Evangelical town church Lüttringhausen
The Evangelical City Church is the oldest, still existing sacred building in Lüttringhausen and the church of the largest Evangelical parish in town. When viewed from the west, it represents the dominant building in the old town.
location
The church is located in the southern center of Remscheid-Lüttringhausen , an independent small town in the former Lennep district until 1929 , which is now a district and district of the independent Bergisch city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The church building is located roughly where Richthofenstrasse and Gertenbachstrasse meet. The nave with sacristy and bell tower towers over the historic buildings in the old town of Lüttringhausen. The main entrance is on the small paved square between the church and the parish hall . The square was named after the local evangelical pastor and martyr of the Confessing Church , Ludwig Steil . The village's open-air theater is located behind the parish hall . The roughly oval church grounds are enclosed in the east, south and partially in the west by a surrounding and retaining wall.
history
There was a church on this site as early as 1300. A pastor named "Johann, Kerckher zu Lütterkußen" is named for the year 1365. For the church village and the four honors Erbschloe, Hohemhagen, Walbrecken and Garschagen there was the church described. During the Thirty Years' War the church was exposed to all kinds of violence. It is reported that in 1634 Swedish troops entered the church by force and smashed the “aldermen's box”.
In 1627 the Jesuits took possession of the church for reasons of faith. But the Lüttringhauser Protestants did not give up and held the services “in the Diepmannsbach”. There is no documentary evidence of whether the Swedish troops also drove out the Jesuits.
On the afternoon of New Year's Day 1703, a drunken dragoon named Giesbert Wolff rode into the church and disrupted the service. Strong male fists, however, set him in the air. The troublemaker escaped his punishment only because the people of Lüttringhaus advocated mildness.
The original medieval church burned twice. After the fire in 1536 there was “great damage”, but it could be repaired. On July 25, 1733, however, it burned down completely along with most of the former village. In 1734 it was decided to build a modern building for that time over the rubble. The position of the tower in the west bore no resemblance to the church that had burned down. The hall building was raised to a length of 23.5 m and a width of 18.4 m and provided with a vaulted ceiling. Originally the "Kirchhof", as the cemetery was called earlier, was located around the church building. The tower was damaged by lightning in 1861, but it was soon restored. A year on the tower commemorates the renovation in the same year.
The church is widely regarded as a masterpiece of the Bergisch Baroque and was built as a Reformation sacral building. The building has been structurally repaired and renovated several times over the past 60 years.
description
The single-nave church building , built in the Baroque style , with the tower in the south-south-west extends north-north-east. It was built from unplastered rubble stones and has two floors with a slate- covered gable roof , which has five dormers on both sides on two levels. The sacristy, on the roof of which is emblazoned with a trumpet angel, is attached.
The almost square church tower, also built of quarry stone, clearly towers above the nave. The topmost of the brick floors houses the bell cage , recognizable by the sound openings . Immediately above is the tower clock with dials on all four sides. The three-story tower rises above the stone-built tower, which has a curved onion dome and an eight-sided lantern as well as a gold-plated cock on top. As in many Bergisch baroque churches, the altar , pulpit and organ lie one above the other. In 1736 the first organ was commissioned from Johannes Streffing in Datteln. Noteworthy features are panel paintings of Jesus and the apostles. The pews of the former lords of Bottlenberg are also still there. They are located to the left and right of the main entrance and are called "Lehnshüsker" by the people of Lüttringhausen.
The portal and the side doors of the church were created by the local artist Ernst Oberhoff , who was at home in the parish of Lüttringhausen. Until the 1950s there were only simple wooden doors with large locks. During Neo-Pietism, the walls and ceilings were whitewashed and three candlesticks blackened.
The splendid Clarenbach chandelier dates from 1829; it was hung 300 years after Adolf Clarenbach's death in flames.
1960 to 1964 the old colors came to light again during restoration work.
Bells
The "Eternity Bell", which was cast from bronze in front of the nave by the Cologne foundry Johann Heinrich Dinkelmayer in 1736 , survived all wars, while the other two bells were picked up on July 1, 1917 to be melted down for armament purposes and only later by FW Rincker from Sinn had it replaced. The eternity bell that was confiscated during World War II escaped melting down by accident. She later found herself in a "bell cemetery" in Hamburg. The two smaller bells were cast in Sinn by FW Rincker and arrived in Lüttringhausen on April 8, 1920. The middle bell (prayer bell) was named "Heiland", the smallest bell (call bell) was named "Heimat". The largest in the series of bells that has been preserved was henceforth called "Clarenbach".
The bells have been moved electrically since 1924. On Christmas Eve and on the morning of Christmas Day from 3.30 a.m. there is still the custom of Beiern . As part of the ecumenical movement, the ecumenical congregation festival was celebrated for the first time in 2012 at the Protestant town church and at the nearby church “ Holy Cross ”.
organ
After the town fire, the community ordered the first organ from the "organ maker" Johannes Streffing from Datteln in 1736. The price was 775 Rhineland thalers. By 1881, however, the instrument had fallen into disrepair due to various circumstances.
“However, the historic case will be used for a new organ with 25 registers on two manuals and a pedal with a cone shutter and mechanical action” by the Frankfurt organ builder Wilhelm Sauer . The price was 10,000 marks in 1891.
On December 31, 1971, today's organ from the workshop of Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau in Hamburg was inaugurated.
The cantor who had been in Lütringhausen the longest was Jürgen Harder, who successfully held this office from 1970 to 2012. In 2017 the organ was overhauled by the manufacturer Beckerath .
Monument protection
The church building was entered on October 20, 1984 as a cultural monument with the number 294 in the list of monuments of the city of Remscheid; in March 1986 the memorial was entered . In October 2000 the churchyard and the church wall were placed under monument protection.
gallery
Evangelical town church Lüttringhausen with Holy Cross Church
Ernst Oberhoff : Door of the Protestant town church in Lüttringhausen
Ernst Oberhoff : Door handle of the Protestant town church in Lüttringhausen
window
Coat of arms of those of Bottlenberg
Tower of the Protestant church in Lüttringhausen
Church in the village
literature
- Hans Kadereit: Lüttringhausen as it was and is. Historical illustrated book with local history explanations. Van Geyt Verlag, Wuppertal 1993.
- Hans Kadereit: Where there is still celebrations, reels and delights , a historical illustrated book Lüttringhausen, RGA-Buchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7 .
- Evangelical parish Lüttringhausen: Year-end service with inauguration of the organ.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Naber: The Harder family had a good time for 42 years ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Article from April 28, 2012 on rga-online.de
- ↑ see page 14 in the list of monuments of the city of Remscheid from January 1, 2018, online as a PDF file (527 kB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 28.2 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 9.7" E