Peace Church (Kassel)
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| Parishioners: | 4,092 (as of 2011) |
| Area : | approx. 1.5 km² |
| Regional Church: | EKKW |
| Sprengel : | kassel |
| Church district : | Kassel city |
| Structure: | 2 parishes |
| Official Website: | www.friedenskirche-kassel.de |
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| Members: | 12 of them elected: 8 |
| Chairman: | Gottfried Elsas |
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The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church building in the Kassel district of Vorderer Westen . It is the first preaching place of the homonymous parish of the Peace Church Kassel.
Friedenskirche
History of the Friedenskirche
In the second half of the 19th century, the Jewish industrialist Sigmund Aschrott began to develop what is now the West Front, then still called Hohenzollernviertel. Churches were also built in the course of establishing the new district. First the Evangelical Advent Church was built in 1889, then in 1901 the Roman Catholic Church of St. Maria (also known as the Rosary Church) and later in 1906 the Evangelical Kreuzkirche . The neo-baroque Friedenskirche was built from 1905 to 1908 in the middle third of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße on the corner of Elfbuchenstraße according to plans by the architect Johannes Roth. He had already designed the Christ Church in Bad Wilhelmshöhe . The foundation stone was laid on March 27, 1906.
The parish of the Friedenskirche originally belonged to the three personal parishes of the Lutheran creed in Kassel. Their pastors were not responsible for a parish, that is, for the geographical area that surrounds the church, but for the people throughout the city who felt they belonged to the Lutheran denomination.
Since the so-called "points of improvement" that Landgrave Moritz implemented in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Cassel in 1605, the Lutheran creed was pushed back in relation to the Reformed direction. Today this difference hardly plays a role anymore for the faith and for the life of evangelical Christians. For the people of that time it was of great importance whether they z. B. celebrated the Lord's Supper with hosts or unleavened white bread, whether there was an altar with a crucifix or a black curtained table in the church, whether pictures and carvings adorned the church or not. The Lutherans either adapted to the moderately reformed practice in Kassel or emigrated to Hanover or Thuringia, which were ruled by Lutheran rulers. Church services according to the Lutheran order were forbidden in Kassel. Those who kept their Lutheran confession moved to the neighboring Lutheran village of Spiekershausen an der Fulda on Sundays when they wanted to celebrate a Lutheran church service or even the Lord's Supper. While Landgrave Carl supported the Huguenots who immigrated from France and gave them living space and the opportunity to build their own church (Karlskirche 1710), Lutherans who had moved there had to integrate themselves into the Reformed congregations. B. wanted to work in administration.
The situation changed for the Lutherans with Landgrave Friedrich I (1676–1751), who was crowned King of Sweden through his marriage to Ulrike Eleonore of Sweden and thus also accepted the Lutheran denomination of the Swedish royal family. In 1730 Frederick I succeeded his deceased father, Landgrave Carl, and in 1731 he granted the Lutherans of Kassel the freedom to practice their religion with the “Stockholm Decree”. From then on, Lutheran church services were celebrated in a private house, the first preacher of the Lutheran congregation was Magister Friedrich Philipp Schlosser (1701–1742), whose portrait of an unknown master is still in the possession of the Friedenskirche today.
The Lutheran congregation grew and soon the desire arose to build their own house of God, which was inaugurated on April 27, 1738 as the Lutheran Church on Graben in the form of a transverse church (destroyed in the war in 1943). According to the requirements of the reformed church authorities, it was only allowed to be a so-called prayer house without a tower and bells, which fitted inconspicuously into the front of the houses on the moat. But the interior was all the richer and more elaborate. Precious vasa sacra were made by the silversmiths based in Kassel, the jugs, which are crowned on their lids by a Luther statue, and the sacrament chalices are still in use today at the Sunday sacrament celebration of the Friedenskirche.
The paintings by the court painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder were striking for the reformed church landscape. Ä. were commissioned, including the large painting of the Transfiguration of Jesus (395 cm × 230 cm), which is still in the Luther Church today, and a crucifixion image of Jesus that hangs in the sacristy of the Peace Church. “With this, Cassel's Lutherans had acquired a treasure trove of images with which they could be seen - in the truest sense of the word. Nothing was too expensive for them to make their church services and their church beautiful. In doing so, they did not reach for the stars, but made use of the best local artists. They benefited from the willingness to make sacrifices of their members, which increasingly included those who could afford to donate generously. "
In 1751 (or 1758) an organ was installed above the pulpit, although the consistory had not given permission. Church music played a major role in the community. The Hofkapellmeister and composer Luis Spohr belonged with his family to the Lutheran congregation and chose the Old Lutheran Church on the Graben for the performance of his oratorio “The Last Things” on Good Friday 1826, in which around 2000 people took part and thus established a tradition of annual Good Friday concerts has been. In 1887 a Lutheran church choir was founded, which consisted of around 100 active members and sang about once a month in church services in their own congregation.
With the industrialization of Kassel, the number of Lutherans continued to grow; thanks to the large estate of Gottfried Ferdinand Fiedler, which benefited the community in 1863, the new Luther Church could be built. In 1897 the church, which was built in the neo-Gothic style and adorned with rich ornaments, was inaugurated, which was only slightly smaller than the neighboring St. Martin's Church.
