Evangelical Church Vohwinkel

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Evangelical Church Vohwinkel

The Evangelical Church Vohwinkel is a historic sacred building in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

location

The church is located in Vohwinkel , the westernmost district and district (in the residential area Vohwinkel-Mitte ) south of the center with the address "Gräfrather Straße 20". The Gräfrather Straße parish hall is on the opposite side of the street.

history

The evangelical congregation in the - not least because of the railway connections - rapidly growing village of Vohwinkel split off from the “mother congregation” in Sonnborn in 1886 and became an independent parish through an erection certificate dated May 31, 1886 . Church services and community meetings initially took place in a small building in what was then "Friedrichstrasse", which, despite the expansion, was soon too cramped for the parish with its 1900 members. Therefore, funds were collected in various ways for the construction of a church of their own.

After sufficient funds were available and a suitable building site was found on what was then “Solinger Straße” in Vohwinkel (today “Gräfrather Straße”), the foundation stone was laid on July 25, 1889. It was built in neo-Gothic style according to the plans of the Elberfeld architects " Plange & Hagenberg" and an examination of the same by the "Department for Church Administration and Schooling in Düsseldorf of the Royal Government" and was inaugurated on November 7th, 1890 just under a year and a half later.

In the air raid on Vohwinkel on January 1, 1945, the church was hit and badly damaged; In addition to damage to the tower and nave, all the church windows were also broken. This damage could initially be temporarily repaired by 1946. In 1962 the church building was completely renovated and in 1964 a new organ was installed by Alfred Führer .

Entrance portal

description

The structure is 32 meters long and around 14.5 meters wide. The masonry consists of dark red bricks , while some decorative elements, such as the corner pilasters and the portal of the main entrance, which is located at the foot of the tower, are made of sandstone for visual contrast . The interior has a central seating area , which is surrounded on both sides by corridors to the choir and is spanned by a barrel vault. The side walls are divided by buttresses and each have four double windows with pointed arch friezes . The gabled roof of the nave church construction with slate covered, as well as the polygonal roof top of the (unusual) east standing rectangular church tower which tapers in the upward direction and to all four sides dials the Clock has. It has annexes on both sides that protrude slightly beyond the floor plan of the nave, in which the stairs to the gallery are located. The tower is significantly higher than the rest of the church and, in addition to other striking buildings (such as the former historic town hall Vohwinkel or the Catholic Church ), characterizes the townscape of Vohwinkel and represents a landmark .

The church, which is surrounded by trees on the church square, is the property of the "Evangelical Church Congregation Vohwinkel" and their largest preaching site.

Monument protection

On April 13, 1989, the church was designated as an architectural monument by the lower monument authority of the city of Wuppertal and included in the list of architectural monuments under monument number 1564.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Vohwinkel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d [1] (PDF; 64.7 MB) "The architect Heinrich Plange (1857–1942), a master builder of entrepreneurship in the Bergisch region", inaugural dissertation by Axel Kirchhoff, Wuppertal 2004, online publication of the university library of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , PDF file , pages 63 ff. with information on further literature
  2. ↑ a b [2] "Directory of new Protestant church buildings in the Rhineland 1860–1914 (1927)", online publication of the University of Duisburg-Essen , PDF file, pages 211/212
  3. ↑ a b [3] ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT VOHWINKELER VEREINE eV, history
  4. ↑ [4] private homepage "Zeitspurensuche"
  5. ^ [5] Eyewitness report by Rector i. R. Storch on the page "The historic Vohwinkel"
  6. ^ [6] Sermon sites on the parish homepage
  7. ↑ Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 7.7 ″  E