Protestant Church (Blieskastel)

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The Protestant Church in Blieskastel
View of the east side of the church with side portal, the rectory on the left
View inside the church

The Protestant Church Blieskastel is the church of the Protestant parish Blieskastel in the church district ( deanery ) Two bridges the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . The neo-baroque building stands on a hill ("Auf der Agd") in the southern part of Blieskastel-Mitte, whose cityscape it has a decisive influence on.

history

The inhabitants of the former Leyens rule of Blieskastel were almost exclusively Catholic . The Protestant Christians living in the diaspora were cared for from Mimbach until 1887 - a district of Blieskastel since 1974. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the number of Protestants in Blieskastel increased, so that a separate church building with an associated rectory could be built. Architect Ludwig Wagner designed the building plans . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 1, 1911, and almost two months later, on April 30, 1911, the foundation stone was laid. In the following year, the church was solemnly consecrated on September 8, 1912, on the 14th after Trinity . The four church bells rang out the evening before , while the church and parsonage glowed in a red Bengali flame under rockets and fireworks .

During the First World War in 1917 three of the four bells were melted down as raw material for weapons production. In the course of the Second World War , the process was repeated when three bells newly cast by the parish in 1923 were confiscated and melted down as material essential to the war effort. Only the so-called “workers bell”, which was donated by the Protestant workers' association in 1912, remained in the tower on both occasions. The presbytery (parish administration) of Blieskastel decided not to buy any new bells after the war in order to remind of the horrors of the two world wars. It was not until 2007 that the parish decided to add the three missing bells. On December 9, 2007, the new bells, which were cast by the bell foundry Bachert Karlsruhe GmbH , were put into service with a festive service and rang for the first time on Christmas Eve of the same year at 5 p.m.

architecture

For a long time it was considered whether the new building in Blieskastel should adapt to the baroque character of the townscape, which mainly dates from the 18th century, or whether it should be built in a “contemporary” manner. Finally, it was decided to adapt to the old style.

The church building shows clear influences of the French late baroque. This can be seen u. a. on the plastered facade, structured with red sandstone, and the high, slate-covered mansard hipped roof . The slender church tower , which forms the passage from the rectory to the actual church building, is visible from afar . Externally, the building is richly structured by stairwells , vestibules, extensions and numerous pilasters . The main portal on the north side has a flat arch . A side portal with a column portico is in the east.

The interior of the church is a pure hall church with an organ gallery . The main decorations of the simple room are the altar and baptismal font as well as the richly carved pulpit made of dark-stained oak with gilding .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1912 as opus 1126 by the organ building company GF Steinmeyer & Co. KG ( Oettingen ). At that time the instrument had 12 sounding stops on two manuals and a pedal . There were also some subsidiary registers . The organ is set up with a free-standing console on a gallery . The wind chests are pneumatic membrane chests. The organ prospect is built to the left and right of the gallery window and was designed by Ludwig Wagner, the architect of the church building. The Blieskasteler organ is next to the Steinmeyer organ built in 1913 in the Catholic parish church of St. Anna in Biesingen , the only organ building workshop from this time in the Saarpfalz district that has largely been preserved.

A wave of baroque organism that began after the Second World War also affected the Blieskasteler organ. Since the instrument did not correspond to the neo-baroque sound conceptions of the “ organ movement ”, it was redesigned and expanded in 1960 by the organ builder Lotar Hintz ( Heusweiler ) according to plans by Adolf Graf . Two new cabinets were added and the internal structure of the gaming table was changed, as was the disposition . The instrument now had 14 registers.

Organ disposition 1960–2009:
I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Dumped 4 ′
5. Octave 2 ′
6th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Gemshorn 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
12. Scharff V 1'
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
14th Violon 8th'
Remarks
  1. ↑ Wind attenuation of the sub-bass 16 ′
View to the organ gallery

Since the late 1980s, the organ became more unreliable and susceptible to failure , which was due in particular to considerable woodworm infestation . In 2009 the instrument was extensively renovated by master organ builder Peter Ohlert ( Kirkel ), during which the tonal changes from 1960 were reversed. This was done by installing original Steinmeyer registers and / or matching pipework from the time the plant was built. Since the two cabinets added in 1960 were technically not objectionable in the main manual, they were retained as a "grown condition". The disposition from 1912 was restored, supplemented by two registers on the two preserved chancels. By attaching two original register rockers, the console could be complemented in style. The restoration of the entire technical system was carried out according to the principles of monument preservation . All game aids, which were partially shut down in 1960, could be reactivated. In addition, the prospect pipes from 1912 received a new bronzing . The organ was handed over to the congregation in a church service and an evening concert on November 29, 2009.

I Manual C – g 3 (–g 4 )
1. Principal 8th'
2. Solo flute 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Covered 4 ′
6th Mixture III-IV 2 ′
II Manual C – g 3 (–g 4 )
7th viola 8th'
8th. Vox angelica from c 0 8th'
9. Covered 8th'
10. Gemshorn 4 ′
11. Flageolet 2 ′
12. Sesquialter II
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
14th Violon 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Sub II, Sub II / I, Super I, Super II
  • Playing aids : two fixed combinations (MF, FF), automat. Piano pedal (cannot be switched off), roller, sill for 2nd manual
Remarks
  1. ↑ Wind reduction of the sub-bass 16 '

Others

An access road to the church, the “Dekan-Albrecht-Straße”, bears the name of the pastor of the Protestant parish at the time of construction in 1911/12.

The church building, the parsonage built at the same time and the somewhat separated small tea pavilion, which is also part of the building ensemble , have been a listed building since 1986 , as has all the interior furnishings from the time it was built. The listed ensemble “Evangelical Church 'Auf der Agd'” also includes the former forestry office building built in 1929 in baroque style , a single-storey plastered building with a high base and mansard roof covered with slate.

The "Käthe-Luther-Haus", the Protestant parish hall, has stood in the immediate vicinity of the church since 2000.

Web links

Commons : Protestant Church (Blieskastel)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church district: Prot. Deanery Zweibrücken On: www.evkirchepfalz.de, accessed on May 30, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Look into the history of the Protestant Church in Blieskastel On: www.prot-kirche-blieskastel.de, accessed on May 30, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h The neo-baroque Protestant church info page on the website of the city of Blieskastel, accessed on May 30, 2012
  4. ↑ a b 100 Years of the Protestant Church Blieskastel , pp. 15–16. Retrieved August 9, 2015 (PDF file).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Kirchenmusikalische Mitteilungen 2010/1 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 591 kB) At: www.evkirchepfalz.de, accessed on July 28, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evkirchepfalz.de
  6. ↑ a b Organ of the Protestant Church Blieskastel ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 1, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saar-orgelland.de
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarpfalz-Kreis ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 222 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 26.5 ″  E