Evangelical Church Wellerode
 Evangelical Church Wellerode |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | evangelical |
| place | Söhrewald - Wellerode , Germany |
| Building history | |
| architect | Oskar Hoßfeld
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| completion | December 1, 1902 |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | December 14, 1902 |
| Function and title | |
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Parish church of the parish of Wellerode |
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| 51 ° 14 '18.8 " N , 9 ° 34' 19" E | |
The Protestant Church Wellerode is a parish church in Wellerode , a district of the municipality of Söhrewald in the Kassel district in northern Hesse . It belongs to the Protestant parish of Wellerode, which has been independent since the mid-1950s. The church is a listed building.
history
In the place of today's church stood a previous church, which was in a poor state of construction at the end of the 19th century. The old church had brickwork made of stone blocks and a timber-framed tower on top . The stone-walled basement of the tower of the old church was preserved and was integrated into the new building.
On August 1, 1898, a unanimous decision by the church and political community led to Pastor Maximilian Lotze, who, as Pastor of the Marshals is also responsible for Wellerode, should initiate the organization of a new church building. Since Lotze died soon afterwards, this was taken over by his successor Hermann Dippel. However, the question of financing the new building was still open, as the royal government insisted that the municipality should provide some of its own contribution. After Kaiser Wilhelm II had promised a "very high gift of grace" worth 12,400 marks and collected 3000 marks from collections, the financing was secured for the time being. Since the construction of the tower at the same time had to be covered by community funds with 2,100 marks, it was still unclear whether this should take place in a later construction phase. On June 6, 1900 it was decided to take out a loan of 15,000 marks at 4.25% interest from the Landeskreditkasse. However, this amount was probably not enough, as a year later the royal building officer Janert asked the councilors whether the additional costs for the tower construction, which had increased by 4900 marks, and another 1,600 marks that had not been broken down would be covered by the municipality. According to the resolution protocol, this was granted.
The design of the church building comes from Oskar Hoßfeld . In the autumn of 1901, the leveling of the churchyard began. It is known from resolutions passed at the municipal council meetings from February to April 1902 that the construction work was progressing well, but that additional costs were incurred. The procurement of the organ and the bells was also an issue at this time. The traditional bell foundry Franz Schilling in Apolda (Thuringia) was designated as the supplier of the bells .
The church was inaugurated on December 14, 1902. Since the building deed was placed in a metal capsule in the altar, the exact construction costs are known. They totaled 44,700 marks, which consisted of 31,000 marks for the church, 7,000 marks for the tower and other smaller costs 2,200 marks (bell), 1,000 marks (clock), 2,500 marks (organ) and 1,000 marks (equipment) put together.
Originally, the churchyard was surrounded by a wrought iron enclosure on a brick base. The fence was later removed. A few meters long piece of the fence was preserved.
Old Protestant church in Wellerode with a tower made of timber framing
The church in Wellerode during the new building
Building certificate for the Wellerode Church from 1902
Main entrance 2013
Remaining fence residue
The baptismal font
building
Twelve pointed arch windows are built into the side walls ; the gallery comprises the side and rear walls. The organ is also attached to the back wall. The altar (Wachenfeld company in Külte / Waldeck), the pulpit (oak parts: master carpenter Hahn, Wellerode) and the sandstone baptismal font (sculptor Hermann Pohl in Kassel) were made in 1970 simply and without ornamentation. The lid of the baptismal font is rich in symbols in contrast to the otherwise symbolically poor fittings of the church. The handle represents Christ who saves the sinking man, who also wanted to walk on the water without having the right faith to do so. On the edge are the Bible stories about water :
- the Noah's Ark
- the dove with the olive branch (Gen. 6–8).
- Moses in the reed basket
- the wedding at Cana , during which Christ turns water into wine (John 2, 1 ff.)
- the storm calming
- the serpent as a symbol of evil - baptism as an expression of salvation.
There are painted glass windows at the back of the chancel. The neo-Gothic window on the left of the viewer depicts Paul with the sword and book, the right one with Peter with the key, both are elevated by a round window with the risen, triumphant Christ, crowned with thorns and holding the staff of life.
