Luther Church (Solingen)

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Luther Church in Solingen (2013)

The Protestant Martin Luther Church in the center of Solingen was built on Kölner Strasse between 1898 and 1901 according to plans by the architects Adolf Cornehls and Arno Eugen Fritsche . As the only one of the three large churches in the center of Solingen, it survived the Second World War largely unscathed.

The building has been a listed building since August 9, 1988 .

architecture

The church presents itself as a massive neo-Romanesque central building on the plan of a Latin cross . The building rises 2.50 meters above street level. One of Basalt existing base and the outer walls of greywacke give the building a massive and monumental note. The crossing tower is 85 meters high and is framed by four buttress towers. At the top sits a slim, octagonal spire. The portal of the church is large and has a variety of sculptural decorations.

history

At the end of the 19th century, after the Protestant parish began to consider building a new church in Solingen, in 1895 the parish acquired a corner plot of land on today's Martin-Lutherstrasse and Kölner Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 229 ) in the south of the city, in the immediate vicinity of the train station . Construction work began in 1898; three years later, on October 31, 1901, the new building was inaugurated, initially under the name New Church . In 1914 the church was named after the reformer Martin Luther .

During the Second World War, the church bells were melted down. With the exception of a carelessly removed dud , the structure did not suffer any significant damage, in contrast to the two churches in the closer inner city of Solingen. which were badly hit in the bombing raids in early November 1944. In the period that followed, extensive renovation work ensured that the building was preserved.

In 2011, the church was threatened with abandonment, as the congregation had suffered from a decline in membership for some time and could no longer raise the funds for maintenance. After massive popular opposition to this decision, the community received extensive financial support from the public. In this way, the maintenance of the church could initially be guaranteed.

Furnishing

Today's organ is already the fifth organ in the church. The instrument was inaugurated in 1960, built by the organ builder Weyland using parts of the case and pipe material from a predecessor instrument by Orgelbau Seiffert. The organ has 53 registers on pocket drawers; the tractors are electro-pneumatic.

I main work C–
01. Praestant 16 '
02. Octave 08th'
03. Open flute 08th'
04th Gemshorn 08th'
05. Super octave 04 '
06th Covered flute 04 '
07th Field whistle 02 '
08th. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
09. Large mix V-VI
10. Sharp IV
11. Trumpet 16 '
12. Trumpet 08th'
II Swell C–
13. Covered pommer 16 '
14th Principal 08th'
15th Cane-covered 08th'
16. Pointed Gamba 08th'
17th Octave 04 '
18th Night horn 04 '
19th Cane fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
20th Super octave 02 '
21st Coupling flute 02 '
22nd Whistle 01'
23. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  '
24. Mixture VI-VIII
25th Third cymbal III
26th Trumpet 08th'
27. Rohrschalmey 04 '
III Oberwerk C–
28. Quintadena 08th'
29 Covered 08th'
30th Principal 04 '
31. Reed flute 04 '
32. Octave 02 '
33. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
34. Third bell tone II
35. Sharp cymbals IV-VI
36. Rankett 16 '
37. Krummhorn 08th'
38. Schalmey shelf 04 '
Pedals C–
39. Principal bass 16 '
40. Sub bass 16 '
41. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  '
42. Octavbass 08th'
43. Gdeckbass 08th'
44. Choral bass 04 '
45. Pointed flute 04 '
46. Gemshorn 02 '
47. Rauschpfeife III
48. Backset VI
49. Contrabassoon 32 '
50. trombone 16 '
51. Bass trumpet 08th'
52. Clarine 04 '
53. Cornett 02 '
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids: typesetting combination, roller, pleno, tutti
  • Effect register: Zimbelstern

Web links

Commons : Lutherkirche (Solingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 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. on solingen.de , accessed on December 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  2. ↑ Brief portrait on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on December 24, 2014
  3. ^ Newspaper report in the Solinger Morgenpost of September 22, 2012, accessed on December 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 54 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 45.1"  E