Luther Church (Chemnitz)

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Luther Church

The Evangelical Luther Church on Zschopauer Straße is one of three churches in Chemnitz that bear the name of the reformer Martin Luther .

description

The church, built by the architect Otto Kuhlmann in neo-Romanesque style with a 64 meter high cross tower, was inaugurated on April 1, 1908 after four years of construction. It was one of the first reinforced concrete buildings in Chemnitz . Due to its location on a gently sloping terrain, it protrudes from the Lutherviertel , visible from afar .

Furnishing

The interior is kept in a moderate Art Nouveau style. The altar and the pulpit are made of brown shell limestone . The artist Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt designed the glass windows, but they were never made.

organ

The organ comes from Wilhelm Sauer (1908) and is largely preserved in its original condition after the restoration in 2007. The instrument has 50 sounding registers (approx. 3000 pipes ) on three manuals and a pedal .

I. Manuals C – a 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Double flute 8th'
4th Flute 8th'
5. Bourdun 8th'
6th Gemshorn 8th'
7th Viola da gamba 8th'
8th. octave 4 ′
9. Reed flute 4 ′
10. Cornet III – IV
11. Intoxicating fifth II
12. Mixture III
13. bassoon 16 ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
II. Manuals C – a 3
15th Drone 16 ′
16. Principal 8th'
17th Concert flute 8th'
18th Reed flute 8th'
19th Schalmey 8th'
20th Quintatön 8th'
21st Salicional 8th'
22nd octave 4 ′
23. Transverse flute 4 ′
24. Piccolo 2 ′
25th Mixture IV
26th Clarinet 8th'
III. Manuals C – a 3
27. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
28. Principal 8th'
29 Solo flute 8th'
30th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
31. viola 8th'
32. Aeoline 8th'
33. Voix celestis 8th'
34. Distance flute 4 ′
35. Fugara 4 ′
36. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
37. Flautino 2 ′
38. oboe 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
39. Pedestal 32 ′
40. Principal 16 ′
41. Sub-bass 16 ′
42. Violon 16 ′
43. Dulciana 16 ′
44. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
45. octave 8th'
46. Bass flute 8th'
47. cello 8th'
48. octave 4 ′
49. trombone 16 ′
50. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

In 1972 were from last bell founder master Peter Schilling Apolda and his wife Margarete Schilling three bronze - Church bells designed, cast and delivered. The bells strike d 1 , e 1 , g 1 and weigh 3,623 kilograms.

Personalities associated with the Luther Church

The Nagel couple in front of the Luther Church (1912)

The traveling preacher gustaf nagel (1874–1972) and the piano teacher Johanna Maria Raith (* 1888) were married in the Luther Church on June 4, 1912 with great public sympathy.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disposition of the Sauer organ
  2. ↑ More information about the organ
  3. ↑ Eckehard Schwarz: From the life of a traveling preacher and temple guardian (edited by the tourist association Arendsee and surroundings eV). Arendsee 1997. p. 32f

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  E