Evangelical Church Neuenrade

Evangelical Church Neuenrade (south side)

Evangelical Church Neuenrade (north side, first street)

The Protestant church is a listed church building in Neuenrade in the Märkisches Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia).

History and architecture

On the southern edge of the planned town there was a Marienkapelle, which was built around 1360. Parish rights were granted in 1366. The originally Catholic orientation lasted until 1564 when the reformer Hermann Wilken drafted the Neuenrader church ordinance and was thus oriented towards Protestantism.

The rectangular sermon hall was built in 1786/87. The older west tower was probably built in the 14th century. Its structural dimensions and the narrow windows underline its function as a defensive tower . Ashlar plaster was applied in 1904. The walls are divided by high arched windows. The porch fronts were added in 1927. A three-sided wooden gallery was drawn into the interior , on which there are old box stalls. The mirror ceiling is decorated with representations of angels. The pulpit organ prospectus with the curved galleries was built in with the new building of the nave.

Furnishing

• The pulpit is a work of the 16th century. The rich carving shows the city coat of arms with St. Maria, embedded in a halo. The Neuhoff coats of arms are attached to the side.
• The windows and the color scheme were carried out by Paul Thol in 1953 .

organ

Organ prospectus of the organ on the gallery

The organ was installed by Meyer from Herford from 1860 to 1865. In 1965 Gustav Steinmann Orgelbau created a new work behind the historic prospectus . The central arched field is closed off by a triangular gable. Two low flat fields with coupled round arches lead to the polygonal side towers. The organ has 2 manuals and a pedal with 18 sounding stops with the following disposition:

I main work C – c 4 01. Principal 08th' 02. Pointed flute 08th' 03. octave 04 ′ 04th Sesquialter II 05. Forest flute 02 ′ 06th Mixture V-VI 07th Trumpet 08th'

II Positive C-c 4 08th. Dumped 08th' 09. Night flute 04 ′ 10. Principal 02 ′ 11. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 12. Sharp III 13. shelf 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – g 1 14th Sub bass 16 ′ 15th Gemshorn 08th' 16. octave 04 ′ 17th Rauschpfeife IV 18th bassoon 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Monument protection

The Evangelical Church in Neuenrade was entered on April 25, 1985 as No. 12 in the list of architectural monuments.

At the same time, the three gravestones south of the parish church from the middle of the 19th century were entered as No. 13 in the list of architectural monuments. These were previously in a cemetery laid out in 1823 outside the city walls.

literature

• Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Web links

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

• Story and photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the Evangelical Church Community
2. ↑ Stadt Neuenrade: Evangelical Parish Church ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 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. Retrieved January 4, 2015. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 52.2 ″  E