Emmaus Church (Wuppertal)
The Emmauskirche is a former Protestant church and today's community center in the Wuppertal district of Cronenberg .
Building description
The church is a simple hall church built from unplastered Cronenberger Grauwacke in the Bergisch Baroque style . The 23 meter long nave is aligned with the choir to the north and ends with a 5/8 apse . In front of the church to the south is a simple church tower with a square floor plan, a pointed dome and dials on all four sides. The church hall is illuminated by four, six-meter-high, unadorned windows in the longitudinal walls, the choir windows only illuminate the choir in bright colors when the light falls. Above the portal to the church hall there was a gallery that was added today and which could be reached via the tower staircase.
Since 2010 the church has been connected to the parish hall with a narrow, two-story glass building, and since then it has only been entered from the side through the glass building. A kitchen , toilets and cloakroom are now in the former entrance area in the tower .
history
Since 1783 the Cronenberg Lutherans were allowed by the Palatinate government in Düsseldorf to hold their own church services. Just one year later, the first Lutheran Church in Cronenberg was built in the style typical of the time in timber frame construction on today's main street , at the same time as its own school. However, since the church could not do justice to the increasing number of members, it was closed in 1851 and the current church was built from 1856 to 1857 according to plans by the Ronsdorf architects, the Matthey brothers. The pulpit from 1650 came from the First Reformed Church, which collapsed in 1764, and was installed in the first Lutheran church.
The church has been a listed building since 1985 . In 1992 the church previously known as the "Evangelical Church of Cronenberg" was renamed " Emmauskirche ".
With the unification of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of Cronenberg in 2003, the Emmaus Church became superfluous as a preaching site and was given up in favor of the Reformed Church, which is only 250 meters away. It will continue to be used under the name Emmaus Center as a community center with several event rooms and catering facilities. Since 2010, a two-storey glass building, designed by the Goedeking Niederworok architecture firm , has been connecting the church with the parish hall, which until then housed the gastronomy and world shop. Since the radical renovation, several conference rooms as well as the municipal administration have been housed in the parish hall.
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Evangelical parish of Cronenberg
- Time track search: Church building in Wuppertal - Emmauskirche
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 56 ″ E