Evangelical Church (Prüm)
The Evangelical Church of Prüm in Prüm is the church of the Evangelical Parish of Prüm of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in the church district of Trier. It is a diaspora community and one of the largest parishes in Germany in terms of area.
history
The Reformation could not prevail in the southern Eifel. Only after the Prüm region became part of Prussia in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna did individual Protestant Christians, especially Prussian administrative officials, settle there in the completely Catholic region. Prüm became a district town and seat of a garrison of the Prussian Landwehr . Under canon law, the (then) rural district of Prüm belonged to the parish of Trier. In 1821 the major , the veterinarian and the customs commissioner wrote to their King Friedrich Wilhelm III. a letter still preserved in the State Archives with the request to establish a Protestant community. King Wilhelm III. then founded the Protestant parish of Prüm through the cabinet resolution of December 23, 1821. The establishment of a parish by cabinet resolution is probably unique historically. Even the community seal reminds of it with the inscription RW III (Rex Wilhelminus III). The parish then had 19 parishioners. After the king supported the pastor's salary with 500 thalers a year, the first Prüm pastor was introduced on April 14, 1829 for the then 86 parishioners. The services were celebrated in the teachers' room of the grammar school in the old abbey building. In addition to that of today's parish, the municipality also extended across today's parishes of Bitburg , Gerolstein and Daun . Bitburg became independent in 1875, Gerolstein and Daun became independent in 1896. From this point on, the municipal area includes the present day municipalities of Arzfeld and Prüm and has an area of 780 km 2 .
Architecture and furnishings of the church
The original building of today's church was built in 1895 in neo-Romanesque style . The building design by the architect Karl Wilde was selected as the best of six works submitted in a limited architectural competition in 1893 among the members of the Berlin Architects' Association . This church was badly damaged in the Second World War ; only the foundations , parts of the outer walls and tower, the floor and the font have been preserved.
During the reconstruction, the tower was given a gable roof instead of the pointed helmet and the destroyed bell chamber . Inside, the asymmetrically designed ceiling is striking. The choir is covered by a barrel vault with stitch caps . The baptismal font and the stalls are from the time the church was built, the rest of the furnishings date from 1981/82. In the course of this renovation, the material of the baptismal font from the original furnishings of the church, namely Birresborn sandstone , was used for the floor of the chancel and the pulpit .
The glass windows were created in 1982 by the Trier artist Werner Persy and replaced windows from an earlier creative period of the same artist. Thanks to the construction of an elaborate ramp, the church is now also barrier-free.
use
There is a service in the church every Sunday and on most holidays. Once a month there is a musically specially designed church service. The Evangelical Church Community of Prüm, with 750 km 2, is one of the largest communities in Germany in terms of area. Currently (2015) around 1,800 parishioners live in around 100 localities. Evangelical church services also take place monthly in the (Catholic) Herz-Jesu-Heim in Waxweiler and sporadically in the Catholic churches in Schönecken and Bleialf .
Web links
- Entry on Evangelical Church (Prüm) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- History of the community of Prüm on the pages of the church district Trier
- Internet offer of the Evangelical Church Community of Prüm
literature
- Hans-Hermann Reck, Andrea Rumpf (arrangement): Bitburg-Prüm district. Verbandsgemeinden Arzfeld, Neuerburg and Prüm (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2000, ISBN 3-88462-170-X , p. 336 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Internet offer of the Evangelical Church Community of Prüm, accessed on June 28, 2015
- ↑ a b The history of the parish of Prüm on the Trier church district's website, accessed on June 18, 2015
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 27, 1893, No. 59 (from July 26, 1893), p. 364. ( Digitized version , accessed on June 30, 2018)
- ^ Hans-Hermann Reck, Andrea Rumpf (arrangement): Bitburg-Prüm district. Verbandsgemeinden Arzfeld, Neuerburg and Prüm (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2000, ISBN 3-88462-170-X , p. 336 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 23.6 " N , 6 ° 25 ′ 20.7" E