Confession Church (Gersthofen)

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Confessional Church Gersthofen

The Confessional Church in Gersthofen , a town in the Bavarian - Swabian district of Augsburg , is an Evangelical Lutheran Church . The building is a monument .

history

As part of the construction of the railway line and the electrification, there was an economic upswing in Gersthofen around 1900 and the influx of Protestant Christians into the previously purely Catholic area. These have been looked after from Oberhausen since 1898 together with believers from Gablingen and Langweid . From 1907, church services were held monthly in the Gersthofen factory school. The church building association founded in 1925 was able to lay the foundation stone for the church building on November 11, 1934 with its own collections, but above all with greater support from the political community, regional church and especially the nearby Gersthofer IG Farben plant , which was followed by the inauguration on May 30, 1935 . The name of the church was chosen as the Confessing Church in contrast to the German Christians . The church was the only one of the dean's office in Augsburg to survive the Second World War without damage. With the influx of the displaced , the community grew until it became independent in 1960 with its own pastorate.

building

The church was built above Ludwig-Hermann-Straße by the architect German Bestelmeyer as a hall with a retracted choir , which is raised by four steps. The floor is covered with red brick tiles. To the south of the six-meter-wide central nave, which is spanned by a beamed ceiling, there is a cross-vaulted aisle and the portal . The gable roof tower is to the southeast, the sacristy to the northeast. The building is made of plastered brick with a red roof.

Furnishing

The church was refurbished. Altar , pulpit and baptismal font were made in a straight line in shell limestone. The glazing was created by Josef Oberberger in clear colors as a representation of the Christmas story, resurrection and ascension. The current organ by Deininger & Renner was installed in 2001 and has 14 registers . The belfry includes the small hour bell, the medium prayer bell and the large confession bell.

literature

  • Georg Josef Abröll: On the history of the parishes of Batzenhofen and Hirblingen. In: Johannes Krauße (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Gersthofen. Gersthofen 1989, pp. 153-159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church history on the parish website
  2. ↑ Church building on the parish side

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '49.6 "  N , 10 ° 52' 56.7"  E