Church of the Redeemer (Schalksmühle)

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Church of the Redeemer in the center of the village

The Erlöserkirche is a Protestant church in the center of the community of Schalksmühle in the Märkisches Kreis . The community belongs to the Evangelical Church District Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg.

History and architecture

Laying of the foundation stone in 1891
Church of the Redeemer 2020

The neo-Gothic hall church with a three-sided gallery was built on a private initiative in 1892; The foundation stone was laid on July 31, 1891. Pastor Ewald Dresbach from Halver inaugurated the church on August 24, 1892.

Initially, only a church hall with 400 seats and a choir closure was built. But the church did not yet have a tower, no galleries, no bells and no organ. For the time being, a harmonium was used for musical accompaniment to the services, and in front of the church there was only a frame with a small bell to call the parishioners to the Sunday service. This little bell only later became the property of the parish. In the beginning it was only on loan from the “ Bochumer Verein ”.

On July 1, 1893, the parish of Schalksmühle was founded from parts of the parish of Halver and the parish of Hülscheid-Heedfeld.

In 1898 the tower with a square cross-section was completed, which then received two new bells and a tower clock from the company JF Weule from Bockenem. The galleries and a first organ were also added. Christian Gerhardt from Elberfeld was the architect of the church, which was built from quarry stone blocks with ashlar structure . The colored glazing of the deeply drawn down windows in the apse comes from the glass painting firm Ferdinand Müller from Quedlinburg . The left window shows a Christogram with medallion, the center window shows Christ in the gesture of blessing of the Christ statue according to Thorwaldsen . The Lamb of God is shown in the right window . The panes of the windows were damaged by bomb fragments during the Second World War . An external and deliberately set symbol in the restoration of the panes is an unrecovered area in the depiction of animals on the neck. The first two major renovations after the Second World War took place in 1951 and 1971, whereby the color scheme changed, especially in the style of their time, and a wooden ceiling was installed. The gallery parapets and floors were painted with two shades of green, the wooden ceilings glazed dark green. The 1971 renovation concept by the sculptor Wolfgang Kreutter is characteristic of the current appearance of the church .

The church and its galleries can accommodate around 600 people.

Furnishing

Schuke organ

In the tower hang three bells of different sizes with different inscriptions. The big bell bears the inscription “God is our confidence and strength”, the middle one “Glory to God in the highest” and the small one “Love the brothers”. The bells were built into the church tower in 1898, but initially only two. The third bell wasn't added until 1917.

An organ from Ernst Röver near Quedlinburg with 14 registers was installed, which was supplemented by a second manual in 1909. This replaced the originally used harmonium.

A Schuke organ has been located on the gallery above the entrance opposite the choir since 1977 . It has 20 registers, two manuals and a pedal. The new organ was put into service on March 27, 1977 with an organ festival.

The pews, the pulpit , the free-standing altar in the choir, the two altar candlesticks and a piece of the altar structure with the carved lamb of God , which is hung on the south wall under the gallery, date from the 19th century .

Monument protection

The Erlöserkirche was entered on December 15, 1983 as number 1 in the list of architectural monuments in Schalksmühle .

Rectory

Vicarage, Worthstrasse 4, in 2020

The former rectory, which is located next to the church on Worthstrasse, is used, among other things, as a community center with youth rooms. There are also apartments in the building. Façade renovations were carried out on the building in 2011.

literature

  • Horst Ludwigsen: Under the word - 100 years of the Evangelical Parish of Schalksmühle in the field of tension between economics and politics (1893-1993) . Association for history and home care, Schalksmühle 1993. ISBN 3889131468
  • Ev. Parish of Schalksmühle-Dahlerbrück (publisher): 125 years of the Erlöserkirche Schalksmühle , Schalksmühle 2018; available online at: http://kg-scha-da.de/index_htm_files/festschrift.pdf

Web links

Commons : Church of the Redeemer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the parishes in the Evangelical Church District Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg. Accessed on February 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Evangelical parish of Schalksmühle-Dahlerbrück: Erlöserkirche, Schalksmühle, Worthstraße. Accessed on February 14th and 16th, 2020.
  3. ↑ Dr. hc Ewald Dresbach. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Evangelical Church District Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg (article archive October 10, 2017): Church of the Redeemer celebrates its anniversary.Retrieved on February 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ev. Parish of Schalksmühle-Dahlerbrück (publisher): 125 years of the Redeemer Church of Schalksmühle , Schalksmühle 2018
  6. ↑ Ulrich Barth, Elmar Hartmann, August Kracht , Heinz Störing: Art and historical monuments in the Märkisches Kreis . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis, Altena 1993, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 , p. 690/691 .
  7. ↑ www.schalksmühle.de: Ev. Parish Church of the Redeemer Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ Märkischer Zeitungsverlag Come-on.de edition April 21, 2017: Organ concert on May 1 in Erlöserkirche. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  9. ↑ List of works by Schuke organs: Opus 469, Schalksmühle, Erlöserkirche , p. 38 (PDF; 5 MB) ( Memento from July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Ulrich Barth, Elmar Hartmann, August Kracht , Heinz Störing: Art and historical monuments in the Märkisches Kreis . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis, Altena 1993, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 , p. 1062 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Teipel: Client attacks reserve. March 2011

annotation

  1. ↑ According to the commemorative publication "125 Years of the Redeemer Church of Schalksmühle" published by the Evangelical Church Community of Schalksmühle-Dahlerbrück in 2018, the text of the document embedded in the foundation stone at the time of the laying of the foundation stone reads:
    This is the day the Lord makes. Let us rejoice and be happy in it. 0 Lord help, oh Lord, let it succeed! So we speak with the psalmist ( Psalm 118     : 24-25  EU ) today on this long-awaited day of the solemn laying of the foundation stone of a Protestant house of God in our lovely Volmetal, and with joyful thanks, but also humbly pleading, raise our hands to the God who is at him Blessing everything is convenient. Full of thanks to Him, the All-Kind, who has helped us so far, we look back into the past, look back at the history of this place and the history of this church building. With joyful and moved hearts, we entrust the same of this document and lower it into this memorial stone so that it may give news of days gone by, when it should perhaps one day come to light again under the eyes of future generations.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '26.9 "  N , 7 ° 31' 50.3"  E