Michaelskirche (Elberfeld)
The Michael Church was a Protestant church at Brill in Wuppertal district Elberfeld .
history
In the late 19th century, with the development of the villa district on the Brill, the Protestants living there wanted a place of worship. The predominantly Lutheran residents were looked after by the Lutheran parish of Elberfeld and were part of the Trinitatiskirche parish, which was expanded to the north . The first church services were held from 1895 in a specially built church hall in a residential building at Roonstraße 39; the pastoral work was carried out by the pastor of the Trinity Church in cooperation with the Reformed Community of Elberfeld.
After the Second World War , the number of inhabitants on the Brill increased again sharply due to new development projects, which is why the Roonstrasse church hall turned out to be too small at the end of the 1960s. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection , now responsible for Brill, decided to give up the church hall in favor of a new church to be built in the district. The Trier architect Heinrich Otto Vogel was commissioned to plan the new church, while the Elberfeld architect Hellmuth Strasmann was in charge of the construction. The foundation stone for the church took place on February 19, 1967, a year later the church was consecrated on February 4, 1968. At the same time, a spacious community center was built on the opposite side of the property as a supplement to the community rooms under the church, which is still the home of the Wuppertal carolers as a Kurrende home . The house at Roonstraße 39 was given up as a place of worship and was used as a community hall until 2015. A first bronze bell, cast in 1740 with the strike tone h ', was delivered in 1968 as a loan bell from the Eifeler bell foundry in Brockscheid and hung in a free-standing, ground-level bell cage.
On January 1, 1981, the Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Congregation was dissolved and the districts reorganized, the Michaelskirche came together with the New Church , the Trinity Church and the Stephanus Church to form the new Evangelical Church Congregation Elberfeld-West. In 1986, a new bell carrier made of prefabricated exposed concrete is built for the bell, which is equipped with new bells from the Eifel bell foundry in 1996. The two new bells with the chimes h 'and cis "had already been cast a year earlier, and the loaned bell was returned to the foundry.
Due to the strong decline in membership of the community, the Elberfeld-West presbytery decided in 2006 to give up the Michael’s Church, also due to its proximity to the New Reformed Church. After the closing of the Dorpkirche in 1981, the Stephanuskirche 1997, the Trinitatiskirche 1999 and the Containerkirche am Eskesberg 2001, the Michaelskirche was next to the New Reformed Church the last remaining church in the community and the last Evangelical Church in the heart of the Elberfeld-West district . In 2006 the last service took place in the church, which however remained neglected for ten years. In the absence of suitable ideas for the continued use of the building and changes in the Funckstrasse development plan, the church could only be demolished in 2016 so that the new building of the adjacent Mozartstrasse Evangelical Kindergarten could be built on the site of the church. The larger than life figure of Christ in the church hall could not be saved from demolition by the community due to a lack of interested parties. The bells were sold to the Catholic parish in Nakło Śląskie near Świerklaniec , Poland , and hung there on April 4, 2017. The new kindergarten building, which is now called Kindergarten Beethovenstraße , was ready to move into in mid-2017.
Building description
The church was a simple hall church in the modern style . The church hall consisted of a simple octagon with an atrium in front, the tent roof of which was clad with slate. At the top of the octagon was a one and a half meter high cock, which is now in the music shop in the former Trinity Church. The exterior of the building was completely clinkered , while the interior was faced with sand-lime brick. The exposed concrete columns, which remained unclad, set a contrast to the sand-lime brick. The altar of the church was designed according to a design by Eugen Keller and made from Gauinger shell limestone, the font from Riedlinger limestone. The larger-than-life figure of Christ on the altar wall with a total height of four meters, which was torn down with the church due to a lack of interested parties, also came from Eugen Keller. The clay figure was surrounded by the signs of the four evangelists.
Due to the hillside location of the church, the parish rooms in the basement could be entered from Mozartstraße at ground level, the church hall via the atrium from Beethovenstraße. The bell tower of the church was located at the northern end of the property and was built from prefabricated parts made of exposed concrete, which clearly set it apart from the clinker brick church building with a slate roof.
Organs
Teschemacher organ
The first organ made by Jacob Engelbert Teschemacher around 1780 was most likely completed by his student Johann Gerhard Schrey and was in the Thomashof school until 1895, the further history is unknown. The instrument was then moved to the new church hall in Roonstrasse, where it was extensively restored by Georg Stahlhuth in 1965 , adding a Schalmey register and leaving the historical substance of the instrument intact. After the church closed, the organ was installed in the church service hall of the New Reformed Church, but is rarely used there. The manual has partly split registers at b / c 1 , the pedal is attached.
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Bosch positive
In 1982 a positive from the closed Dorpkirche, built in 1968 by Werner Bosch Orgelbau , was taken over, which was played at the Dorpkirche for the first time on December 12, 1968. It is the masterpiece of Wolfgang Bosch , the son of the company founder. However, the positive was only rarely used in St. Michael's Church.
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literature
- Klaus Goebel , Andreas Knorr (ed.): Churches and worship places in Elberfeld , Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-930250-35-7
- Joachim Dorfmüller : 300 years of organ building in Wuppertal , Wuppertal 1980, ISBN 3-87093-028-4
- Joachim Dorfmüller: New contributions to the music history of the city of Wuppertal Michaelskirche; Wuppertal-Elberfeld p. 39, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 3-87537-184-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Property on Beethovenstrasse Evangelical Church Community Elberfeld-West from April 17, 2016
- ↑ Sophienjournal 37/2017, Community letter of the Elberfeld-West parish, p. 14
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Oehm: Jacob Engelbert Teschemacher, a Pietist organ builder in Wuppertal in the 18th century . Extended version 2013 of the article from 1981. On Dr.Oehm.net ( PDF ; 962 KB), accessed on November 27, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 46 ″ E