Evangelical Church Götterswickerhamm

Evangelical Church on Dammstrasse, view from the west (2020)

Rear view of the church from the cemetery (2017)

The Evangelical Church Götterswickerhamm is the landmark of the Rheindorf Götterswickerhamm belonging to the city of Voerde (Lower Rhine) . The 11/12 Century built church was St. Nicodemus ordained and was originally a private church of the Lords of gods Wick. The foundation of the Romanesque church could have been in the 10th century.

Location

The church is located in the arch of Dammstraße L 4, which connects the places Walsum , Eppinghoven and the Steag power plant via the old Rheindorf Götterswickerhamm to Spellen . Today the square is located directly behind the Rhine dike on an elevated corridor.

description

The church is a late Gothic hall church . It includes a three-storey west tower made of tuff stone with a Romanesque basement and a pointed, bent spire with copper and slate covering. The coat of arms of the Lords of Götterswick is in the entrance area of the door. The walls are made of tuff and brick , which are structured by the buttresses , with six bays and a polygonal three apsid closure. The north and south absis are now bricked up from the nave. The sacristy is now in the north apse. Finds from the early days of the church are exhibited behind the altar wall.

history

The foundation of the church could fall into the 10th century. On May 19, 1003, the Archbishop of Cologne, Heribert, acquired lands in Goterswick and donated them to Deutz Abbey , which is believed to have built a chapel here. The steeple has been preserved from a single-nave Romanesque church from the early 13th century.

In 1427 the village and church were burned down. The new building was a three-aisled Gothic hall. During the Spanish-Dutch War 1568–1648, the church was destroyed several times and repeatedly repaired.

The church fell into disrepair and closed in 1820. For the reconstruction, the Prussian building administration under the Prussian Oberlandesbaudirektor Karl Friedrich Schinkel worked out plans in Berlin , which preserved and modernized the remaining components. The detailed planning and the fine Gothic decor are Schinkel's contribution to the redesign. The reconstruction took place from 1831 to 1834. After the repair of considerable war damage from 1945, the Schinkel interior of the church was restored in 1970 and has been preserved in its original appearance to this day.

The current church dates from the 11th / 12th centuries in its oldest parts. Century and was built as a single-nave Romanesque hall building with a flat ceiling and a tower incorporated into the church, which was raised by one storey around 1350. The lower part of the tower, the back wall and the font are still preserved. In its approximately 1000-year history, there has been repeated devastation, looting, fire and decay. After each destruction the church grew bigger. It is made of brick , tuff and wood. Romanesque , Gothic and Classicism have made their mark.

Furnishing

The church has a classicist interior design based on plans by Schinkel, side galleries supported by pillars with a pulpit-organ altar and a singing gallery above the altar wall. Typically Protestant is this combination of the altar, the pulpit and the organ in a stacked group based on the model of the castle church in Schmalkalden, built in 1590 .

The most valuable relic from ancient times is the font carved from Bentheim sandstone . It is a flat stone hut on a squat column stump with four lion monsters in the corners. It comes from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century and is one of the oldest in the area. Gothic tombstones from the 15th and 16th centuries, mortuary tablets and ancestral tables of noble families from Götterswickerhamm and the surrounding area adorn the walls of the church, as do two iron visor helmets from the time of the Thirty Years' War .

Another special feature is the historic organ, which was restored between 1993 and 1995, and is the only late romantic organ that can still be heard in the area. It was built in 1933 by the Schwelm company, Faust .

In the windows, stained glass is framed on antique and cathedral glass ; these ornaments probably go back to the design modeled on the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1831–1834.

Bell jar

The church has a bell . It weighs 930 kg and has a diameter of 116 cm, with the tone "e". It was cast in 1642 by Anton and Johann de la Paix from Lorraine . Three borders in vase, vine and lily frieze with inscription in capitals read: "LAVDATE DOMINVM IN CYMBALIS ET BENE SONANTIBVS ANNO 1642 IN MAIO MARTINUS WILLICHIVS IVDEX THOMAS HACHALIVS PASTOR IOHAN SCHOLTE ET ADOLPH FRESERICKS".

literature

Roland Günter , Rudolf Wesenberg and Albert Verbeek (eds.): The monuments of the Rhineland; Dinslaken district . On behalf of the Rhineland Regional Council; Rheinland Verlag / Schwann Verlag Düsseldorf; The monuments of the Rhineland, Volume 14; 1st edition 1968; Götterswickerhamm; Ev. Parish church
Wolfgang Petri: Götterswickerhamm: Evangelical, from the history of the old church community ; Dinslaken district yearbook ; Last edition December 1974; 32nd year; Ed. District Administration Dinslaken; Editing: Willi Dittgen , Dinslaken; Printing and publishing: Koeller & Franke Dinslaken

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Götterswickerhamm - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

51.58042 6.66175Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 49.5 " N , 6 ° 39 ′ 42.3" E

[1] uni-due.de Ev. Church in Götterswickerhamm

[2] smalerei-ev.de Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV

[3] The bell in Götterswickerhamm struck for the first time on Christmas Eve 1642, by Florian Langhoff, Neue Rhein Zeitung of December 23, 2017