Pauluskirche (Aschaffenburg)

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Pauluskirche, Aschaffenburg-Damm 2011

The Pauluskirche (St. Paulus) is the second Protestant church in Aschaffenburg in the Damm district after the Christ Church .

history

Mosaic in the courtyard

The first Protestant congregation in the Damm district emerged from a small group of Protestant Christians at the beginning of the twentieth century. They came together for their first church services in the Twilight School.

After the First World War , the "Evangelical Church Aschaffenburg North" acquired a hospital barrack as a church room. They had already acquired the property in 1908 on the edge of the old town center of Damm. The first service with a pastor from the Aschaffenburg Christ Church was celebrated on August 7, 1921. The neighboring property on Paulusstrasse, which was later expanded, was acquired later. With the laying of the foundation stone on September 4, 1932, a neo-Romanesque church building, a rectangular hall with four window axes and east apse , was created from red Main sandstone . While construction was still going on, the already bricked tower collapsed on October 4, 1932. The square tower with a low pyramid roof connects to the side of the west facade. In the spring of 1934 the building was completed and could be inaugurated on April 8th with the participation of prominent representatives. On November 21, 1944, air mines destroyed the church and rectory, and the roof was already damaged by fire bombs on September 24. After the war, Protestant Christians prayed in a prayer room on Behlenstrasse. Reconstruction began in 1953 and after the foundation stone was laid by Dean Georg Kaeßler on October 4, 1953, the newly built church was inaugurated on September 12, 1954. The number of windows in the main nave has been increased from four to five and the rectory, which was initially single-story, was also raised to its original height. In 1958, in connection with a mosaic by the Glattbach painter Alois Bergmann-Franken, a bronze plate in the shape of an iron cross was installed in the inner courtyard of the Pauluskirche (artist: Fried Heuler , around 1930). The plate still comes from the Notkirche (hospital barracks) and contains the names of the evangelical citizens of Damm who died in the First World War.

“More light” was the motto of the renovation planned for 2012, a special task for the Aschaffenburg architect Joachim Kaupp. The dark wooden ceiling was removed; the organ, which blocks two windows on the north side, was pulled up to the entrance. The new pendant lights were specially designed for the Pauluskirche. Even before the community has for the preservation of Christ - Mosaic pronounced and the vaulted dome. The wooden paneling, the pedestal and the pulpit were also removed two rows of benches. On a new clinker pedestal , the stonemason artists Alexander Hirte and Jelena Imgrund erected a massive sandstone altar that was moved into the center and consisted of four parts reminding of a cross. The baptismal font, like the altar, only consists of four smaller elements and forms the center of the apse. Instead of the candlesticks, modern bright light sources were installed. A pulpit made of two sandstone elements with a metal attachment was also newly created. Altar, baptismal font, Easter candlestick and pulpit form an artistic unit. The Christ mosaic made of molten glass and metal parts, as well as rubble stones, of the previous building destroyed in the war , created by the Stuttgart artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler , has been cleaned and now shines in new splendor.

organ

The organ building company Walcker from Ludwigsburg built their Opus 4966 in 1967, an organ with slide chests, mechanical game and electrical stop action ; 3 normal couplings, 2 free combinations, play cabinet and main housing. The instrument has the following disposition :

I. Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Reed flute 4 ′
3. Rohrnasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
4th Principal 2 ′
5. Third Sept II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
6th Scharffzymbel IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Tremulant
II. Main work
7th Covered pommer 16 ′
8th. Principal 8th'
9. Gemshorn 8th'
10. Octav 4 ′
11. Pointed flute 4 ′
12. Schwiegel 2 ′
13. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Wooden principal 8th'
17th Hollow flute 4 ′
18th Zinc III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Choral bass III 4 ′
20th Bell tone II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′
21st trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Aschaffenburg studies. II. Documentations, Volume 8 - Twilight Life Twilight People '- History in Pictures. Compiled by Martin Kempf. City of Aschaffenburg, 1992, ISBN 3-922355-06-4 .
  • Alois Stadtmüller - Aschaffenburg in the Second World War - bombing, siege, handover . Publications of the history and art association Aschaffenburg iK Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1970.

Web links

Commons : St. Paulus, Damm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Eymann: On the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Pauluskirche - St. Paulusgemeinde Aschaffenburg Damm 1984
  2. ↑ DOCUMENT 2: Report of the Lord Mayor on the attack on November 21, 1944, p. 357; Stadtmüller s. u.
  3. ^ " More light in the Pauluskirche " Main-Echo 2012Nr.162 v. July 18, 2012 p. 17.
  4. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association V., Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 27 ″  E