Evangelical Church Essen-Werden

Evangelical Church Becoming

The church on Heckstrasse

Painting on the main entrance

The Evangelical Church of Essen-Werden is a church in the Essen district of Werden . A special feature of the church is the interior design with rich floral elements , which is unusual for a Protestant church .

history

The first mention of a Reformation campaign in the Catholic Church of Werden goes back to September 29, 1550, when the monk Peter Ullner held the Lord's Supper in both guises in the church. In 1650 the evangelical community got its own house of prayer without a tower or bell. In 1832, a second Protestant church was built in Werden, today's Fuhr house .

After construction began in 1897, the church was consecrated on June 24, 1900. It arose largely from donations from the Krupp family , but also from the Forstmann, Feulgen, Huffmann and Teschemacher families, as well as from many individual donations from the then economically rich, independent town of Werden.

During the time of the church struggle during the Nazi era , the presbytery of the congregation was ruled by the German Christians . The followers of the Confessing Church held their services outside the church. They did not return until 1945.

architecture

August Senz's architecture was based on that of St. Ludgerus Church . The aim was to achieve a harmonious overall picture of the city of Werden with its towers, and thus take into account the importance of the small but rich Evangelical community with around 3,600 members. According to their wishes, the church building should represent a Protestant monument in the Catholic-influenced becoming. According to August Senz, a central church with modern style elements based on the German Renaissance of the Reformation was created.

The barrel-vaulted building was designed by August Senz in the style of historicism . The floor plan has the shape of a Greek cross . This cross can also be found in the round window above the altar. Small structures with their own roofs were placed in the corners of the cross-plan, which turned the cross shape into a square. This is how the square hall was created, which you can hardly imagine from the outside. A three-sided gallery and staircase turrets were set up for the congregation growth of up to 9,000 congregation members, which was believed to be possible, but this never materialized.

Today the maintenance of the church building is difficult. The pillars, plinths and cornices made of sandstone are weathered, the brickwork soaked up moisture through the bullet holes of the war, which resulted in fungus and plaster peeling off. In 1975 and 1976 all copper roofs were renewed to reduce the penetration of moisture. In the years between 1987 and 2002 the building underwent extensive renovation work.

Furnishing

From the beginning, the wealthy community of Werdens had oak stalls set up on parquet flooring. In addition, there was an elaborately crafted pulpit, Art Nouveau glazing and a marble sculpture on the font. After the destruction in the Second World War , some new simple windows were reinstalled. In 1956, the magnificent interior painting was painted over white and stucco was removed, in keeping with the Bauhaus style of the time: ornament is a crime . That was reversed in the 1980s. The walls of the building are adorned with depictions of ears of wheat, lilies and vines. In the four arched fields of the altar wall, the Ten Commandments , a palm frond and a crown, the cross from Mount Golgotha and the Gospel with ears of wheat, grapes and the Holy Grail are depicted.

Inside the church there is a remarkable window, the church battle window, which was donated by the former members of the Confessing Congregation after their return to the congregation no longer dominated by the German Christians. It contains the reference to 1 Tim 6,12 EU .

In 1916 the tower received three bells made of cast steel ( Bochumer Verein ).

Walcker organ

The organ on the gallery was built in 1900 by the organ building company EF Walcker (Ludwigsburg). The instrument, arranged and tuned in a late romantic style, has 35 registers on three manuals and pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I. Manual
Principal	16 '
Principal	8th'
Double flute	8th'
Viola da gamba	8th'
Dolce	8th''
Quintatön	8th'
Octav	2 '
Reed flute	4 '
Mixture V	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
Trumpet	8th'

II. Manual
Bourdon	16 '
Flute principal	8th'
Lovely covered	8th'
Concert flute	8th'
Salicional	8th'
Fugara	4 '
Flautto dolce	4 '
Cornett III-V	8th'
Clarinet	8th'

III. Manual (swellable)
Violin principal	8th'
Bourdon	8th'
Gemshorn	8th'
Voix celeste	8th'
Aeoline	8th'
Principal	4 '
Transverse flute	4 '
Piccolo	2 '
Cor anglais	8th'

pedal
Sub bass	16 '
Principal bass	16 '
Violon bass	16 '
Covered bass	16 '
Octavbass	8th'
violoncello	8th'
Octave	4 '
Trombones bass	16 '

Coupling : II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), III / I, III / II, III / III (super-octave coupling), I / P, II / P, III / P, general coupling
Playing aids: three free combinations; fixed combinations (p, mf, f, tutti - built as steps), register crescendo

Individual evidence

^ History of the church battle window at WAZ February 2, 2010 (accessed July 2012)
↑ Church window No. 33 for stained glass (2012)
↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

literature

Jörg Heimeshoff : The Protestant Church in Essen-Werden (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 458). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Neuss 2000, ISBN 3-88094-872-0 .
Klaus Höffgen: Flowers in the Protestant Church . Beauty and references to biblical references. In: Stories from Werden history. Volume 3, 2005, ISBN 3000176314 , pp. 85-97.
Presbytery of the parish of Essen-Werden (Ed.): 1900–1985. 85 years of the Evangelical Church and Walcker Organ in Essen-Werden. 1985.