Johannes-Notkirche (Aachen)

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The Johannes-Notkirche was an emergency church in the city of Aachen , which was built in 1949 according to plans by the architect Otto Bartning .

history

After due to the strong war destruction Aachen around 10,000 evangelical Christians had no church, the temporary church was over the damaged during the war and up to the broken tower 1959 Christ Church at the Martin Luther Street to the east of the city center built. The foundation stone was laid on October 31, 1948, Reformation Day . A large part of the community members participated in the creation of the foundation and the shell. The roof and the main wooden parts of the construction were financed by a donation from the Evangelical and Reform Church in the United States. Like the other Bartning-Notkirchen, the church was a construction made of prefabricated wooden trusses that were only delivered after the masonry work had already been completed. Finally the church was consecrated on Palm Sunday , April 10, 1949.

On March 24, 1979, a large fire destroyed the Johanneskirche to the ground. The remnants of the emergency church, including the tower of the former Christ Church that was still in existence until then, had to be removed. The church site was then given up. In February 2016 and in the course of a complete redesign of the district into a green area, archaeologists found and evaluated the remains of the old emergency church, including the foundation. The find was filled in again, but should be marked on a notice board and entered as a ground monument.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aachen: Spectacular find in Suermondt-Park ( Memento from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on local time news of the WDR from February 16, 2016
  2. ^ Aachen - Excavation of the Evangelical Johanneskirche in Suermondt Park , in Hallo Aachen, the city portal of February 16, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 26.4 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 42"  E