Pauluskirche (Magdeburg)

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Pauluskirche from the south
Paul's Church from the north

The Pauluskirche is the Protestant parish church of Magdeburg 's Stadtfeld Ost , built between 1894 and 1896, and is dedicated to the Apostle Paul .

Architecture and history

The Stadtfeld, located to the west of the city and fortress of Magdeburg , originally belonged to the parish of the St. Ulrich and Levin Church. Since October 18, 1888, the congregation had appointed its own pastor in August Wilhelm Lübeck, who was later supported by another pastor, for the area's population, which was growing in numbers. Services took place in the auditorium of a municipal elementary school on Annastrasse .

With the lifting of the restrictive building regulations from the time of the fortress in 1891, the Wilhelmstadt district to the west of Magdeburg's old town (now Stadtfeld Ost) quickly developed into a residential area for the wealthy bourgeoisie. The construction of a Protestant church was also planned in the initial phase of building development. After the previously used school auditorium had to be converted into new classrooms due to lack of space, the municipal council of Ortisei and Levin decided to build the new church. The municipality acquired the building plot from the magistrate of Magdeburg for 35,000 marks . The purchase price was raised through the sale of other parish properties. In the transition period the school gymnasium was used for church services.

An architectural competition was held in December 1893 to build the church. Participated in the competition were u. a. Architects such as Friedrich Möller, Robert Mühlberg, the Berlin architects Zaar & Vahl and the Leipzig architect Friedrich Felix Thalheim (1861–1922) took part. An amount of 200,000 marks was named as the budget. The architects Heinrich Reinhardt and Georg Süßenguth from Berlin, whose competition design won 1st prize, were finally commissioned to draw up the implementation plans . The Magdeburg master builders Heinrich Cornelius and Emil Jaehn, who had won 3rd prize with their own design, carried out the construction from 1894 to 1896. The chosen plot of land, only 1,770 m² in size, turned out to be a difficult building site due to its triangular shape, so that the church tower had to be moved to the north side of the nave. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 14, 1894, the foundation stone was laid on October 31, 1894. The final acceptance test after completion of the building took place on September 25, 1896. In 1896 the parish hall of the evangelical Paulus community on the other side of Goethestrasse was built. In 1902 the parsonage was added at Goethestrasse 28 .

A two-aisled hall church was built in the neo-Gothic style, the outer walls of which were clad with Ummendorfer sandstone like 900 years earlier for Magdeburg Cathedral . The narrow aisle was added to the north side of the main nave. The tower was given a square floor plan and a slim octagonal top. The long sides of the nave were each provided with three gables , and the facade is decorated with capitals , mosaics and window sections ( tracery ) in accordance with the neo-Gothic architectural style . The gable roof and the spire are covered with slate.

The church was supposed to provide space for 900 people, so two galleries were originally planned. Today a gallery, supported by granite columns, runs along the walls of the main nave. The church interior is closed by ribbed vaults .

The church is listed as an architectural monument . The area of ​​the church is also part of the Goethestrasse 22-28 monument area . The church tower is 65 m high.

organ

During an interior renovation between 1964 and 1966, a lot of the original equipment was removed, only that in 1896 by the Zörbig master organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann senior. built organ with its neo-Gothic prospect , designed and manufactured by wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch from Wernigerode , and the eight colored glass windows of the Ferdinand Müller company with biblical representations were preserved.

The organ had been changed slightly in 1949 and was returned to its original condition and restored in 2007, with the second manual being laid out as a swell. The instrument has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I main work C–
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gemshorn 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Gamba 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Flauto harm. 4 ′
9. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Octave 2 ′
11. Mixture IV
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
13. Dumped 16 ′
14th Principal 8th'
15th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
16. Flauto traverso 8th'
17th Dolce 8th'
18th Salicional 8th'
19th Vox celeste 8th'
20th Fugara 4 ′
21st Flauto amabile 4 ′
22nd Mixture III
Pedal C–
23. Violon 16 ′
24. Sub-bass 16 ′
25th Thought bass 16 ′
26th Principal bass 8th'
27. Thought bass 8th'
28. cello 8th'
29 Octave bass 4 ′
30th trombone 16 ′

The unsightly white interior painting carried out in the 1960s and the lack of maintenance of the outer skin due to material and financial deficiencies during the GDR era made the church appear increasingly neglected. Only with the German reunification could a total renovation be made possible through donations and subsidies as well as inexpensive job creation measures. From 1997 to 2002 the facade was renewed for 2.3 million euros and the interior was given the historical color scheme. In a second phase, the roof and the tower were renewed.

literature

  • Pauluskirche (Ed.): 100 years of Pauluskirche. Magdeburg 1996.
  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 2000, p. 114ff.
  • State capital Magdeburg, city planning office (Ed.): Magdeburg. Architecture and urban planning. Verlag Janos Stekovics, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , p.
  • Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg administrative district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Opus Directory ( Opus 182 ) of Orgelbauanstalt of W. Rühlmann, Zörbig , accessed on July 18, 2018th
  2. ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on July 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 57.6 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 28.8 ″  E