Luther Church (Bad Kösen)
The Luther Church in Bad Kösen is the church of the Protestant parish of Bad Kösen .
history
Until 1860 the community of Kösen was assigned to the parish in Schulpforte . In the village itself, a cemetery was only inaugurated in 1786 on the site of the later school, which was moved in 1845 to the right bank of the Saale to the location still used today and enlarged in 1873 and 1895. With the increasing number of bathing activities and the seasonal influx of bathers, the need for a place of worship grew. In 1853 the Council of Churches submitted a first petition to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. With the request for a gift of grace to be given to the building of a church in Kösen, but this was rejected with reference to the existing church in Pforte and a lack of funds for an additional clergyman . Nevertheless, a church building fund was soon set up. In 1855 plans to build a church on the site of the old cemetery were submitted, but a request to that effect was rejected by the Merseburg district government . The same applied to the proposal to build it next to the brine shaft.
Services were therefore initially only held twice a year in the Buchenhalle . From 1858, two priests from Naumburg took turns taking over Sunday services in the carpentry shed of the saltworks during the spa season.
The detachment of the community of Kösen (with Fränkenau , Kukulau and the Saal houses) on May 5, 1860, initially as a subsidiary community of Pforta, from 1867 as an independent community under royal patronage, was a major step towards building its own church . The saline shed was initially prepared for church services. The gate gave Kösen a parish endowment of 9,000 thalers , the prayer room , the parsonage (the former apartment of the salt works bookkeeper) and the cemetery. The first pastor was the assistant preacher and later pastor Wilhelm Barthold (until 1892). The provisional prayer room remained in use until 1894. In 1873, Kaiser Wilhelm I gave the community a three-part bell made from the bronze of a captured French gun.
Finally, the Luther Church was built as a three-aisled sandstone building in neo-Gothic style on the site of the former schoolhouse according to plans by the Halle architect Friedrich Fahro and under the direction of the Royal Building Councilor Werner as an expert on the parish council. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 19, 1892, the topping-out ceremony on November 15, 1893. The choir windows were made by the Institute for Glass Painting by Franke & Dusberger in Naumburg.
Fahro's construction plans were used again five years later for the Bonifatius Church in Altenbeichlingen .
The bronze bell was melted down for armament purposes in 1917 and replaced by a steel bell . It was not until 1924 that the church received a three-part bronze bell, of which the two larger bells were melted down again in 1941. In 1951 a steel bell was added again, and in 1958 another bronze bell was added. In 1959 the old bronze bells were melted down and three new ones in the pitches G sharp , B sharp and C sharp were cast.
In 1951/1952 and 1987–1990 conversions and renovations took place inside the church. The baptismal font was moved to the chancel , the panels for the fallen soldiers of the First World War, the paintings by Felix Possart and the canopy above the pulpit were removed.
organ
The organ was built in 1894 by the organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann (Zörbig) as Opus 156. The romantically arranged instrument has been preserved in its original form to this day; it has 25 stops on two manual works and a pedal. It was last extensively restored in 1996/97.
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- Coupling : I / I (sub-octave coupling), II / I, I / P, II / P.
- Playing aids: Four fixed combinations
literature
- Lutz Toepfer: A short outline of the history of the parish from 1860 to 1925. In: Luther Church and church music in Bad Kösen. 100 years of church life in Bad Kösen. Bad Kösen n.d., pp. 4–13.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bonifatiuskirche makes Altenbeichlingen famous. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung from July 15, 2013
- ↑ Information on the organ
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 4.8 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E