Church of the Redeemer (Wuppertal)
The Erlöserkirche ( ) in today's Wuppertal district of Barmen is the second church built for the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wichlinghausen .
history
The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wichlinghausen decided in 1912 to build a new building for the western development areas of the district. Originally a simple prayer room without a tower was planned, but in the end it was decided to build a church, the tower of which was adorned with the weathercock of the Old Wichlinghauser Church from 1744. The church was built in 1913–1914 according to plans by the Barmer architect Wilhelm Werdelmann , and since then it has been a permanent place of preaching in the western district of the Lutheran congregation of Wichlinghausen.
In 1984 the Lutheran congregation was merged with the Reformed congregation in Wichlinghausen, and in 2003 the formerly independent congregation in Nachbarebreck with the Hottensteiner Church joined the congregation, which has since been known as the Evangelical congregation in Wichlinghausen-Nachbarebreck . With the closure of the Wichlinghauser Church in the center of the district, the Erlöserkirche remains as the only preaching place in Wichlinghausen, but is located on the extreme western edge of the community.
On Sunday, October 30, 2016, the church was the victim of an arson, which severely damaged the interior and the organ. Although the church service hall was largely repaired in 2017, the community rooms in the basement will remain unusable for a long time.
Building description
The massive, multi-storey, west-facing building in the so-called home style contained, in addition to the church room, various community rooms and a sexton on the ground floor, above which the church service room is located. Before the district synod in 1914, Superintendent Bausch reported that the combination of the construction method was “a combination of church and parish hall, as it may be more likely to follow in the big cities in the future.” The renovations of several Wuppertal churches after the Second World War (for example, New Church and Christ Church in Elberfeld) have confirmed this assumption.
From the outside, the slate-roofed building with high mansard roofs gives the impression of a layout on the plan of a Latin cross with a crossing tower ; However, the tower and side wings are additions without connection to the interior for different purposes. From the outside, the plastered building is monumental and yet very simple for its time, the interior of the church with 1,200 seats was barrel-vaulted and surrounded by pillarless galleries on three sides. The central structure of the pulpit and altar under the organ loft could be separated from the rest of the church by a curtain, and the originally loose seating made it possible to use the church space in a variety of ways. After minor war damage, the variable use concept of the room was restricted in 1954 with the installation of pews, which was withdrawn during a renewed renovation in 1988.
organ
The current organ of the Church of the Redeemer was acquired second-hand by the congregation in the 1970s and placed opposite the old organ on the east gallery. It was built in 1951 by the Paul Faust company from Schwelm and replaced the first organ of the church, which was placed on a separate gallery above the altar area. For optical reasons, the freestanding principal pipes were left on the gallery during the dismantling, they are still there today. Today's Faust organ has twenty-five stops on two manuals with a pedal.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : Tutti, crescendo roller
literature
- Werner Franzen: Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss., Duisburg 2002. ( online ( Memento from December 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))
- Hans Helmich, Rainer Hendricks: The parish Wichlinghausen 1744-1994. Wuppertal, 1994.
- Sigrid Lekebusch, Florian Speer : Churches and places of worship in Barmen. (= Churches and places of worship in Wuppertal, Volume 2.) (= Contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 43.) Wuppertal, 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-721-4 .
- The Church of the Redeemer in Barmen . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture . Born 1915/16, issue 10, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-8144 , pp. 428–431. (With three pictures)
- Wolfgang Stoffels: The Church of the Redeemer in Wuppertal-Barmen . CMZ-Verlag, Wuppertal 2017 ISBN 978-3-87062-285-5
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reprint in the Barmer Anzeiger 1966 from the Barmer Zeitung, quoted from Helmich / Hendricks, s. swell
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 3.6 ″ E