Reconciliation Church (Oberkochen)

Reconciliation Church Oberkochen

Oberkochen Reconciliation Church seen from the east
Basic data
Denomination	evangelical
place	Oberkochen , Germany
Regional church	Evangelical Church in Württemberg
Building history
architect	Heinz Bauer
construction time	1967-1968
Building description
inauguration	15th December 1968
Architectural style	Modern
Function and title
Parish church
Coordinates 48 ° 47 '13.1 "  N , 10 ° 6' 27.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '13.1 "  N , 10 ° 6' 27.3"  E

The Reconciliation Church is a Protestant church with an attached community center in Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg . It serves the parish of Oberkochen as a church service room and event center.

Location and surroundings

The church is located at Bürgermeister-Bosch-Strasse 11 on the corner of Bürgermeister-Bosch-Strasse and Heinz-Küppenbender-Strasse. It is therefore in close proximity to the Oberkochen town hall, which was built around the same time, and the Rupert-Mayer-Haus Catholic community center.

architecture

The church was built by the architect Heinz Bauer. With his design, he emerged as the winner of a competition organized by the parish. The character of the building is shaped by the uncovered use of contemporary building materials concrete, wood and glass. Through the use of light and the position of the walls, the community should on the one hand be enclosed and feel secure, while at the same time the space should be open to the world. The church building and the adjoining community center with Christian Hornberger Hall and several youth rooms form an architecturally one unit.

2018 redesigned entrance area at dusk

Freestanding bell tower ( campanile )

The church is dominated by a free-standing bell tower ( campanile ), which is also made of concrete.

history

The first Protestant church in today's Aalener Strasse was completed in 1583. In 1875 it was replaced by a new building, today's city library. When many Protestant Christians moved in after the Second World War, this church too became too small. The parish council decided on July 2, 1962 to build a new church in the Gutenbach building area.

Construction began on May 16, 1967. In the first service in the still uncovered new church on Reformation Day on October 31, 1967, the foundation stone was walled in, the topping-out ceremony was on June 21, 1968. Based on the Taizé church , it was named the Church of Reconciliation . On December 15, 1968, the 3rd Advent , the inauguration with former regional bishop Dr. Haug to be celebrated.

In 2003 the interior of the church was renovated and carefully redesigned under the direction of the architect Heinz Bauer, and the community rooms a year later.

In the course of the interior renovation, the church received an art installation entitled Color-Light-Sequence by Bernhard Huber on two interior walls. In 2008, the same artist also designed the new paraments that have adorned the altar wall ever since.

From March 2017 to July 2018, the building was extensively renovated and made barrier-free under architect Martin Klaiber. The main measure was the roof renovation, whereby the previous leaky cover with concrete fiber panels was replaced by a stainless steel cover. An extension of the foyer with a platform lift was added for barrier-free access.

organ

The organ in the Reconciliation Church was built in 1974 as opus 942 by Gebr. Link in Giengen / Brenz according to plans by Helmut Bornefeld / Heidenheim. It has two manuals and a pedal . Its 20 sounding registers are on slider chests . The key action is mechanical, the key action electrically. In 2018 a new Principal 8 'was installed in the main plant instead of the previous Quintade 16'.

The instrument is listed under work number 86 in the list of Bornefeld organs (no. 1–91).

I main work C– 1. Principal 8th 2. Wooden flute 8th' 3. Principal 4 ′ 4th Rauschharp II 4 ′ 5. Ital. Principal 2 ′ 6th Larigot II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Tremulant

II Rückpositiv C– 8th. Covered 8th' 9. Head trumpet 8th' 10. Reed flute 4 ′ 11. Principal 2 ′ 12. Hörnlein III 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 13. Gemsnasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th Sharp cymbal III 2 ⁄ 3 ′ Tremulant

Pedal C– 15th Pedestal 16 ′ 16. trombone 16 ′ 17th Open flute 8th' 18th Basszink III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 19th Pipe whistle 4 ′ 20th Rauschpfeife III 2 ′ Tremulant

• Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Peal

The tower has a total of four bells, two of which are from the old church and two were newly cast.

Bell of the Church of Reconciliation

pitch	Weight	diameter	inscription
Ace '	500 kg	980 mm	Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name
ces "	320 kg	840 mm	Glory to God on high, peace on earth
of"	230 kg	750 mm	Work as long as it is day
fes "	130 kg	630 mm	Do not be afraid, believe

Web links

Commons : Church of Reconciliation  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Evangelical parish of Oberkochen

literature

• Ev. Parish Council Oberkochen (ed.): Church of Reconciliation: Oberkochen 3rd Advent 1968 . Festschrift. Oberkochen 1968.
• Christhard Schrenk : 400 years: 1583–1983: Evangelical parish of Oberkochen . South d. Newspaper Service, Aalen 1983.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Bauer: In search of constant form . Festschrift. In: Ev. Parish Council Oberkochen (ed.): Church of Reconciliation: Oberkochen 3rd Advent 1968 . Oberkochen 1968, p. 9 .
2. ↑ Ev. Parish Oberkochen - Reconciliation Church and parish rooms - history. Retrieved June 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ organ | Evang. Parish of Oberkochen. January 19, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Ev. Parish of Oberkochen - Church of Reconciliation - Organ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2013 ; Retrieved August 28, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.