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Evangelical City Church Remscheid

Name: Evangelical City Church Remscheid
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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of Lüttringhausen – Tackermühle loop from Remscheid Hbf

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2. Quartiersplatz Playground – Honsberg Crankshaft Sculpture loop from Remscheid Hbf

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3. Honsberg Crankshaft Sculpture – Child with Dogs Sculpture loop from Remscheid

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Siggi

August 26, 2020

The Evangelische Stadtkirche is the main evangelical church in Remscheid.

Archaeological investigations in 1979 revealed two predecessor churches beneath today's town church, a baroque hall building. Around 1000 the chapel of a serf court was built here. It was a small hall church with a recessed rectangular choir. The patronage is not known. In 1189, Count Engelbert I. von Berg gave this chapel as his own church to the Order of St. John at Burg Castle, which he had donated. The Johanniter replaced the building in the second half of the 12th century with a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with a choir and a round-arched apse, similar to the Church of St. Antonius Abbas in Herkenrath, which has survived to this day and also belonged to the Burger Kommende. According to a document from 1385, this was dedicated to the Apostle Paul.

In 1548 the Reformation began in Remscheid. In 1570, the Remscheid community converted to the Reformation, but the right of patronage remained with the Burger Kommende until it was abolished in 1803. In 1722, the community decided to replace the old, dilapidated church with a new building. This was approved by the coming, but the retention of the Romanesque choir was demanded. During the construction work, on Michaelmas Day 1723, September 29, there was a major fire in Remscheid, which destroyed the shell and the Romanesque choir. Therefore, the new rectangular hall, spanned by a flat barrel, was rebuilt from 1726 without old components, only the four-storey tower was raised using the old building structure - coal sand rubble and stone. The year 1726 can be seen in iron anchors above the portal.

The construction was completed in 1730, when the tower received the curly pear dome and in 1824 the sacristy was added.

In 1943 the church was badly damaged by a bomb attack. The interior was redesigned in a simple style in 1954. In February 1955 the inauguration service took place after the reconstruction.

In 1977 the masonry had to be renovated; In 1979/80 the interior was renovated with a historicist design. Architect Hanns Berger oversaw the construction work. In November 1980 the church was reopened.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelische_Stadtkirche_(Remscheid)

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Günter und Carola

July 10, 2023

One of the churches in Remscheid.

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Evangelical City Church Remscheid

1. View of Lüttringhausen – Tackermühle loop from Remscheid Hbf

2. Quartiersplatz Playground – Honsberg Crankshaft Sculpture loop from Remscheid Hbf

3. Honsberg Crankshaft Sculpture – Child with Dogs Sculpture loop from Remscheid

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