Katernberg clubhouse
The 1903 built Katernberger club house in Wuppertal district Katerberg is worship site of the Evangelical church Elberfeld-Nord.
history
The lively activity of the various clubs on the Katernberg created the desire for their own meeting and community center among the Katernbergers in the middle of the 19th century. Until then, the numerous associations mostly met in the Protestant elementary school on Katernberger Schulweg, which was built in 1859, and the trombone choir in one of the numerous inns. The Protestant community Katernberg was looked after by Dr. Wilhelm Busch , at that time pastor at the Hombücheler meeting house in Elberfeld, the later Luther Church. He took up the wish of the associations for their own meeting house and wanted to realize it with the help of the congregation in the form of a Protestant congregation house. The decision to build the house was taken on May 8, 1903, and a loan was taken out in July. The newly founded committee of the Evangelical Club House in Katernberg started an appeal for donations on Katernberg and in the Elberfeld community. In the appeal for donations it was emphasized that the new building should initially be available to the Katernberg associations and the Reformed and Lutheran congregations as a Bible and mission house. One of the reasons for this was the chapel in Elendstal, which was always overcrowded in summer, and which was supposed to be relieved by the clubhouse. The Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft) formally acted as the client and was recorded as the owner in the land register.
The new club house was inaugurated on April 15, 1904. Due to the deliberately low construction costs, the spatial structure of the building was still immature, so the toilets were in an unfavorable location right next to the water pump and the frequent meetings of the clubs in the club rooms turned out to be extremely annoying due to the lack of any sound insulation. Nevertheless, the clubhouse was very popular with clubs and visitors to the Bible studies of the two parishes, and more and more groups of children were quartered there as part of summer excursions. In 1941 the parish council first discussed the sale of the house from the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft to the parish association Katernberger Vereinshaus ( 5 ⁄ 11 of the property were recognized by the mission, 6 ⁄ 11 by the association). The sale was considered in concern about possible official encroachments on parish life on Katernberg, which would be less likely if the house were sold, but Pastor Hesse feared that the affairs of the Confessing Church in Katernberg parish life would be endangered by withdrawing the mission . It was agreed on the sale to both parishes in equal parts, but this did not take place due to the rejection of the district president in 1943. Towards the end of the war, the clubhouse was used to accommodate bombed-out people, and could be used again from April 1945. The years of neglect of the building were clearly evident here, so that it was poorly repaired by 1949.
On May 25, 1959, the house was transferred to the Reformed Church of Elberfeld for a purchase price of 12,000 marks by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, which had it extensively renovated in 1974. Since then, regular Sunday church services have been held in the clubhouse, whereas the Lutheran church has been holding church services in the Resurrection Church on Katernberg since 1954 . In 1981 the Reformed Parish Elberfeld-Nord was merged with the Lutheran Resurrection Congregation to form the Evangelical Parish Elberfeld-Nord, although both places of worship have been preserved to this day, despite the short distance to the Resurrection Church; Services usually take place monthly, alternating irregularly with the Eckbusch community center . In addition to the lively activity of various community groups, the club house also houses the CVJM Katernberg.
Building description
The building, originally erected in a largely undeveloped neighborhood, is now located in a loosely built-up residential area of several single-family houses and thus forms a focal point for the residential area on northern Katernberg. This to a large extent the Heimatstil undertook building was completely glazed brick built and is fully verschiefert above the ground floor. The twenty-meter-long rectangular church hall of the building faces south and ends with a small apse. The church hall, which can be divided into a large and a small hall, can accommodate 400 people when fully occupied. The symmetry of the rectangular building is interrupted by a detached entrance area with stairs on the east side and the subsequently added toilet block on the west side. Above the first floor, which houses several community and club rooms, there is an attic, which ends with a crooked roof . The sides of the church hall are divided by three wide arched windows which, together with the bright chairs and the colorfully glazed apse windows, create a particularly bright and friendly impression in the interior.
organ
In the hall of the Katernberg clubhouse there has been a single-manual positive with four registers and an attached pedal since 1987 . It was made in 1956 by Alfred Führer for the evangelical parish hall Guericketreppe an der Steinbeck and after the purchase by the Elberfeld-Nord parish it replaced an electronium , more precisely a Dr. Böhm organ . Before this was set up in the clubhouse in 1958, various other instruments had to be used; So it is said of the choir director Otto Bahrmann that he carried his own harmonium on his back to the club house every week for each choir rehearsal .
literature
- Klaus Goebel , Andreas Knorr (ed.): Churches and worship places in Elberfeld , Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-930250-35-7 .
- Hermann-Peter Eberlein, Friedrich Selter: 100 years of the Evangelical Church on Katernberg in Wuppertal , Wuppertal 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elberfeld-Nord: Katernberger Vereinshaus ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 47 ″ E