Saarbrücken emergency church

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Saarbrücken emergency church (west view)
The wooden emergency church Saarbrücken (east view)

The Notkirche am 40er Grab is a Protestant church in Saarbrücken . It is located on Spichererbergstrasse in the Alt-Saarbrücken district . The church is a listed building.

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Historic postcard with the grave of the three soldiers
Today's (2015) view of the 40s grave

East of the entrance to the church is the grave of three soldiers of the Hohenzollers Fusilier Regiment No. 40 from the Franco-German War , from which the name of the church originated. On August 2, 1870, French troops buried four forties in the grave under a sign that read "Ci-gisent quatre braves soldats prussiens." Sergeant Rudolf Caesar, who was buried there, was exhumed and transferred to his hometown Idar. The Saarbrücker Beautification Association covered the grave with a sandstone slab with the inscription "Here rest 3 forties who died in the defense of Saarbrücken."

history

The church was built as a military barrack in Switzerland during the Second World War . In April 1946, at the mediation of the Ecumenical Council in Geneva , the American Lutheran Church donated the wooden barracks chapel No. 9 as an emergency church . Since the center of Saarbrücken was devastated after the end of the war, the building was erected on urban land on the outskirts of the community. The church was inaugurated on September 29, 1946. The first bell of the emergency church, made from metal donations from parishioners, was inaugurated on Easter Sunday 1946. The bell was cast in 1953 for 18,000 francs in the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg . In February 1947 a kindergarten was set up in the church, and an altar table was purchased in December. The kindergarten was used until the establishment of Protestant kindergartens on Gärtnerstrasse and Mondorfer Strasse. From 1952 to 1980, when it was connected to the gas supply network, the emergency church was heated with two Gema anthracite long-burning stoves at a price of 55,755 francs. For 600,000 francs, a positive organ was built in 1953 by master organ builder Lotar Hintz in a specially built niche.

architecture

The emergency church is one of the few surviving and ecclesiastically used emergency wooden churches, more precisely barack churches, in Germany. The single-storey, single-nave, single-nave structure with a floor plan of 20 m by 9 m has a flat gable roof with a bell-shaped roof. In 1952, minor changes were made to the interior and an organ niche was added on the east side. The two windows of the church in the gable field above the altar were designed by György Lehoczky in 1953 . The windows are split in two and lead glazed and represent the four evangelists with their attributes framed in red on a white background. In 1993 a storage room was added to the north side. From 2006 to 2008 the emergency church was refurbished and renovated, and the porch doors between the anteroom and the church room were also glazed. On April 11, 2016, new outdoor lighting was inaugurated.

literature

  • Fritz Kloevekorn : History of the Evangelical Church Community Alt-Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken: Funk, 1961.

Web links

Commons : Notkirche Saarbrücken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücken monuments list (PDF; 653 kB), Saarland monuments list, Landesdenkmalamt, p. 15.
  2. ↑ a b Peter Gitzinger: 111 places in Saarland that you have to see . Emons Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-709-8 , p. 130.
  3. ^ Albert Ruppersberg : Saarbrücker War Chronicle . Events in and near Saarbrücken and St. Johann as well as on the Spicherer Berge in 1870. fifth and sixth thousand edition. H. Klingbeil, Saarbrücken 1895.
  4. ↑ a b Rev. Peter Krug: Notkirche the 40's grave . Ed .: Ev. Parish of Alt-Saarbrücken, 1st parish. Own print, 1991.
  5. ↑ a b Evangelical Emergency Church Saarbrücken , Evangelical Church in Saarland
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Dr. Schulte: Statement on the monument value. Saarbrücken, Old Saarbrücken, Spichererbergstrasse, Ev. Emergency church . Ed .: Ministry for the Environment of Saarland - State Monument Office, inventory. August 16, 2006.
  7. ↑ Visit of the emergency church on October 24, 2011, guided tour by architect Klaus Krüger from the architecture office Krüger + Krüger responsible for the emergency church, copy

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 15.4 ″  E