Evangelical Church Gudenhagen
The Protestant Church is a church building on Rübezahlweg in Gudenhagen-Petersborn , a district of Brilon in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
After the Second World War , displaced persons , mainly from Silesia , Pomerania and Transylvania, settled in Petersborn-Gudenhagen. A large number of these new citizens were Protestant and so the building of a church was necessary. The proportion of Protestant believers in Petersborn was around 50%. The new municipality of Pulvermühle-Gudenhagen-Petersborn was founded in 1955. The first Protestant service was held in the old Catholic chapel in Gudenhagen.
In 1954 the city of Brilon provided the evangelical parish with a piece of land free of charge for the construction of a church; the settlement company Rote Erde gave 5,000 DM for the building fund. In December 1958, the architect Kölsche from Dortmund was commissioned with the preparation of building drawings. Additional plans and cost estimates were made by the architect Knöpfel from Medebach. A third design was made by Mumme in Lippstadt, which was then also implemented. The topping-out ceremony was in June 1962. The foundation stone is walled into the north wall. The church can be reached via a forecourt on which the 21 meter high bell tower in the form of a campanile , set apart from the main building, rises. Because of the hillside location, the rooms for community work were housed under the courtyard. The interior is kept rather simple, the brick walls are visible, the pitched roof is clad with natural wood. Lamps hang down from both sides of the pitched roof. The paneled altar wall is structured by triangular windows. The main incidence of light occurs through the honeycomb windows on the opposite wall. The floor of the main room is made of end-grain pine. The glass windows were created according to a design by Hugo Kükelhaus . Kükelhaus also designed the interior design. The seating was built by a craft business in Laisa .
Furnishing
- The center of the church is an altar made of cut granite .
- The altar candlesticks were made by the blacksmith Josef Severin from Anröchte.
- Noteworthy is the cross on the altar wall, which is held from the wall towards the congregation by an iron arm. It was carved from a piece of bog oak that was recovered from the Dortmund-Ems Canal during dredging work . The wood is said to be up to 300,000 years old. The corpus is a work from the time of the Thirty Years War , the arms have not been preserved.
- A granite baptismal font weighing eight hundred pounds stands in a small, aisle-like annex .
- In the first years after the completion of the church, a harmonium was used. In June 1978 an organ with four registers was installed, which was later extended by a sub-bass .
Bells
The three bronze bells were cast in 1963 by the Bachert brothers' bell foundry in Kochendorf ( Bad Friedrichshall ). The largest bell weighs 710 kg and bears the inscription O Land, Land, Land - hear God's word ; the middle bell weighs 420 kg and bears the inscription I want to be your God and you should be my people . The smallest bell with the inscription Come, let's worship! weighs 300 kg. The bells are tuned to the tones g sharp ′, b ′ and c sharp ′.
literature
- S. Häusler, H. Pietrusky, U. Schieseck, M. Ziemann: Evangelical Church 1963–1988 Gudenhagen-Petersborn. Published by the Evangelical Church Community Brilon, Parish III, Weyers-Druck, Brilon 1988.
Web links
- History (accessed May 18, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 50 ″ E