St. Pauls Church (Dinkelsbühl)
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of Dinkelsbühl in the district of Ansbach , the St. Pauls Church , is a transverse rectangular unplastered hall building with a hipped roof and a central façade tower with a pointed helmet that was built in 1843 . The new building, designed by Andreas Schulz in a historicizing style, was built in place of the former Carmelite Church , which was previously demolished. Together with the church furnishings , it represents a protected architectural monument (monument number D-5-71-136-345). It is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish.
history
Building history
The history of the “Protestant Main Church” began in 1648. After the Peace of Westphalia , the Protestant Dinkelsbühlers demanded that St. George's Church be shared . But since she was Catholic in the "normal year 1624", she remained Catholic. The Protestants received the hospital church . In a special contract they were allowed to build a larger church at their own expense. But because of the war damage, one could not think of that. The Protestant community settled in the much too small hospital church for a certain time.
As a result of the secularization, the Carmelite Church with the attached monastery passed into the possession of the Bavarian state, which sold it. In 1812, the Protestant parish received the “highest approval” from the royal government to purchase this church. It should actually be rebuilt. But the royal consistory in Ansbach took the position "that the money should not be spent in vain, since it should help the respectable town community to have a more spacious and beautiful church".
The Carmelite monastery church was demolished in 1839 to make way for the main church to be built. It was built according to the plan of the Ansbach civil building inspector Schulz in the so-called " Byzantine style ". The southern nave wall still comes from the monastery church. The foundation walls were laid and the roof covered as early as autumn 1840. In the summer of 1843 the interior of the church was completed.
inauguration
At the inauguration on November 19, 1843, parishioners of both denominations were already present. All the bells rang the night before. On the morning of the festive day, gun salutes could be heard and a wind choir played a chorale from the church tower. The high point of the celebration was the Lord's Supper. Then three children were baptized and a bride and groom were blessed.
The congregation was happy to be in possession of a large and, as the inauguration protocol says, "very beautiful and solidly represented church, the interior of which is worthy of a house of God".
In 2018, the 175th anniversary of the inauguration was celebrated with an exhibition.
Timeline of changes
- 1839 Demolition of the monastery church
- 1840/34 Construction of the “Main Protestant Church”, inauguration on November 19, 1843
- 1913 Installation of the heating
- 1924 change of name to "St. Pauls Church"
- 1926 pictures to decorate the bare church walls
- 1927 Installation of electrical lighting
- 1937 construction of the new organ
- 1953/54 repair of the church roof, renewal of the tower crown
- 1966 Acquisition of a new bell with four bells
- 1987/89 external repairs in three stages
- 1992/93 interior repairs, inauguration on 4th / 5th December 1993
- 1994 Installation of the new organ
Furnishing
Altar cross
Christ and Pulpit
Baptismal font
The good samaritan
Organ loft
Pillars of the gallery
Upholstered chairs
lobby
The "blessing Christ" in the arch of the vestibule greets the church visitors. It was designed by the sculptor Bernhard Afinger in Berlin in 1842 and executed by Leopold Kießling in Munich.
Altar cross
The motif of this cross is “Christ as ruler of the world”. It is the central eye catcher on the altar.
Pulpit and Christ
The pulpit is attached to the wall on the left side of the choir niche, next to it on the wall is a large body (without a cross), a kind of pulpit cross.
Painting "The Good Samaritan"
To the right of the choir niche hangs an elaborately framed picture of the Good Samaritan on the wall, a counterpart to the pulpit.
Gallery on pillars
The gallery, which surrounds the hall on three sides and on which the new organ stands above the entrance area, is supported by very beautiful columns with Corinthian capitals.
Majority chandelier
Since the church is often visited outside of the times of worship, the idea for a majority chandelier, which a local blacksmith designed and manufactured, arose. The majority chandelier is made of brass, with a diameter of 80 centimeters and a height of around 100 centimeters. The candlestick takes up the motif of the altar cross, Christ as ruler of the world, and expands it.
organ
The new organ from 1995 comes from the company Freiburger Orgelbau Hartwig and Tilmann Späth . It has 39 registers , which are distributed over three manuals and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, Octaves graves III, Octaves graves III / I
- Temperature: unequal (Janke III)
literature
- Arnold, Gerfrid: Evangelical Churches in Dinkelsbühl. (DKV art guide 667). Berlin / Munich 2011.
See also
Web links
- Evangelical Lutheran deanery and parishes accessed on December 19, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office and the parishes , accessed on December 19, 2018.
- ^ Website of the parishes , accessed on December 17, 2018.
- ↑ Gronauer, Gerhard: "Relics of the predecessors. Dinkelsbühler St. Paulskirche celebrated its 175th birthday", in: Evangelisches Sonntagsblatt from Bavaria from November 11, 2018.
- ↑ orgel-info.de accessed on December 19, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 13.3 ″ E