Salvatorkirche (Gera)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '38.4 "  N , 12 ° 5' 9.3"  E

Salvator Church (2009)
Salvatorkirche Gera, interior in Art Nouveau style, view of the altar and the pulpit

The Salvatorkirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church on the Nicolaiberg in the city center of Gera in Thuringia . Along with the Johanniskirche and the Trinitatiskirche , it is one of the three inner-city churches in Gera.

history

On the Nicolaiberg there was originally a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas and a Terminihaus (accommodation house for mendicant monks). The chapel, after which the mountain is called "zcu Gera uf sente Nycolaus berge" as early as 1333 , burned down in the town fire of 1686. In 1717 the ruins were torn down to make way for the new church.

The baroque church itself was built in the years 1717 to 1720 according to plans by the Saxon state master builder David Schatz , but the tower - after the necessary funds had been obtained with a specially established tower construction lottery - only in the years 1775 to 1778 according to plans by Gerardo Hofmann . Only two years later, the church was destroyed in the Gera city fire in 1780 . In contrast to the second church in Gera at the time, the Johanniskirche , the Salvatorkirche was rebuilt between 1781 and 1783 and has therefore been the only church in Gera's historic old town since then. Until the construction of the new Johanniskirche (consecrated in 1885) it was the sole parish church of Geras, in addition - because the old Johanniskirch crypt, the traditional burial place of the Gera Reussen, was no longer usable after the city fire - in 1802 the last lord of Reuss-Gera , Heinrich XXX. , and in 1829 his wife Luise Christiane von Pfalz-Birkenfeld was buried.

View from the town hall tower

In 1898 the houses below the church were demolished and today's representative open staircase was built in their place . From 1903 the interior of the church was redesigned in the spirit of Art Nouveau under the direction of city building officer Adolf Marsch, in 1907 the Munich painter Josef Huber-Feldkirch created a glass mosaic.

After the renovation work on the west facade of the Salvatorkirche (2006), work on the tower has continued since autumn 2007.

organ

Salvatorkirche Gera, ceiling fresco and organ gallery with the Röver organ from 1903

The Salvatorkirche has one of the largest playable organs by the organ builder Ernst Röver . The two-manual pneumatic instrument with pedal was built in the years 1903-1905, has pipes in 2013 and was last refurbished from 1998 to 2003 true to the original.

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Viol 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Delicately packed 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Gambette 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Cornett V 8th'
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – f 3
Dumped 16 ′
Violin principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Open flute 8th'
Distance flute 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Lull amabile 4 ′
viola 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
oboe 8th'
Mixture III
Pedal C – d 1
Principal 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Dacked bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
cello 8th'
Flute bass 8th'
Octave 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : normal coupling, sub-octave coupling I, super-octave coupling I, super-octave coupling II
  • Playing aids : crescendo roller, a free combination, fixed combinations (mechanically programmable - p, mf, f, ff, tutti), hand register, tongues off, general coupling.

literature

  • Siegfried Mues / Klaus Brodale: City guide Gera . Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1995, ISBN 3811208217

Web links

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