Reformed Church (Leipzig)

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Evangelical Reformed Church, to the left of it the rectory

The Reformed Church in Leipzig is the church of the Reformed Congregation .

history

Since 1700 religious refugees from France, the Huguenots , formed their own parish. As her first church, she built a prayer room in the office building in 1766, which was redesigned in 1841.

The community grew over time due to immigration from other areas. In the years 1896–1899 a new church with an attached preacher's house was built according to a design by Leipzig architects Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer . The entire complex is considered the first example of a uniform community building. He was awarded a first prize at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 .

The neo-renaissance church building with the striking 73 meter high tower is located on Tröndlinring north of the historic city center. The church was consecrated on March 12, 1899. It was damaged during the heavy air raids on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, and the reconstruction took until 1969.

From October 2, 1989, prayers for peace were held in the Reformed Church . The film recordings made by Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke on October 9, 1989 from the tower of the church of the Monday demonstration were broadcast the next day by the Tagesschau .

1992–1996 the church was extensively renovated.

organ

Church interior with organ during Advent

The organ was built in 1969 by the Jehmlich organ building workshop in Dresden . The abrasive loading -instrument 24 has sounding register (1,810 pipes) on two manuals and pedal . The playing and register actions are mechanical.

I main work C–
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th flute 4 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture III-V
9. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II breastwork C–
10. Pewter 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Reed flute 4 ′
13. Sesquialter II
14th octave 2 ′
15th Little bell 1'
16. Zimbel IV
17th Head shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Octave bass 8th'
20th Dumped 8th'
21st Choral bass 4 ′
22nd Night horn 2 ′
23. Bass Mix IV
24. trombone 16 ′

The church musician Christiane Bräutigam has been the organist and cantor since 1999 .

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Reformed Church. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 17th booklet: City of Leipzig (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1895, p. 189.
  2. ↑ Information about the history of the ward and the church on the ward website
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website
  4. ↑ Cantor

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24.1 ″  E