Schongau - The 35 places in the Evangelical Trinity Church in Schongau were quickly taken.
The new altar, lectern and baptismal font were put into service at the most recent Sunday service, strictly observing the hygiene regulations.
After the renovation had given the Protestant church a more modern face, it was clear to the architects, the art commissioner of the regional church Helmut Braun and the church council that the principles should also be renewed (we reported).
The Munich artist Sabine Straub was commissioned.
The art fund of the Protestant regional church agreed to cover half of the costs.
During the service, the artist explained her concept: “Altar, ambo and baptism have a lower color and are not in competition with the colored windows of Hubert Distler.” The white bodies of baptism and ambo formed a counterweight to the historical pulpit.
The underframe of the altar takes up the subdivisions of both the transparent windows in the nave and the art glass windows.
What appears in the so-called stipes, the substructure of the altar, as a “positive form, appears as a milled line in the wooden bodies of the baptism and ambo,” says Straub.
The color of the tombac baptismal font takes on the golden lines of the pulpit and gallery as well as the golden altar cross, which was donated by Empress Auguste Viktoria in 1916 for the dedication of the church.
Pastor Julia Steller and Pastor Jost Herrmann emphasized the importance of the individual principals before Dean Jörg Hammerbacher consecrated the baptismal font and the altar.
The opinions of the church visitors were divided: From: “I'll have to get used to it” to “In real life the altar looks much more dignified than in the pictures in the newspaper and on the homepage” to “Unique.
How the lectern, altar and baptismal font fit into the church.
The church gets color through the windows.
It didn't need any more. "