With the expansion of the city towards the west at the turn of the century, the Friedenskirche was built in 1908, the granddaughter of the Old Lutheran Congregation am Graben, so to speak. The Lutherans included some senior civil servants and middle-class people who lived in villas on Brasselsberg or Wilhelmshöhe or in the new houses in the Hohenzollernviertel. “One wanted to achieve that the principle of the parochial congregation increasingly followed the principle of the personal congregation among the Lutherans.” It is therefore understandable that the congregations of Wehlheiden and Wilhelmshöhe protested in 1903 against the reconstruction of the Friedenskirche because they were too close together Churches feared, especially since the Kreuzkirche was yet to be built.
Against these concerns, the church was built by the Kassel architect Johannes Roth and inaugurated on June 4, 1908. Like some churches from this time of origin, it was given the name "Friedenskirche" (Church of Peace) according to John 14:27.
In the course of the following years the confessional difference between Lutheran and Reformed played less and less a role, instead the simple term "Evangelical" became more common. In 1930 the three Lutheran churches joined the ecclesiastical and administrative unity, so that they belonged equally to the Hessian regional church and their pastors to the Kassel parish conference. The Lutheran denomination was retained. The so-called “Lutheran statute”, according to which the congregation has the permanent right to elect a pastor and the church councils can elect a lay chairman, has not been repealed.
After the Second World War , the war damage was only sparsely repaired. This inadequate repair of the damage and acoustic defects gave rise to the redesign of the interior in the sixties. Another redesign took place in 1998 and 1999 by the Munich restorer Rolf-Gerhard Ernst. Both the Last Supper painting to the right of the altar and the painting to the left of the altar are by Dietrich Stalmann.
organ
In 1992 the Friedenskirche received a new organ , built by the organ building workshop Werner Bosch. It stands on the gallery behind the church altar. The instrument has 41 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, III 4 '/ P
- Secondary register: Zimbelstern
- Playing aids : setter system .
The old, no longer used organ is located on the gallery above the entrance area.
Location of the Friedenskirche
The church building is on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße at the corner of Elfbuchenstraße. Opposite the church portal is the stop of the same name. Tram lines 4 (Hessisch Lichtenau - Mattenberg) and 8 (Hessenschanze - Kaufungen paper factory) and bus line 27 (Ihringshäuser Straße - Lohfelden industrial area) run by the KVG . To the west of the church is the parish hall of the Friedenskirche. Directly in front of the Friedenskirche there is a monument " The Chair " in honor of Karl Marx, which was designed by the artist Hildehard Jaeckel in 1989 and was then bought by the Kassel-West eV association with donations from the population in order to secure the current location permanently .
The Peace Church from the West
The Peace Church from the East
Central nave with the old organ
Northern part of the transept
Southern part of the transept
Karl Marx monument " The Chair " by Hildegard Jaeckel
Apostle Chapel
The Apostle Chapel in Kassel's Vorderer West district also belongs to the Evangelical Congregation of the Friedenskirche Kassel and is their second sermon site. The building, built in 1967, is located in Aschrottpark. In 1986 the band received its organ from the Danish manufacturer Marcussen & Søn . A carving by the sculptor Hermann Pohl hangs above the altar. As in the Friedenskirche, services are celebrated here every Sunday. In addition to the normal church services, there is a monthly meditative evening service, which is usually led by a group of volunteers.
Evangelical parish of the Friedenskirche
The parish of the Friedenskirche comprised around 4200 members in 2006 and belongs to the parish of Kassel-Stadt. The area of just under one and a half square kilometers is bounded in the west, north-west and north by the railway tracks leading from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station to Kassel main station. The southern border is almost identical to the course of Wilhelmshöher Allee from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station to Kirchweg. In the east the community extends to Querallee. The neighboring parishes are the Petrus parish in the north (formerly: Kirchditmold and Paul-Gerhardt), in the east the parish of the Kreuzkirche, in the south the parish Wehlheiden with the Advent church, which is only 250 meters as the crow flies from the Friedenskirche, and in the west the Christ Church.
The parish of the Friedenskirche has two parish offices, each responsible for one parish. The first parish office for the eastern district of the Friedenskirche and the second for the western district of the Apostle's Chapel. There is a parsonage for each pastorate. Parish Office 2 for the Apostle Chapel is at the end of Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, Parish Office 1 for the Friedenskirche is in Olgastrasse.
Web links
- Website of the Evangelical Congregation of the Peace Church
- Website of the Evangelical Youth Kassel Region North
- Site of the church choir of the Evangelical Peace Church
- The parish on the side of the Evangelical Church in Kassel
- The Friedenskirche on the side of the North Hessian Transport Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Church in Kassel - Wehlheiden community ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. Maria Rosenkranzkirche. Catholic parish of St. Maria, archived from the original on August 13, 2014 ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Evangelical Church in Kassel - Parish Kreuzkirche ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Friedenskirche, p. 15
- ↑ Kathrin Ellwardt: Church building between evangelical ideals and absolutist rule. The cross churches in the Hessian area from the Reformation century to the Seven Years War . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, p. 241 f - ISBN 3-937251-34-0
- ↑ More information about the new organ of the Friedenskirche
- ↑ Leveringsliste. (PDF) Marcussen & Søn Orgelbyggeri A / S, archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 58.6 ″ N , 9 ° 28 ′ 5.4 ″ E