Apostle Church (Greding)

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The Apostle Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the Bavarian town of Greding .

history

Since the early Middle Ages, Greding had belonged to the Eichstätt Monastery as an original parish and was therefore consistently Catholic.

Evangelical Christians first settled in Greding in the 19th century . They came to Greding by post , train , local court and rent office . In 1840 three Protestant families lived here, in 1850 there were 24 and at the end of the 19th century 40 to 50 Protestants. On November 10, 1901, the first Protestant service was celebrated in the meeting room of the district court in Greding and a Protestant association was founded. In 1920 a plot of land was purchased to build a church. In 1923 a daughter church of St. Gotthard, Thalmässing , was established in Greding . With the construction of the amplifier office , the motorway, the influx of business people and bombed-out families, the number grew to 300 parishioners during World War II.

After the Second World War, there were also displaced persons ; Every four weeks an evangelical service was held in the Catholic Martinskirche . With the relocation of the military engineering department to Greding in 1961, the community continued to grow. In the same year the responsibility of the pastor of St. Gotthard, Thalmässing, was transferred to the pastor of Schwimbach . He previously had only 230 souls to look after. Religious instruction continued from Thalmässing on two afternoons a week. In February 1963 the church building association was founded. In 1963 the pastor of Offenbau also took over pastoral care.

Since December 1st, 1964, Greding has been an independent parish in the Protestant deanery Thalmässing. In 1965, the property acquired in 1920 was exchanged for the current property on Galgenberg, where the first groundbreaking for the church took place on March 14, 1966. The foundation stone was laid on May 1st, 1966.

In 1967 the 25-ton tower of the Munich company Goldes slipped from the low-loader during delivery and broke. It was later repaired at a rest area on the Federal Highway 9 and then set up in front of the church as planned.

On August 17, 1967, the bells were cast at the Czudnochowsky company in Erding . The bells were delivered to Greding on October 30th. The church, built according to the plans of the architect couple Ingrid and Georg Küttinger , was inaugurated on September 10, 1967 by senior church councilor Giegler. A week later, Regional Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger visited the church. Since the pastor's office in Offenbau has been orphaned, the parish has again been looked after from Thalmässing.

Furnishing

The building has twelve corners, consists of Altmühlthaler natural stone and was built by the Adam Wein company from Beilngries . The wooden church tower stands in front of the entrance to the church on the upper floor. A simple cross hangs over the altar. The font is also there . The pews are arranged in a three-quarter circle around the altar. The organ is built behind the altar. There is a community hall in the basement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greding, Ev. Apostle Church. Retrieved on August 15, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  2. ↑ Greding: With the Greding Apostle Church, a very special church was built half a century ago . In: donaukurier.de . ( donaukurier.de [accessed on August 15, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Super User: Apostle Church Greding . In: Thalmässing Church . ( kirche-thalmaessing.de [accessed on August 15, 2018]).
  4. ^ Ernst Baumgartl: History of the city of Greding . tape 4 , 1991, pp. 383-388 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 35.2 ″  E