Holy Cross Church (Röthenbach an der Pegnitz)

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Holy Cross Church (northwest view)

The Holy Cross Church is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Röthenbach an der Pegnitz and is a listed building . It has had its current name since 1954. Its neo-Gothic exterior facade is one of the most important of its time.

history

The Evangelical Lutheran Christians in Röthenbach received their own parish on November 12, 1911 . Until then, they were connected to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Georg in the neighboring Rückersdorf and had to go there for church services. Since the beginning of the 20th century they had their own vicar at their side in Röthenbach, but there was no church with enough space for the Protestant population of Röthenbach, which had risen sharply since the middle of the 19th century. There were only small rooms converted into prayer rooms.

In 1902 a church building association was established. After several years of planning - initially with the architect Hans Fourné (Nuremberg) - the architect Heinrich Hauberrisser was commissioned to build a new church in May 1909. The foundation stone was laid on September 26, 1909; At the beginning of 1912, the exterior work was completed. After delays in the work on the interior, in which Walter Crane , Fritz Zadow and Georg Kölnsperger were artistically involved, the new parish church was inaugurated on May 17, 1914.

The planning and construction of the church were closely accompanied and promoted by the Röthenbach industrialist family Conradty ; it also bore most of the total cost.

In 1943 and 1944 the building suffered damage from air raids . Major church renovations were carried out in 1955/1956 and 1986/1987.

architecture

View from the west choir into the nave

The outside facade of the church - with a length of 42 m, a width of 22 m and a ridge height of the nave of 24 m (tower height 50 m) - is in the neo-Gothic style. In the interior, forms of neo-Romanesque , neo-gothic and neo-baroque dominate ; but it also contains elements of Art Nouveau .

The three-aisled nave is characterized by arches in the neo-Romanesque style on the ground floor, which demarcate the two aisles and the eastern entrance area of ​​the central nave and carry the gallery . On the other hand, the transition to the side aisles on the gallery itself is designed with neo-Gothic pointed arches . The upper end of the nave is through a ribbed vault .

Until the renovation in 1955/1956 there was a large tracery window on the east wall behind the organ , which was then walled up to prevent the organ from being exposed to the weather.

Furnishing

altar

View into the west choir

Made by sculptor Fritz Zadow according to Heinrich Hauberrisser's plans , the altar and the altar structure are made of Untersberg marble . Crowned by Christ on the cross , to whose right hand Mary and her John stand opposite , the large central relief under the cross shows Jesus in the midst of his disciples at the Last Supper . The left side relief as seen from the nave is carved out as the “Lamb of God who bears the sins of the world”. In allusion to Psalm 42: 2 , a "deer thirsting for water" appears in the right side relief.

Choir window

Glass mosaic window in the west choir; in front of it one of the large chandeliers

The colorful glass mosaic windows of the west choir were made by Joseph Arthur Dix in the London workshop of Walter Crane . The art nouveau-inspired motif plays with biblical motifs ( e.g. from Malachi , the Revelation of John or Psalm 141 ), which aim at life in the kingdom of God .

pulpit

Pulpit with sound cover

The pulpit and sound cover (standing at the northern transition from the nave to the choir) are from Heinrich Hauberrisser's designs. Five round columns, together with an octagonal base, support the octagonal pulpit, whose style is based on the Renaissance . Like the stairs up to the pulpit, these elements are made of polished Jurassic limestone . On the side facing the nave there is a relief on the pulpit parapet that takes up a motif from the Revelation of St. John: God sitting on the throne, flanked by seven candlesticks and the writing evangelist John at his feet. Above this relief, another relief with an angel , placed on the pulpit, serves as a book cover.

The gable-shaped sound cover above the pulpit, on the other hand, follows the Art Nouveau design, consists of chased antique brass and is crowned with a Greek cross on a ball . At four of its corners it is adorned with the symbols of the evangelists (winged person, lion, bull, eagle). In the gable fronts in between, chalices and ears of wheat are alternately driven as reliefs - as a citation of the Last Supper.

Baptismal font

In the north-eastern entrance area of ​​the nave, under the organ, there is the font , which is also octagonal and also made of Jura limestone . Its execution is based on the Romanesque. On the other hand, the design of the tall copper cover follows the Art Nouveau style.

chandelier

Three large brass lustres , lavishly decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments, characterize the nave and the chancel and make the room shine, especially with their lower glass hangings made of around 1000 hand-blown pearls. Originally one of these candlesticks was also hung in the north and south transepts. During the renovation in 1955/1956, these two candlesticks were removed. At that time, the glass hangings of the remaining candlesticks were also removed. In the course of the renovation in 1986/1987, the missing glass hangings were reconstructed and reassembled.

Ceiling painting

Vault and chandelier (nave)

All the vault paintings by Georg Köllnsberger date back to 1912. The vault borders in the nave are decorated with leaf tendrils. In the spandrels of the southern and northern vaults of the nave, seen from the eastern entrance area, there are each facing each other: James the Elder and Thomas , Peter and Andreas , Bartholomäus and Philip . Simon and Matthias are sitting in the arch of the south transept; analogous to James the Younger and Thaddäus in the north transept .

For the spandrels of the vault above the crossing , Köllnsberger chose statues of the great prophets of the Old Testament : Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel .

