Luther Church (Karlsruhe)

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Luther Church, Karlsruhe

The Evangelical Luther Church in Karlsruhe was built from 1905 to 1907 in the Oststadt . The Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg named it Monument of the Month for December 2018 .

history

In the eastern expansion of the city, the striking location at Durlacher Tor was occupied by the Catholic Bernhardus Church . A location on Durlacher Allee opposite Gottesauer Platz was chosen for a Protestant church . The block of church and rectory was planned as an ensemble with the surrounding residential development on Melanchthonstrasse in order to emphasize the embedding of the church in the community.

The design comes from Robert Curjel and Karl Moser . While the Christ Church , built a few years earlier by the same architects, still combined large neo-Gothic forms with Art Nouveau details, the monumental exterior of the Luther Church, which also includes neo-Romanesque elements, is, above all, completely characterized by Art Nouveau inside . Is located at the front of a sculpture of Oskar Kiefer , the Martin Luther represents. The huge, 53 meter high tower is like the church building made of yellow Palatinate sandstone. The tower of Basel's Badischer Bahnhof , which Curjel and Moser built around 1918, found its model here.

The interior layout, which is based on the centrally positioned elements of the altar, pulpit and organ, follows the church building ideals of the Wiesbaden program , according to which the structural layout should enable the faithful to concentrate on the preaching of the word and the accompanying music. As required, the architects placed the pulpit , altar and organ on top of each other in the central axis of the church interior in a huge column. They arranged the benches at a corner so that visitors can sit close to the action and with a clear view of the preacher. The Sermon on the Mount is depicted in a relief by Hermann Binz above the pulpit . Mosaics come from Heinrich Altherr . The windows by Max Laeuger and the organ by Heinrich Voit have not survived.

The foundation stone was laid in 1905 in the presence of Grand Duke Friedrich I , who was the regional bishop of the Protestant church in Baden. A “Fürstenauffahrt” on the side of the building leads to the loggia for the grand ducal family. The grand ducal couple donated the "marriage anniversary bell" on the occasion of their 50th anniversary.

After destruction in the Second World War during the bombing on 24/25. In April 1944, the church was restored from 1946, in 1961 new windows by Klaus Arnold installed, in 1984 the interior was restored true to the original.

organ

Since the organ from the company H. Voit & Söhne (Durlach) from 1907 was destroyed in the Second World War, the organ building company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (Ludwigsburg) built a new instrument for the Luther Church in the 1950s. Due to increasing wear and tear, it was decided in the 1990s to build a new organ - reusing some of the stops of the Walcker organ. Today's instrument with 41 registers was built by Mönch Orgelbau (Überlingen) and completed in 2001. The action actions are mechanical, the coupling and stop actions are electrical.

I main work C – a 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th flute 8th'
5. Drone 8th'
6th octave 4 ′
7th Reed flute 4 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
11. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – a 3
13. Drone 16 ′
14th Flute principal 8th'
15th viola 8th'
16. Vox coelestis 8th'
17th Hollow flute 8th'
18th Transverse flute 4 ′
19th Fugara 4 ′
20th Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Octavino 2 ′
22nd Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
23. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. tuba 8th'
25th Clarine 4 ′
26th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
III Schwell-Echowerk C – a 3
27. Violin principal 8th'
28. Salicional 8th'
29 Lovely covered 8th'
30th violin 4 ′
31. Flauto dolce 4 ′
32. Harmonia aetherea 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. English horn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
34. Pedestal 32 ′
35. double bass 16 ′
36. Sub bass 16 ′
37. Octave bass 8th'
38. violoncello 8th'
39. octave 4 ′
40. trombone 16 ′
41. Trumpet 8th'

literature

  • Elisabeth Bergmann (Ed.): The Karlsruhe Luther Church and the modern sacred building: artist, theory, equipment. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3803006929 .
  • Dany Jacqueline Gotzmann and Jürgen Krüger : The Luther Church in Karlsruhe. arte factum, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3938560075 .
  • Irene Burger, Dany Jacqueline Gotzmann, Jürgen Krüger, Ulrike Krumm: All around Luther. Festschrift for the 100th birthday of the Luther Church in Karlsruhe. arte factum, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3938560013 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Karlsruhe Luther Church . In: Denkmalstimme 3, 2019, p. 3
  2. ↑ Cross-section through the story online
  3. ^ Catalog of works by Mönch Orgelbau online

Web links

Commons : Lutherkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 29.3 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 24.8"  E