Luther Church (Aschaffenburg)

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Luther Church, Aschaffenburg-Strietwald 2011

The Luther Church is a meeting place for Protestant Christians built in 1971 in the Strietwald district in the north of the city of Aschaffenburg .

history

Initially, the first church members had to go to church in the St. Paulus Church in the nearby Damm district , to which the Strietwald settlement belonged. In a bomb attack on November 21, 1944, the church and most of the residential buildings and industrial facilities were destroyed. First in private houses, then every 14 days in the kindergarten, which was also used by Catholic Christians as an "emergency church", where people gathered for prayer. The church chronicle shows that “the Protestants living in the Strietwald campaigned for their own place of worship as early as 1948. The driving force was above all the St. Paul sexton at the time, Heinz Schmitt, who with many like-minded people made the first donations for the Church building together. “After the reconstruction of the Paulus Church, the Strietwälder were baptized, confirmed and married there. In 1969, the vicariate of St. Paul was established in Kleinostheim from the pastorate of the St. Paulus community in Damm, and the Aschaffenburg-Strietwald district also belonged to this area.

With the construction of the Luther Church, the Protestant Christians received a prayer and meeting house in the Strietwald district of Aschaffenburg. In March 1971, construction work began on a meeting place with a large church, a kitchen and sanitary facilities on a 1623 m² plot of land in Konradstrasse. The rooms were inaugurated with a ceremony on October 17, 1971. The functional church space - completed with an organ in 1974 - has a wooden interior design, a light floor and straight-lined furnishings. “ The stations of the cross created by Siegfried Rischar underline the simplicity of the interior. “The construction of the church was completed in 1984/85 with the erection of a bell tower. In it hangs a bell donated by Maria and Georg Fetzer and cast in the Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau (220 kg / 75 cm diameter) with the inscription of a quote from Martin Luther : “A Christian's craft is prayer” . Since 1984 the communities of Glattbach , Johannesberg , Steinbach and Strietwald have formed the "Sprengel II Strietwald / Johannesberg".

literature

  • Working group Strietwälder illustrated book STRIETWALD - from the peripheral settlement to today's district of Aschaffenburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-922355-27-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main-Echo No. 246 of October 24, 1991 - 20 years of the Luther Church in the Strietwald district.
  2. ↑ Strietwald - From the outskirts to today's district s. u.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 29 "  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 53.3"  E