Luther Church (Hanau)
The Luther Church in Hanau district Wolfgang is the church of the same parish in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .
Church building
The parish was formed from employees of the powder factory Wolfgang and their families at the end of the 19th century. In 1897 a horse stable was converted into a chapel and initially used as a simultaneum with the Roman Catholic parish. In 1937 the Evangelical Church bought the building. In 1966 the building was torn down and a new community center was built here, the church of which, today's Luther Church, was consecrated in 1967. It is the work of the Frankfurt architect Werner W. Neumann (1916–2003). Designed in cubic forms in concrete , glass and steel , it can be stylistically assigned to brutalism .
Parish
Since the establishment of the evangelical congregation in Wolfgang in 1897, they have been looked after by the pastors of the Marienkirche in Hanau's old town. In 1953 the parish became independent, but it was not until 1964 that it received its own pastor's position. Today, the Luther parish of Wolfgang cooperates with two neighboring parishes under the name "Kirche am Limes ", the Gustav Adolf parish in Hanau-Großauheim and the Protestant parish of Großkrotzenburg .
literature
- Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1968 , part 1 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, p. 159f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 8 ° 57 ′ 34.5 ″ E