Little Church (Kaiserslautern)
 Entrance portal of the small church |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| place | Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Building history | |
| Client | Lutheran congregation |
| construction time | 1711-1717 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Hall construction |
| Furnishing style | Altar, wooden pulpit |
| 49 ° 26 '48.3 " N , 7 ° 46' 16.1" E | |
The Small Church , formerly the Luther Church , is a Protestant church building on the Union Square in Kaiserslautern . It is a cultural monument.
history
The little church was built by the Lutheran congregation between 1711 and 1717. In 1784 the "teachers and listeners" of the high school in Lautern donated a pulpit. During the Revolutionary Wars at the end of the 18th century, the interior of the church was devastated and many furnishings were stolen. Extensive renovation work was only carried out after 1817. In 1818 the union of Lutherans and Reformed people came about and the church became the property of the new congregation.
The Little Church was one of the few churches to survive the Second World War. Until 1950 it was the only usable church of the Protestant communities in Kaiserslautern. In 1977/78 the neighboring Catholic parish used the church for services after St. Martin was renovated during this time. In the following years, the small church, which has only been called that since the 1960s, was hardly used any more. Between 1991 and 1993 the building was extensively renovated and only then was used again more often for church services, but also for concerts and events.
architecture
The small hall building is crowned by a roof turret with a Welscher hood from 1754, which sits on the eastern gable. The plastered rectangular building without choir and aisles has two window axes with arched arches on the long sides and an entrance portal with a pilaster frame and an oculus in the triangular gable. The short sides also have two window axes with arched windows.
Furnishing
The altar from 1821, as well as the pews come from the collegiate church . Behind the altar is a wooden pulpit with a sound cover from 1806. The grave slabs of the two Lutheran church leaders Hans Georg Müller and Johannes Peter Christmann, which were positioned in the interior next to the entrances, were formerly outside. The interior of the flat-roofed church still largely has its classicist character from the 19th century.
organ
The organ dates from 1910 and was built by the Walker company . The case and prospectus of the old organ from the years 1818 and 1825 were included. The instrument stands on a wooden gallery.
Bells
The church bell from 1863 was cast by the Kaiserslautern bell caster Georg Hamm and is the oldest preserved in the city.
Web links
- The little church at kirchen-in-kl.de
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Lill: Administrative region of the Palatinate . In: A. Eckhardt, T. Gebhard: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern . R. Oldenbourg, Munich, 1942, pp. 89/90
- ↑ Informational directory of the cultural monuments in Kaiserslautern , p. 3 (PDF file; 1.48 MB)