Cranger Church

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The Cranger Church

The Cranger Church in Herne-Crange is the oldest church in the former Wanne-Eickel and a place of worship for the Evangelical Church Community of Crange-Wanne.

The old Cranger Laurentius Chapel

In 1441 the liege lord of House Crange , Derick van Eykel, received papal approval to build a chapel 50 meters north of House Crange. On Laurentius Day , August 10, 1449, the castle chapel was consecrated to St. Laurentius by the Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich von Moers . The portable altar from the house of Crange was carried into the new chapel and consecrated to St. Anthony there.

A parish festival was then celebrated annually on Laurentius Day in the village of Crange , which, in conjunction with a large horse market, was the starting point for the Cranger Kirmes , which are now known nationwide .

A triptych , a three-part altarpiece, was added to the original carrying altar in the 15th or 16th century . This represented the Passion of Christ . The two side pictures of the triptych were painted on the front as well as on the back and represented Antonius and Laurentius. The Laurentius picture is today in Ahausen Castle ; the Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel has a color copy of the picture in its original size. Protestant services have been held in the Laurentius Chapel at the latest since 1577, which is generally regarded as the "founding year" of the Evangelical Church Community in Crange. On March 6, 1846, the chapel was closed due to the risk of collapse and was only demolished years later.

history

View from the street

Building history

A new building at the previous location was not possible because the property turned out to be too small in view of the population development in the Ruhr area. Pastor Wilhelm Meißner succeeded in acquiring a suitable piece of land by swapping it with the estate agency. Due to the revolution of 1848 and the resulting lack of financial resources, the foundation stone of the new Cranger Church could only be laid on August 28, 1852. The church was inaugurated on November 8, 1854 by the general superintendent Franz Friedrich Graeber . The construction cost 4,246 Reichstaler, 12 silver groschen and 7 pfennig. A church tower clock was ordered for 131 thalers and 25 silver groschen.

The Cranger Church has a folded symmetrical classical facade. The bell tower is highlighted like a crack from the front of the building. Instead of a weathercock, there is a trumpet angel attached to the top of the tower as part of the expansion in 1936 .

The Cranger Cemetery overlooks the front wall of the church

A new cemetery was built around the church. The first burial took place there on August 24, 1854. Due to the steadily increasing population, the Cranger Church became too small, so that in 1898 the construction of a gallery with 100 additional seats was completed.

In 1936, on the initiative of Pastor Gustav Adolf Brenne, the building was expanded to its present size according to plans by the Berlin architect Hans Krebs. The floor plan of the church now has the shape of a cross - a shape that recurs several times in the church.

On March 28, 1988, the church was entered as architectural monument No. 32 in the list of monuments of the city of Herne.

Furnishing

In the course of the First World War , the larger of the two bronze bells was melted down. After the war, two steel bells were bought as replacements from the Bochumer Verein , which could be financed by selling the remaining bronze bell.

Following the expansion of the church in 1936, a font was first erected. On the occasion of his 25th anniversary in service, Pastor Brenne received it in 1947 as a gift from the men's service. The baptismal font made of Thüster limestone was only an outstanding element in the chancel for a short time, because the pulpit was appropriately prepared a year later at the request of the community. With the renovation of the altar, the redesign of the sanctuary was finally completed in 1948.

In the 1960s, the Cranger Church was completely overhauled and received warm air heating, a new organ and new benches.

In 1962, the Wanne-Eickeler artist Kriemhild Flake created all 17 lead glass windows for the Cranger Church. A wall-filling glass window in the shape of a cross on the front wall of the church behind the altar is also visible from the cemetery.

The four evangelists that can be seen in the pulpit today were carved in 1984 by the Wanne-Eickel sculptor Edmund Schuitz into the hitherto bare surfaces. Then he also created the "Graphito" on the right side of the altar.

The valuable altar Bible, a unique piece weighing around 20 kilograms, printed in Nuremberg in 1736 , had been in Crange since 1826. The Bible was fitted with brass fittings and bound in pigskin . It was stolen during a break-in between Sunday, November 24th, 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 7:10 a.m.

