Christ Church (Heinsberg)

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Evangelical Christ Church

Heinsberg Christ Church.jpg

Denomination : evangelical
Consecration date : March 15, 1953
Parish : Heinsberg
Address: 52525 Heinsberg,

Archbishop-Philipp-Str.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 43"  E

The Evangelical Christ Church is located in the city of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The church stands together with the rectory on Archbishop-Philipp-Strasse in Heinsberg.

history

In 1553, the trained church Heinsberg. The oldest surviving testimony of the Reformed community of Heinsberg is a book from 1601. It lists all the members of the young Reformed community of Heinsberg up to 1613. After many difficulties due to religious prohibitions and a lack of space, the first church was built in early 1800. The inauguration took place on December 3, 1809. When a bell was given to the parish in 1875, the church received a small tower. A second bell was donated by the director of the United Glanzstoff-Fabriken Boos. After the start of the war, a bell had to be handed in to be melted down. When Heinsberg fell to rubble on November 16, 1944, a direct hit destroyed the church with the bell.

After the Second World War , the number of believers grew steadily. For a long time the service was celebrated in the hospital chapel. In 1951 the district administration made the home available. According to the construction plans of the architects Karl and Walter Jendges , the church building association built the rectory and the youth home in 1950/51 . The Christ Church, built in 1952/53, was consecrated on March 15, 1953. The Heinsberg parish can look back on 400 years of history .

Research project

From the beginning of 2011 to mid-2013, the church received a thorough renovation and modernization as well as the construction of new community rooms. The main component of the concept should be a high-quality, energetic standard for the long-term reduction of energy costs and environmental pollution . The architect of the project was Professor Ludwig Rongen. The total costs were around 1.35 million euros.

organ

Until 1986 the services were accompanied by a harmonium . From April 27, 1986 this task was taken over by an organ from the Aachen organ building company Georg Stahlhuth .

Disposition of the organ:

I. Manual C-f 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Small set 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II. Manual C – f 3
Covered 8th'
Coupling flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialter 2-fold
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Revelation 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′

Bells

There are three bells in the church tower, two of them from 1962. Both bells were cast in the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher in Westphalia . The voices of the bells were chosen to match the bells of the Catholic Church of St. Gangolf .

No.
  		Surname
  		Caster
  		Casting year
  		Ø
(mm) 		Weight
(kg) 		Nominal
(16th note)
I. - Hans Georg Hermann Maria Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 1962 - - g¹
II - Hans Georg Hermann Maria Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 1962 - - b¹
II - Hans Georg Hermann Maria Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 1962 - - c²

Furnishing

literature

  • Home calendar of the Selfkantkreis 1953: 400 years of the Evangelical Church Community Heinsberg , by Pastor Fuchs, Heinsberg, p. 53
  • Home calendar of the Heinsberg district 1992: The preaching houses of the Reformed Congregation Heinsberg in the 17th century , by Paul and Sigrid Krückel p. 52
  • Wilhelm Frenken: 400 years of the Heinsberg Evangelical Church Community

Web links

Commons : Christ Church (Heinsberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christ Church becomes a research project . Aachener Zeitung from December 15, 2011
  2. ^ Organ data of the Evangelical Christ Church ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Heinsberg, Evangelical Christ Church on the website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting eV