To the good shepherd (Gütersloh)

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Church of the Good Shepherd

The Church of the Good Shepherd is a Protestant church in the Blankenhagen district of the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh . The church on Kahlertstrasse belongs together with the Evangelical Church to the North Region of the Evangelical Church Community Gütersloh, which belongs to the Gütersloh parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .

history

In the 1950s, the population in the north of Gütersloh grew rapidly. In 1953, the Evangelical Church Community Gütersloh therefore acquired a piece of land on which it built a community center. Services were also held there, although the building was not very suitable for this purpose. In spring 1962, the congregation therefore laid the foundation stone for a church on the same property.

The Berlin architect Karl Wilhelm Ochs designed the plans for the church, which offers space for 400 people and was opened on the 3rd Sunday in Advent in 1963. The church “ Zum Guten Hirten ” was the tenth church in Gütersloh and the sixth Protestant church in the city.

The furnishings include a tapestry that was woven by his wife Margret Horstkotte-Winkler based on a design by Woldemar Winkler and that takes up the Good Shepherd motif.

organ

The organ was manufactured by the Swiss company Oskar Metzler & Söhne and inaugurated on July 17, 1966. The instrument was the first organ that the renowned company built for a congregation in Germany. The cost was 170,000 D-Marks , of which 54,000 D-Marks came from the construction costs, the rest was financed by donations from the parish. The instrument is set up free-standing to the left of the altar.

The organ is made of oak, metal and spruce pipes. It is fully mechanical and has 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The longest pipe measures 2.50 meters.

I main work C–
1. Pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
11. Vox humana 8th'
II breast swelling C–
12. Wooden dacked 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Reed flute 4 ′
15th Octav 2 ′
16. Pointed 2 ′
17th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Zimbel III 1'
19th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
2. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Octav 8th'
2. Octav 4 ′
2. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
2. trombone 16 ′
2. Trumpet 8th'
2. Cinq 4 ′

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ in orgel-owl.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '43.6 "  N , 8 ° 23' 2.7"  E