St. Ambrosius (Magdeburg)

St. Ambrosius in Magdeburg-Sudenburg

The St. Ambrosius Church is a Protestant church in Magdeburg 's Sudenburg district . It is named after St. Ambrose of Milan .

The three-aisled church is built in the neo-Gothic style and has a transept . Ashlar masonry made of limestone was used .

history

The foundation stone of the church was laid on June 11, 1875. Before that, there had already been five churches with this name in Sudenburg, but most of them existed in a different location. The pre-Reformation patronage of Ambrosius of Milan carried over to the naming of the Protestant successor buildings.

During the French occupation of the region in 1812 on the orders of Napoleon I, the two Magdeburg suburbs of Sudenburg and Neustadt were demolished in order to have a better field of fire for the Magdeburg fortress . In this context, the old (fourth) Ambrosius Church was also torn down.

Rear of the Ambrosius Church

Already in 1812/1813 the reconstruction of the place Sudenburg began in a different, more southern, location. After the defeat of Napoleon and the withdrawal of the French troops, the order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. a new church in Sudenburg was built according to plans by Friedrich Mellin . This building, more like a chapel , was consecrated on October 13, 1822 by the preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch . Due to a sponge infestation , this building, also known as the Ambrosius Church , was demolished in 1875. A new building followed. This was largely caused by Johannes Karl Friedrich Ezekiel , who had been pastor at St. Ambrosius since 1868 , and who was pastor of the community until 1886.

On December 17, 1876, the shell of the building, which cost 225,000 marks, was completed with the setting of the tower crosses. The church was built in a north-south direction to face Halberstädter Straße . The church was consecrated on December 13, 1877.

Major parts of the furnishings were donated by the citizens of Sudenburg. The font was funded by a collection of school children. The altar painting was donated by the miller Drenckmann.

The church received three bronze bells cast from captured French cannons, but they were melted down in 1917. As a replacement, three cast steel bells of the Bochum Association were consecrated on October 5, 1924 in the striking tones c ¹ , e ¹ and g ¹ .

Other building measures included replacing gas with electric lighting and hanging two chandeliers.

Unlike the churches in Magdeburg's old town , the Ambrosius Church suffered no damage during the Second World War . In the course of later renovation work and alterations, a new altar was purchased in 1959 , the pulpit was moved, the crucifix was erected and the rebuilt organ was inaugurated on June 14, 1959.

After the end of the GDR , the bells were refurbished in 1994 and put back into operation on May 12, 1994 after a ten-year break. In 1995 the roof was re-covered.

organ

Organ of the Ambrosius Church

Wilhelm Sauer built a new organ in 1879/1880 , which had 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The instrument had mechanical cone chests and three fixed combinations (mf, f, tutti). In 1927 Wilhelm Rühlmann junior remodeled it, adding three voices and creating a pneumatic action . In the course of a restoration by Orgelbau Eule in 1959, the original romantic arrangement was changed to a neo-baroque one and expanded. Since then, instead of the three fixed combinations, the organ has three free combinations. Today's disposition is as follows:

Hauptwerk C– Principal 8th' Tube bare 8th' octave 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ′ recorder 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Mixture IV Zimbel III bassoon 16 ′

Upper structure C– Pommer 16 ′ Dumped 8th' Quintad 8th' Principal 4 ′ flute 4 ′ octave 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ octave 1' Sesquialter II Sharp III – IV Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C– Sub-bass 16 ′ Violon 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Covered bass 8th' Chorale bass 4 ′ Night horn 2 ′ Rauschwerk IV trombone 16 ′ Trumpet (= HW) 8th'

• Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
• Playing aids: 2 free and 3 freely adjustable combinations, roller, tongues off, coupling off, pedal tutti

literature

• Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 2000.
• Dieter Niemann, Nadja Gröschner: The St. Ambrosius parish and the “old cemetery” in Magdeburg-Sudenburg. Kremkau, 2001, ISBN 3-934988-16-4 .

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Ambrosius-Kirche (Magdeburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organ Databank: Organ of the Ambrosius Church in Magdeburg , accessed on February 8, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '34.1 "  N , 11 ° 35' 54.9"  E