Church of the Good Shepherd (Guben)
The Church of the Good Shepherd is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the town of Guben in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Lausitz church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church .
History and architecture
In the immediate vicinity of the church, Friedrich Wilke's hat factory was located at the beginning of the 20th century . When his youngest son Karl Emil Friedrich died in an accident in 1901, he donated a new church to the community. The construction costs were estimated at 61,500 marks at the time ; in a city chronicle from 1925, however, a sum of 130,000 marks is mentioned.
The building was built in 1902–1903 by the Guben construction company Budewitz based on designs by the Berlin architects Otto Spalding and Alfred Grenander . Spalding and Grenander were faced with the challenge on the relatively small plot of land between the road and the Berlin Straupitzstraße the church faces east to arrange. By placing it in the middle of the property, small green areas were created to the north and south, as well as a church forecourt with a fountain and a bench on Straupitzstrasse.
The entire building was provided with a light yellow mortar plaster from which portals , cornices , plinths and window frames in red Magdeburg sandstone stand out. The interior consists of a rectangular, two-and-a-half bay room with a cross vault . The choir bay was enlarged with wide arched openings on the long sides, which are reminiscent of a side aisle . The organ loft rests on pillars that are closed off like a console in a narrower yoke facing west. Spalding and Grenander used both Art Nouveau and Romanesque elements for the shapes and décor - both of which are rather untypical in this region, as is the interior folding seats and swing doors. The inauguration took place in June 1903.
Interior decoration
The church is named after an altarpiece "The Good Shepherd" by Paul Thumann . It shows Jesus Christ with a lamb in his arms. Thumann was friends with the Wilkes and at the time worked in Groß Schacksdorf near Forst (Lausitz) . The three colored glass windows in the Wilkes' former family box on the right in front of the altar show the three theological virtues "Faith, Love, Hope" and were based on a design by Grenander.
There are three bells in the church. Furthermore, we find a painting of the founder, a Luther statue from bronze and a plaque for the fallen members of the community of the First World War .
organ
The organ was made by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer from Frankfurt (Oder) in 1903. It has pneumatic cone chests and eight registers , distributed over two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Tutti.
Renovation work
In the 1980s the church was extensively renovated. Werner Juza's colored glass windows, which are still preserved today, were also installed in the altar area. Thumann's painting above the altar was removed and placed to the right of the choir. An organ builder restored the organ from January 1992 to August 1992.
Cooperation with the Naëmi-Wilke-Stift
As early as 1887 Wilke donated a children's hospital to the city, the Naëmi-Wilke-Stift , after his daughter Naëmi died of typhus on April 18, 1874 at the age of almost 13 . The hospital established numerous branch offices in the German Empire over the next 50 years . After the division of Germany , the monastery had to look for new ways to maintain cooperation with the sisters working in the FRG . In 1951 the " Diakonissenwerk der Evangelisch-Lutherischen (Old Lutheran) Church " was founded. Today both institutions belong to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK), the successor to the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church. A pastor of the parish is also the rector of the monastery and belongs to the hospital board, the other pastor not only works as the parish pastor of the parish of the Good Shepherd, but also as a hospital chaplain.
literature
- Christiane Salge: "... in Gothicizing forms and yet not antiquarian". The Wilke Villa and the Lutheran Church in Guben by Otto Spalding and Alfred Grenander. In: Xenia Riemann (Ed.): Duration and change. Festschrift for Harold Hammer-Schenk on his 60th birthday. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-20-1 , pp. 170-184. ( online at Google Books )
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Historical recordings of the church
- Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation of the Good Shepherd
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christiane Salge: "... in Gothicizing forms and yet not antiquarian". The Wilke Villa and the Lutheran Church in Guben by Otto Spalding and Alfred Grenander. In: Xenia Riemann (Ed.): Duration and change. Festschrift for Harold Hammer-Schenk on his 60th birthday. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-20-1 , pp. 170-184, on construction costs p. 175. ( online at Google books )
- ^ Organ in Guben , seen July 29, 2016.
- ↑ Old Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd , website of the Scheffler organ workshop, accessed on July 1, 2013.
- ↑ 139th anniversary of Naëmi Wilke's death ( memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church, accessed July 1, 2013.
- ↑ Naëmi-Wilke-Stift Guben , website of the monastery, accessed on July 1, 2013.
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 6.1 " N , 14 ° 42 ′ 54.3" E