Immanuel Church (Saarbrücken)

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Immanuelkirche (Saarbrücken), tower
Another view of the church
View of the interior

The Evangelical Lutheran Immanuelkirche Saarbrücken is a Protestant church in Saarbrücken . It belongs to the church district of southern Germany of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK). The parish includes Saarbrücken and Walpershofen .

history

In 1852 the Evangelical Lutheran parish was founded. In the absence of a church building, the services were held in the auditorium of the Ludwiggymnasium in Saarbrücken , which at that time was housed in today's Friedenskirche . The church with rectory was built in 1902 after the approval of the state authorities for the plans submitted by the Saarbrücken architect August Rahfeld. Damage caused by the Second World War was repaired by the architect Albert Dietz from Saarbrücken from 1949 to 1953. Restorations took place in 1965, 1981 and the beginning of the 1990s.

architecture

The four-axis rectangular hall is adjoined by a retracted, raised semicircular apse in the neo-Romanesque style. The church has an octagonal west tower. The building is made of brick-red brick. The exterior is structured by framing the wall panels, wall templates and a round arch frieze. Twin windows made of pale loosely colored sandstone with set columns and cube capitals as well as overhanging arches over the window openings set accents in the wall surface.

A wide base cornice is cranked around flat buttresses that merge into pilaster strips above their sandstone cover plate . The arched frieze is cranked at the corner templates and extends to the roof of the apse. Two simple arched windows, one above the other, illuminate the west yoke, which is divided into two floors by the gallery. Thin half columns divide the apse into four sections. A simple dazzling dwarf gallery adorns this.

The church tower is a special architectural form in Saarland. It stands on five sides in front of the nave. On its northwest side, diagonally to the church axis, is the entrance with a richly stepped column portal and a cross-crowned eyelash shot. The architect August Rahfeld repeated the design elements of the nave on the tower.

Furnishing

The architect and glass painter György Lehoczky created two windows in the apse of the church between 1953 and 1954 on the subjects of Moses when handing over the tablets of the law and Jesus at the Sermon on the Mount .

The stonemason company Schiecke (Sömmerda / Erfurt) made a Luther rose from Thuringian sandstone in 1994 . A crucifix with a life-size body adorns the chancel.

The organ of the church was built in 1976 by the Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ). The on a loft established sliderchest -instrument has 9 (10) registers , spread over two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical.

literature

  • J. Baulig, H. Mildenberger, G. Scherer: Architectural Guide Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken 1998, p. 36.
  • György Lehoczky, 1901–1979, Saarbrücken 2010.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. (Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 315-316 and pp. 552 and 627.

swell

  • Files in the Evangelical Lutheran parish archive in Alt-Saarbrücken
  • Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, archive, holdings Saarbrücken, Immanuelkirche (Dossier K 838)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. (Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 315-316 and pp. 552 and 627.
  2. ↑ http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/architektur/artikel/-/kirchenbau-und-kunst-im-sakralen-raum-nach-1945-im-saarland-selbstaendige-evangelisch-lutherische-ki/ , accessed on 2. October 2014.
  3. ^ Organ of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (Heuduckstraße), Saarbrücken On: www.organindex.de. Retrieved April 27, 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 49 ″  E