Evangelical Gnadenkirche (Bergisch Gladbach)

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Front view from the main street

The Protestant Gnadenkirche is a listed church building in Bergisch Gladbach in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The yellow whitewashed assembly is essentially an octagonal central building based on the Dutch model. The sovereign permit of 1775 allowed the Reformed to build a church. This was built in 1776 based on a design by Johann Georg Leydel . The rear tower under a tail hood with a lantern and the transverse rectory connected to it with two storeys were built in 1788. The former rectory currently serves as the parish office. The choir is located on the first floor of the tower ; originally the altar , pulpit and organ were arranged one above the other. The central building was stretched towards the entrance side in 1899 under the construction management of O. March and expanded with a column portico . An organ gallery was built into the interior ; this and the organ were renewed during the restoration from 1971 to 1976.

monument

The Gnadenkirche is registered as monument no. 27 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

Furnishing

  • Two stained glass windows depicting the birth and crucifixion of Christ from around 1400
  • Four stained glass windows by W. Buschulte
  • In the abandoned cemetery, next to the church, there are grave monuments from the 16th to 19th centuries

literature

  • Ludwig Rehse, pastor, history of the evangelical community Bergisch Gladbach , commemorative publication for the rededication of the rebuilt church, Bergisch Gladbach 1900
  • Paul Clemen , The monuments of the Mülheim am Rhein district, published by L.Schwann, Düsseldorf 1901, p. 213f.
  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler . North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X
  • Michael Werling and Manfred-Walter Kautz: Against forgetting. The Old Evangelical Cemetery at the Gnadenkirche in Bergisch Gladbach, series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 42, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-932326-42-3 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Gnadenkirche (Bergisch Gladbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Rehse, Pastor, History of the Protestant Congregation Bergisch Gladbach , Festschrift for the rededication of the rebuilt church, Bergisch Gladbach 1900
  2. ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X . Page 129

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 6.5 ″  E