Gustav-Adolf-Church (Mainz-Amöneburg)
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The Protestant Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is a church building inaugurated in 1932 , which was built in the style of brick expressionism and is located in the Wiesbaden suburb of Mainz-Amöneburg .
history
With the increase in the number of inhabitants in Mainz-Amöneburg from the 1890s due to industrialization , the need for a Protestant church grew. A temporary solution arose when the Dyckerhoff & Sons company made its canteen available on Sundays from 1907.
The church building fund, founded in 1902, collected 40,000 Reichsmarks by 1914 , of which 25,000 Reichsmarks were subscribed as war bonds and were lost. Nevertheless, the community gathered to 1928 again 15,800 Reichsmark and won the Gustav-Adolf-Werk as a donor, so that on 27 September 1931, the foundation stone was laid and already on 28 August 1932, the inauguration took place of the church. The church was named after the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf .
Planning and execution
The planning of the church was in 1929 the town planning director a. D. Adolf Gelius transferred. Its design was approved by the church council, the board of the Hessian main association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation, the regional church office and the district office and handed over to the architect Peter Gustav Rühl as construction manager for execution.
architecture
The church is kept in the style of brick expressionism and is divided in the interior as a three-aisled room with a dark, even wooden ceiling, which has excellent acoustics.
The portal is framed by two free-standing pillars, the crowns of which are reminiscent of decorated Torah scrolls.
The outer front facing Melanchtonstrasse is structured by brick ornaments and bears the inscription:
GOD = OUR HELP
GUSTAV ADOLF in memory
and three dates :
1632 (the year of death of Gustav Adolf II , who protected the Lutheran principalities and imperial cities from re-Catholicization )
1832 (year of the establishment of the Gustav-Adolfs-Werk) and
1932 (year of the consecration of the church).
The apse is decorated with a golden cross, the vault bears the circular inscription PEACE TO BE WITH YOU .
Furnishing
organ
The Second World War passed the church almost without a trace, only the organ was damaged by water ingress as a result of an air mine and was most recently completely renovated in 2001. It has two manuals and a pedal.
Bells
There are no documents from the original inventory of bells in the year of inauguration in 1932, the bells were most likely melted down for war purposes and are lost. In 1958, the church bells could be completed again with three bells. The Rincker foundry in Sinn cast the following bells:
- The big bell weighing 1200 kilograms bears the inscription If you don't believe, you won't stay
- the second largest bell weighing 700 kilograms (donated by Juanita Dyckerhoff) bears the inscription let's do good and not get tired
- the smallest bell, weighing 350 kilograms, hangs so high in the tower that its inscription is illegible. There are also no written documents.
Church affiliation
The parish belonging to the Evangelical Dean's Office Rüsselsheim merged in 2017 with the neighboring Orange Memorial Church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, belonging to the Evangelical Dean's Office, to form the Orange Memorial Congregation . The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN).
address
Melanchtonstrasse 15, 65203 Mainz-Amöneburg
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Homepage of the Orange Memorial Church Congregation
- ^ Mainzer Vierteljahreshefte for culture, politics, economy and history. 17th year 1997, issue 3, pp. 76-79.
- ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung, July 12, 2016 edition
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 45.2 ″ E