Reformation Memorial Church (Nuremberg)

Reformation Memorial Church

Aerial photo, 2014

The Reformation Memorial Church is a Protestant church in Nuremberg that was built in the 20th century . It is the seat of the dean in the Evangelical Lutheran Vice Dean of Nuremberg North.

location

The church is located directly east of the Nuremberg city park on Berliner Platz on a large green area. A vocational school, facilities of the Bavarian Red Cross and residential buildings are also located on this square .

history

The building was erected from 1935 to 1938. The church was badly damaged in World War II . From 1945 it was rebuilt and inaugurated in 1949. Bernhard Brons is one of the former pastors of the Memorial Church.

architecture

The church building was built according to plans by the architect Gottfried Dauner . Parts of the interior design go back to German Bestelmeyer , whose colleague Dauner was. The sculptor Bernhard Bleeker created the triumphal cross group above the altar and a baptismal font .

It is a twelve-sided rotunda with three towers, somewhat reminiscent of a medieval castle. The church is fundamentally different from most other church buildings of the 20th century, which were mostly based on the Bauhaus style.

organ

organ

The organ of the Reformation Memorial Church comes from the Steinmeyer organ building workshop in Oettingen and is their opus 1774. For fear of destruction in the Second World War, the instrument was initially stored as a precaution and only installed in the rebuilt church in 1949. After an initial renovation in 1988 by the Mayer company, another thorough cleaning and renovation by the organ building company Friedrich from Oberasbach took place in 2018 . The organ today has 45 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Principal 16 ′ Quintad 16 ′ Principal 08th' Gemshorn 0 08th' Dumped 08th' Octave 04 ′ flute 04 ′ Nazard 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 02 ′ Mixture IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 08th'

II Positive C-g 3 Covered 8th' Quintad 8th' Principal 4 ′ flute 4 ′ Principal 2 ′ Sesquialter II 0 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture III 1' Cromorne 8th' Tremulant

III Swell C – g 3 Bourdon 16 ′ Wooden principal 08th' Gemshorn 08th' Reed flute 08th' Principal 04 ′ flute 04 ′ Flat flute 02 ′ Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 01' Cornet III-V 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture IV 02 ′ bassoon 16 ′ oboe 08th' Clarine 04 ′

Pedal C – f 1 Principal 16 ′ Sub-bass 16 ′ Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 08th' flute 08th' Principal 04 ′ flute 04 ′ recorder 0 02 ′ Mixture V 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' Clairon 04 ′

• Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids: typesetting system with 128 combinations, crescendo step.
• Effect register: Zimbelstern

Bells

Prayer bell

In one of the three towers hang 6 bells in the tones B ° c 'es' f 'g' ges ". Bells 1–5 were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding in 1935 , the smallest bell 6, which still rings from the previous one was cast by Schilling in Apolda in 1936 .

Web links

Commons : Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche (Nuremberg)  - Collection of images

• Maxfeld parish
• The Reformation Memorial Church on Baukunst-Nuernberg.de
• The Reformation Memorial Church in the Google 3D gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timo Lechner: Organ builder renovated the organ of the Reformation Memorial Church. In: Sunday paper. September 13, 2018, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ Orgelbau Friedrich: Reformation Memorial Church. August 6, 2018, accessed March 18, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '49.3 "  N , 11 ° 5' 43.8"  E