Ebberg Church

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Ebberg Church

The Ebbergkirche is one of seven Protestant churches in the city of Hemer . The building was built between 1818 and 1820 as a replacement for the demolished Vitus Church and has been a listed building since 1982 .

Due to its location on one of the highest points in Niederhemer, the Ebbergkirche characterizes the cityscape of the northern city center. As the oldest church in the Protestant community in Hemer, it is often used for concerts.

history

The Vitus Church has stood near Haus Hemer in Niederhemer since the 10th century . This building was used as a Protestant church after the Reformation in the 1550s. Since the community grew massively in the following 270 years and the church was not expanded and repaired accordingly, a new building was necessary in the 19th century. A figurehead for the Protestant church in Hemer was to be built in an exposed location on the neighboring Ebberg . The Vitus Church was demolished in 1818.

The pastor at the time, Wulfert, applied to the government in Arnsberg . Finally, the letter reached the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who worked out a draft of romantic construction within five weeks . The construction provided for two square bell towers and a tall and light central nave. The pulpit and the altar should be slightly elevated on the central axis. The realization of this draft would have cost the parish 50,000 Thaler and therefore had to be given up for financial reasons.

In April 1819, under the direction of Johann Hermann Stindt from Hemeran, the construction of an alternative design began, which was constructed by the Arnsberg building inspector Plaßmann. The historic baptismal font, which is still in the Ebbergkirche today, was taken over from the Vitus Church. The tapering bell tower shapes the exterior of the church. The new building was inaugurated on August 13, 1820. The newly built organ was dismantled again in 1859 and replaced by a new, better quality organ.

A Hemeraner painter renewed the wall design in 1927, which was discarded in 1953. This year the interior of the Ebbergkirche was completely redesigned and rotated 180 degrees. Only since then has the entrance been on the tower side, while the altar is in front of a large window in the west. After the Protestant Church in Hemer gave up the Martin Luther House event center , the Ebberg Church took over the function of an open city church . For this reason, the church was redesigned from 2010 onwards, in which, among other things, new community rooms were created and the benches were replaced with loose seating. After protests by the monument office , the responsible state minister for urban development, Lutz Lienenkämper , decided that the renovation was legal. The construction work began on January 18, 2010, on the 1st of Advent (November 28, 2010 ) the renovated church was reopened with a festive service.

organ

The organ was built from 1977 to 1978 by the organ builder Detlef Kleuker (Bielefeld-Brackwede). The instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Pointed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Forest flute 2 ′
5. Mixture V
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
7th Metal dacked 8th'
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 13
11. Sesquialtera II 2 23
12. Scharff IV
13. Dulcian 16 ′
Pedals C – f 1
14th Sub-bass 16 ′
15th Principal flute 8th'
16. Chorale bass 4 ′
17th Rauschpfeife III
18th bassoon 16 ′

See also

literature

  • Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV (Ed.): Hemer. Contributions to local history. Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1980. (Banniza, Hugo: "Schinkel design for the Ebbergkirche", pp. 335–342)

Web links

Commons : Ebbergkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the city of Hemer. In: www.hemer.de. Archived from the original on August 31, 2011 ; accessed on February 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Leopold Woeste : News about the Evangelical Lutheran. Parochie Hemer in: The Key , Hemer 1970.
  3. The Ebberg Church. Several transformations in two centuries. in: The city network. Balve, Hemer, Iserlohn and Menden. 1st edition. 2009. ISBN 978-3-86037-397-2
  4. Ralf Engel: Farewell to the "old" Ebberg Church : Renovation begins. In: ikz-online.de. January 1, 2010, accessed on February 9, 2020 .
  5. More information on the inauguration of the church. Retrieved December 10, 2014 . (PDF; 1.48 MB)
  6. ^ Martin Luther Kantorei Hemer. The organs of the Ebbergkirche. In: kantorei-hemer.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 34.5 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 40.8"  E