Evangelical Church (Hermeskeil)
Built in two years in 1853 Protestant church is one of three churches in the parish Hermeskeil -Züsch. The other two churches are in Züsch and Neuhütten . The originally independent parish in Hermeskeil was merged with the parish of Züsch in 1998. The Protestant congregation is a diaspora congregation with 2600 members in 45 localities.
history
The first Protestant citizens can be traced back to Hermeskeil in 1807. The slow but steady development to a Protestant parish with 86 members in 1849 is probably also due to the Prussian administrative policy, which placed men of the other denomination in public positions in an area determined by one denomination in order to achieve personal independence. The Protestant Christians in Hermeskeil belonged to the Trier parish . Due to the great distance to Trier, contacts were made early on with the parish in Züsch, only 5 km away, which ultimately also looked after the Protestant Christians in Hermeskeil, who actually belonged to the Trier parish.
At the suggestion of the mayor of Hermeskeil, Alexander von Konarsky, some Protestant families bought a building site on the road to Nonnweiler on November 18, 1844 at their own expense . They determined this place as their foundation for a Protestant church. After the land for the church was purchased, the Prussian government obliged the political community Hermeskeil to provide wood and funds for the construction of a Protestant church. Together with many donations from parishioners, entrepreneurs and the Gustav-Adolf-Verein the building of the church could then be tackled. The foundation stone was laid in 1852 and the church was inaugurated in 1853. In 1854 a parish administrator paid by the parishioners could be hired, in 1858 the state recognition of the independent Protestant parish Hermeskeil took place. After the Second World War, the southern area of the parish was added to the Saarland and thus abroad until 1957. Since the pastor's position in Züsch could no longer be filled with a full-time pastor from the mid-1970s, Hermeskeil was the first to take care of it. In 1998 the two congregations merged and were given two full parish positions. Today the Pfarrberzitk has 2500 parishioners, 200 of them in Züsch and 800 in Saarland.
Architecture and building history
The church is a small, classical hall with an integrated west tower, marked 1853. In the tower hang three cast steel bells , the oldest steel bell in Germany. The church has been renovated several times in over 150 years in order to adapt it to the growing community and changing liturgical needs: The church received an organ loft , a sacristy annex , the church windows were changed and two glass windows were designed with biblical motifs by the painter Jakob Schwarzkopf (1926-2001) . During the last renovation in 2001/2002, the outside of the church was redesigned with a color concept in light beige, delicate yellow and two shades of gray, which symbolizes the philanthropic and devoted God. Inside, the dark wooden ceiling from the 1970s has been removed. This made the light, classicist cassettes visible again. The church interior was designed in a modern way. Instead of pews, the seating can be flexibly arranged from individual chairs.
organ
In 1961 the organ received a pre-owned positive organ from the Oberlinger organ building workshop in Windesheim near Bad Kreuznach. This found a new location in the church in 1994 in the church in Mariahütte, which also belongs to the parish, and was replaced by a new organ from the organ builder Kurt Lifart from Kriens in Switzerland.
Bells
Three cast steel bells hang in the tower , the oldest cast steel bells in Germany. The bells were cast in the Mayer & Kühne cast steel factory in Bochum in 1853 . From 1853 there are only two more cast steel bells from the same manufacturer in Germany in the Evangelical Church of Leverkusen-Schlebusch and in and in the St. Leonard Church in Koldenbüttel / North Friesland . At first, the bells were attached with conventional crown handles. Today they hang on cranked yokes in a steel bell chair. They are tuned in a major triad: Bell 1: death bell a 1 ; Bell 2: Our Father Bell c # 2 ; Bell 3: baptism bell e 2 . The bells are rusted today. However, this has no negative effects on the sound.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ EKKT - Hermeskeil-Züsch: History of the parish. Accessed December 10, 2014 (German).
- ↑ Eveangelische Kirchengemeinde Hermeskeil-Züsch - parish chronicle. Accessed December 10, 2014 (German).
- ^ Kremb / Lautzas: State history excursion guide Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 2 . Arbogast, Otterbach 1991.
- ^ Kremb / Lautzas: State history excursion guide Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 2 . Arbogast, Otterbach 1991.
- ↑ in see description of the video
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '14.3 " N , 6 ° 56' 54.2" E