Evangelical Reformed Church Iserlohn

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Evangelical Reformed Church

The Evangelical Reformed Church is a listed church building at Wermingser Straße 9 in Iserlohn in the Märkisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

Until 1931 there was an independent Reformed congregation, then it merged with the Lutheran congregation at the Supreme City Church and at the Farmer Church to form a united congregation.

The simple hall made of quarry stone , under a hipped roof with a slated roof turret and tail hood, was built in 1710 according to a designation . The building shell was destroyed in the town fire in 1712 . The church was consecrated in 1718. The main portal on the south side is emphasized by the Prussian state coat of arms.

A relief plaque, renewed in 1928 as cast iron, depicting wild men and the electoral hat is a reference to the support of the Protestant Reformed Church by the great elector. In the interior, hollow vaults rest over two high wooden columns.

Pulpit on the wall opposite the organ gallery

The room was redesigned in 1901 by Gerhard August Fischer , the gallery on the west side is now surrounded on three sides, and the pulpit was added at the same time . The spatial version of Fischer was confused in 1955 .

In the 1960s the benches were removed and the church was redesigned to become an everyday church . To date, over 75 exhibitions with concerts, lecture evenings and discussions have taken place. Until the establishment of the Lichtblick social center, this was also the place where bread was distributed to people with little money.

Furnishing

  • Organ was built and installed in 1847 by Johann Friedrich Schulze . Two restorations were carried out by 1994.
  • The bell from 1737 was designed by Engelbert Jos. Cast fox.
  • The bell from 1732 is attributed to Bernhard Wilhelm Stule.
  • The baptismal font on oak wood was donated by confirmands. The baptismal font was donated by H. Mevius in 1866.
  • Gravestone with hourglass and skeleton from 1731. This was found in 1977 under the floor of the church.

organ

Historic Schulze organ from 1847.

In 1992 the organ expert Manfred Schwarz found that the Schulze organ was in a badly damaged and no longer functional condition. The load-bearing parts of the organ frame were attacked by woodworm infestation and the statics endangered. Some prospect pipes threatened to fall from the organ gallery. A restoration of the organ could be financed through a high willingness to donate in the community. This was done in 1993/1994 by the Osnabrück organ builder Joachim Kreienbrink . The wood pests were exposed to CO 2 fumigation and could thus be killed without the use of toxic methods. The restoration brought the instrument to its original state from 1847. Details of the redesign and restoration from 1902 have been preserved. Individual registers were reconstructed based on the model of an unchanged Schulze organ from 1847. This organ was found in the small town of Kenz, near Stralsund, by the organ builder Kreienbrink.

I main work
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Gamba 08th'
4th Hollow flute 08th' 0 (r)
5. Dumped 08th'
6th Octav 04 ′
7th Mixture V (r)
8th. Sharp III 0 (r)
II positive
09. Lovely Gedackt 0 16 ′ 0 (r)
10. Salicional 08th'
11. Lovely Gedackt 08th' (r)
11. Flauto traverse 08th'
12. Violin principal 04 ′
13. Flauto traverse 04 ′ (r)
pedal
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Violon 08th'
16. Thought bass 0 08th'
17th trombone 16 ′0 (r)
(r) = reconstructed register
Register No. 11 (Lieblich Gedackt 8 ′ and Flauto traverse 8 ′) are on a loop.
Manual keyboards mechanical action
After the renovation in 1902, the pedal keyboard was pneumatic, as the bellows were moved from the roof to the organ.
Intonation: master organ builders Theodor Schulz and Annette Lipschitz

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Reformed Church Iserlohn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Kreienbrink, master organ builder and Manfred Schwarz, organ expert of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia: Schulze organ of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Iserlohn . In: Inauguration of the restored Schulze organ in the Reformed Church in Iserlohn. 40 years of the Evangelische Kantorei Iserlohn. Iserlohn, 1994.
  2. ^ Orgelbau Kreienbrink: Organ in the Evangelical Reformed Church, Iserlohn ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '27.7 "  N , 7 ° 41' 56.4"  E