St. Markus (Erlangen)

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Exterior view of the St. Mark's Church in Erlangen from the southwest (2012)

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Markus (usually called Markuskirche for short ) in Erlangen is a post-war modern church building that characterizes the cityscape with stylistic echoes of traditional Franconian sacred buildings . The church consecrated to the Evangelist Mark is now a listed building . The Markus Congregation is now made up of around 5000 Protestant Christians in the east of Erlangen as well as in Buckenhof and Spardorf .

history

The area of ​​the Protestant parish of St. Markus was originally divided between Erlangen-Neustadt , the Erlangen-Altstadt and Uttenreuth . Due to the large influx of expellees and Siemens employees after the Second World War , the number of Protestant Christians in the eastern part of Erlangen grew rapidly. Initially, the services took place in the Puckenhof restaurant or in the auditorium of the vocational school. From 1951 these could then be held in the hall of the newly built Löhehaus (Sieglitzhofer Straße 2), which is adjacent to today's church.

The plans for the construction of the Markuskirche were drawn up by the Ansbach senior government building officer Gottlieb Schwemmer . The shell was completed in just three and a half months until December 1954 in the northern connection to the Löhehaus. The following year the building was completed and was on 4 December 1955 the second Sunday of Advent , inaugurated be. The construction costs totaled 285,000 D-Marks ; these could only be raised with large donations from the community members.

The ringing, consisting of five bells , was completed in 1959. In 1975 the Markuskirche was redesigned and its furnishings were partially renewed in order to make the interior of the church brighter and more communicative. Another renovation measure took place in 2005 ; Among other things, a St. Mark's Chapel was set up next to the apse and equipped with a bronze medallion by the artist Irene Dilling, which shows the “circle of Jesus”.

description

The east-facing hall church consists of an elongated nave covered with a gable roof with five window axes . The eastern axis is occupied by a completely built over semicircular apse that is not visible from the outside . With the round-arched window openings final and portals is Romanesque style taken up with frieze elements and by a spire crowned tower of the Gothic style. The five-storey tower, which is based on the Julius-Echter-Turm of traditional (predominantly) Lower Franconian church buildings, is located on the southwest corner of the nave and is around 40 meters high.

While the exterior is characterized by the dark red of the exposed brickwork , the 17 meter wide, 27 meter long and 14 meter high interior was plastered in white. This offers space for around 600 people. It is spanned by a wooden barrel vault with horizontal roof trusses and has a retracted apse, which is also reminiscent of Romanesque church buildings. On the west side, the organ loft , accentuated by a curved parapet, rests on pillars , between which the entrance area is separated by glazing . On the north side there is a lateral gallery, which is separated from the main nave by a flat ceiling and a row of three arcades. This structural separation is also not visible from the outside.

organ

The organ of the Markuskirche is particularly remarkable . It was created in 1733 by the Nuremberg organ builder Johann Glis for the German Reformed Church on Bohlenplatz . After it was converted into a parish hall in 1953/54, the instrument was transferred to the newly built St. Mark's Church. It is still in use here today. The organ is one of the oldest organs in Middle Franconia and, according to the musicologist Franz Krautwurst, is the most important monument organ in the administrative district. Sometimes it is even classified as an "organ of European standing".

During a restoration by the organ builder Johannes Rohlf in 1987, the instrument was given a rear work that was stylistically appropriate to the Baroque disposition as a second manual work as well as a new pedal work . It now has a total of 19 stops on two manuals and pedal. Today's disposition of the purely mechanical slider chest instrument is as follows:

II main work C – c 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Human thought 8th'
3. Quintatön 8th'
4th Octava 4 ′
5. Flauto stoccato 4 ′
6th Quinta 3 ′
7th Nassat third 3 '+ 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ (treble)
8th. Super Octava 2 ′
9. Mixtura III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
I Hinterwerk C – c 3
10. Reed flute 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Double flute 4 ′
13. Hollow flute 2 ′
14th Mixtura III 2 ′
15th Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
16. Sub-bass 16 ′
17th Violon-bass 8th'
18th Octave bass 4 ′
19th Bassoon-bass 16 ′

Remarks:

  1. ↑ 1987 new from c 0
  2. ↑ a b 1987
  3. ↑ a b 1946
  4. ↑ 1946/87

On the roof truss, which spans the gallery intended for the organ and choir , there is the inscription " SINGET THE LORD A NEW SONG +++".

Since 2010, the Markuskirche has also had an eight-register choir organ by the Spanish organ builder Joaquin Lois Cabello.

Bells

The church peal consists of five bells :

number Surname Casting year Caster Weight diameter Chime
1 Eternity bell 1959 Rincker (sense) 1034 kg 121 cm e 1
2 Peace bell 1956 Rincker (sense) 585 kg 99.0 cm g 1
3 Prayer bell 1956 Rincker (sense) 390 kg 86.7 cm a 1
4th Resurrection bell 1956 Rincker (sense) 276.5 kg 77.8 cm c 2
5 Baptismal bell 1956 Rincker (sense) 191 kg 69.6 cm d 2

The full bells, which only sound on high feast days, result in a completed Salve Regina motif as the disposition of the bells.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Markus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Deanery Erlangen: Erlangen - St. Markus . Online at www.erlangen-evangelisch.de ; accessed on May 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Jakob: Markus. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  3. ↑ Christoph Jahn: Markus, ev. Community. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  4. ↑ a b Our Church . Online at www.st-markus-erlangen.de ; accessed on May 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Walter Opp: Orgeln. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  6. ↑ Erlangen - Evangelical Luth. St. Mark's Church . Online at www.orgelbau-rohlf.de ; accessed on May 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Erlangen, Germany (Bavaria) - St. Mark's Church . Online at orgbase.nl ; accessed on May 4, 2018.
  8. ^ Erlangen, Germany (Bavaria) - St. Mark's Church, choir organ . Online at orgbase.nl ; accessed on May 4, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 11.2 ″  E