Emergency church
An emergency church is generally a room or a building that, in an emergency, is prepared with simple means for provisional use as a church building. This can be a barrack built for this purpose, any building used for church purposes ( barns , halls , storage buildings ) or containers . Especially after the Second World War, parts of large, damaged church buildings were separated by partition walls and ceilings and used as emergency churches until the entire building was completely restored. The Bartning-Notkirchen (see section "Typenkirchen"), however, were not designed as a temporary solution.
Type churches
After the Second World War, around 100 type churches in Germany that were built by Otto Bartning to replace destroyed churches are also referred to as emergency churches. Around 70 of the three model types of buildings are still preserved today.
Barrack churches
A barrack church is a makeshift accommodation made of simple materials such as corrugated iron , wood or cardboard, which is used to gather believers. Barracks are makeshift, simply designed buildings to accommodate large crowds.
In Europe, barrack churches were often built in post-war times and, with a few exceptions, were later replaced by new buildings. An exemplary location in Barackenkirchen were DP camps . Churches of this type were also found in rapidly growing industrial areas during the reconstruction.
Image examples
Barracks emergency church, Kleve , Reichswaldsiedlung, 1949
Barrack church Nöstlbach
St. Michael Church in Dahlenburg
Wooden church Schönebeck , "assembly church" from 1964 in Bremen - Schönebeck
Kripplein Christi in Glandorf (Lower Saxony)
Mission house from Henton (left in the picture) as a prefabricated building in the Chiltern Open Air Museum
Emergency Church of the Evangel. Community in old Saarbrücken
Evangelical Holy Spirit Church in Mitterfels , Bavaria
List of emergency churches
Germany
- Methodist Church of Christ (Berlin-Friedrichshain)
- Wooden church Schönebeck , "assembly church" from 1964 in Bremen - Schönebeck
- St. Michael (Dahlenburg)
- Kripplein Christi (Glandorf)
- Church of the Resurrection (Leipzig)
- Holy Family (Schönefeld) ( Leipzig-Schönefeld )
- Former barrack church (Neuhütten)
- Saarbrücken emergency church
- Former emergency church in Selm ( Beifang district )
- The evangelical Bartning-Notkirchen built after the Second World War
Austria
- Barrack church Graz-Liebenau
- Barrack church Nöstlbach near Traun
- Heart of Mary (Wiener Neustadt)
- Glanzinger Parish Church (Vienna)
- Parish Church Hasenleiten (Vienna)
- Church of Mary Conception (Vienna)
- Parish Church Nordrandsiedlung (Vienna)
- Parish Church Queen of Peace (Vienna)
- St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church (Penzing)
England
- Italian Chapel on Orkney
- Prefabricated mission house from Henton in the Chiltern Open Air Museum
literature
- Karl Siebold : The emergency church. A contribution to solving a church emergency . Verlag der Anstalt Bethel, Bethel bei Bielefeld 1905.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notkirchen as a world cultural heritage. Sunday paper. Evangelical weekly newspaper for Bavaria (40/2012), September 30, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2012 .