Luther Church (Soltau)

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Luther Church

The Luther Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Soltau .

history

Laying of the foundation stone on July 20, 1910 with Superintendent Robert Stalmann
Side view
Interior view with organ

After the St. John's Church in Soltau burned down completely in 1906 and was supposed to be rebuilt, it was decided that a second church should be built in the city. The laying of the foundation stone of the Luther Church took place on July 20, 1910 at the gates of Soltau. Pastors Hermann Gehrs and Eduard Salfeld, District Administrator von Rappard and Mayor Scheel took part. In 17 months of construction, the church was built according to plans by the Hanoverian master builder Eduard Wendebourg in a mixed style of neo-Gothic, Romanesque and modern and consecrated on the 3rd Advent in 1911. It was one of the last large new church buildings before the First World War in the area of ​​the Hanoverian regional church .

In 1951 today's steel bells were procured after the two previous bells had been delivered in the First and Second World Wars .

In 1958, under the direction of Professor Ernst Witt , the then head of the regional church office for building and art maintenance, extensive renovations took place inside the church. The original ornamental colored room decoration by church painter Friedrich Koch was also destroyed and replaced by a simple gray paint.

Incidentally, the building structure and furnishings, including the altar and pulpit by the Braunschweig sculptor Wilhelm Sagebiel , have been almost completely preserved. Parts of the old paintwork were restored in the mid-1980s. In the meantime, the color version has been almost completely restored through a lot of donations and long, exhausting small-scale work.

organ

The original organ from 1911 was replaced in 1977 by a new instrument, which was built by the organ building company von Beckerath (Hamburg). Only the sub-bass 16 ′ and the wind turbine, which can also be operated by Kalkanten , were reused . The historic organ prospectus comes from the court organ builder Johann Meyer from 1850 and was taken over from a church in Eschede . The instrument has 18 registers (slider drawers). The organ's playing and stopping actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Coupling flute 4 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Mixture IV-VI
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
9. Wooden dacked 8th'
10. recorder 4 ′
11. Principal 2 ′
12. Terzian II
13. Quintzimbel III
14th Hopper shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. octave 8th'
17th octave 4 ′
18th bassoon 16 ′

Web links

Commons : Lutherkirche Soltau  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ See the parish website for more information , as of December 21, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 11.5 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 52 ″  E