Gethsemane Church (Bochum)
The Gethsemane Church in Bochum is an emergency church of the Protestant parish at Amtsstraße 4a in the Bochum district of Hamme .
history
The Gethsemane Church was built as part of the emergency church program of the Evangelical Church with the support of the World Council of Churches in Geneva as a so-called Type B church based on the type design by Otto Bartning as a replacement for the church on the current Anne Frank Church, which was destroyed at the end of the Second World War . Street on the site of the parish hall, which was also destroyed in the war and only rebuilt with its front building, built on the foundations of the large parish hall in 1950 and consecrated on April 30, 1950. It was only named Gethsemane Church in 2000.
Construction and equipment
The church, which cannot be seen from the street, is, like the other Bartning emergency churches, a construction made of prefabricated wooden trusses with a polygonal apse. The stone masonry of the destroyed parish hall is pulled up between the girders. Between the masonry and the roof there is a circumferential ribbon of windows which, for reasons of cost, was made from lightly tinted industrial glass treated with black solder in the chancel. Because of the reused foundations, the church was shortened by one segment compared to the other emergency churches.
The church has, among other things, a cross of nails from the war-torn Coventry Cathedral .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 27.6 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 49.2 ″ E