Church of the Redeemer, Bad Homburg

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The church on a wintry day.
The church on a wintry day.

The Church of the Redeemer (from the German Erlöserkirche) is an Evangelical (Protestant) church in Bad Homburg, Germany. Finished in 1908, the building is outwardly of a heavy, romanesque revival appearance, while its interior is held in a neo-Byzantine style, with rich marble wall decorations and gold mosaics covering the domed ceiling, leading to the church sometimes being called 'Bad Homburg's Hagia Sophia'.[1]

[edit] History

The church was built to serve Bad Homburg's Evangelical Christians which around the start of the 20th Century suffered from lack of a sufficient congregation space. Its construction was paid for and the design supervised by Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, who had by then made Bad Homburg a summer residence town, and later often came to worship in the church, sitting in his own imperial box with a private entrance. Empress Auguste-Viktoria also provided the jewel-studded altar which was originally intended for the Church of the Redeemer in the Augusta Victoria complex in Jerusalem.[1]

Two large church organs were installed in the Erlöserkirche, with it having a turn-of-the-20th-century Sauer organ and a new Bach organ based on a 1742 Thuringian model.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Churches - Erlöserkirche (from the official Bad Homburg website. Accessed 2008-02-23.)
  2. ^ Organs of Bad Homburg (from the Ars Musici Compact Disks catalogue. Accessed 2008-02-23.)

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