Methodist Chapel (Neckargartach)

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The Methodist Chapel in Neckargartach or the Ebenezer Chapel of the Episcopal Methodist Church was a sacred building of the Evangelical Methodist parish of Neckargartach , which was consecrated on December 7, 1890, used until 1983 and demolished in the course of the town center renovation (1990). The sacred building was in the Neckargartach district of Heilbronn at Mühlbachstrasse 21.

history

In 1853 the preacher Louis Wallon the Elder came. Ä. the Methodist Church from Heilbronn to Neckargartach. In 1864 there was a small Methodist church there that was able to celebrate the Lord's Supper for the first time. In 1865 there was the first Methodist Sunday school for children in Neckargartach. In 1871 the preacher J. Schnebeli organized the evangelistic week in the Kronensaal. In 1877 around 60 children attended the Methodist Sunday School in Neckargartach. In 1890 the church was consecrated to the United Methodist parish: the Ebenezer Chapel . From 1890 around 150 children attended the Neckargartach Sunday School. Due to the community association with Frankenbach and Heilbronn (Heilbronn-Friedensgemeinde) the chapel was closed in 1983 and sold to Heilbronn. In the course of the renovation of the town center, the sacred building was demolished.

literature

  • Peter Hahn, Heinz Kurz: Neckargartach: In the course of time Part 2 , Scholz printing works, Neckargartach 2007 ISBN 978-3-939765-01-1 (publication of the working group Heimat und Kultur Neckargartach eV) page 91.
  • Günter Maier (pastor of the Heilbronn-Friedenskirche district): The Methodist Church in Neckargartach , in 50 years Heilbronn-Neckargartach , September 1988 (commemorative publication on the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation) page 32 and page 33.
  • Helmut Schmolz , Hubert Weckbach: Neckargartach - as it used to be. The old townscape in photographs 1880-1945. For the 50th anniversary of the incorporation to Heilbronn in 1988 , Weinsberg (Small series of publications by the Heilbronn Archives - on behalf of the City of Heilbronn, edited by Helmut Schmolz) Page 54 Mühlbachstrasse , illustration no. 96: The Ebenezer Chapel of the Episcopal Methodist Church, Mühlbachstrasse 21, around 1940.

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 1 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 7 ″  E