Friedenskirche (Liblar)

The Friedenskirche in the Erftstadt district of Liblar is a Protestant church , the construction of which was necessary in 1925/26 due to the increase in Liblar's population due to the lignite industry , especially the Donatus mine in Oberliblar. The development for the Roman Catholic Church of St. Barbara was similar . The building is a listed building . In 1949 the community, which is now called the Friedenskirchengemeinde, became independent from Brühl. Today the evangelicals who live in Liblar, Bliesheim , Frauenthal and Köttingen belong to the community . At the moment that is about 4600 souls.

Friedenskirche

prehistory

The population in the Cologne area was historically Catholic . The few evangelicals in the diaspora (1878: 380 souls ) have been cared for by the mother community in Brühl since 1851 , their area apart from the Prussian garrison town of Rondorf , Wesseling to Hersel and from Sechtem to Hermülheim and (Alt) -Hürth as well as from Weilerswist via Lechenich until Gymnich was enough. Around 1900 the number of parish members was already around 1700, so that the pastor held confirmation classes in the more distant parts of the parish and, in turn, held a monthly service in the first established Protestant schools or even in private houses. At the height of industrialization in the area before and after the First World War , churches were planned for Wesseling (1914), Knapsack (Barackenkirche 1921) and also for the area southwest of the Ville in Liblar (→ list of churches in the parish of Cologne-South ). For (Ober-) Liblar, where a Protestant elementary school had existed since 1910, a church building association was founded in 1911 , initially with 40 members, but it did not get going again until 1929 after the war with over 160 members. The service was held first in the school, then by the courtesy of the mine management in the canteen of the Donatus mine and finally in the more elegant officials' mess. Summer festivals could usually be celebrated in the Römerhof stud farm , the manager Hellberg was a community member. After the Rheinische AG for lignite mining and briquette production acquired a plot of land on Schlunkweg through a cheap sale and the financing of the construction costs of 65,000 Reichsmarks through industrial donations, gifts, a grant from the Gustav Adolf Association and the Rhenish Provincial Synod of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and a Loans from the mother community of 10,000 Marks seemed secured, construction could begin.

construction

The works architect Deichmann, also a community member and member of the building association, made himself available as an architect and site manager free of charge and on a voluntary basis. The foundation stone was laid on September 20, 1925, with the shell being half finished , in the presence of the entire Brühl presbytery and around 450 members from Liblar and the surrounding area. The church choirs from Liblar, Brühl and Knapsack sang, and the trombone choir from the neighboring community of Frechen provided the musical accompaniment. On June 20, 1926, the consecration of the parish could be celebrated, which the General Superintendent of the Rhenish Provincial Synod, Karl Klingemann , carried out in the presence of many guests of honor. The mother church also donated the altar cross, the candlesticks and one of the Rincker bronze bells left over from the delivery during the war from 1888 to the Christ Church in Brühl , which for the 75th anniversary of the congregation in 1926 had a new, coordinated bronze ring, again from the bell ring. and foundry Rincker . The Liblarer Frauenhilfe donated altar covers and paraments . Until the establishment of a separate pastor's office in 1949, the parish was mainly looked after by the Brühl vicar or assistant preacher (pastor for employment).

description

The single-nave plastered structure was built as a hall church in the neo-baroque style. Between the pilaster strips that structure the outer wall, triple windows are arranged on the sides in a round-arched field. There are two arched entrances on the west side. The tail gable extends to the almost square, massive roof turret on the high slate roof. The roof turret has three sound windows arranged side by side and a curved hood. A heavily profiled all-round beam between the hall and the roof lifts the two components apart.

Today's equipment

In 2000 a new organ from Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau with 14 registers and 2 manuals was purchased.

literature

• Helmut Fußbroich u. a .: Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area . JP Bachem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To the homepage (accessed January 2013)
2. ↑ Georg Grosser: Evangelical community life in the Cologne region , Cologne 1958, pp. 40 f, 58 f, 62, 80 and 105
3. ↑ Frank Bartsch Chapter 14.5 Liblar Evangelical Church. In: Frank Bartsch, Dieter Hoffsümmer, Hanna Stommel: Monuments in Erftstadt. Erftstadt 1998–2000.
4. ↑ Listed in Organ Information ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Friedenskirche (Erftstadt-Liblar)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Friedenskirchengemeinde

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 31.4 "  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 36.2"  E