Luther Church (Speldorf)
The Evangelical Luther Church is located at Duisburger Strasse 278 in the Speldorf district in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Mülheim an der Ruhr . The sacred building was inaugurated in 1883, making it the oldest place of worship in Speldorf. The Luther Church is listed as an ensemble together with the adjacent church building . It is a reliably open church .
history
In the course of industrialization , the population of the previously rural region increased sharply. For this reason, the Mülheim old town community, to which Speldorf belonged, set up its own pastoral office in Broich-Speldorf in the mid-1870s. Their new pastor Kinzenbach held the first service in the school of Speldorf on April 9, 1876 . In 1879 the congregation already had 4,500 members, so that the need for its own church became clear. In 1881 it was decided with the old town of Mülheim that Speldorf should get its own church. Since the Mülheim districts of Styrum and Broich were to get their own church at the same time, the parish decided to align all three buildings to the same design by the architect Ernst Roßkothen from Frankenberg. Due to this planning, the long houses of the Luther Church, the Gnadenkirche in Heißen and the Immanuelkirche in Styrum are almost identical in terms of construction and division.
The foundation stone was laid shortly after the planning phase on July 30, 1882. It was laid on November 22, 1883 by the general superintendent Dr. Bauer inaugurated. Since no church tower was planned for the three sacred buildings in Roßkothen's design, the tower was added later. According to a design by the architect Hütze from Porta , it was built between 1895 and 1896 on the south side of the nave . At the same time the choir was expanded.
Three bronze bells originally hung in the tower . Two of these were confiscated and melted down during World War I. In 1923 three churches got new bells, which were installed by 1924. The wooden organ gallery was redesigned in 1938. From 1962 to 1963 it was renewed by the Duisburg architect Stumpf. This was necessary due to the statics, as a new organ was installed, which is still the instrument of the church today. During a comprehensive renovation carried out in 1983, it was given today's interior. The wooden ceiling , which was previously covered, was also exposed and restored to its original state.
In 1982 the entire parish including the Luther Church was placed under monument protection. The entry as a monument in the city register of monuments under number 37 is dated January 16, 1984.
description
The three-aisled church was built in the neo-Gothic style from brick and has 650 seats. The floor plan of the entire church is 37.6 by 16.76 meters. The height of the nave is 15.90 meters. The roof structure is supported on the inside on wooden columns and struts decorated in Gothic style. Originally the church had a wooden floor.
The church tower on the south side is 51.25 meters high. He has a pointed helmet and tracery windows . With its various brick structures and gradations, the architectural design is more complex than that of the nave. The portal is let into the tower and crowned with a finial . In its tympanum there is a mosaic by the Kaiserswerth artist Wolf with the words " A strong castle is our God " ( Martin Luther ).
In 1939 the chancel of the Luther Church was changed. The altar and the pulpit directly to the east were made of wood according to designs by Otto Schönhagen . The wrought iron chandeliers also date from this period . In the choir there are also carpet paintings in the niches, the design of which is based on plans from the 1880s. The five colorful choir windows were created by the Bremen glass painter Heinz Lilienthal in 1969. In 1953 the side windows of the church were renewed and in 1983 16 of the original windows in the side aisles were reopened after they had been bricked up. The pews have been preserved in the original of the 1,883th
What is remarkable for the Luther Church is the coloring through the paintings and the reclaimed woodwork. In addition to the items of equipment, the latter includes in particular the artfully designed coffered ceiling . The original ornamental stencil painting of the wooden ceilings was reconstructed by hand in 1983. Another special feature of the building is the architectural state of preservation from the 1880s, as it was hardly damaged in the world wars.
In the east, the center parish hall is connected via an archway. It was also built in brick in 1911 and has a striking stepped gable . It is under monument protection as is the former rectory to the west at Lutherstrasse 4 from 1888 and the enclosure of the parish property, which was built in 1897.
Portal with gable mosaic and information on the reliably open church
Choir with altar (Schönhagen around 1939) and carpet paintings
Pulpit
(Schönhagen around 1939)
organ
The large organ in the organ loft was built by the Cologne organ builder Willi Peter in 1963. It has 41 sounding registers , three manuals and a pedal with 3035 pipes . The prospectus consists of five trapezoidal flat fields that are slightly curved inwards at the top. In the middle of the three-part Rückpositiv five wooden pipes are attached. The console is set up across to the left of the organ. In 2016 the organ was renovated and the electrics overhauled by Stephan Oppel . The organ has an electric game and register action . The disposition is:
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In 1997 a small one-manual organ from the same organ builder from the former parish hall West was installed in the front right of the church. On the right side of the instrument there are some copper pipes.
Church bells
The three cast iron bells from 1924 have inscriptions:
| volume | inscription | diameter |
|---|---|---|
| cis | " Honor God alone in the highest " | 1.57 m |
| e | " A strong castle is our God " | 1.38 m |
| f sharp | "Heaven goes our path" | 1.26 m |
See also
Web links
- Church leader of the Evangelical Luther Church in Speldorf
- Parish of Speldorf. Evangelical church district on the Ruhr
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change: Evangelical church building in the Rhineland 1860-1914 (dissertation). (PDF; 1.8 MB) Part 3, No. 87 Luther Church Mülheim / Ruhr-Speldorf. Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg, July 11, 2002, pp. 179–180 , accessed on September 15, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c List of monuments no. 37. Ev. Church Speldorf (Luther Church). City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on September 15, 2018 .
- ↑ The Peter Organ of the Luther Church in Mülheim. Church music Links der Ruhr, accessed on September 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 44.1 ″ N , 6 ° 50 ′ 33.2 ″ E