Thomaskirche (Oldenburg)

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Thomaskirche (Oldenburg) view from the southwest

The Thomaskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Oldenburg district of Ofenerdiek .

history

View from the baptistery to the altar
Image taken at dusk with the church illuminated inside

After incorporation into the city Oldenburg iO what is now was parish Ofenerdiek which previously made to the parishes oven , Rastede and Ohmstede related areas was, struck in November 1938 as a whole the parish Ohmstede. Assistant preacher Stegmann looked after the parish. In March 1939 the parish council decided to buy the house at Weißenmoorstraße 202 and to transform the carpentry workshop into a chapel with a parish apartment. Assistant preacher Plessmann was drafted at the beginning of the Second World War and has been missing since 1943. In 1944 the chapel was destroyed by bombs and the rectory was damaged.

In 1947 it was decided to convert the assistant preacher position of Ofenerdiek into a second pastorate. Since 1948, Pastor Alfred Dreilich temporarily administered the pastor's office, into which he was introduced by Bishop Wilhelm Stählin . After the currency reform, the chapel was rebuilt and expanded, then consecrated on February 27, 1949 under the name of Christ Chapel .

With the construction of the Koopmannsiedlung from 1949 to 1951, the community grew to 2,500 Protestant Christians, most of whom came from Lower Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia. In the Alexandersfeld school, services were celebrated every two weeks on Sunday afternoons. In December 1956 the Ohmsted parish church council applied to the synod for the independence of the parish of Ofenerdiek, since it was practically already its own parish, but had no administration. In October 1957, Pastor Dreilich moved to a pastor's position in Delmenhorst, followed by Vicar Martin Tovote.

In the late 1950s, the British occupation cleared the military settlement between Alexanderstrasse and Hagelmannsweg ("English settlement"). About 100 German families moved in, so that the number of parishioners rose to 5700. In a chronicle it says, "This also urges the community district to become independent in order to develop the still missing community awareness and to be able to better counter the strong unreligiousness in the community district." On January 1st, 1961 the church community of Ofenerdiek became independent. In the same year negotiations were held on the purchase of the site, plans and the model were completed. On Reformation Day 1961, the church council decided chaired Pastor Tovotes naming Thomas Church .

The foundation stone was laid on May 19, 1962. The inauguration took place on June 9, 1963.

Falcons have been breeding in the church tower since 2001.

architecture

View to the ceiling to the south

The nave of the hall church made of red clinker bricks is an elongated hexagon. The crystalline structure symbolizes the heavenly Jerusalem with its twelve gates (ten gables and two “gates” formed by the folded front and rear walls). The bell tower stands as a campanile , has space for three bells and houses the sacristy . It is connected to the church building via a glass corridor. The design of the church in Bauhaus style comes from Willi Schröder .

The church can be entered through portals on the north side or on the south side in the rear part of the church. The first glance falls on the font . It is located under the set gallery , which offers space for the organ and a choir. The baptismal font is in the chapel-like situation below.

The benches are slightly inclined to each other. The congregation concentrates the angling on the action center in the sanctuary. The planners took on an important design feature of a model church - the Church of St. Martin (Linden) in Hanover. In addition, the folded front and rear walls, walls made of sanded matt red brick and a tent-like roof are reminiscent of the church in the state capital, which is only a few years older. The interplay with the fold in the middle of the back wall of the altar results in a clear center in the sanctuary. It is dominated by a cross of rays from Wolfgang Tümpel . The altar is made of Italian gneiss , the altar wall and the north wall are made of clinker. On the north wall of the chancel is the door that connects to the bell tower and the sacristy and which was reserved for the pastor. Opposite - on the south wall of the sanctuary - the monumental and colorful Thomas window designed by Thea Koch-Giebel lets the sanctuary appear in colored light. The window depicts the story of Thomas ( Joh 20,19  EU ). Two hands and a wound are clearly visible. The moment is captured when Thomas touches Jesus' wound on the side.

Furnishing

The baptismal font consists of a column, which, like the altar, is made of Italian gneiss, and the baptismal bowl by Wolfgang Tümpel , to whom the St. Thomas Church also features the seven altar candlesticks (reminiscent of the seven-armed candlestick in the temple in Jerusalem) and the cross above the altar and the precious Bauhaus-style dinnerware. The silver radiant cross suspended above the altar with an inclination towards the congregation dominates the chancel and takes up the motif of the triangle in its construction, which can be found in the entire church (ceiling, arrangement of the benches, folded walls, windows over the portals, baptistery) the divine trinity refers. It harmonizes with the stained glass window by Thea Koch-Giebel, the material of the altar and the simple silver candlesticks in front of the clinker brick wall.

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1965 by the organ builder EF Walcker & Cie. built, and restored and expanded in 2012 by the organ builder Burkhard Klimke. The slider chest instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 08th'
2. Reed flute 08th'
3. octave 04 ′
4th Covered flute 04 ′
5. Forest flute 02 ′
6th Cornett I-III
7th Mixture IV
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
8th. Covered 08th'
9. Quintad 08th'
10. octave 04 ′
11. Night horn 04 ′
12. Super octave 02 ′
13. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Sesquialter II
15th Third symbol III
16. Krummhorn 08th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub bass 16 ′
18th Principal 08th'
19th Drone 08th'
20th Chorale bass 04 ′
21st Trumpet 08th'

See also

Web links

Commons : Thomaskirche (Oldenburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/hallo_niedersachsen/Bigamie-Turmfalke-ohne-Moral,hallonds58976.html
  2. ↑ The Bauhaus style church turns 50. In: Nordwest-Zeitung from January 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ See the representation of the church in: Churches. Handbook for Church Building, ed. by Willy Weyres and Otto Bartning , Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1958. pp. 331–333.
  4. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 10.3 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 59.7"  E