Luther Church (Altenkessel)

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The Luther Church in Altenkessel

The Luther Church in the Altenkessel district of Saarbrücken is a Protestant church. It is a listed building.

history

The Protestant parishes of Altenkessel, Gerhardgrube, Großwald, Luisenthaler Glashütte, Neudorf and Rockershausen were combined in 1865 to form the Parish Vicariate of Luisenthal-Rockershausen, as the places had grown rapidly due to industrialization. In 1884, the Protestant believers from Viktoriaschacht, Schlehbach and Ritterstraße joined them. In 1875 Altenkessel became independent under the name "Evangelical Church Community Neudorf" and from 1956 was called "Evangelical Church Community Altenkessel".

When the independent parish was founded in 1875, the desire for its own church was expressed and in the same year a plot of land was acquired from the Saarbrücken miners' association. The project became topical in the early 1880s and the Saarlouis municipal master builder Carl Friedrich Müller was commissioned with the first sketches. In 1884 efforts were intensified and fundraising began. In 1885 Müller finally presented the building plans and estimated the costs at 68,000 to 70,000 marks.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 1, 1886, and the foundation stone was laid on June 24 of the same year. On November 1, 1887, the building contractor Richard Schmitt from Obervölklingen completed the construction work on schedule. The costs were also kept: 61,454 marks had to be paid for the construction, the interior furnishings cost 11,174 marks. The consecration took place on November 1, 1887.

In 1963 the church had to be extensively renovated. The dormers on the roof were removed under the direction of the architect Latherauch. In 1995 the church was renovated again. In 2003 the church was restored due to mountain damage . The chancel was also rebuilt and the interior was modernized. The architects Oliver Brünjes, Vera Burbach-Brünjes, Kristina Langenfeld and Alexander Schwab were responsible for this.

architecture

The neo-Gothic hall church without a transept was built in a north-south direction. In the south of the country house a slender tower has been placed in front of the main portal. An octagon with a pointed helmet was added to the square tower on the third floor. In the north, a drafted choir with a three-sided end was added. The choir arch is designed as a pointed arch. In the western corner of the choir and nave sits a small sacristy . The nave is defined by a high hall, which is divided into a central nave and two side aisles of equal height. Round columns with composite capitals support the yokes with the ribbed vaults .

The window axes of the nave are split in two. In the lower part there are small segment arch windows. Windows with pointed arches and tracery have been installed above . The three windows in the chancel date from 1955 and were created by the Saarbrücken architect and glass painter György Lehoczky . They represent the unbelieving Thomas , the risen Christ and the Emmaus disciples.

organ

The organ was created in 1980 by the Cologne organ builder Willi Peter and expanded in 1987. The game and register action are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Swiss pipe 2 ′
5. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Mixture IV 1'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
7th Covered 8th'
8th. English viol 8th'
9. Coupling flute 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Scharff III – IV 1'
13. shawm 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal Cf 1
14th Sub-bass 16 ′
15th Open flute 8th'
16. Chorale flute 4 ′
17th bassoon 16 ′

Bells

In 1954, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast for Ev. Church Altenkessel four bronze bells with the striking tones: g '- a' - e '' - d ''. The bells have the following diameters: 1036 mm, 923 mm, 776 mm, 691 mm. They weigh: 720 kg, 500 kg, 300 kg, 210 kg.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Altenkessel)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücken sub- monument list ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 3 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ Organ of the Luther Church at organindex.de, accessed on December 3, 2015
  3. ^ 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 pp. 87 to 95, 567 .
  4. ↑ 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 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '45.3 "  N , 6 ° 55' 2.5"  E