During the renovation in 1955/1956, the vault paintings, which were partially damaged by the war , were whitewashed with white paint. They were uncovered and reconstructed in the course of the renovation in 1986/1987.

Family crypt, burial chapel, oratory, honor tablets

At the suggestion of the church building association, the family crypt of the Conradtys was installed under the chancel during the construction of the church . With this crypt (it is "one of the most beautiful and valuable treasures that the Holy Cross Church has to offer"), with the establishment of a separate burial chapel to the left of the chancel and an oratory above this burial chapel, which is exclusively reserved for the family According to the will of the church building association, the affixing of honor plaques in the church should be a stone testimony to the future of the Conradty family of industrialists from Röthenbach and remind forever of its generosity, without which the church could not have been built.

organ

Art Nouveau prospectus of the Strebel organ
View from the "roof" of the swell into the nave
Console of the Strebel organ (detail)
One of the angel heads on the organ front (optional)

The organ from Johannes Strebel's Orgelbau-Anstalt was commissioned in 1910 and was already installed in the gallery above the east entrance before the church was inaugurated, namely in 1913.

The prospectus, which is occupied by 146 pipes and consists almost entirely of free-standing pipes, is designed in the Art Nouveau style: the three bands in the upper area of ​​the prospectus pipes and the large panels on the pipe feet are made of antique brass into which Art Nouveau ornaments are driven (vines and grapes). The two side panels bear angel heads on the right and left, over which large angel wings close.

The “splendidly successful work” in the Holy Cross Church has long been the largest of the Strebel organs that have been preserved and has never been given a tonal or technical modification. Like the entire church, the organ is also a listed building. For the first time after 1913, a general overhaul took place in 2002, which was carried out by the organ building company Benedikt Friedrich (Oberasbach).

Disposition : 30 labial registers, 2 lingual registers, tube-pneumatic action.

I Hauptwerk  C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Double flute 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Covered 8th'
Flauto dolce 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell  C – g 3
Covered 16 ′
Aeoline 8th'
Echo Bourdon 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Violin principal 8th'
Vox coelestis 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Flauto traverso 4 ′
Praestant 4 ′
Flautino 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Cornettino III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal  C – f 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
violoncello 8th'
Salicetbass 8th'
Choral bass 8th'
trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Super octave coupling: II
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 5 fixed combinations (p, mf, f, ff, Tutti), 2 free combinations, manual 16 ′ down, hand register down, reeds down, automatic piano pedal, crescendo roller , calcant bell

Bells

In the belfry, there are 3 bells , distributed on two levels, which were cast by the Bochum Association for Mining and Cast Steel Manufacture . They rang for the first time on February 19, 1911, long before the church was consecrated in 1914. In addition to the manufacturer's information, the largest bell that occupies the entire lower level bears the engraving: “Donated by masters of the Grünthal factory”. The other two read: "Donated by the workers of the Grünthal factory." The text of a passage from the Bible is also applied to each of the bells:

  • “Commit your ways to the Lord and hope in him; he will do it "( Ps 37,5  LUT ) on the smallest bell that sounds in As 1 .
  • “Let the little children come to me” ( Lk 18,16  LUT ) on the middle bell, which is therefore also called and used as the baptismal bell, and which sounds in f 1 .
  • “I know that my Redeemer lives” ( Job 19.25  LUT ) on the largest bell that rings in d 1 .

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the Evangelical Church in Röthenbach b / L . Nürnberg undated ([1914]. With numerous illustrations.).
  • Evangelical Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz (ed.): 75 years of the Holy Cross Church of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz 1914–1989 (Festschrift) . Röthenbach an der Pegnitz 1989.
  • Church leader Holy Cross Church. Röthenbach ad Pegnitz.
  • Werner Holzinger: 100 years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014 (special feature: contains photos of the Conradty family's crypt, which is not open to the public.).
  • Wilhelm Schwemmer: Röthenbach an der Pegnitz: The history of an industrial city . Ed .: Altnürnberger Landschaft eV Nürnberg 1982 (p. 67 (Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche), p. 74–76 (Conradty company)).

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Röthenbach)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: List of architectural monuments in Röthenbach an der Pegnitz , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on August 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 16-19 .
  3. ^ Applied painter and illustrator, Munich, 1874–1932
  4. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 13-15, 20-21 .
  5. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 98 .
  6. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 90-91 .
  7. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 30-43 . See here on p. 46 the floor plan of the church with dimensions.
  8. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 51, p. 63, p. 70 .
  9. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 28 (with illustration of the tracery window 1914).
  10. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 86-89 .
  11. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 54-61 .
  12. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 73-74 .
  13. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 77 .
  14. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 75-76 .
  15. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 78-79 .
  16. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 64-69 .
  17. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 93 .
  18. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 92-95 .
  19. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 21 .
  20. ^ Konrad Klek: Strebel (family) . In: Hermann J. Busch, Matthias Geuting (Ed.): Lexicon of the organ . 3rd enlarged and corrected edition. Laaber, Köthen 2011, p. 763 .
  21. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 80-83 .
  22. ↑ Completed organ works . In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau . tape 33 , no. 16 of March 1st. Leipzig 1913, p. 649 .
  23. ↑ Werner Holzinger: 100 Years of the Holy Cross Church 1914–2014 . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Schwaig 2014, p. 47 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 52 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 2 ″  E