Evangelical church building association

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The Evangelical Church Building Association was an association established by Wilhelm II on May 2, 1890 in Berlin for the construction of new churches in the industrial conurbations of Prussia . The association has been active again since 1975.

history

During the reign of his grandfather Wilhelm I was between 1878 and September 1890 by the Socialist Law , the Social Democracy covered in the German Reich with repression. Wilhelm II (emperor since 1888), however, wanted to dampen this social movement by returning to traditional , evangelical-religious values. At the same time he developed a social legislation and in March 1890 dismissed the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , who had advocated tightening the socialist laws. Wilhelm II didn’t want to color his first reign with the blood of my subjects! ”.

At the Waldersee Assembly on November 28, 1887, Wilhelm, the son of the Crown Prince, called for “action against the neglect of the masses” in order to “counter the impending danger from social democracy and anarchism ”. In May 1888 the Evangelical Church Aid Association was founded in which, in addition to all the Prussian provinces, Ernst von Mirbach , the chief court master of Crown Princess Auguste Victoria , was represented for them. On May 4, 1888, her father-in-law, Emperor Friedrich, gave her protectorate over the association.

In 1890 the "Evangelical Church Building Association" was created from the church building commission (1888) of the Evangelical Church Aid Association . In 1884–1908 he had 38 churches built in what was then Berlin, and many more outside of it, three of them in what is now Israel . In East Prussia , 12 of these were built from an “anniversary fund” for the 200th anniversary of the elector's coronation (1901).

Against the misgivings of the churches, Mirbach repeatedly stated that they only wanted to support the internal mission of the church. In addition to the authority of the emperor, the success of the association was largely determined by Mirbach's money collections and the two association chairmen von Levetzow and von Ziethen-Schwerin. By 1912 around 12 million marks had been collected.

In 1918 the association's activity was discontinued and ended completely in 1930. By then around 70 churches had been built.

Members

Church buildings

Among other things, the

Renewed association

In 1975 there was a reactivation in Berlin-Friedenau . The current purpose of the association is the restoration and maintenance of church art. In the case of a purely religious service, he also participates in new buildings.

literature

  • Fritz Mybes: The Evangelical Church Aid Association and its women's aid. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7927-1021-8 . (= Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History , Volume 92.)
  • (compare references in the article Kirchenbauverein )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Iselin Gundermann: Church construction and diakonia: Empress Auguste Victoria and the Evangelical Church Aid Association. In: Issues of the Evangelical Church Building Association ; Vol. 7, p. 4 of the web version by Hermann Detering (see web links).
  2. ↑ cf. Entry Capernaum Church in the English Wikipedia.
  3. ↑ cf. Entry Tabor Church in the English Wikipedia.