Kreuzkirche (Saarbrücken-Herrensohr)
The Holy Cross Church is a church of the Protestant parish Dudweiler / Herrensohr in the Saarland state capital Saarbruecken in church district Saar-East of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
Due to the strong population growth in the 19th century, the parish of Dudweiler grew more and more and new parishes emerged. In the Herrensohr mining district founded in Dudweiler in 1856, a Protestant parish was established on January 1, 1903. In order to meet the wish of the Herrensohrer parishioners for their own church, a church building association was founded in 1893 . From 1899, until the church was built, services were initially held in a school hall.
From 1908 to 1909, the church was built according to plans by the architect Oskar Hossfeld , who, as a secret senior building officer in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, was responsible for church buildings to be built with government support. The local construction management was carried out by the Trier architect Ernst Brand.
The completed church was inaugurated on January 30, 1910 . At the same time as the church building, the parish house and the sister house were built in the immediate vicinity .
From 1946 to 1958 the church had to be renovated due to mountain damage . Due to storm damage in 1951, 2/3 of the church roof was covered. 1959–1960 a youth room was built into the basement. In the 1960s, the church suffered further mining damage, and further renovation measures had to be carried out on the exterior by 1971, which were led by the architects Windecker and Gorges (Dudweiler).
Since the community lacked a suitable community center, the now too large church was converted into a community center from 1973 to 1975 under the direction of the Trier architect Heinrich Otto Vogel in collaboration with the architect Martin Vogel. Additional community rooms were built into the church building, the actual church service room was made smaller and a ceiling was put in for a new floor. The nave church became a transept church. At the end of the renovation work, the church was given the name Kreuzkirche .
Architecture and equipment
The church building was built in the neo-Gothic style. The construction of the church was based on the Wiesbaden program , which includes requirements for Protestant church building. The altar , pulpit and organ are arranged one above the other inside the church.
The church is equipped with colored glazing . Furthermore, has the church a peal of four bells from the foundry Otto ( Saarlouis ), which was purchased 1958th
organ
The organ was built in 1979 by Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen ( Strasbourg , Alsace ) in a prospectus made of oak. The instrument with mechanical slider drawers has 17 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal, and is set up on a gallery . The console is free-standing with a view of the organ. A special feature of the organ is the unevenly floating mood.
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- Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P
Bells
The church has four bronze bells which were cast in 1958 by the Saarlouiser bell foundry , which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the bell foundry Otto in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer. The bells are tuned to g ′ - b ′ - c ′ - d ′ ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1042 mm, 876 mm, 780 mm, 695 mm and weigh approximately: 700 kg, 400 kg, 300 kg, 200 kg.
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 , page 666.
- Werner Franzen: Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Dissertation, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2002.
- Claudia Maas: The work of the architect Heinrich Otto Vogel. New construction and preservation of monuments under the aspect of "historical memory". Dissertation, Saarbrücken 1993.
Web links
- Evangelical parish Dudweiler / Herrensohr
- Literature on Kreuzkirche (Saarbrücken-Herrensohr) in the Saarland bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland at: www.ekir.de, accessed on October 27, 2012
- ↑ parishes on: www.evks-data.de ( Evangelical Saarland ), accessed on 27 October 2012
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list state capital Saarbrücken (PDF; 653 kB), accessed on October 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Information on the Kreuzkirche On the website of the Evangelical Church Community Dudweiler / Herrensohr , accessed on October 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c Information on the Kreuzkirche at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on October 27, 2012
- ↑ Organ of the Kreuzkirche (ev.) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on October 27, 2012.
- ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Historical Organs in Saarland, Regensburg 2015 S. 252nd
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular s. 398, 568 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 368, 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '24.9 " N , 7 ° 1' 1.1" E