Evangelical Church Odenkirchen

Evangelical Church in Odenkirchen

View from the northeast

The Evangelical Church Odenkirchen is in the district Odenkirchen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) in the road Burgfreiheit 72 .

The church was built in 1755/56. It was entered on December 10, 1985 under No. B 035 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

The church is a rectangular hall building with wide sloping corners. The west tower placed in the middle corresponds to a flat pulpit niche at the rear. Behind it is a small sacristy . The brick masonry stands on a square base. A verschiefertes hipped roof covers the building. A curved tower dome with a high pyramid of helmets attached, also slated, a weather vane and the shape of a trumpet angel complete the tower.

After the church of Wickrathberg, the church is the oldest Protestant church building in the city area, which can exemplarily represent the type of Protestant preaching church valid in the 18th century . It is the spatially largest Reformed church that was built on the Lower Rhine in the 17th and 18th centuries , and it is also distinguished by the bell tower , which the Protestant churches in this region were mostly not allowed to use. As a testimony to the assertion of the Protestant community in Odenkirchen, a monument of high rank in terms of local and church history.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB). 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2012 (227.14 kB). 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 11.7 ″  E