Christ Church Südheide

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Christ Church

The Christ Church in Südheide is the church of the local Evangelical Free Church Community ( Baptists ). It has had this name since the end of 2014. The building is a former secular building that was converted into a church community center in 1979/80. The building is located at Erfurter Weg 7 in Südheide-Unterlüß .

Building description

The Christ Church is a former post office building that was acquired in 1979 and converted into a community center in around a year of construction. The renovation work was mostly carried out in-house. About 65 people were involved.

The building, which was erected in the 1950s, is made of brick and comprises two separate parts of the building, each with gable roofs of different heights. In the left part of the building is the small foyer as well as the church service room, which receives its light from the ribbon windows in the upper area of ​​the side walls. The right part of the building resembles a residential building in the typical style of the post-war period and houses the community and group rooms. Only a brick cross on the gable wall of the chapel and the display case, which is located next to the main entrance, indicate the sacred character of the building.

On the end wall is designed differently depending on the liturgical season of the worship space, there is a simple discrete wooden cross . On the left side there is a grand piano and on the right side the Lord's Supper table , behind which the annual motto is hung on a canvas with a motif. A lectern made of light wood with a small cross and reading lamp serves as the pulpit. The seating consists of reddish-orange upholstered stacking chairs that are set up in rows of five to the right and left of a central aisle. The technical equipment of the room also includes a projector , through which the song and Bible texts are projected onto the front wall during the service.

In the community center there is a sanitary facility and a community kitchen as well as a church café, which is also used for other events. The upper area is used for the community's child and youth work.

Church history

The beginnings of the Unterlüßer Baptist Congregation go back to 1946. Two families opened their homes and invited incoming refugee families to Bible and prayer hours . The place of these meetings was a barrack on Unterlüßer Hubachstrasse . From 1949 the first Sunday services took place in a dental practice at Berliner Straße 19 . The meeting place for the adults was the waiting room and Sunday school took place next door in the treatment room. A short time later, the members of the assembly decided to join the newly founded Evangelical Free Church Baptist Church in Celle as a sub-congregation. After seven years, the congregation moved again. In 1956, in a newly built private house on Neulüßer Strasse, she was able to expand the basement rooms according to her needs and use it as a community center. Several major missionary events that the congregation carried out in Zeltkirchen from 1995 to 1971 made them known to the public. In 1969 I started to work with children, for whom the old Unterlüßer school and from 1972 a house on Lindenweg were rented. The parish, which had previously received pastoral care from Celle, received its first full-time pastor in 1979. In the same year, the old post office was purchased and, after extensive renovations, on May 11, 1980, its spiritual use.

In 1985 the Unterlüß sub-community was constituted as a branch of the Evangelical Free Church Celle and elected its own branch leadership a year later. It is part of the Evangelical Free Church Regional Association of Lower Saxony-East Westphalia-Saxony-Anhalt (NOSA). The Unterlüßer community received a special growth after 1988 through the influx of Russian-German returnees. Their work in the integration of the resettlers received public recognition. On July 4, 2000, it was accepted as an independent congregation in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany .

The Unterlüßer Baptist Congregation participates in village life and is involved in local ecumenical work .

Web links

literature

  • Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Evangelical Free Church Community of Südheide-Unterlüß: Chronicle ; Accessed March 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Internet presence of the Evangelical Free Church Community Unterlüß: photos ; accessed on October 2, 2015
  5. ↑ The data and facts in this section refer to Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 Years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, pp. 8-12
  6. ↑ Günther Krebs: The emergence of the Baptist church in Unterlüß. In: Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, p. 13f
  7. ↑ Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, p. 22
  8. ↑ National Association NOSA: Municipality Unterlüß ( Memento of 24 May 2013, Internet Archive ); accessed on May 16, 2013
  9. ^ Greetings from the mayor and the parish director on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Unterlüßer Baptists; see Lothar Leinbaum, Siegbert Tintemann: 50 years of Baptists in Unterlüß. 1946-1996. Unterlüß 1996, p. 5
  10. ^ Homepage of the Evangelical Free Church Community of Südheide-Unterlüß: Chronicle ; Accessed March 25, 2015
  11. ↑ For example, article Ecumenical Peace Service in Unterlüß  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ); accessed on May 16, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-celle.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 43.4 "  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 33.3"  E