Gnadenkapelle (Ascheberg)
The Protestant Gnadenkapelle is a listed church building in Ascheberg , a community in the Coesfeld district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
Ascheberg was a purely Catholic community until the beginning of the stream of evacuees and displaced persons from the big cities and from East Germany. In 1945 and later, there were people who were displaced and evacuated who had never wanted to settle in Ascheberg. There were also a number of evangelical Christians. The founders called the church Gnadenkirche because they saw their life and survival as grace.
The plastered and boarded-up hall was donated in 1950 by the American Section of the Lutheran World Federation . The type building, a so-called Bartning emergency church , was built as part of the diaspora chapel program based on a design by Otto Bartning (1883–1959). The building was used as a place of worship and as a parish hall for presbytery and meetings of all kinds. The wooden structure is on the inside. The interior is illuminated by large windows in the gables. The altar niche can be locked with folding shutters for profane events . The opposite room compartment with its own tiled stove can be used separately by folding shutters as a small hall. The church is the only one of its kind in Germany that shows its original condition unchanged.
literature
- Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbook of German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '35.7 " N , 7 ° 37' 0.6" E