Pauluskirche (Darmstadt)

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View from the southwest
View from the southwest
Pauluskirche, looking north

The Pauluskirche is a Protestant church in Darmstadt . It was built in the years 1905–1907 based on designs by the architect and professor for town and church building Friedrich Pützer .

The church is opposite the former state mortgage bank , the administrative seat of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) on Paulusplatz . It is one of the most important preaching sites of the EKHN, next to the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main , the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden and the Christuskirche in Mainz .

history

In 1900 Friedrich Pützer planned a new villa area in the southeast of the city with the Landeshypothekenbank, today the seat of the church administration of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , and the Pauluskirche as larger buildings on Paulusplatz on behalf of the city of Darmstadt . In 1904, Pützer was commissioned to plan the Paulus Church with the parish and sexton house. The foundation stone was laid on October 31, 1905 and the church was consecrated on September 29, 1907. The church was badly damaged in an air raid on the night of September 11th to 12th, 1944 and after 1945 it was rebuilt true to the original.

architecture

The Pauluskirche is designed in the style of the reform architecture . The traditionalist style includes forms such as castle construction, but also elements from Romanesque and Gothic church construction. Pützer chose a natural brown rough plaster for the facade and a strongly structured interlocking tile for the roof. The interior was originally adorned with geometric Art Nouveau decor with paintings and matching chandeliers. The gates are designed in the geometric Art Nouveau style. The large relief in the gable above the church entrance is by Robert Cauer . The figure of the Apostle Paul on the main pillar on the east side was created by Augusto Varnesi .

The interior of the church was designed according to the Wiesbaden program with the pulpit altar in the center and painted with geometric Art Nouveau decor. Changed theological ideas led to a complete redesign of the interior during the reconstruction. Pulpit and altar were separated from each other and the altar was moved into the choir room and the pulpit at the front left of the triumphal arch in the nave. In 1960, the artist Helmuth Uhrig designed the choir with a biblical fresco cycle.

The church tower is 58 meters high. The church has 1,100 seats.

Organs

Main organ

Schuke organ

The first organ was built by the Steinmeyer company . It had 35 registers and was in the choir room . A provisional instrument from the Walcker company was chosen for the reconstruction of the church .

In 1969 the organ building company Karl Schuke Berlin organ building workshop built today's instrument on the gallery . It has 4514 pipes in 56 registers on four manuals and pedal . This makes it the largest organ in Darmstadt. The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric. In 2013 the organ was retrofitted with a register crescendo and an electronic composer system. At the same time, 2 stops in 32 'position and a 16' sub-bass in the pedal were added and the organ was extensively overhauled.

The organ is characterized by a very steep disposition even for the time it was built. In each work it has two different mixtures as the crown of sound, but in relation to its size only a few basic voices in 8 'and 4' registers. Strings and beats are absent at all. But the instrument is so bored and voiced that it enables organ music of all styles to be presented convincingly, not least due to the dynamic, extremely effective swell.

I upper section C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV-VI
Terzcymbel III
Dulcian 16 ′
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 16 ′
octave 8th'
octave 4v
Flauto in Ottava 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture major V – VI
Mixture minor IV
Cornett V 8th'
Trumpet 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Trumpet 4 ′
III Breastwork C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Tertian II
Scharff III – V
Rankett 16 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
IV Swell C – g 3
Drone 16 ′
Dumped 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Mixture V-VI
Scharff III
Trumpet 8th'
Trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 32 ′
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Drone 16 ′
Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Hollow flute 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Backset V
Mixture III
trombone 32 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Trumpet 4 ′
  • Coupling : IV / I (electrical), I / II, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P (electrical), III / P, IV / P (electrical)
  • Sill III and IV
  • Playing aids : Wind throttle IV, computer-controlled setting system with 9,999 combinations, Register crescendo
Remarks
  1. ↑ a b c d e f since 2013
  2. ↑ Transmission from IV

Concerts as part of the Darmstadt Organ Winter and Organ Summer and other events take place regularly in the Pauluskirche .

Hall organ

Another instrument has been in the parish hall under St. Paul's Church since 1991. This organ was built by the Darmstadt master organ builder Friedrich Eichler. It has 7 registers on a manual and pedal. Playing and stop actions are mechanical, all manual stops have loops divided between h and c 1 . Before that, a multiplex organ from the Walcker company had been in the hall since 1947 .

Manual C – g 3
flute 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Ok 2 ′
Cymbal II 1'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Coupling I / P

Bells

4 bronze bells hang in the tower. All were cast in 1955 by the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf .

No. Surname volume Weight diameter inscription
1 Christ bell a ° 3680 kg 188 cm + I AM THE A AND THE O +
2 Paul Bell c´ 2180 kg 158 cm + I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST +
3 Michael's Bell d´ 1540 kg 141 cm + I LIVE AND YOU SHALL ALSO LIVE +
4th Our Father Bell f´ 920 kg 119 cm + YOUR EMPIRE COME! +

literature

  • Gerlinde Gehrig: Friedrich Pützer and the Paulusviertel in Darmstadt . Sources and research on Hessian history 169. Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-88443-324-9 .
  • Gerlinde Gehrig: Friedrich Pützer and reform church building in Darmstadt . In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. New series , Vol. 73, 2015, pp. 349-380.
  • Günter Fries and others (arrangement): City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 511ff.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Pauluskirche. Evangelical Paulusgemeinde Darmstadt, accessed on January 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Gerlinde Gehrig: Urban planning at the height of the times - Friedrich Pützer and the Paulusviertel . Pauline Congregation Letter March 2013
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. No. 2, 2006, p. 71
  4. ↑ Sound was still "elegant and transparent". In: FAZ , January 27, 2012, p. 60
  5. ↑ Schuke organ. In: darmstadt-online.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  E