Nathan Söderblom Church (Hürth)

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Former Nathan Söderblom Church

The Nathan Söderblom Church , built from 1972 to 1973, was a Protestant church in the Kendenich district of Hürth . Until June 15, 2008 she served the Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth. It has been used privately since 2011.

history

The first plans for the establishment of a Protestant church in Kendenich as well as the establishment of a church building association date from 1966, in which much changed in the organizational structure of the Protestant parish of Hürth , founded in 1957 . On April 1st, the Johannes parish in Hürth-Gleuel and the Martin Luther Church in Gleuel separated. The remaining parish districts in Knapsack with the Dankeskirche built in 1950/1951 and Efferen with the Friedenskirche inaugurated in 1953 were called Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth .

Due to lengthy coordination processes, the foundation stone of the church was not laid until April 22, 1972, and work on the community center and the church were completed on June 10, 1973. The building was built according to the plans of the architect Wolfgang Schmidtlein and under the supervision of the architect Robert Rit . It was built in the immediate vicinity of the Catholic Church of St. Johann Baptist , whose congregation gave a small hanging cross with a crown of thorns for the opening of the new church. Since the closure of the Dankeskirche due to the relocation of Knapsack due to the environmental pollution caused by the neighboring industry and the Rhenish lignite mine , which was demolished in 1976, was already known at this point in time, the baptismal font created by Arnold Rickert in 1955/1956 with a bas-relief showing the Shows the fight of the Archangel Michael with the dragon , brought to the church in Kendenich. In 1975 the new church organ from the Cologne workshop of Willi Peter was inaugurated and in 1976 the altar received a set of paraments by the artist Kurt Wolff . With the demolition of the Dankeskirche, the Nathan Söderblom Church not only took over the function of an addition to the existing churches, but was also a replacement for this church. The remaining churches were also supplemented by the Martin Luther King Church, built in 1978 in the new center of the city in Hermülheim .

The bell installed in 1981 also came from the Knapsacker Dankeskirche; it was cast on August 1st, 1914 (half an hour before the German mobilization for World War I ) by Franz Peter Schilling in Apolda , Thuringia , for the Kreuzkirche in Wesseling . To hang them up, Wolfgang Schmidtlein designed a separate bell tower in the form of a stack of bells in front of the church, as is known from Sweden , which was inaugurated on September 27, 1981. With this consecration, the church was named after the Swedish Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nathan Söderblom .

architecture

Bell tower of the Nathan Söderblom Church

The church was built as a single-storey hall church. A very steep gable roof rests on the tile base , which extends over the building on the east side and thus forms a weather protection that is supported by two wooden beams. The entire gable surface above the portal is glazed. The north side (right) has floor-to-ceiling windows while the south side is closed except for a narrow light gap under the eaves. Under this one came to the left into the community center, which is built into the slope on two floors. The group room can be opened to the church. In the basement a plumbing area is furnished. The altar area opened almost square to the right and thus offers space for the small organ and the choir. It is delimited by a single-tier dais and contains the pulpit made of bricks and the table altar, which was also built.

The detached wooden bell tower near the street serves as an eye-catcher. This tower is constructed in the form of a black pyramid on four wooden beams and contained the church bell in a rebellious bell room.

Next to the church, on the other side of the church meadow, is the parsonage belonging to it, from which the church is also heated.

Church history

The parishioners in Kendenich and Fischenich belonged to the parish of the Dankeskirche in Knapsack, built in 1950/1951 until the church was built and reorganized. This church stood between Knapsack and Hürth, the places where most of the Evangelicals lived. Relatively few parishioners lived in Kendenich and Fischenich. On April 1, 1966, the Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Hürth-Gleuel parted with the Martin-Luther-Kirche and Berrenrath, which had previously belonged to Knapsack, from the Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Hürth. After the resettlement of most of Knapsack and the demolition of the Knapsack church, however, the people of Alt-Hürth turned to the Hürth-Mitte / Hermülheim district . Attendance at church services in Kendenich was therefore often few.

The Nathan Söderblom Church in Kendenich was closed on June 15, 2008 due to a lack of funds. The associated parish has been divided into the two remaining districts of Hermülheim and Efferen. Fischenich, Kendenich and Kalscheuren , which previously belonged to Hermülheim, were added to Efferen.

Todays use

The building was sold on January 1, 2011. Then it was rebuilt. The side wing has been used by the owner as a residential building since 2011, the former church room serves as a practice room for the Hürth dance studio Odenthal with a long tradition in the city. Since November 2011 the bell has been serving as a peace bell in a newly built bell tower of the Chancellor Pfau's Foundation in Bernburg . The Peter organ has been playing in the New Apostolic Church in Markgröningen since December 2010 . The name shouldn't be completely lost either: the prayer room in the Hans-Conzen-Haus der Johanniter on Luxemburger Strasse / Bonnstrasse in Hermülheim is named after the bishop, who was important for the ecumenical movement .

  • Friedenskirche, Efferen

  • Martin Luther King Church Hermülheim

  • Martin Luther Church, Gleuel

See also

literature

  • Helmut Fußbroich, Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (eds.): Nathan-Söderblom-Kirche Kendenich. In: Fußbroich et al .: Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 , pp. 257-258.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Engelbert Broich: Farewell to the Nathan Söderblom Church in Hürth-Kendenich ( memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-koeln.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region, accessed on September 29, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Rosenbaum: Hope lies in ecumenism. In: Kölnische Rundschau , September 16, 2008, accessed on April 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Tobias Christ: Dancers in the former church. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , Rhein-Erft online from December 13, 2011 (accessed November 27, 2017) Print: December 14.
  4. ↑ Municipal Gazette December 2008
  5. ↑ Friedrich Knäpper (Kirchmeister): Nathan Söderblom Church in Kendenich defedged and sold , in Evangelisch in Hürth 2/2011 , p. 9.

Web links

Commons : Catholic Church Johann-Baptist and Nathan-Söderblom-Church in Hürth-Kendenich  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '48.3 "  N , 6 ° 53' 11.9"  E