On the way to the bell tower, you can see the still functioning clockwork from 1901 and a well-crafted bar inscription discovered during the renovation in 1993, the legible part of which reads "Anna Elisabeth ... ten Bachmann GR Anno 1775". The beam probably comes from a half-timbered house.
Bells
The smaller of the two bells purchased in 1902 had to be delivered during the First World War and was melted down. In 1924 the bell was replaced; however, the big bell was also melted down during World War II in 1940. In 1956 two new bells were purchased. Up until 1961, school boys were responsible for ringing the bell every day. The bells have been ringing automatically since then.
organ
Little is known of the organ in the old church. It is said that it stood on a stage behind the altar and that it was sold to Friedrichsbrück when the church was rebuilt. The small organ is said to have been built in 1848 by the organ builder Balthasar Conrad Euler from Gottsbüren .
It is known from the minutes from the time the church was rebuilt that it was decided to buy a new organ at the start of construction. The Möller company from Rotenburg was commissioned with the construction of the organ and delivered it in the early summer of 1903. The place of installation of the organs in the new church was and is the organ gallery above the main entrance in the west of the church. The one-manual work had a romantically conceived disposition with nine registers , a pneumatic action and a prospectus in the neo-Gothic style . Initially, the organ was equipped with a mechanical organ bellows , which was replaced by an electrically powered one in 1956. Two years later there was a profound change in disposition in favor of neo-baroque timbres.
In 2001 the organ was replaced by a new building from the organ building company Dieter Noeske . Two registers were completely taken over, three partially from the previous organ and the wood-transparent case was reused in a redesigned form. The instrument has 809 pipes in 13 registers, which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . The prospectus has five axes and is characterized by the low polygonal round tower in the middle and the flanking pointed corner towers that rest on consoles. Flat fields are placed between the pipe towers. The pipe fields are closed by a pointed arch frieze and crowned by pinnacles . The neo-Gothic prospectus design is enriched by individual Art Nouveau elements. The prospectus pipes have gold-plated, raised round labia. The disposition is:
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Parish
The then still independent political community of Wellerode was looked after by the pastors from the then also politically independent Vollmarshausen until mid-1954 before it became independent. Since 1957 it has had a parish hall right next to the church, which was previously the old school hall. Expanded and renovated, it was handed over to its intended use in 1983. It now has a youth room in the basement. A large room on the ground floor serves the parish u. a. for confirmation classes. A meeting room and library are located on the first floor. The second floor is divided into two group rooms, which are mainly used by children's groups and mother-child groups. The rectory building was built in 1966 in the vicinity of the church.
Pastor
The parish of Wellerode belonged to the Protestant parish of Vollmarshausen until August 1, 1954 and the services were carried out by the pastors of the Protestant church of Vollmarshausen . As an independent parish of Wellerode, the following pastors have been or are responsible:
- Wilhelm Jung (August 1, 1954 - November 30, 1959)
- Ludwig Keller ( ordained May 1, 1960 ( ordained September 29, 1957 ) - 1964)
- Helmut Gehrke (October 1, 1964 - March 31, 1971)
- Reinhard Horst (June 1, 1971 - December 2, 1979)
- Werner Pausch (April 1, 1980 - February 28, 2016)
- Julia Freiburger (since March 1, 2017)
literature
- The church council of the Protestant parish Wellerode (ed.): House of God and Human Work - 100 Years of Welleröder Church , Perkunas-Verlag, Söhrewald 2002, ISBN 3-9808444-0-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Village renewal Söhrewald-Wellerode
- ^ Chronicle of the parish Vollmarshausen.
- ^ Bulletin of the municipality of Wellerode from August 28, 1970.
- ↑ The church council of the Protestant parish Wellerode (ed.): Church of God and Human Work. 2002, p. 71.
- ↑ The church council of the Protestant parish Wellerode (ed.): Church of God and Human Work. 2002, p. 77f.
- ↑ The church council of the Protestant parish Wellerode (ed.): Church of God and Human Work. 2002, p. 75.
- ↑ The church council of the Protestant parish Wellerode (ed.): Church of God and Human Work. 2002, p. 73.
- ↑ The organ of the Evangelical Church in Söhrewald-Wellerode , seen April 24, 2015.