Pauluskirche (Heilbronn)

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The Pauluskirche in Heilbronn

The Pauluskirche was a Methodist church at Karlstraße 33 in Heilbronn . The building, inaugurated in its current form on December 9, 1973, goes back to a Methodist chapel that had existed on this site since 1864.

Location and surroundings

Pauluskirche tower (left) and Harmonie (right).

The Pauluskirche is located in downtown Heilbronn, between the Harmonie festival hall and the shopping center , in the immediate vicinity of the avenue and the city garden.

history

1. Church building (1865–1944)

The Methodist community in Heilbronn had existed since 1851 and used the empty barracks in the Deutschhof . On January 6, 1864, the Methodist Chapel in Karlstrasse 33 was inaugurated; this is "one of the first to be built in Württemberg". The Heilbronn Pauluskirche is a historical conference location:

“… Heilbronn, the conference venue, is historical ground for the conference participants from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, as one of the first Protestant alliance conferences took place here in 1905. This conference was founded by the Methodist preacher Robert Möller and is now considered the most important gathering of its kind in southern Germany. ... "

Since then, the Pauluskirche has also been considered a “southern German focus” for the southern German annual conference of the Methodist Church.

2. Church building - Hannes Mayer (1949–1972)

Pauluskirche from 1949 to 1972, (see gable in the background).

Destroyed in the air raid on December 4, 1944 , the foundation stone was laid for the reconstruction of the Pauluskirche on the old square on October 3, 1948. On February 12, 1949 the topping-out ceremony and a first prayer with Pastor Jeuther were celebrated. The design was carried out by senior building officer Hannes Mayer , the construction management was carried out by architect Kübler. The architecture of the sacred building, which was demolished in 1972, was characterized by simplicity and simple beauty; the material (wood) shaped the interior of the sacred building:

“The overall building, which connects the prayer room and the parish hall, is characterized by its stylish simplicity and clarity in its external lines and interior furnishings. Above all, the church interior itself with the large gray walls and the warm wood tones of the ceiling and the chairs breathes real consecration in its simple beauty. "

3. Church building - Emil + Erich K. Hess (1973–2014)

Detail from the stair tower of the Pauluskirche

In June 1972 the church building , which had been rebuilt according to a design by Hannes Mayer, was demolished in favor of a new building; on December 9, 1973 the new Pauluskirche was inaugurated. This time the design and construction management was the responsibility of the independent Heilbronn architects Emil and Erich K. Hess . The stairwell doubles as a church tower, a cross adorns its top, and in the evening concrete-art glass windows that are illuminated from the inside enrich the tower. The concrete art glass work was created by artist L. Klein from Heilbronn. The Stuttgarter Zeitung praised the new building built in 1973 as an "architecturally unusual" church building:

"Heilbronn. An architecturally unusual church built according to plans by Heilbronn architects Hess has been inaugurated by the United Methodist Church in downtown Heilbronn. their house of worship, located between the ' Festhalle Harmonie ' and the shopping tower, will in future specifically serve the Evangelical Alliance Conferences, which in Heilbronn focus on southern Germany. ... "

The Heilbronn congregation is the mother congregation of further congregations founded, up to its 125th anniversary in 1976, over 60 branches were founded from Heilbronn.

In 2014 the Methodist congregation sold the Pauluskirche building to a residential construction company because of high renovation costs and declining church attendance. The last service took place on March 9th, the building was handed over on March 31st, 2014. It was not demolished, but it no longer serves as a church. The organ was sold to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Koza Church in Yamato (Kanagawa) in Japan and inaugurated there on November 8, 2014 in a concert. The church services of the congregation should initially be held in the congregation house and at neighboring Methodist congregations; A new location in Heilbronn is aimed for in the medium term.

reception

Werner Gauss depicted the Pauluskirche, built in 1949 and demolished in 1972, as an example of the reconstruction of the city.

literature

  • Willi Lutz: History of the Heilbronn-Pauluskirche district of the Evangelical Methodist Church. Heilbronn 1994.

Web links

Commons : Pauluskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d New church consecrated in Heilbronn . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . December 10, 1973.
  2. ↑ a b Two free churches unite. The Evangelical Methodist Church will be founded next year . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 23, 1967.
  3. ^ Wilfried Sehm (editor): Untergruppenbach. Untergruppenbach, Unterheinriet, Donnbronn, Oberheinriet, Obergruppenbach, Vorhof. Homeland book of the community Untergruppenbach . Ed .: Municipality of Untergruppenbach. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1992, p. 558 .
  4. ^ HJ: Laying of the foundation stone of the Methodist Church . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 90 , October 2, 1948, p. 5 .
  5. ^ Kr .: laying of the foundation stone of the Pauluskirche . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 91 , October 5, 1948, p. 3 .
  6. ^ Judgment in Karlstrasse . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 35 , February 12, 1949, p. 4 .
  7. ↑ jt.–: Inauguration of the new Pauluskirche. A feast day for the Heilbronn Methodist community . In: Neckar-Echo . No. 32 , September 5, 1949.
  8. ↑ Festschrift for the inauguration of the renewed Pauluskirche on Sunday, December 9th, 1973. Methodist Church Heilbronn, Karlstraße 33.
  9. ↑ The Evangelical Methodist parish is celebrating its 125th anniversary in Heilbronn these days ... More than 60 branches were founded from here ... From the city of Heilbronn. 125 years of the Methodist Church. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 214 , September 18, 1976, p. 3 .
  10. ↑ Methodists sell Pauluskirche. Voice.de, February 17, 2014, accessed January 30, 2017
  11. ^ A b Françoise Hauser: 111 places in the Heilbronner Land that you have to see. 60_The Pauluskirche. Emons Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-96041052-2
  12. ↑ 独 パ イ プ オ ル ガ ン 大 和 の 協会 へ 移 設 あ す 演奏 会Asahi Shimbun from November 7, 2014.
  13. ^ Kilian Krauth: Methodists sell Pauluskirche . In: Heilbronn voice . 17th February 2014.
  14. ↑ Werner Gauss: Alt-Heilbronn as we knew and loved it. An illustrated book of memories. Gauss, Heilbronn 1950, p. 81.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 25.6 ″  E