Jakobuskirche (Aschaffenburg)

St. Jakobus Church Center, 2010

The St. Jakobus Church Center was built in 1997 in the Aschaffenburg district of Nilkheim .

history

Already in 1825 there were Protestant families on the Hofgut of Baron Carl Constantin Victor of Mergen tree for their pastoral care he even at the Bavarian King I. Ludwig made representations.

After the Second World War, services were held in a school hall. In 1964 the "Evangelical Association Nilkheim" was founded with the aim of erecting a church building and promoting the religious life of the evangelical parishioners. With a Jakobuskirchsaal built in 1967 on Ulmenweg, you had a simple building, but could celebrate worthy services.

building

With the construction of the new district center on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, the location for the St. Jakobus church center was also found. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 14, 1995 and the foundation stone was laid on October 14 of the same year. According to the plans of the Munich architect Theodor Hugues , a 12 m high cube was created with a church, multi-purpose rooms, library, youth cellar and a 200 m ² inner courtyard. The church interior with approx. 200 seats can be expanded by 50 seats with the foyer.

Under a barrel vault with interesting lighting effects (sky tent), a brick pulpit, a wooden altar, over which hangs a modern triptych in the shape of a cross - the resurrection of Jesus - by the Stuttgart sculptor Lukas Derow . On June 1, 1997, in the presence of Oberkirchenrat Ernst Bezzel, Ansbach , Dean Dr. Manfred Kießig, Pastor Martin Schardt-Schmidt and Pastor Thomas Schmidt handed over the church center to its destination.

Bells

Three bells ring in the 15 m high, free-standing campanile, cast in 1997 in the Bachert brothers' bell foundry in Bad Friedrichshall - Kochendorf. The Christ bell (430 kg), the prayer bell (300 kg) and the baptismal bell (210 kg). A fourth bell is supposed to complete the ringing once.

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  Bells consecration 1997

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organ

Rohlfs organ from 2006

The organ from the Seitzenthal workshop of the organ builder Johannes Rohlf with the opus number 167 from 2006 has the following disposition :

I main work C – f 3 1. Drone 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Reed flute 4 ′ 4th Gemshorn 2 ′

II Positive C – f 3 5. Dumped 8th' 6th Principal 4 ′ 7th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Octave 2 ′ 9. third 4 ⁄ 5 ′

Pedal C – f 1 10. Sub-bass (from No. 1) 16 ′ 11. Octave bass (from No. 2) 8th'

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
• Canal tremendous throughout the work
• Mood after young concern

literature

• Aschaffenburg studies. II Documentations, Volume 12 - Nilkheim - From the Christian Settlement to the District , compiled by the Nilkheim History Working Group, publisher: Stadt Aschaffenburg, 1997, ISBN 3-922355-17-X

Web links

• Homepage St. Lukas Leider - St. Jakobus Nilkheim
• Portrait of Professor Dr. Theodor Hugue's 70th birthday 2007 (PDF file)
• Lukas Derow short biography
• The organ of St.Jakobus (PDF file; 43 kB)
• Geschwister-Scholl-Brunnen
• Nilkheim culture trail
• Homepage of the sculptor Derow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main-Echo No. 140 of May 27, 1997
2. ↑ Nilkheim photo documentation s. u.

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '50.1 "  N , 9 ° 7' 14.8"  E