Evangelical town church (Brilon)

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View from the southwest

The Evangelical City Church in Brilon is a listed church building , which was built in the years 1855/1856 by the builder F. A. Ritter based on a design by the Berlin builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the Prussian normal church.

History and architecture

Choir
Gallery and organ

In the 16th century Brilon belonged to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia ; the religious denomination was determined by the Archbishop of Cologne as sovereign. The first reformatory movements came about in 1583 with the support of Archbishop Gebhard I von Waldburg , but were destroyed again in 1584 after the conquest by Bavaria. The Duchy of Westphalia came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1803 with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , and so Protestant officials and later craftsmen came to the city. After the annexation to Prussia, Protestant services were held in the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas as a provisional arrangement, by rescript from the royal government in Arnsberg . Brilon initially belonged to the Arnsberg parish and in 1821 was affiliated to Meschede, where its own evangelical parish was founded. The Mesched community was so weak in pastoral care and finances that Arnsberg also provided for it. With the ordination of Pastor Tugendhold Plate in 1838, an independent evangelical community was founded in Brilon with around 170 members. The parish of Brilon was established by a deed of delimitation in 1843; In addition to the city of Brilon, these included: Rixen, Wülfte, Bontkirchen, Thülen, Nehden, Radlinghausen, Messinghausen, Rösenbeck, Nieder- and Oberalme, Scharfenberg, Altenbüren and Eßhof, Bigge, Antfeld, Olsberg, Gierskopp, Elleringhausen, Helminghausen and Grimlinghausen. In 1845 the congregation chose a first presbytery.

In 1855 the congregation had only 250 members, whose willingness to sacrifice alone would not have been enough to build the church. The city of Brilon transferred the property in front of the Kreuziger Tor of the old city ​​wall free of charge and approved a construction grant of 150 thalers . In a newspaper report from 1851 that has been handed down to us, it says: The local city has given a suitable building site for the construction of a new Protestant church and has also offered some free lumber delivery. Before the start of construction, on March 20, 1853, “a higher local authorized” collection was held in the Protestant parishes of the Kingdom of Prussia. For cost reasons, the church originally only had a gable tower with a copper roof. The inauguration of the church took place on October 19, 1856. In 1922 a church tower with a bell dome was built on the west side instead of the gable tower . One of the last mechanical church tower clocks in the Sauerland strikes in this tower.

The building is a four-axis hall in rectangular construction with a retracted apse. The roof structure is open on the inside. Sand and rubble stones were chosen as stones. On the west gallery is a late romantic organ with a neo-renaissance prospect. It was built in 1902 by Eduard Vogt from Korbach . The standing on the altar principle Alien regarded as evidence of high-quality Prussian blacksmithing; they are a gift from the Prussian queen. The two bells hanging in the tower harmonize with the sound of the bells of the surrounding Catholic churches. The interior has been redesigned and renovated several times over the years; the building has been a listed building since 1976.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Brilon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II, Westphalia. Under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 193
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Historical development of the community
  3. ^ Alfred Bruns: Brilon 1816-1918. Ed. Stadt Brilon, 1988, ISBN 3-923013-08-6 , pp. 182, 183.
  4. ^ Gerhard Brökel: Briloner Heimatbuch, Volume 1, p. 15.
  5. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II, Westphalia. Under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , pp. 193, 194.

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 8 ″  E