Todays use

  • Church during the 2012 fun fair

  • Fair baptism

The Cranger Church is next to the Luther Church in Wanne-Nord the place of worship of the Evangelical Church Community Crange-Wanne. Since the church is located at the Cranger cemetery, it is also used as a mourning hall. In addition to the church services on Saturday, baptisms and weddings, ecumenical carnival services have been taking place during the Cranger Kirmes at 7.30 p.m. under the motto 15 minutes for God for decades. Catholic and Protestant clergy from Herne and Wanne-Eickel take turns in the design. Occasionally there are also concerts in the church, such as that of the Gospel Project Ruhr in October 2016 and 2017.

graveyard

  • Gravestone from 1873

  • Gravestone from 1866

  • Gravestone from 1873

The gravestones can already be seen from the entrance to the churchyard to the right of the church. There are still stones from the 1850s to 1870s.

The cemetery has been occupied since 1854. In the 1920s it was expanded in the direction of Dorstener Straße and received two more entrances there. It covers an area of ​​approx. 1.4 ha about 2,000 grave sites. Around 90 burials take place every year.

  • Grave steles to the right of the church

  • Columbarium to the right of the mortuary

In the back of the cemetery there is a modern mortuary with three farewell rooms. The semicircular columbarium in front of it, created in 2016, was expanded in 2017 and 2018.

14 German war dead from the Second World War were buried in the cemetery: one soldier, three civilians, seven civilians and three children. In 2018, Germany's first grave field with 14 burial graves for two coffins and 15 urn graves for deceased from showman families was established on the cemetery grounds on the left side of the church.

Web links

Commons : Cranger Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Cranger Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Peter Neumann: The oldest church in Wanne-Eickel: the Evangelical Church in Crange from 1854. In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Sacred buildings and religious art in Wanne-Eickel and Herne. (= The Emscherbrücher 2000. Volume 11). Herne 2000, p. 11.
  2. ↑ a b Gustav Hegler: Eickel tub then and now. History of the parishes of both offices . Siegen 1903, p. 80.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Evangelical Church Community Crange: 1577-1977. 400 years of the Evangelical Church Community of Crange. Festschrift. Herne 1977.
  4. ^ A b Peter Neumann: The oldest church in Wanne-Eickel: the Evangelical Church in Crange from 1854. In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Ed.): Sacred buildings and religious art in Wanne-Eickel and Herne. (= The Emscherbrücher 2000. Volume 11). Herne 2000, p. 12f.
  5. ↑ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century: Herne-Crange, Evang. Crange Church . Retrieved October 26, 2018
  6. ↑ Tobias Bolsmann: Brazen thieves take 280-year-old bible with them in Herne. In: DerWesten. As of December 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Crange-Wanne: Cranger Friedhof . Retrieved October 26, 2018
  8. ↑ WAZ: Cranger Church creates a Ruhr point in the hustle and bustle of the fair on August 12, 2017. Retrieved on October 26, 2018
  9. ↑ Laura Konieczny: 15 minutes for God - break from the hustle and bustle of August 15, 2015. In: DerWesten . Retrieved October 26, 2018
  10. ↑ WAZ: Gospel Project gives second concert in Cranger Church on October 11, 2017. Accessed October 26, 2018
  11. ↑ lokalkompass.de: Concert of the Gospelprojekt-Ruhr eV in the Cranger Church . Retrieved October 26, 2018
  12. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Crange-Wanne: Types of burial . Retrieved October 27, 2018
  13. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Crange-Wanne: Cranger Friedhof . Retrieved October 27, 2018
  14. ↑ Klaus Sannemann: Friedhof at the Cranger Church from September 28, 2016. In: halloherne . Retrieved October 27, 2018
  15. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Crange-Wanne: Current Issues. Retrieved October 27, 2018
  16. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge : Herne-Crange-Evangelischer Friedhof . Retrieved October 27, 2018
  17. ^ City of Herne: War graves in the city of Herne . Retrieved October 27, 2018
  18. ^ Theo Körner: A grave field only for showmen at the Cranger Church from August 8, 2018. In: WAZ. Retrieved October 26, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 43.4 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 39.3"  E