City Church (Lauscha)
The Stadtkirche Lauscha is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of the city of Lauscha . The Art Nouveau building was inaugurated on September 17, 1911. It stands dominantly on a southern slope directly above the town center.
history
Since its foundation in 1597, Lauscha has belonged to the parish of the Steinheid parish , a mountain village around 200 meters higher. The walk there took about two hours. The dead also had to be taken to Steinheid for burial on the so-called Totenweg . The growing number of residents prompted the community in 1728 to ask Duke Johann Ernst of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld for permission to build a church, which was granted. The foundation stone was laid on June 20, 1730, followed by the solemn inauguration on October 13, 1732 in the town of around 400 souls at the time. To finance the building, among other things, collections were carried out in the Coburg region and in the Themar and Römhild offices. A loan was also taken out. The church was initially a branch of Steinheid. The establishment of an independent parish took place in 1841. In 1899 the parish of Ernstthal , which had belonged to the parish of the parish Spechtsbrunn since its establishment in 1707 , took place.
The poor state of construction forced the community, which had grown to around 6,700 members, to plan a new building at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1909, the latter was commissioned to implement his plans, the cheapest option, from designs by Meiningen's court architect Karl Behlert , the Saalfeld regional building officer Karl Rommel, Munich professor Albert Schmidt and Leipzig architect Julius Zeißig .
In July 1910 the old church was torn down, on August 16, 1910 the foundation stone was laid for the new building, which was inaugurated on September 17, 1911. The interior, especially the stained glass, and the entire appearance of the church did not find the benevolence of the sovereign Duke George II , who nevertheless donated 12,000 marks. The construction costs amounted to 139,892 marks and were covered by donations and 21 foundations and bequests.
In 1921 electric lighting and in 1938 electric bells were put into operation. In 1958 the interior was redesigned in color. This destroyed Zeißig's original design concept. The original Art Nouveau version was restored in the 2000s.
architecture
The church shows forms of Art Nouveau. Designed as a hall church , it has a rectangular floor plan with a vestibule under the church tower and a baptistery and sacristy behind the altar and the pulpit. The nave stands on a basement in which the winter church is located, originally the confirmation hall. The facade of the house of God consists of embossed natural stone cuboid, whereby the building edges, windows and doors are emphasized by light stone surrounds. The 38 meter high church tower with the main entrance is oriented to the south-west and has a whitewashed hood with a lantern and a weather vane in the shape of a trumpet angel . It is flanked on both sides by stair towers.
The 17 meter long, 12 meter high and 12 meter wide nave has a coffered ceiling and a gallery with an organ on the northeast side. 430 seats are available. Based on the Wiesbaden program , the slightly protruding altar , the pulpit and the organ were arranged one above the other in the central axis of the interior.
The nave has a large number of colored glass windows on which the names of the donors can also be read. The glass paintings were designed by Karl Schulz from Dresden and the Urban workshop in Dresden produced them. People from the local and church history are represented on the eight windows under the longitudinal galleries. The gallery windows show scenes from the New Testament . The window above the main entrance depicts the risen Christ. The three colored glass windows in the vestibule by Knoch & Lysek from Coburg show the local and church history.
organ
The 11,205 Mark expensive organ with pneumatic sound and key action , sounding 28 registers and 15 In addition to trains provided Nuremberg organbuilder Johannes Strebel . The official acceptance took place on September 21, 1911 by Richard Johne (Hildburghausen); the organ consecration on September 25, 1911. In 1938 it was rescheduled and in 2001 an extensive restoration by Rösel & Hercher followed .
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: II
- Super octave coupling: II / I
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Playing aids : 4 fixed combinations (mf, f, ff, tutti), 2 free combinations, tongues off, automatic piano pedal, crescendo roller , calcant bell
Bells
In the church tower there are three bronze bells with the tones c sharp, a sharp and f sharp. The smallest has a mass of 220 kg. It was cast in 1910 by the Schilling company in Apolda and bears the inscription “A strong castle is our God”. The middle bell with a mass of 350 kg has the inscription “In memory of our dead. The Lauscha parish 1952 ”. It also comes from Schilling and was cast in 1952. Like the third bell weighing 1190 kg, it replaced the two bells that were melted down in 1942. The big bell was cast in 1497 and was a gift from the Thuringian regional church to the community in 1952. Its origin is unknown. It has the inscription "o rex gloriae veni cum pace" (O King of Honor, come in peace).
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg, ISBN 3-937940-09-X . , P. 269
- Church leader Evangelical Church and Parish Lauscha
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friends of the listed Art Nouveau church in Lauscha: 100 years of Strebel organ consecration . In: Stadt Lauscha (Ed.): Official Journal of the City of Lauscha . tape 22 , no. 10 . Lauscha October 7, 2011, p. 19 .
- ↑ More information about the organ
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Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 37 ″ N , 11 ° 9 ′ 37 ″ E