Provost church of St. Trinity

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New Provost Church of St. Trinity on the day of its ceremonial opening, May 9, 2015.

  • From Nonnenmühlgasse

  • The name on the east wall

The Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis is a Roman Catholic church building in the city center of Leipzig . The church stands on a plot of land opposite the New Town Hall , at Nonnenmühlgasse 2. It is the parish church of the Leipzig Propsteigemeinde St. Trinitatis and belongs to the Leipzig deanery in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen .

The Trinity Church was founded on May 9, 2015 ordained and is the largest church building in central Germany since the peaceful revolution in East Germany in 1989 and the German Unity 1990 . In addition to the church, the ensemble includes a large parish hall, priestly apartments and offices.

First and second Trinity Church in Leipzig

The first Trinity Church from 1847
Leipzig Old Trinitatiskirche east view 1890.JPG
Leipzig Alte Trinitatiskirche interior 1875.JPG


East view
In the central nave
The old (second) Trinity Church from 1982
Community Center St Trinitatis Leipzig.jpg
Leipzig Propsteikirche from 1982 inside.jpg


Exterior view
inner space

The Provost Church of St. Trinity is the third Trinity Church in Leipzig.

The first Trinity Church was built in 1847 west of the New Town Hall in Rudolphstrasse. This church building was badly damaged in air raids in 1943 ; Only the outer walls and the church tower remained. In 1954 the church ruins were blown up. The community received a building permit for a new church, which was then withdrawn by the SED government.

After the war, the provost community used various church rooms in Leipzig's Protestant communities (including the university church that was blown up in 1968 ). The provost chorus was a guest in the Nikolaikirche for rehearsals and performances for years. It was not until the late 1970s that the parish community received approval to build a new parish church. This second provost church was built according to plans from the GDR Building Academy (with pieces of equipment by the Berlin metal sculptor Achim Kühn ) and was completed and consecrated in 1982. The desecration of the second Trinity Church was prepared on May 3, 2015 with the profanation mass by Provost Gregor Giele. This means that this building, which was listed as a historical monument in June 2015, is no longer a church.

Background and planning of the new building

Shortly after the second provost church was completed in 1982, the new building showed considerable structural damage. In the course of the following years the state of construction deteriorated increasingly. The costs for the ongoing renovation, maintenance and heating of the provost church turned out to be more and more incalculable. In addition, the peripheral location of the church turned out to be disadvantageous for the prophetic community, which had been growing since the mid-1990s. Against this background, the plan to build a new provost church was developed in the first half of the 2000s and the project was presented to the public on November 10, 2008 at a press conference. The new building is also remarkable because Leipzig only has around 20,000 Catholics, which corresponds to around four percent of the population.

The property on which the first provost church stood has been vacant since the church ruins disappeared. However, since it is part of the schoolyard of the adjoining Anna Magdalena Bach School, it was not available for the new building. The city of Leipzig provided a plot of land between Martin-Luther-Ring, Peterssteinweg and Nonnenmühlgasse within sight of the old church site, which the community purchased in 2007. The address of the provost parish office of St. Trinity, nuns Mühlgasse 2, reminded that the church at the bottom of by the Reformation defunct convent of St. George stands.

The church interior of the New Provost Church
The weekday chapel

In 2009, an international architectural competition was announced for the new building, in which 20 architectural offices took part. Eight designs made it into the second phase of the competition. On December 7, 2009, the jury, which was made up of architects from Germany, a representative of the German Federal Environment Foundation , representatives from the city administration and city council as well as the Propsteigemeinde, decided in favor of the design by the architects Schulz und Schulz Architekten GmbH (Leipzig). This envisaged a compact structure in the eastern part, to which lower parts surround a courtyard and taper to the west, finally ending in the bell tower. The entire facade of the building is to be covered with Rochlitz porphyry . The usage concept included five components of the building ensemble: the church with the bell tower, the community area, the administration, apartments and a functional area.

For the design of the liturgical area, the parish council had developed a concept to be considered when designing the church.

Building history

During archaeological excavations before the start of construction, in addition to pottery scrap shards, which prove the pottery trade in the Petersvorstadt in the 16th century, and other finds, the warehouse of a musical instrument maker was discovered.

The foundation work began in November 2012. First of all, 104 piles, each nine meters long, were set into the subsoil to form the foundation for the new building. Then the ground lines were laid and the baseplates for the church and the community center were poured.

The foundation stone for the church building was laid on April 27, 2013. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on March 28, 2014 , and the tower cross was installed on April 5. On May 9, 2015, the church was consecrated by Bishop Heiner Koch with a festive service broadcast on MDR television .

The construction costs were around 17 million euros, which were raised by donations and the Bonifatiuswerk , among other things . Including the design of the surroundings, the costs were 29.4 million euros and thus 4.4 million euros more than expected.

In 2016, the architects Schulz and Schulz received the award “ Religious Building of the Year ” from the World Architecture Festival 2016 .

