Methodist Chapel (Böckingen)

The Methodist Chapel in Böckingen, 1905

The Methodist Chapel was a historic sacred building that was built in 1898 based on a design by Theodor Moosbrugger at Seestrasse 24 in today's Heilbronn district of Böckingen . The chapel was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn and Böckingen on September 10, 1944.

history

prehistory

For the first time there was a Methodist evangelism event in the Böckinger Tanzsaal Zur Krone and in the Adlersaal by the preacher Hans Jakob Breiter in 1856. In 1865 the Böckingen Methodist congregation had 19 members. One of the community members, the gardener Heinrich Hofmann, made his private apartment available for the church service. A preacher from Heilbronn then looked after the small Böckingen Methodist congregation and held a service there every 14 days. The community later looked for a new domicile and moved into the house of the Volz family on “Sträßchen”, then into the house of Georg Reinhardt in Heilbronner Strasse (later Stedinger Strasse). Georg Reinhardt, also known as Father Reinhardt , founded a Sunday school in 1874 , which in 1876 had 100 children.

Chapel and parish

In 1898 the Methodist Church was built in Seestrasse, the Böckinger Church being a branch church of the Heilbronn Methodist Church. It was not until 1904 that a second pastor position was created for Heilbronn in Böckingen and the Böckingen people received their own pastor: Jakob Adam Krögel. In 1908 the Heilbronn district was divided into Heilbronn (Frankenbach, Biberach, Großgartach, Schluchtern, Neckarsulm and Wimpfen with 335 members) and the newly formed district of Böckingen, to which Neckargartach, Sontheim, Horkheim and Obereisesheim with 220 members belonged. In 1921 the parish council of the new parish of Böckingen met. In 1923 the Böckingen community had 217 adult members and 200 children. On September 10, 1944, the chapel was destroyed in an air raid on Böckingen and Heilbronn . As a replacement, the congregation built the Christ Church after the war , which was consecrated on December 4, 1949.

architecture

Moosbrugger used portal walls with fine relief , coupled pointed arch windows as well as three-pass windows and a cross on the top of the gable to present the building as a sacred space:

“ On July 31 [1897] Moosbrugger submitted cost estimates, floor plans and two views. The sensitive brick building, only 17 meters long, looked almost like a residential building on its broad side. The architect identified the narrow view side as a sacred space: with its finely reliefed portal walls, coupled pointed arched windows and a three-pass window above and a cross on the top of the gable. On the opposite narrow side there was a small 3/8 choir room . "

literature

Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 , p. 389 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37)

Individual evidence

↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 136.

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[1] Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 136.