Dankeskirche (Hürth)

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Dankeskirche in Knapsack

The Dankeskirche was a Protestant church in the Hürth district of Knapsack . It was on Dr.-Krauss-Strasse in the southeastern part of Knapsack near the border with Alt-Hürth.

It was built on site between 1950 and 1951 as a replacement for the wooden church built in 1921 and burned out in 1943. Until the Friedenskirche was built in Efferen , it was the only Protestant church in Hürth. It was closed on October 5, 1975 as part of the resettlement of the town of Knapsack because of the environmental pollution caused by the neighboring industry and the Rhenish lignite opencast mine , and in the following year 1976 it was demolished.

history

prehistory

As early as the late 19th century, the number of Protestant Christians in the Hürth area increased sharply due to the influx of Protestants from Siegerland , the Palatinate and Saxony . This intensified after 1901 mainly due to the industry that settled in Knapsack. The Protestant Christians belonged to the parish of Brühl . From around 1900 Protestant religious instruction was given in the rooms of the Catholic school in (Alt-) Hürth, from 1903 the first services were also celebrated here. From 1909, the Brühl presbytery moved the services to Hermülheim, as most of the parishioners lived here. However, since the way for the Evangelicals from Knapsack was too far, a wooden barrack was made available by the industry in Knapsack after the outbreak of the First World War. On July 3, 1921, a wooden church on Bertramsjagdweg, near the confluence of Grubenstrasse, was inaugurated on a property belonging to the Roddergrube , which the architect of RWE , Nocken, planned with the help of donations from local industry and with components from the Cologne timber construction works ( Kalscheuren ) had built. In 1927 it was followed by its own parsonage, which was built on the border with (Alt-) Hürth at the beginning of Haupt-, later Allee-Straße, in which auxiliary preachers (now employed pastors) took care of the parish.

On April 1, 1934, the Knapsack Evangelical Church Community was finally founded for the Protestants in Knapsack, Hürth , Alstädten , Kendenich , Berrenrath and other settlements in the area of ​​the lignite mines; it remained parochial connected with Brühl. The community members from Hermülheim and Fischenich did not want to join the new community. On July 4, 1943, the wooden church was destroyed in a bomb attack. After the end of the Second World War, the congregation found Gastrecht in the Catholic Church of St. Joseph on Kirchstrasse in the center of Knapsack. On June 1, 1948, the parish got its own parish office.

Thanksgiving Church

The Dankeskirche was designed and built between 1950 and 1951 by the architect Martin Körber . The inauguration took place on the 3rd Advent in 1951 by the President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Heinrich Held . It was the first Protestant church in Hürth and remained the only church in Hürth until the Peace Church in Efferen was built.

Building description

The church was a simple but quite high brick hall building with an integrated tower in the west that was placed over the entire width, covered with a hipped roof and provided with a simple cross on the ridge. The bell room with the bell taken over from the Wesseling district of Brühl had three sound windows, each accompanied by two glare windows. The ship itself was covered with a fairly flat roof. The light came in on the south side through three narrow arched windows that reached down to head height and two higher windows to the right and left of it. The upper window section was offset in the manner of an upper aisle . The choir was lit through a three-part window closed with round arches, which was drawn down to about the floor of the side extensions. All windows were continued as pilaster strips down to the floor . Blind windows are on the north and west sides. The entrance was in the west from a lawn through a flat-roof-covered porch into an anteroom separated by double doors, from which one also reached the choir and organ loft above, as well as the hot-air convection heating below, heated by briquettes. A gate on the south side was never in use. The east side to the district of Alt-Hürth had an asymmetrical cross-shaped transverse building, the short part of which on the north side accommodated the sacristy with its own outer door, while the southern bar, the parish hall on the ground floor, which could be opened to the church with a folding wall, and on the upper floor the Rendantur and the parish office took up. The section at the nave was separated into a small gallery that protruded into the choir with a heavy curtain, behind which the small bell was rung with the bell rope over pulleys. The same gallery was also on the side of the sacristy. Both were never used, they only framed the choir area, which was one step higher. The north and east sides bordered gardens on the neighboring residential streets and were therefore unadorned.