Building

model

The building ensemble has a triangular floor plan. The church interior is located in the eastern part, to which a weekday chapel and the sacristy are connected to the south. In the western part (tip) there is a large community hall and various community offices on the ground floor; on the upper floor there are three priestly apartments and one guest apartment. The outer wall is clad with Rochlitz porphyry . The top is the 50 m high bell tower, which is crowned by a 7.50 m high and 700 kg heavy cross made of steel girders.

The courtyard area is bounded to the north by a water basin and a water curtain formed by jets of water falling into the basin.

The north window of the church, 22 meters long and three meters high, was designed by the Leipzig artist Falk Haberkorn . Depending on the lighting, the entire text of the Old and New Testament can be read on the panes, which also have insulating functions . The glass construction company was Derix, based in Taunusstein .

Furnishing

Altar, ambo , tabernacle and other objects were designed by the Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo .

organ

The Vleugels organ (op.430)

A competition was also held for the construction of the new organ for the provost church. The construction contract was awarded to the organ manufacturer Vleugels ( Hardheim ) in autumn 2012 . The new organ has 46 registers (2,716 pipes ) and two transmissions on three manuals and pedal . The instrument, with a total weight of around 12 tons, cost around 750,000 euros and is set up on the left side gallery in a wall cutout provided for this purpose.

On September 27, 2015, the organ was consecrated by former Bishop Joachim Reinelt as part of a Holy Mass .

The Vleugels organ (Opus 430) has the following disposition:

I main work C – a 3
1. Praestant 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Flûte harmonique 8th'
4th Bourdon 8th'
5. Gamba 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th Pointed flute 4 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Cornet V 8th'
13. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II swell positive C – a 3
14th diapason 8th'
15th Reed flute 8th'
16. Principal 4 ′
17th Flauto dolce 4 ′
18th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Forest flute 2 ′
20th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
21st Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Sifflet 1'
23. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
24. Viole d'amour 16 ′
25th Flute 8th'
26th Viole de Gambe 8th'
27. Voix céleste 8th'
28. Fugara 4 ′
29 Flûte octaviante 4 ′
30th Duplicate 2 ′
31. Plein jeu IV 2 ′
32. Cor anglais 16 ′
33. Trompette harmonique 8th'
34. Hautbois 8th'
35. Clairon harm. 4 ′
36. Voix humaine 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – g 1
37. double bass 16 ′
38. Sub bass 16 ′
39. Praestant (= No. 1) 16 ′
40. Subtle bass (= No. 24) 16 ′
41. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
42. Octavbass 8th'
43. Covered bass 8th'
44. Choral bass 4 ′
45. trombone 16 ′
46. Trumpet 8th'
  • Couple
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Super and sub-octave couplings: Sub III / I, Super III / I, Sub III, Super III, Super III / P

Bells

The church has a ring of five bronze bells .

In the new chime, two sounding bodies of the previous chime (strike tone f 1 with a weight of 950 kg and bell slogan Sursum corda ( Raise your hearts ) as well as strike tone g 1 with a weight of 660 kg and bell slogan Deo gratias ( Thank God )), which was made in 1981 by Bell founder Franz Peter Schilling was cast in Apolda .

Three bells were re-cast. The casting took place on December 15, 2017 in the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck , the consecration of the bells on May 5, 2018 in Leipzig by Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers .

The new bell with the strike tone c 1 weighs 1,700 kg, has a diameter of about 1.5 meters and bears the bell saying We need the grace of unity - a quote from Pauline Church preacher Gordian Landwehr - and the lettering Anno Domini 2017 . The new bell with the strike tone es 1 weighs 1,150 kg and carries the bell saying Pax vobis ( Peace be with you ). It also bears the dates 1847 (= year of consecration of the church in Rudolphstraße), 1981 (= year of casting of the bells from Apolda for the church in Rosental) and 2017 (= new cast). The new bell with the strike note b 1 weighs 490 kg and bears the bell saying Ecce Dominus veniet ( see, the Lord will come ).

Originally it was planned to integrate the only remaining bell from the first provost church with the chime c 2 (cast in 1937, consecrated to the Holy Family ) into the new bell. The structural dynamics of the new tower, however, do not allow this bell to ring without the tower being brought into resonance and thus damaged in the long term; therefore the small bell was to be housed in a different place in the building ensemble of the new provost church. The plan to have this old bell chime like an hour bell was shattered due to the destruction of the bell by burglars in the second provost church in September 2016. The Schuke organ suffered a total loss during the break -in .

