Martin Luther Church (Rheindahlen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Martin Luther Church
The bell tower

The Martin Luther Church is a church building of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in Rheindahlen , a district of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

In the 18th and 19th centuries there were only a few Protestant families living in Rheindahlen. In the 1870s, due to industrialization , Reformed people again moved to the village, who stayed with the Evangelical Community of Wickrathberg until 1908, but were then re-parish to the Protestant community of Rheydt, to which they belonged until December 31, 1969. On January 1, 1970, the Evangelical Church Community Mönchengladbach - Rheindahlen became independent. The former community center with a small community hall was located in a house on Max-Reger-Strasse in Rheindahlen from 1951. At that time, the prayer house was located in Mennrather Strasse 25 and there were plans to build a new community center as early as the early 1970s. The construction of the Martin Luther Church with an attached new evangelical community center began on March 15, 1982; the inauguration of the community center of the Martin Luther parish took place on November 6, 1983 - for the 500th birthday of Martin Luther . Since January 1, 1992, the parish has officially been called "Evangelical Martin Luther Parish Mönchengladbach - Rheindahlen" with the approval of the regional church. On October 6, 1985 the inauguration of the cross-bearer took place on a square in front of the church. The support is a 24  m high concrete column with three stainless steel crosses each 5.50 m high. The "Faith", "Love" and "Hope" bells, inaugurated on March 25, 1990, were completed on September 15, 1989 at the Rincker bell foundry in the Hessian sense and ring in a campanile built next to the parish hall .

organ

On June 16, 1996, the organ built in the Schuke workshop in Berlin was consecrated .

Disposition of the Schuke organ:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Mixture III
II substation (swellable) C – g 3
08th. Dumped 8th'
09. flute 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Bass flute 8th'

Web links

Commons : Martin Luther Church (Rheindahlen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Ulrich Rosocha: The Evangelical Martin Luther Church Community Mönchengladbach - Rheindahlen and its historical roots in the Dahlen of the 16th century . Presbytery of the Martin Luther Parish (MLK). August 26, 2007. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ Nadine Fischer: A place to feel good . Young ballerinas dance under the church in the ballet hall, the mandolin orchestra rehearses on the ground floor, young people meet in their own center. The Martin Luther Church is lively and open to everyone. In: Rheinische Post . Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf February 2, 2011, p. C4 .
  3. ↑ a b Helga Bauer, Horst Höhnke: The Protestant Christians in Rheindahlen are building a community center . Presbytery of the Martin Luther Parish (MLK). April 23, 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Rosocha: The Evangelical Martin Luther Church Community Mönchengladbach - Our organ . Presbytery of the Martin Luther Parish (MLK). September 29, 2005. Retrieved December 28, 2010.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 40.1 ″  E