St. Matthew (Regensburg)

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St. Matthew

The parish church of St. Matthew is at Graf-Spee-Straße 1 in the barracks district of Regensburg . The community is part of the deanery of Regensburg in the parish of Regensburg the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

history

Due to the influx of mostly Protestant refugees from the former East German territories after the Second World War , the number of Protestants in the city rose from 11,450 (1939) to 17,000 (1952). In autumn 1949 the emergency church east was set up in Hornstrasse . On October 31, 1954, the new church was inaugurated by the then regional bishop Hans Meiser . On June 30, 1955, the parish of St. Matthew , which had previously belonged to the Neupfarrkirche, was raised to its own parish.

Buildings and equipment

Interior view, altar area
inside view

The church is a pioneering work of the post-war period in Protestant church building in Bavaria. According to the idea of ​​the time, new room concepts were planned: An overall complex consisting of a church, parish hall, kindergarten and apartments was considered. As an architect, Adolf Abel was asked to take on this assignment. His son was vicar in Regensburg at this time . Abel combined the desired space and spanned the connected building units with a huge, only slightly inclined roof that extends over the entire structure and is reminiscent of a tent. It is only overlooked by the narrow bell tower that was later changed .

Due to the tent construction, the building steps down towards the chancel. On the east side is the sacristy , which is crowned with a preacher place. This also gives the opportunity to celebrate open-air services on the adjacent square. Two virtual axes cross the church interior: the “liturgical axis” points to the altar, the “sermon axis” lies between the organ and the pulpit. The entrance area and the large parish hall can be slammed into the church interior using folding doors and thus combined into different room variations or into a large church, suitable for a wide variety of occasions. The curved, column-free gallery made of reinforced concrete fits harmoniously into the slightly asymmetrical floor plan of the church. The morning light can flow unhindered into the interior through the floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows. To get this effect more clearly to bear, the Church is not as usual faces east , but aligned to the south. Pulpit, altar and baptismal font are covered with Wallenfels marble. Blasius Spreng designed the brass work of the writing Matthew on the parapet of the pulpit. His most striking work in the church is the back wall of the altar with the representation of the Sermon on the Mount in encaustic . The design and coloring is also reflected in the altar cross and in the song boards. In 1959 a figure of the crucified, made of cast bronze, created by the sculptor Marie Luise Wilckens , was added to the western choir wall as a reinterpretation of the Romanesque crucifix . The corresponding cross was carved out as an unplastered wall surface.

The effect of the church can still be seen today in almost its original state. Only in 2008 did the heating and therefore the floor have to be renewed for emission-related reasons. In addition to this measure, the walls and ceiling were thermally insulated, then the walls were freshly painted inside and out.

organ

Organ St. Matthew, Regensburg

The organ , inaugurated on July 24, 1955, was built by the then resident organ building company Eduard Hirnschrodt . For the first time in its history, the organ builder used in a larger, mehrmanualigen instrument abrasive loading and a purely mechanical key action . As was customary at the time, the technology and the sound of an organ from the 18th century were modeled on and a neo-baroque instrument was created. The organ was the first mechanical organ in Regensburg from more recent times and is therefore of particular regional importance.

After the war, fine zinc was used for the prospectus pipes . With this organ, a case in the area of ​​the pipes was dispensed with in favor of a “free pipe brochure ”. In Orgelfuß sit next to the Regierwerk three Schwimmerbälge that the game wind on the individual part works distribute the organ. They are fed by the fan system located at the base of the tower. The organ is still completely in its original condition. Only in 1988, after the church windows had been redesigned, the basic voices were carefully re-voiced during cleaning .

With the installation point of the organ in the church, a structural idea was also carried further: by building at the rear end of the western long side, good sound coverage of the entire church space is possible, even if the large parish hall is integrated into a large church for festive occasions.

The instrument has 16 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The disposition prepared by Friedrich Högner is:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Schwiegel 2 ′
5. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
7th Singing dumped 8th'
8th. Night horn 4 ′
9. octave 2 ′
10. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Third symbol III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub-bass 16 ′
13. Octave bass 8th'
14th Gedacktpommer 4 ′
15th Principal 2 ′
16. bassoon 16 ′

Bells

The chime is a 3-part E minor chime in the tone sequence e'-g'-h '. The three bells were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding in 1954 and consecrated on Christmas Day in 1954.

  • The peace bell has a weight of 950 kg, a diameter of 123 cm and sounds on the strike note e '. Their inscription reads: "He is our peace" (Eph. 2,24)
  • The Our Father Bell has a weight of 540 kg, a diameter of 103 cm and sounds on the strike note g '. It bears the inscription: "Thy kingdom come" (Matt. 6:10).
  • The christening bell has a weight of 290 kg, a diameter of 84 cm and sounds on the strike note b '. It bears the inscription: “Let the little children come to me” (Mark 10,14).

The three bells hang in a steel bell cage. Each is made to vibrate by a VOCO electric bell from Herford Electricity Works ( HEW Herford ). The bells can be rung by hand before and during services or automatically when the day is rung.

literature

  • Protestant churches in Regensburg. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1991, ISBN 3-7954-0855-5 .
  • Ulrich Kahle in: Protestant Church Building in Bavaria since 1945 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06953-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Church on the St. Matthew Congregation website
  2. ↑ Ulrich Kahle in: Evangelical Church Building in Bavaria since 1945. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06953-4 , pp. 114–115.
  3. ^ Description of the organ on the parish website

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 23.2 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 35.8"  E