Evangelical Church Frechen
The Evangelical Church of Frechen is one of the oldest Protestant churches in the diaspora of the formerly purely Catholic area around Cologne .
Parish Frechen
The Reformation gained supporters in Frechen as early as 1543 , who were not suppressed under the rule of the dukes of Jülich . Worship services were held in private homes. Protocols of the presbytery of the parish have been preserved since 1544. Protestants from Cologne could also appear here for worship. When the congregation began building the church in 1716 with the approval of the government and thanks to financial support from Dutch and even English Protestants, it was destroyed by young, fanatical Cologne Catholics. However, it was inaugurated on July 18, 1717 by Pastor Friedrich K. Heilmann.
The parish archives are in the archives of the Evangelical Church Association in Cologne and in the Frechen city archive. They were recently transferred to microfilm and stored in the Barbarastollen near Freiburg. Some of the over 60,000 digitized pieces are also to be made accessible to the public.
Building history
The church was built as a house church, with the parsonage under a hipped roof traditionally covered with slate . Instead of a tower, the construction of a roof turret was allowed. The roof turret is crowned as a weather vane by a trumpet angel , also called Geusen- Daniel in the Jülich region (a largely original house church from 1684 with Geusendaniel has been preserved in Kirchherten ). The living area was expanded in 1881, but demolished in 1913, and the church service room was expanded to include a community hall as part of a renovation from 1914 to 1921 according to plans by the architects Schreiterer & Below . A new entrance and bell tower were also added. In 1955 the church area was expanded to the north. The pulpit and altar were also there. During the thorough renovation in 1969, the altar and pulpit were moved back to the old part of the church near the side entrance.
Building description
The church is a sober brick building with originally two windows on each of the three sides of the formerly square prayer room that adjoined the living area. The unadorned entrance, now walled up, lay between the windows facing the street. The residential part was two-story, it was extended in 1781 to offer visitors from Cologne an overnight stay, the Cologne building . The living area was demolished in 1913 and the worship room was expanded to accommodate it. On the left side there is a representative entrance hall and behind it the square six-story church tower with a tower clock and a second bell-house . The lower bell chamber has three rectangular, floor-to-ceiling sound holes on each side.
Furnishing
Tablets
Inside there are three tablets from 1765, a wooden tablet with Our Father and one with the Ten Commandments and the Creed .
organ
In 1770 the church got an organ from the workshop of Christian Ludwig König , which was converted into the Carthusian Church in 1928 . Your housing has been preserved there. The successor organ was sold in 1967 to the Protestant community in Rheinböllen , where it was playable until 1986. The organ from 1962 comes from Detlef Kleuker's workshop and has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
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See also
Web links
literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the district of Cologne . Ed .: Provinzialverband der Rheinprovinz (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province . Fourth Volume, No. I ). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1897 ( digitized [accessed on September 20, 2013]).
- Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district . Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Britta Havlicek: Evangelical Church in Frechen, gems are centuries old (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from September 20, 2013, p. 36)
- ↑ Lars Kindermann: Hidden in the Stollen , Frechen Hürth weekend, January 5, 2016
- ↑ Der Geusendaniel von Kirchherten ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sabine Simon: Schreiterer & Below. A Cologne architecture office between historicism and modernity. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89653-475-0 , p. 134 (also dissertation RWTH Aachen 1998).
- ↑ Church history (accessed June 2015)
- ↑ Organ on the free organ database organindex.de (picture in the link)
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 33 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 7 ″ E