Kreuzkirche (Bochum-Hamme)
The Kreuz-Kirche is a church building in Bochum-Hamme . It belongs to a congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK).
The background was the “hammer church dispute” over a controversial preacher, in which around 8,200 people resigned from the Protestant regional church in 1924 and founded a free Lutheran “redeemer congregation”. In 1926 a church was built on the grounds of Gahlensche Straße 146 on the 'Lutherhof' with a parish hall (Lukas-Cranach-Saal), which was run by the Evangelical Lutheran Lutheran Church. Free Church was funded. When the church was consecrated in 1927, the congregation was renamed 'Kreuz-Gemeinde'. Since the preacher could not be employed as a pastor (because he lacked the necessary qualifications), he left the Kreuz Congregation with around 1500 people at the end of 1927 and re-founded the Redeemer Congregation, which a few years later became the Epiphany congregation - again without the charismatic preacher, because the old Lutheran church, which the Epiphany community joined, could not take him over as pastor.
In the 1960s, the church was repaired after the war damage. Before that, the services took place in the largely intact Lukas Cranach Hall.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 26.7 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 32" E