Epiphany Church (Bochum)

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Epiphany Church, Bochum-Hamme
The Ephiphanias Church from the south

The Ephiphanias Church from the south

Data
place Bochum ,
North Rhine-Westphalia
architect Wilhelm Tiefenbach
Construction year 1929
height 29.5 m
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '46.8 "  N , 7 ° 11' 18.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '46.8 "  N , 7 ° 11' 18.7"  E
particularities
Autobahn Church

The Evangelical-Lutheran Epiphany Church in the Bochum district of Hamme , whose name recalls the appearance of Christ to the Wise Men from the Orient, was built from 1929 onwards to designs by the Castrop-Rauxel architect Wilhelm Tiefenbach. The Epiphany Church was opened on May 30, 2010 as the first motorway church in a large city and was added to the Route of Industrial Culture in 2011.

Building history and structure

A conflict within the Protestant Uniate community of Hamme led to the founding of the Epiphany Church community in 1895, which joined the Old Lutheran Church in Prussia in 1928 . Today the parish belongs to the Westphalia church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church .

The foundation stone was laid on July 7, 1929 and the church was consecrated on February 2, 1930. It has been a listed building since 2005.

The entire ensemble consists of the church, the tower, the parish hall below the church and the rectory. The church was built in the Bauhaus style, with the typical simple, strictly geometric shapes. The reinforced concrete construction of the plant was clinkered in red in Expressionist forms. On the south-east corner of the ensemble, the 29.5-meter-high tower rises on a square floor plan, the south-west corner of which is one storey higher and slightly forward, and is crowned by a steel cross. The tower is characterized by slit-like, vertically arranged windows beneath rows of high rectangular sound openings. The two-and-a-half-storey residential wing is attached to the church to the northeast. Despite some war damage and the associated changes, the progressive, expressive concept of the assembly has been preserved.

The building, which appears simple on the whole, once fitted in well with the surrounding area, which is characterized by industrial buildings. However, if you make your way into the interior of the church, you will see a completely different picture: the nave and choir of the church are divided into narrow, colored window strips, the front side is exposed to an arched window. The church interior is dominated by the three-sided, swinging galleries, which are occupied by a Schuke organ opposite the choir . A flat ceiling lowered over the galleries closes the room. The gallery church with its hall in the basement is bright, light and has a friendly effect compared to the massively dark-looking exterior building thanks to the tall rectangular windows.

Since the Capital of Culture 2010, the Epiphany Church has been the parish church and the RUHR motorway church at the same time

Furnishing

  • In the middle of the sanctuary stands the 1.65 m high, almost life-size cross of the universal Christ, which was cast in stone in 1956 by the Essen architect and sculptor Ernst Hackländer (* July 31, 1913 in Essen; † 2000) and was cast on May 27 It was consecrated in 1956.
  • The church has a cross, the base of which consists of a detonator from the bomb that destroyed the rectory on February 19, 1945. The cross itself is made from melted remains of the church bell of the old Lutheran Church of St. Petri in Wuppertal- Elberfeld .
  • The three cast steel bells were cast in the Bochum Association in 1929 . They are called the bell of peace (d '), bell of consolation (f') and bell of hope (g ').

organ

The three-manual organ was built in 1975 by the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke for the Friedenskirche in Essen-Königssteele . The instrument has 23 sounding registers and was inaugurated in 2004 - with a new prospectus - in a solemn service. She has the following disposition :

I swell C–
Reed flute 8th'
Principal flute 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV-V
Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C–
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Dumped 04 ′
octave 04 ′
Pointed flute 04 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 02 ′
Mixture IV-VI
Trumpet 08th'
Pedal C – e 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Dacked bass 08th'
Hollow flute 04 ′
Rauschpfeife III
trombone 16 ′
shawm 04 ′

Web links

Commons : Autobahnkirchen im Ruhrgebiet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/im-westen/Die-erste-Autobahnkirche-im-Revier-id3333195.html WAZ June 15, 2010