Evangelical town church (Remscheid)

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Remscheid City Church, entrance area
The Evangelical City Church seen from the market square

The Evangelical City Church is the main Protestant church in Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Archaeological investigations in 1979 revealed two predecessor churches under today's town church, a baroque hall . Around 1000 the chapel of a Fronhof was built here . It was a small hall church with a retracted rectangular choir. The patronage is not known. In 1189, Count Engelbert I von Berg signed this chapel as his own church for the Coming of Johanniter at Burg Castle, which he donated . The Johanniter replaced the building in the second half of the 12th century with a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with a choir and round-arched apse, similar to the church of St. Antonius Abbas zu Herkenrath, which is still preserved today and which also belonged to the Burger Kommende. According to a document from 1385, this was consecrated to the Apostle Paul .

The Reformation began in Remscheid in 1548. In 1570 the Remscheid parish went over to the Reformation , but the right of patronage remained with the Burger Kommende until it was repealed in 1803. In 1722 the parish decided to replace the old dilapidated church with a new building. This was approved by the committees, but the maintenance of the Romanesque choir was requested. During the construction work there was a major fire in Remscheid on Michaelmas Day 1723, September 29th, which destroyed the shell and the Romanesque choir. Therefore, the new rectangular hall building, spanned by a shallow barrel, was rebuilt from 1726 without old components, only the four-story tower was rebuilt using the old building fabric - coal sandstone and stone. The year 1726 can be seen in iron anchors above the portal.

The construction was completed in 1730, when the tower received the curly pear dome and in 1824 the sacristy was added .

In 1943 the church was badly damaged by a bomb attack. The interior was redesigned in a simple style in 1954. In February 1955, the inauguration service took place after the reconstruction.

In 1977 the masonry had to be renovated; In 1979/80 the interior was renewed with a historicizing design. Architect Hanns Berger accompanied the construction work. In November 1980 the church was reopened.

organ

After the Second World War, the church received a new organ that was placed on the west gallery. The organ was built by the organ builder GF Steinmeyer and had 21 stops on 2 manuals and pedal. In 1981 the instrument was replaced by a new organ from the organ building company Rudolf von Beckerath (Hamburg). The slider chest instrument has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintatön 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI
9. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
10. Wooden dacked 8th'
11. Black viola 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Transverse flute 4 ′
14th Forest flute 2 ′
15th Sesquialtera II
16. Sharp IV-V
17th Dulcian 16 ′
18th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – g 1
19th Sub-bass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
21st Thought bass 8th'
22nd Chorale bass 4 ′
23. Back set IV
24. bassoon 16 ′
25th shawm 4 ′

literature

  • Karl Wilhelm Heuser (Ed.): The Remscheid town church in local, regional and church history , Bergischer Geschichtsverein , Dept. Remscheid, Remscheid 1984, ISBN 3-924224-05-6 .
  • Wilhelm Engels : From the history of the Remscheid town church and its parish. , Verlag der Evangelischen Kirchgemeinde Remscheid 1926

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 44.6 ″  E