp ¹ -2
8th	Martin Schalling bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	0663	0964	h ¹ -2
9	Sigismund-von-Birken bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	0454	0852	c sharp ² -2
10	Georg-Philipp-Harsdörffer bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	0258	0711	e ² -2
11	Veit Dietrich bell	1959	Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, Heidelberg	0176	0630	f sharp ² -2

literature

Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: Friedenskirche . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : Friedenskirche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

49.459780555556 11.065305555556Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '35.2 " N , 11 ° 3' 55.1" E

[1] Information on the organ