History of the Evangelical Congregation Hürth

The parishioners in Efferen still belonged to the parish of Cologne-Lindenthal in the first years after the building of the Friedenskirche in Efferen , those in Gleuel belonged to Frechen. They were joined on January 1st, 1957 together with the parishioners in Fischenich , Hermülheim and Kalscheuren , who were until then belonged to the Brühl congregation , merged with the Knapsack Evangelical Church to form the Hürth Evangelical Church . This accordingly consisted of the parish districts of the Protestant churches in Knapsack, Gleuel and Efferen as well as the parish center with church hall and kindergarten in Hermülheim an der Kölnstrasse.

On April 1, 1966, the Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Hürth-Gleuel with the Martin-Luther-Kirche in Gleuel split from the Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth with the churches in Knapsack and Efferen and the church hall in Hermülheim. Shortly before the Dankeskirche was closed, the Nathan Söderblom Church, which was built in Kendenich from 1972 to 1973, took over the function of a supplement to the existing churches; after 1976 to 2008 it was also a replacement for the Dankeskirche. The last service in the Dankeskirche took place on October 5th, 1975.

Since the closing of the Dankeskirche due to the relocation of the town of Knapsack due to the environmental pollution caused by the neighboring industry and the Rhenish lignite opencast mining was already known for the inauguration of the Nathan Söderblom Church in 1973, the baptismal font created by Arnold Rickert in 1955/1956 was given a bas-relief that shows the fight of the Archangel Gabriel with the dragon , brought to the church in Kendenich and stayed there together with the cross by the same artist and the bell, which came from the Protestant church in Wesseling and was now hung in the Kendenich bell tower until the church closed. The pulpit is still in the Martin Luther King Church in Hermülheim today, while the glazing created by Ernst Otto Köpke was in the Hermülheim community center until 2012. The organ, which was built in 1961 by Willi Peter , Cologne-Mülheim , is now owned by the Philippus parish in Cologne-Raderthal .

Further parish history after the church was demolished

The Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth consisted of the three parishes Friedenskirche Efferen, Community Center Hermülheim and Nathan-Söderblom-Kirche in Kendenich since the closing of the Dankeskirche. In 1978 the Martin Luther King Church was added in the new city center of Hürth-Mitte in Hermülheim. In the community center on Kölnstrasse in Hermülheim, services were only occasionally held. The Nathan Söderblom Church was closed on June 15, 2008 due to a lack of funds and has been used privately since then. The bell has been doing its service since 2011 in the Diakonie-Anstalten of the Chancellor von Pfau`s Foundation in Bernburg . The baptismal font is in the Protestant church in Seibersbach , where a pastor from Hürth is now a pastor. The community center in Hermülheim was also sold and demolished in 2013. The glass window from the Dankeskirche has now been reworked and shortened and integrated into the stairwell of the building of the GWG-Rhein-Erft housing association built on the site of the community center.

Since January 1, 2015, the two communities have been reunited. This again took on the old name Evangelical Community Hürth . The merger is completed with the election of the presbyter and the final visitation in spring 2016.

  • Peace Church Efferen

  • Martin Luther King Church Hermülheim

  • Nathan-Söderblom-Church, Kendenich (deducted 2008)

  • Martin Luther Church, Gleuel

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Grosser: Evangelical community life in the Cologne region. A chronicle for Brühl, Wesseling, Hürth-Knapsack, Liblar. Verlag der Löwe, Cologne 1958, p. 52 ff.
  2. ↑ Grosser, p. 106
  3. ↑ Grosser, p. 106
  4. ^ A b Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth. In: Helmut Fußbroich: Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-1943-8 , pp. 255 f.
  5. ^ The newly formed parish of Hürth. In: Der Weg (church newspaper), 1957 (separate flyer)
  6. ↑ Engelbert Broich: Farewell to the Nathan Söderblom Church in Hürth-Kendenich ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-koeln.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region, accessed on September 29, 2008.
    Bernd Rosenbaum: Hope lies in ecumenism. In: Kölnische Rundschau, September 16, 2008 ( online , accessed September 29, 2008)
  7. ↑ Evangelisch in Hürth , issue 3/2013, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, October 10, 2014, p. 35

literature

  • Evangelical Matthew Congregation Hürth. In: Helmut Fußbroich: Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. Bachem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-1943-8 , pp. 255 f.
  • Clemens Klug: Hürth. Art treasures and monuments. Hürth 1978, p. 103. (There the Dankeskirche is wrongly called Matthäuskirche .)

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Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 18.6 ″  E