Lukaskirche (Aschaffenburg)

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Lukaskirche with St. Lukasplatz

The Evangelical Church of St. Lukas is located in the Aschaffenburg district of Leider .

history

The old Leiderer Church, also known as the chapel in old documents, dates back to the second half of the 13th century in its oldest building parts and had St. Lawrence as the church patron. Services were celebrated in it until 1923, after which it was used as a youth home. Acquired in 1954 by the Evangelical Lutheran congregation, the St. Lukas Church is a place of worship for Evangelical Christians in Leider.

building

It is a medieval building that was later extended to the west. The choir is closed on three sides and has no retraction; it has arched windows from the 17th century. In the nave there are arched windows from the Baroque period in four axes . The church has a roof turret . Particularly noteworthy is the late Gothic sacrament niche inside . During extensive renovation work (1992–1994) it was found that the church had been expanded twice: The oldest part was built before 1350, presumably as a rectangular chapel made of broken stone and field stones . In the second construction phase, the three-sided closed choir and the sacristy were built around 1580 . The third construction phase from 1866 to 1867 is the extension to the west with a ridge turret. A dendrochronological report showed that the roof structure consists mainly of original wood from the 13th century.

Furnishing

During the first renovation in 1955, the old holy water basin , which today serves as a font , was exposed, and the exposed choir windows were given stained glass. In 1997 the Augsburg artist Anne Hitzker-Lubin created a cycle of windows and in 2001 the Darmstadt artist Thomas Duttenhoefer created the new altar cross .

Two tombstones from the cemetery, which was closed in 1871/72, are walled in around the church under the gallery . The cemetery cross was placed on the new cemetery in Sandrainweg .

organ

For the harvest festival on October 1, 1967, the organ work with six registers from the organ building company Walcker from Ludwigsburg was recorded in a church music ceremony by church music director Herman Schem.

I Manual C – f 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Reed flute 4 ′
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Octave 2 ′
5. Mixture II-III 1'
Pedal C – f 1
6th Sub-bass 16 ′

Slider chests, mechanical action , game console at the front, prospectus pipes above the keyboard. The opening above is covered by sound-permeable rod grilles.

Bell jar

In the roof turret a bell, cast in Lauingen (Danube) in 1774, rings with the Latin inscription "Saint Anthony of Padua , wrest your servants from all evils" and an Antonius relief with a child of Jesus, in the lower wreath it says "Antonius Weingarten from Lauingen has poured us all". The bell, which weighs 140 kg and probably comes from the Sudetenland or Silesia, came to Leider via the Erdinger bell foundry and was consecrated on November 11, 1956 by church councilor Georg Kaeßler. When she rang the bell for the first time, it was discovered that her “dis” fit wonderfully and harmoniously into the five-part bell of the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius.

Pastor

  • 1964–1976 Günter Buhl
  • 1976–1985 Hartmut Gehlert
  • 1986–1998 Thomas Schmidt and Martina Schardt-Schmidt
  • since 1998 Markus Geißendörfer and Susanne Arnold-Geißendörfer

Community center

According to the plans of the architect Josef Böhm from Aschaffenburg, a Protestant parish and parish house with a hall for up to 100 people, a youth room and a tea kitchen was built on the corner of Dreispitz and Planckstraße . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on July 12, 1963 and the inauguration was held on April 5, 1964 in the presence of district dean, Oberkirchenrat Heinrich Koch, Ansbach and the Aschaffenburg dean Lic. W. Schilberg.

Seagull fountain on St. Lukasplatz

St. Luke's Square

The square in front of the church with the old schoolhouse (now community center ) graces the gulls Fountain, a work Gunter Ullrich and the art caster Jörg Grundhöfer, as well as the small sculpture Leiderer milkmaid of Leiderer sculptor Ludwig Fischer, in bronze also cast by Jörg Grundhöfer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg - Stiftsmuseum
  2. ↑ Felix Mader : The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria Lower Franconia XIX City of Aschaffenburg , Munich 1918
  3. ↑ Stadtheimatpfleger Ernst Holleber, Aschaffenburg im Main-Echo No. 192 of August 21, 1992
  4. ↑ Architect Alois Peter Becker, Erlenbach im Main-Echo No. 256 of November 5, 1992
  5. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association eV, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
  6. ↑ Main-Echo No. 262 of November 12, 1956

literature

  • Aschaffenburg studies. II. Documentations, Volume 10 - Living in Leider - Portrait of a district. , edited by Wilhelm Kaup, Wolfgang Kaup, Klaus Hapke, publisher: Stadt Aschaffenburg, 1995, ISBN 978-3-922355-15-1

Web links

Commons : St. Lukas Aschaffenburg-Leider  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 49 ″  E