Martin Luther Church (Hürth)
| Martin Luther Church | |
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| Data | |
| place | Hürth gleuel |
| architect | Friedel Steeg |
| Builder | Evangelical parish Hürth |
| construction time | 1956-1957 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '17.8 " N , 6 ° 50' 17.3" E |
The Martin Luther Church was initially the church of the Evangelical Johanneskirche community in Gleuel , and since January 1, 2015, the church has belonged to the Evangelical Church Community of Hürth. It was built in 1957 with donations from American believers, among other things.
prehistory
In the period between the world wars , due to the expanding lignite mining in Hürth, many workers came to the Catholic villages on the Ville , including many Protestants . The Gleueler (and the Berrenrather, Burbacher, Sielsdorfer, Stotzheimer and Horbeller) were looked after by the Evangelical Community of Frechen , the oldest Evangelical community in the western area around Cologne . Services were held in the school and later in the Catholic Church. Already in the prosperous 1930s, money was collected from there under Pastor Heinrich Weller for a church building in the Gleuel part of the community, with which the property on Im Hofacker street , in the middle of the Bergmann settlement , where most of the Evangelicals lived, was bought . The outbreak of World War II ruined further plans . The rest of the money saved fell victim to the currency reform in 1948 . Under the successor Walter Bienert , known as the founder of the Cologne Melanchthon Academy , money was again collected in the community and the local industry by a church building association, but the 30,000 DM raised with the help of the mother community and the Cologne church district were not enough. Through the mediation of Superintendent Hans Encke and his friend Robert Pferdmenges , the influential Cologne banker and member of the Evangelical Kronberg Circle , 40,000 DM could be used from a donation from American Christians on the occasion of his 75th birthday, who used it for a wooden church crusade (Wooden Church-Crusade ) collected for the construction of 49 Protestant or Catholic churches on the zone border against communist materialism (one per US state + District of Columbia ). After the project had been modified (no wood, no border), Gleuel was the 29th church.
Church building
The foundation stone was laid on March 10, 1956, the Frechen architect Friedel Steeg planned and managed the building, which was inaugurated on Sunday, March 10, 1957 by the President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Heinrich Held , and which was inaugurated on January 1 of the same year founded Evangelical Congregation Hürth under the then only pastor of the community, Pastor Karl Keller, Hürth-Knapsack . The then Federal President Theodor Heuss gave the altar bible with his dedication on this occasion . The church offered about 200 people. In the 1960s, the center was expanded to include a parish building with a small hall, a parish office and a toilet area, which in 2002 could be expanded by another 70 m² or space for another 100 people.
The church tower is integrated into the church interior. Its baptismal font from 1976 is used for baptisms. Due to the delicate colors, a lot of light falls into the baptismal room through its floor-to-ceiling leaded glass window designed by Rolf Crummenauer , executed by the Oidtmann glass painting company . In terms of content, it goes back in an abstract way to 1. Moses 8.11 EU : The return of the dove to Noah with an olive leaf in its beak.
Development of the community
In the growing parish of Hürth there was only one pastor and one parish deacon / pastor who looked after the districts of Hermülheim and Efferen. Both had to hold two services on Sundays and every two weeks at 11.15 a.m. there was another alternating in the schools or Catholic churches of the smaller districts. The pastor of Knapsack preached at 8.30 a.m. in Gleuel and at 10.00 a.m. in the Dankeskirche in Knapsack . They were supported in their preaching by a preacher and catechist, who was also responsible for evangelical religious instruction in Catholic primary schools. It would take a few more years before a separate pastoral position was approved for the Gleuel district.
In 1966 the community split, Gleuel with Berrenrath, Burbach and Sielsdorf became independent. The congregation was called Johanneskirchengemeinde. The remaining three parishes at that time were called Matthäuskirchengemeinde (one thought of Lukas and Markus as the growth continued). Since January 1, 2015, the communities have been united again. The former Johanneskirche community is today the second district within the Evangelical Church Community Hürth and now also includes the towns of Stotzheim and Alstädten-Burbach.
literature
- 50 years of the Martin Luther Church Gleuel (1957–2007). ed. from the Public Relations Committee, responsible Jürgen Jäger, Hürth 2007
See also
List of churches in the parish of Cologne-South
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Lehmann: Bulwark against Communism. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. August 23, 2008, (online) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed June 2011)
- ↑ Inauguration at archiv-ekir.de (accessed December 2015)
- ↑ to church website
- ↑ According to the article on the church anniversary in 2007 at kirche-koeln ( memento of the original from February 26, 2014 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. (Accessed June 2011)
- ↑ to the church website ( memento of the original from September 20, 2011 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. (Accessed June 2011)
- ↑ Flyer The newly formed parish of Hürth
- ↑ Evangelisch in Hürth No. 2/2014, p. 5
