Apostle Church (Gütersloh)

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Apostle Church

The Apostle Church on the Old Church Square

Basic data
Denomination evangelical
place Gutersloh , Germany
Regional church Evangelical Church of Westphalia
dedication apostle
Building history
architect Werner March
Building description
Construction type Hall church
Coordinates 51 ° 54 '17.3 "  N , 8 ° 22' 42.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '17.3 "  N , 8 ° 22' 42.7"  E
Template: Infobox church building / maintenance / function and title is missing Evangelical Church of Westphalia
Interior of the Apostle Church

The Apostle Church is the oldest church building in the district town of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church was placed under monument protection in 1984 and has the monument number A 001 on the list of architectural monuments in Gütersloh .

history

View of the old church 1899

The church marks the center of the former church village, which was the nucleus of the later town of Gütersloh. A wooden chapel could have stood here as early as 800. The first stone church dates from 1201. A few remains of the wall are still in the tower of today's church, the rest burned down at the beginning of the 16th century.

The peculiarity of the Apostle Church is its use as a simultaneous church between 1655 and 1890. The believers of the predominantly Protestant church village as well as the northern and western farmers, who all belonged to the rule of Rheda , shared the church with the Catholic believers who came from the principality of Osnabrück belonging to the southern and eastern peasantry. The Simultaneum only ended with the inauguration of the Catholic St. Pankratius Church not far from the Old Church Square. Up until that time, today's Apostle Church was called “St. Pankratius ”, the Catholics took the patronage with them to their new building.

The three-aisled hall church was largely destroyed by bombs on the Sunday of the Dead in 1944, killing several citizens who had sought refuge in it. A painting by Heinz Beck , which shows the scenery of the destroyed church square, can be seen in the church.

The foundation stone for today's building was laid in 1951 according to plans by Werner March , who also designed the Berlin Olympic Stadium . A pointed arched barrel vaulted hall church with approx. 400 seats was created. Four corner columns with late Romanesque leaf capitals from the destroyed choir were reused . In the tower hall there is a chandelier from 1743. At the back of the church, a sculpture created in 1955 by the sculptor Willy Meller , known for numerous works in the service of National Socialism, commemorates the victims of the Second World War.

On the 60th anniversary of its reconstruction in 2012, the Apostle Church u. a. a new interior painting and a modern lighting system.

organ

The organ was built in 1954 by the organ builder Paul Ott from Göttingen. The slider chests -instrument has 26 registers on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C–
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden pipe 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Gemshorn 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI
9. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C–
10. Wooden dacked 8th'
11. recorder 4 ′
12. Principal 2 ′
13. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th octave 1'
16. Cymbal III – IV
17th Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C–
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Praestant 8th'
20th Pommer 8th'
21st octave 4 ′
22nd Wooden pipe 4 ′
23. Night horn 2 ′
24. Rauschpfeife IV
25th bassoon 16 ′
26th Trumpet 4 ′

Peal

The oldest of the five bells, called "Pancratius", dates from 1640. The other four were donated in 1956 by the entrepreneur Fritz Husemann. On the front of the tower there is also a little tower dome, in which a prayer bell, later a clock bell, hung, which could also be used as a fire bell.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Gütersloh: Online directory of the architectural monument Registration of the city of Gütersloh
  2. ↑ Information on the organ at www.titzeck.de, accessed January 13, 2016

Web links

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