Garrison Church Oldenburg
The Evangelical Lutheran Garrison Church Oldenburg is a church in Oldenburg built in the neo-Gothic style .
history
The church, built from 1901 to 1903 according to plans by the architect Jürgen Kröger at the northern end of Peterstraße in Oldenburg, was consecrated on October 18, 1903. The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg had already renounced its military sovereignty in 1866. Due to the military convention between Prussia and Oldenburg of July 15, 1867, the Oldenburg troops were incorporated into the Prussian army and assigned to the X Army Corps in Hanover . The garrison church served as a church for the Prussian Oldenburg Infantry Regiment No. 91 and the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 .
After the First World War the military community of the Reichswehr shrank and the church became for the Evangelical Lutheran. Church community Oldenburg opened as a place of worship with a solemn service on February 13, 1921. Since the autumn of 1926, the garrison church had its own parish choir, which also appeared in the military services.
With the armament of the Wehrmacht , which existed from 1936 under the National Socialists, the use of the garrison church changed again. From October 31, 1937, there was again a full-time local pastor at the Garrison Church. Since July 23, 1933, the parish council was - as in many other places - firmly in the hands of the German Christians by means of new elections under Reich law. During the church struggle, the garrison church was also the scene of the clashes. On October 21, 1936, Martin Niemöller spoke at the invitation of the Oldenburg pastor Rühe in the garrison church about "The Church of the Word". The three-year-long dispute with the army base administration resulted in the church parish terminating the lease agreement, which resulted in sole administration of the church by the military from October 1, 1939.
After the war, prayer services were held again in May 1945 by the parish in the garrison church. The Oldenburg bishop Wilhelm Stählin , who was introduced on March 13, 1946, chose the garrison church as a “place for practicing the liturgical renewal of the church” in response to the Synod's prohibition on holding Protestant masses in the actual main church, the Lamberti Church in Oldenburg, and during the main service time . As early as December 1945, he had expressed the wish that the church would become the property of Ev.-Luth. Oberkirchenrat may pass over. The talks that followed with the British military government failed because of the parish's veto. However, this allowed the Oberkirchenrat - initially for a period of two years - to draw up the sermon plan. This established a decades-long tradition of the garrison church as a place of preaching for the theological higher church councils. The last theological senior church councilor with the garrison church as the place of preaching was Rolf Schäfer until his retirement in 1994. From 1946, the evangelical mass was established on Sundays at 8:30 a.m. and the sermon service on Sundays at 10 a.m., so that both traditions became visible at the garrison church.
On November 30, 2014, Bishop Jan Janssen and Church President Martin Heimbucher celebrated the first Reformed service at the church, which had been Lutheran until then through the Protestant mass. Since then, the garrison church has also been home to the Evangelical Lutherans. Church in Oldenburg belonging to Reformed parishioners (around 4,500). The Evangelical Reformed Church celebrates a Reformed service on the first Sunday of each month and on all major church holidays. The garrison church in Oldenburg is the second Reformed preaching site next to the Evangelical Lutheran. Parish in Accum , which has maintained a Reformed preaching post for the local members of the parish who remained Reformed since the incorporation of the former Kniphausen rule into the County of Oldenburg in the 18th century. The garrison church thus forms a far-reaching symbol for the word "mild Lutheranism" coined by former Bishop Peter Krug in Oldenburg in the mirror-like coexistence of both denominational Protestant traditions in a place that has stood for the Protestant mass like no other in Oldenburg since Stählin.
On January 15, 1987, the parish acquired the church building from the Federal Republic of Germany, which until then had owned the church.
organ
The first organ was installed in 1903 by the Oldenburg organ builder Johann Martin Schmid . Today's organ comes from the organ building workshop of Alfred Führer in Wilhelmshaven and dates from 1965. The organ has 35 registers and is played with three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
The ringing consists of five bells cast by the Rincker company . The oldest bell was made in 1901 (Ø 73 cm), the other four in 1959 (Ø 93 cm), 1961 (Ø 104 cm) and 1982 (two bells Ø 67 cm and 60 cm).
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal (16th note) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holiday bell | 1959 | Rincker | 1040 | 638 | as 1 -9 | COME GOD CREATOR HOLY SPIRIT VISIT THE HEART OF PEOPLE YOURS (brass knuckles) |
| 2 | Prayer bell | 1959 | 930 | 456 | b 1 -10 | JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR WHO OVERCOMED DEATH RISEN (brass knuckles) | |
| 3 | Word bell | 1901 | 730 | 246 | of 2 -8 | and a pleasure to the people (flank) | |
| 4th | Evening Supper Bell | 1982 | 670 | 189 | it 2 -9 | PEACE ON EARTH (neck) | |
| 5 | Baptismal bell | 1982 | 600 | 133 | f 2 -9 | GLORY TO GOD ON HEIGHT (brass knuckles) |
See also
literature
- Rainer Schumann (Ed.): The Garrison Church of Oldenburg , Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89995-018-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Runge: Churches in the Oldenburger Land Volume III. Church districts Oldenburg 1 and 2 . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1988, ISBN 3-87358-298-8 , p. 157-168 .
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ Video of the bell ringing on youtube (as of January 7, 2019)
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 43.6 ″ N , 8 ° 12 ′ 40 ″ E