Evangelical village church at the end of the church

End of the village church

The Protestant village church Kirchende is a listed church building in Kirchende , a district of Herdecke in the Ennepe-Ruhr district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

View of the chancel

The hall church with a three-sided end was built from 1756 to 1759. The Romanesque west tower of a previous church was probably built in the 11th century. There are inscriptions above the portals of the simple quarry stone building. The walls are divided by arched windows. The formerly wide arches in the tower were walled up. The walls of the upper floor of the tower are structured by arched openings with inserted columns.

A simple, arched, plastered wooden barrel vault was drawn into the interior . The pulpit altar- organ structure from the period from 1774 to 1781 with older parts is remarkable . The carved pulpit from 1759 originally stood in Bochum-Weitmar. The altarpiece was painted by Fritz Gärtner in 1909.

organ

The organ prospectus and prospectus pipes date from 1663 and were originally built for the Johanniskirche in Hagen . They were installed here in 1781. It had 9 registers . In 1912 the action was pneumatized. The organ was built in 1976 by the Alfred Führer workshop in Wilhelmshaven. It has 18 stops on two manuals and pedal . The organ's slide chests are equipped with mechanical action. The following disposition was created at the time of construction:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Principal 8th' Reed flute 8th' octave 4 ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Mixture IV 0 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

II Swell C – g 3 Dumped 8th' recorder 4 ′ Nasard 0 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Scharff III 1' Dulcian 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Sub-bass 16 ′ Revelation 08th' octave 04 ′ Mixture III 0 02 ′ bassoon 16 ′

• Coupling : SW / HW, HW / P, SW / P

Peal

The ringing consists of three steel bells with the tone sequence dis'-fis'-a ', cast in 1921/22 by the Bochum club. An old bronze bell from the 15th century, which rings for the Lord's Prayer, has been preserved.

literature

• Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Kirchende  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photos (accessed April 20, 2012)

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 8.5 "  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 23"  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Disposal sheet of the Alfred Führer Orgelbau workshop, Wilhelmshaven, 1976
2. ↑ The notation of the registers follows the representation on the disposition sheet.