Evangelical Church (Euskirchen)

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The Evangelical Church in the core town of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia , is located at Kölner Straße 41.

Right: Tower of the Ev. church

Building history

Elevation and floor plan from 1896

The origins of the church go back to a design by the Cologne architect Emil Schreiterer (1852–1923; architects Schreiterer & Below ). The inauguration of the aisle church with a tower in front of it and an attached parsonage took place on November 28, 1895. In the last months of the Second World War , the ensemble was destroyed by aerial bombs except for the church tower . When it was rebuilt from 1951 onwards, the tower was retained with a modified spire. The nave was laid out on two floors. The church service room is located in the post-war building on the upper floor, while space for a large community hall has been created on the ground floor. The consecration of the rebuilt church was celebrated on December 6, 1953.

Church history

The history of the Reformed Christians in Euskirchen goes back to the Reformation . Between 1590 and 1620 the first Protestant church services are said to have been celebrated in Euskirchen . However, due to the religious comparison of 1672, only Flamersheim and Großbüllesheim had the opportunity to keep the Reformation faith alive over the centuries. It was only with the affiliation to the Prussian domain from 1815 and the emerging cloth industry that an evangelical community grew again in the city itself.

By Friedrich Wilhelm III. In 1824 the congregation received the offer to use the Capuchin Church and the Cürtelehnhof as a place of worship. In the middle of the 19th century, the community acquired a house in Wilhelmstrasse (today no. 67) that they used as a prayer room, classroom and teacher's apartment. In 1891, the property on Kölner Strasse was purchased on which the church was to be built.

Bells

In 1925 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells for the Ev. Church in Euskirchen. The row of strikes holding the bells: e '- g' - a 'and weighed together 2.3 tons. During World War II, two bells were melted down for war purposes. Usually only the smallest bell remained, the a'-bell with a diameter of 908 mm and a weight of 459 kg. Today it hangs in the listed tower of the church, which is now home to the following three bells: The small baptismal bell dates from 1895 and was cast by Otto in 1925. The inscription that it bears comes from 1 John : "God is love and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him."

The so-called bell calls the congregation to the church services and is also rung during the Our Father prayer . It was cast in 1953 by the Rincker bell and art foundry , Sinn im Dillkreis, and bears the inscription: "For the peace of our people and the whole world."

The death knell has also been in Euskirchen since 1953. It is the oldest of the three bells and is on loan. It was cast in 1701 for the Evangelical Church in Nikolaiken (East Prussia, now Poland). During the Second World War it was dismantled for armament purposes, but no longer melted down. At the end of the war she was camped in Hamburg . It bears the inscriptions: "Oh man, according to God's word you judge", "Come here, you Christians" and the names of the Nikolaiken church council from 1701.

organ

The fully mechanical slider chest organ was built in 1960 by the organ builder Paul Ott and has 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

literature

  • Sabine Simon: Schreiterer & Below. A Cologne architecture office between historicism and modernity. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89653-475-0 , pp. 432–434 (also dissertation RWTH Aachen 1998) [not yet evaluated for this article].
  • Dietrich Höroldt, Waltraud Joch (ed.): Evangelical churches and parishes in the church districts of Bonn, Bad Godesberg, An Sieg and Rhein. Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-427-85041-2 , pp. 78-80.
  • Church leader Evangelical Church Community Euskirchen. Self-published.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elevation and floor plan on Amazon
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 526 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 386, 488 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  4. ^ Monuments of the Kölner Strasse. In: Website of the city of Euskirchen. District town of Euskirchen, The Mayor, accessed on December 13, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '37.9 "  N , 6 ° 47' 39.13"  O