Hatzfeld Church
The Hatzfeld Church was a Protestant church in the Wuppertal district of Hatzfeld . Its floor plan is L-shaped, with the entrance area under the tower in front of it.
history
The construction planned as a community center on Hatzfelder Strasse began on May 26, 1963 and was carried out according to plans by the architects Friedrich Goedeking and Traugott Blasberg. It replaced the reformed parish hall at Grunerstraße 65 and the later demolished Hatzfeld chapel.
After the official opening of the community center in 1964, the three bells were ordered from the Rincker bell and art foundry in the Hessian sense and transported a few months later on the Loh-Hatzfeld small railway , where they were transferred to a truck at the Sondermann stop (now Grunerstraße ) were. The bell inscriptions read + JESUS CHRIST + (weight: 600 kg); + SON OF THE LIVING GOD + (350 kg); + HEALING LAND OF THE WORLD + (250 kg). The cost of the ring made of bronze bells including the bell cage and transport amounted to 14,400 DM . After the declassification of the church bells at the Catholic parish of the Visitation in Bavaria were substances (district Landsberg am Lech) sold. On July 1, 2018, the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter Dr. Wolfgang Hacker the three bells for the Stoffen parish church.
Instead of a pipe organ, an electronic organ with twelve registers was installed for cost reasons , which was replaced in 1985 by a two-manual organ from the Sprockhövel organ builder Berthold Prengel. This was sold to an organ dealer in Wuppertal in 2017.
The Evangelical Church Congregation Hatzfeld was affiliated to the United Evangelical Congregation Gemarke on January 1st, 2008 and since then has formed the Evangelical Church Congregation Gemarke-Wupperfeld in Barmen with two other congregations . In 2017, an application was made to de-dedicate the community center as a place of worship and the building was sold.
literature
- Association of Evangelical Churches in the district of Wupperfeld, Fritz Mehnert (Ed.): Oberbarmer Gemeindegeschichte , Wuppertal 2002
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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 11 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 52" E