St. Paul's Church (Strasbourg)

The Protestant Paul Church ( Église Saint -Paul ) is a neo-Gothic religious building in Strasbourg. The Church is due to its spectacular location on the southern tip of a Illinsel midst of the widest point of the river one of the most photographed of the city at all.

History

The church was built in 1892-1897 by architect Louis Muller as a Protestant garrison church. While the facade of the two 76 meter high towers and the color selection of the stone used here is based on the Marburg Elisabeth Church, corresponds to the overall investment (large width, relatively short length, a total of 19 [! ] Inputs) to the needs of one of the military all rankings attended worship. 1919, with the return of Alsace to France, the building of a civil parish of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine ( EPRAL ) was transferred. The church was damaged in 1944 by British and American bombs.

Organs

Remarkably on the equipment are the two organs. The main organ in the workshop of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, with its 240 cubic meters and its 1934 expanded to 76 register number one of the largest in a wide radius. The 1976 built in the former imperial gallery organ by Marc Garnier applies professionals as well as aesthetically sound succeeded.

• Pairing: Normal Couplers: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P
• Suboktavkoppeln: I / I, II / I, III / I, III / II
• Superoktavkoppeln: I / I, II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P

Restoration measures

In May 2009 the company began the restoration of the Fassadensüdturms. By 2014 it is planned succession and the north tower facade, the facade itself, and finally to restore the forecourt of the heavily weathered building. However, no loans for the complete repair of the listed church are still saved, but initially only for the partial work on the South Tower.