Presbyter Church (Kalk)

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The Presbyter Church 1888

The Presbyter Church was the Protestant parish church of the Cologne district of Kalk . It was blown up after the Second World War.

history

After the prayer room in the old Protestant parish hall in Kalk had become too small, the decision was made at the beginning of the 1870s to build their own parish church. The architect August Albes, a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , was commissioned with the planning . In doing so, he followed the Eisenacher Regulativ , a resolution of the Church Congress of the Evangelical Regional Churches in 1861 to build churches. The church should follow the Gothic style and an east-west orientation and spatially separate the altar, pulpit and organ. The structural implementation of the plans took place from 1878 to 1880 on Kalker Vietorstrasse. The Presbyter Church was a three-aisled brick hall church with a single -tower facade and a transept slightly protruding to the west. The tower was framed by the transept arms with two-story stair tower structures. The narrow side aisles, which were designed only as corridors, led to the baptistery or sacristy. The choir closed on three sides after a front yoke and the church was provided with ribbed vaults. From 1886 to 1889, the Evangelical Luther Church was built in Cologne-Nippes, almost identically. During the Second World War the Presbyter Church was damaged, the roof and vaults collapsed, but the tower and surrounding walls were preserved. The church was blown up in 1951 to expand the building site for the Kalk chemical factory . The Protestant congregation was able to consecrate the new Jesus Christ Church on Buchforststrasse on December 23, 1951.

Pastor of the Presbyter Church

  • Friedrich Martin Vietor (March 2, 1845 - November 13, 1909), parish vicar from 1873, pastor from 1877 to 1909
  • Gustav van den Bruck (October 2, 1868 - December 13, 1940), assistant preacher from 1895, pastor from 1900 to 1932
  • Wilhelm Spickmann (born October 14, 1871; † November 11, 1929), assistant preacher from 1919, pastor from 1929 to 1926
  • Friedrich Junkereit (born October 20, 1871 - † November 11, 1929), assistant preacher from 1919, pastor from 1921 to 1926
  • Oskar Söhngen (born December 5, 1900 - † August 28, 1983) assistant preacher from 1926, pastor from 1927 to 1932
  • Walter Wilcke (born December 1, 1901 - † June 17, 1964) assistant preacher from 1932, pastor from 1933 to 1954
  • Walter Reindell (born August 31, 1898 - † October 18, 1968) pastor from 1932 to 1941
  • Kurt Butterweck (born September 24, 1896) pastor from 1941 to 1966

  • View of the gallery 1888

  • Layout

  • The old ev. Parish hall 1890

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of the Evangelical Church Community in Cologne-Kalk . Publisher: Presbytery of the Evangelical Church Community Cologne-Kalk 1977.

literature

  • Sybille Fraquelli: In the shadow of the cathedral. Neo-Gothic architecture in Cologne 1815–1914 , Cologne 2008.
  • Helmut Fußbroich: The Luther Church in Cologne-Nippes , Cologne 1989.
  • Hiltrud Kier: The Protestant Cologne. The churches until 1939 , Cologne 2002.

Web links

Commons : Presbyterkirche (Köln-Kalk)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 26.4 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 59.6"  E