No.
 		 Name / inscription
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Mass
(in kg)		 Diameter
(in mm)		 Nominal
(16th note)
1 We need the grace of unity 2017 Grassmayr 1,700 ~ 1,500 c 1
2 Pax vobis ( peace be upon you ) 2017 Grassmayr 1,150 it 1
3 Sursum corda ( Lift up your hearts ) 1981 Franz Peter Schilling 0.950 f 1
4th Deo gratias ( thank God ) 1981 Franz Peter Schilling 0.660 g 1
5 Ecce Dominus veniet ( Behold, the Lord will come ) 2017 Grassmayr 0.490 b 1

reception

On one hand, the name of the church building is because of the block thereof with reference to the computer game Tetris by critics as "Santa's Tetris" spoof , on the other hand, the building of was German Architects in 2016 with the BDA Architecture Prize "Nike" awarded for symbolism.

literature

  • Catholic Propsteigemeinde Leipzig (Hrsg.): Faith - Church - City. Festschrift for the consecration of the catholic provost church St. Trinitatis Leipzig on May 9th in the year of the Lord 2015 . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049463-5 (99 pages).
  • Church building association of the Catholic Provost Parish St. Trinitatis Leipzig (ed.): A sustainable house in honor of the Creator - Provost Church St. Trinitatis Leipzig . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049430-7 (18 pages).
Newspaper articles
  • New Provost Church Leipzig St. Trinity. An LVZ extra for consecration. 16-page supplement to the Leipziger Volkszeitung , May 9, 2015.
  • Arnold Bartetzky: The new Leipzig provost church St. Trinitatis. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 61, No. 2, 2015, pp. 128-132.
  • Andreas Nentwich: Foregoing size. In: Sunday. Baden-Dättwil (Switzerland) 2015, No. 28, pp. 17–18.
About the Vleugels organ
  • Friends of Propsteimusik Leipzig eV in Gudrun Schröder Verlag Leipzig (ed.): The Vleugels organ in the Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis Leipzig - Festschrift for the consecration of the organ on September 27, 2015 in Leipzig . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-926196-73-6 (59 pages).

Web links

Commons : Neue Propsteikirche (Leipzig)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Nößler: Modern, sustainable, controversial: New Propsteikirche in Leipzig shortly before the opening lvz-online.de, May 7, 2015 ( Memento of May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b See the background
  3. ^ Diocese of Dresden-Meißen: Divine service for the profanation of the old Leipzig provost church ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The old Leipzig provost church is desecrated - GDR building is threatened with demolition after sale. On lvz-online.de, May 3, 2015. ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ moderne-regional.de
  6. ↑ a b On the history of the provost church in Leipzig (web presence of the diocese).
  7. ↑ Statistisches Jahrbuch 2010, p. 33 (PDF) , accessed on May 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ Day of the Lord (newspaper) No. 14/2016 of April 3, 2016, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Five building blocks form the usage concept
  10. ↑ Liturgy-related design wishes of the parish council
  11. ↑ Detailed excavation documentation on the website of the Saxon State Office for Archeology (PDF) , accessed on February 17, 2013.
  12. ↑ On building history
  13. ↑ Leipziger Propsteikirche is growing. In: Bonifatiusblatt, edition 2/2014, p. 16.
  14. ↑ Festival year 2015. Program for the consecration of the church. (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  15. ^ NN: Report on the consecration on the website of the Bonifatiuswerk , May 9, 2015, accessed on May 9, 2015.
  16. ↑ Construction of the provost church more expensive than planned . In: The world . January 6, 2016 ( online [accessed January 9, 2016]).
  17. ↑ See the information on the architects' website.
  18. ↑ Leipziger Propsteikirche is growing. In: Bonifatiusblatt, edition 2/2014, p. 16.
  19. ↑ Derix designs the windows of the new provost church in Leipzig in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from February 19, 2015, p. 44.
  20. ↑ Information on the design on the page of the Trinitatisgemeinde (PDF) , accessed on May 9, 2015.
  21. ↑ To the new organ
  22. ↑ See the information on the organ; for disposition on the website of the organ builder.
  23. ^ Friends of Propsteimusik Leipzig eV in Gudrun Schröder Verlag Leipzig (ed.): The Vleugels organ in the Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis Leipzig - Festschrift for the consecration of the organ on September 27, 2015 in Leipzig . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-926196-73-6 , pp. 20-23; 57 .
  24. ↑ Leipzig (L) bells of the provost church St. Trinitatis on YouTube .
  25. ↑ Dominic Welters: Three bells cast for the Leipzig Provost Church. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . December 15, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Dominic Welters: consecrated bells for the Leipzig provost church. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . May 6, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung. May 7, 2018.
  28. ↑ Small historical bell gets extra space. Well then - it works: Solution for the bell problem of the new Leipzig Church , Leipziger Internet Zeitung, May 6, 2015.
  29. ↑ Dominic Welters: Organ has a total loss - The break-in in the disused Provost Church at the Rosental - everything is much worse. So far known: the fate of an old bell, it was dismantled by the thieves with a flex. Two parts have surfaced again. But the Schuke organ is in very bad shape: total loss. Leipziger Volkszeitung . Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Sven Heitkamp: Sankt Tetris next to the New Town Hall . In: sächsische.de . ( sächsische.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
  31. ↑ The BDA architecture prize “Nike” honors holistic planning and building - Nike for symbolism. In: BDA website. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24.3 ″  E