Luther Church (Leipzig)

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Luther Church in Leipzig's Bachviertel (2009)

The Luther Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church at Johannapark in Leipzig's Bachviertel . It is part of the Forum Thomanum education campus .

history

In 1883, Oskar Pank from the Nikolaikirche , later pastor at the Luther Church, initiated a church building association, which city officials joined and which also produced the Luther Church. It was the first re-establishment of a Protestant church since the 16th century in "Alt-Leipzig" and was built after the laying of the foundation stone in 1883 from 1884 at the north-western end of the Johannapark . The design came from Julius Zeißig , the construction management was in the hands of Gustav Mucke . A total of 225,000 marks were spent on the construction. The Anglo-American church was originally supposed to be built at Johannapark, but then swapped places with the Luther Church and was built at the same time on the corner of Sebastian-Bach-Strasse and Schreberstrasse. The church in today's Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße was consecrated in April 1886 and named after the reformer Martin Luther on the occasion of his 400th birthday .

A fire in 1888 spared the main parts of the church. The re-consecration took place in November 1888. A year later the Luther parish was founded from the Thomas parish ( Thomaskirche ), Alfred Jeremias became its first pastor. The roof was damaged by the Allied air raids on Leipzig in December 1944 and the colored church windows were destroyed. In 1945 the church was then covered with a protective sheet of corrugated iron . In 1955/56 a new wooden roof structure was realized. After the Pauline Church was blown up in 1968, the Catholic provost held services in the Luther Church. In 1973 the church received a new table altar when the Behr altar was demolished . In 1977 the stairwells to the gallery were walled up, and the surfaces on the wall and vault were given white paint. In 1990/91 the roof was re-covered.

In 2002, the Luther parish merged with the parish of St. Thomas-Matthäi to form the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Thomas. The Luther Church, which offers 900 seats in the nave and on the side galleries as well as space for 80 singers in the choir gallery , is used for special services, baptisms and weddings as well as concerts. The Greek Orthodox Church of St. George also uses the church for their services. The Luther Church will be redesigned as a multifunctional space by the architects Weis & Volkmann as part of the Campus Forum Thomanum by 2017 - the decision dates back to 2002 - so that it can then also be used as a school auditorium, performance and recording room.

Historical views

Interior

pulpit

Pulpit, Luther Church Leipzig (2011)

The pulpit on the right choir arch is made of dark-stained oak and was made in the neo-Gothic style in 1886 by the sculptor Franz Schneider . The pulpit is held in place by bundle pillars . In the fields the pulpit parapet were woodcut - medallions of the four evangelists with the associated symbols represented Taurus, Leo, man and eagle.

Baptismal font

The hexagonal baptismal font from 1886 is made of sandstone and Rochlitz porphyry . It is 95 cm high and 67 cm in diameter.

Altarpiece

The signed altarpiece by the Dutch history and landscape painter James Marshall (1889), a scaled-down copy of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci , has been hanging on the front wall of the choir since 1973. It is 1.22 m high and 2.39 m wide.

Kreutzbach organ

The Luther Church in 1886 on the W-gallery with a Kreutz Bach equipped -Orgel, the 28 registers to pneumatically traktierten sliderchest got. A fire damaged the organ in 1888, but it was rebuilt while the console was moved .

I Manual
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viol 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Reed flute 8th'
6th Quintatön 8th'
7th octave 4 ′
8th. Reed flute 8th'
9. Intoxicating fifth II
10. Cornett IV
11. mixture IV
II manual
12. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Flauto amabile 8th'
16. Salizional 8th'
17th Aeoline 8th'
18th octave 4 ′
19th Flauto traverso 4 ′
20th (Progressio) Harmonica III
pedal
21st Principal bass 16 ′
22nd Violonbass 16 ′
23. Sub-bass 16 ′
24. Octave bass 8th'
25th Thought bass 8th'
26th Octave bass 4 ′
27. trombone 16 ′

The company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen took in 1936 following Umdisponierung before; In 2000 the organ was restored.

I Manual
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Quintatön 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Wooden flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. recorder 2 ′
10. Cornett II-IV
11. mixture IV
12. Trumpet 8th'
II manual
13. Quintadena 16 ′
14th Wooden principal 8th'
15th Dumped 8th'
16. Reed flute 4 ′
17th Pointed flute 2 ′
18th Sif flute 1'
19th Sesquial tar II
20th cymbal II
pedal
21st Principal bass 16 ′
22nd Sub-bass 16 ′
23. Octave bass 8th'
24. Thought bass 8th'
25th Octave bass 4 ′
26th Principal 2 ′
27. trombone 16 ′
28. Krummhorn 8th'

Relief plate

For Luther's 450th birthday (1933), the Leipzig School of Applied Arts donated a rectangular relief plate made of artificial stone , which is attached to the front wall of the ship. It is 1.90 m high and 90 cm wide. The plate bears an inscription.

Bell jar

The church is equipped with a bronze church bell from the company GA Jauck , which bears an inscription from Psalm 118.

Exterior

portal

Tympanum, Luther Church Leipzig (2008)

The Luther Church was built in the neo-Gothic style as a vaulted brick building with a cross-shaped floor plan. It can be entered via a step portal and has a 65 m high church tower on the north side. In the tympanum below the gable with the Luther rose there is a mosaic from the Villeroy & Boch company with the Lamb of God together with the victory flag and Book of Life . The statues of the apostles of Peter and Paul can be seen on two consoles , which were originally created by the Dresden sculptor Hermann Christian Möller .

Seyfferth tomb

At the back of the church is the grave of the Wilhelm Seyfferth family from 1838. Seyfferth was the founder of Johannapark and named it after his daughter. His bones were transferred from the old Johannesfriedhof to the church in 1927 . The weathered grave slab bears the inscription: DER FAMILIE SEYFFERTH MDCCCXXXVIII.

people

literature

  • Matthias Gretzschel , Hartmut Mai : Churches in Leipzig, Writings of the Leipzig History Association NF / Bd. 2, Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1993, p. 28 f.
  • Hartmut Mai with the participation of Matthias Gretzschel (arrangement): Luther Church, in: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of Saxony, part of the city of Leipzig, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, pp. 719–728.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1998, p. 542.
  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig: Architecture from the Romanesque to the present, Passage-Verlag, 2nd edition, Leipzig 2004, p. 215 f.
  • Vera Denzer / Andreas Dix / Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig: a regional study, landscapes in Germany, vol. 78, Böhlau, Cologne 2015, pp. 185–187.

Web links and individual references

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Leipzig: Greek Orthodox Community "Heiliger Georg", in: http://www.leipzig.de/detailansicht-resse/griechisch-orthodoxe-gemeinde-heiliger-georg/ , as of September 7, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 47 ″  E