Trinitatiskirche (Wuppertal)

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The Trinity Church (2007)

The Trinity Church in the Wuppertal district of Arrenberg , today the district of Elberfeld-West , was the third church built for the Lutheran community of Elberfeld .

history

The Trinity Church after it was built

The strong influx to Elberfeld during the industrialization of the 19th century caused the number of believers in the Lutheran congregation to grow particularly rapidly; in the 1870s the congregation had exceeded 30,000 members, and a third church had to be built. The textile manufacturer and later president of the Elberfeld Chamber of Commerce, Wilhelm Boeddinghaus , church master of the community, donated a site in the western suburb of Elberfeld, precisely where the textile factories expanded into Wuppertal. The church was built according to plans by Heinrich Bramesfeld in the years 1876–1878 and was popularly called Zanellakirche , after the then new lining fabric Zanella , which was manufactured in Boeddinghaus' factory , among other places . It was inaugurated on October 31, 1878 ( Reformation Day ).

The building is a neo-Gothic , originally three-aisled hall church with five bays , a 5/8 choir in the north and a slender bell tower (56.75 m) in front of the facade south, which is framed by two polygonal staircases on the sides that lead to the galleries. In terms of spatial shapes, the building thus follows the two older Lutheran churches in Elberfeld, the Old Church on Kolk and the Kreuzkirche . The materials used on the exterior were yellowish bricks for the masonry and sandstone for the structuring details and decorations. The interior was framed on three sides by galleries, the wooden supports of which reached to the ceiling and divided the room into three naves. The central nave had a pointed wooden ceiling pulled into the roof structure, the side aisles were flat covered. At the time of its completion, the church had a total of 1,267 seats. Unlike in the older churches of the parish, the choir apse was open and concealed the altar, which was raised by two steps, the pulpit was attached to the right side of the triumphal arch , the organ on the southern gallery above the entrance.

From 1900 to 1934 Heinrich Niemöller was pastor at the Trinity Church.

In a bomb attack on June 25, 1943 , the church was destroyed except for the outer walls of the nave and tower. In the years 1948–1950, the building was rebuilt in a simpler form; The tracery in the five high pointed arched windows of the nave walls was dispensed with, the galleries inside were dispensed with and the now single-nave room was closed off with a flat wooden ceiling, which reduced the number of seats to 350. Martin Niemöller , one of Heinrich Niemöller's sons , gave the lecture on the centenary of the church . He had spent his youth in the church.

The union of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations and the decline in membership of the church made the Trinity Church , which was listed in 1985, superfluous at the end of the 20th century; it was eventually profaned and now serves as an exhibition room for an organ dealer.

In November 2013 Frida Gold gave an acoustic concert in the Trinitatiskirche and recorded a live version of their current album .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrenberger Str. 14 , Wuppertal.de Monument number 534, registered on July 16, 1985.
  2. ↑ Rheinische Post from September 15, 2018 (p. E1) / Wolfram Goertz : Orgeln für die Welt
  3. ↑ Stefan Melneczuk: Frida Gold enchant Wuppertal: CD recording in the Trinity Church . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . November 11, 2013 ( wz-newsline.de [accessed June 8, 2018]).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '4.6 "  N , 7 ° 8' 6.2"  E