St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Paul's ( Zion's ) Evangelical Lutheran Church is the official name of the general St. Paul 's Lutheran Church called Church in Red Hook, New York in the United States to the six buildings and a cemetery include, on a roughly six-acre plot on South Broadway (U.S. Hwy 9) just south of the town center lie. The present church is the third church on the site, which originally belonged to a Reformed church.
It is one of several Evangelical Lutheran Churches Churches in the area, whose beginnings go back to the Palatinate immigrants in the early 18th century. The current building of the late 19th century is a challenging and sophisticated application of the romanesque an architect from New York City. The building complex was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Due to financial difficulties considered the church sale and demolition of some of the buildings.
Property and buildings
The plot of the parish is bounded by South Broadway on the west side, Fisk Lane to the north, Elizabeth Street to the east and a residential building at the southern end. It is a complex of six buildings, four of which are standing in a row on the road and the other two in the cemetery in the rear area of the property. All are considered contributing to the historic character of the buildings. Next to the main entrance from the South Broadway here there is access from the Fisk Lane. The land is open and built bewachsens with some tall trees.
Church
The church itself is the third building from the north. It is an asymmetrical brick building with a cross gable on the roof of a dome sits. Windows and doors sit in arches. The front of the west has a large elaborate rosette with quatrefoil. Among them are three smaller arched windows with stained glass whose voussoirs are made of sandstone. Another smaller window sits above the tympanum.
The main entrance is a small, one-story porch with roof fhachem whose Archivolte are executed in gleichartigem sandstone. A similar porch with a side entrance is located on the northwest corner at the foot of the bell tower. This Towering up to its broadened peak with window openings and round arches on all four sides and the rounded Kupfedach. Under the east gable of the church is a steep, conical canopy geförmtes that the entrance to the basement near the sacristy covered.
Inside, the walls are plastered and paneled doors and windows are deeply recessed into the wall openings. The ceiling is formed by a dome, which is supported by consoles and smaller columns vaults. The ceiling is made of corrugated iron, thus giving the effect of an inverted bell. The pews are situated in a semi-circle on the floor descending in the transept and the nave. Baptismal font and Chorestraden located in the southern corners of the altar is guarded by a raised half- vault.
Other buildings
Just north of the church is the parsonage, a built in Queen Anne style two and a half story house with a steeply inclined roof and a wraparound porch. In the north it is the Municipal House, a neo-Gothic building erected in post and beam construction, its steep roof is accompanied by a cornice with corbels and arched windows.
At the southern end of the row of buildings is the house of the cemetery keeper. It is the oldest building on the property. In the one and a half storey house is a saltbox. On his back is a small wooden shed is with a cross gable roof of sheet metal and sliding doors that serves as a garage. The cemetery office nearby is a single-storey wooden construction with pitched roof and garage doors.
Cemetery
In the rear of the property lies the cemetery. It is largely flat. Several partly asphalted paths cross the site in order to facilitate access to the tombs, which are arranged into twenty sections. These subdivisions correspond to earlier property boundaries. The oldest grave stone dates from the year 1813. This is one of the few grave stones of marble or sandstone from that time. In five other sections Victorian grave times dominate in marble and granite, the rest of the cemetery was built in the 20th century. None of the grave stones is significant because of its cemetery art or the person buried.
History
Lutheranism came in northwestern Dutchess County in the 1710s years, when the Palatinate refugees arrived here before the War of Spanish Succession. After they tried to cultivate resin derivatives on the land of Robert Livingston in Columbia County today, they were released .. Some settled at the invitation of another landowner, Henry Beekman, in the area of Rhinebeck and Red Hook. They founded 1715 in Red Hook, a joint Church of Lutheran and Reformed Christians.
The Lutherans left the church in 1729, although it is not known whether this was due to a dispute or because their number was sufficient to maintain our own church. They justified today's Old Stone Church at the Albany Post Road (now U.S. 9 ) between Rhinebeck and Red Hook. The Reformed - Lutheran Church later became the Zion German Reformed Church.
The congregation bought a 1796 about two hectares of land at the present site in Red Hook and moved the church six years later there. At this time the present house of the cemetery keeper was the only new building there. The congregation built a new church, which was completed in 1803. It is not known whether the cemetery already existed when the grave stone was erected in 1813. The built in timber frame construction church was destroyed in 1834 by a storm and the subsequent new building was built of stone. In a figurative sense, the community got a new church, as in 1846, no new pastor could be found. To solve the problem, you went to the Lutheran faith over and renamed the church to St. Paul's.
In the 1880s, the complex was extended by first church hall was built at the northern end of the property. Two years later, the growth of the church meant that you collected money to build another new church. The stone church was demolished in 1889 and the church members began to dig a basement. The cost of construction of the present church amounted to 18,650 U.S. dollars ( in 1890, and today approximately 512,000 U.S. dollars). It was completed in 1890.
The building was designed by New York architect Lawrence B. Valk, who had written in the 1873 published book Church Architecture extensively on the construction of church buildings. In his view, there are " churches for the salvation of souls, not for the architectural representation at the expense of convenience". Most other churches built by him are closer to the city, such as in Ossining or on Long Iceland. Built by him in Red Hook church is no different from his other church buildings from that period. It resembles largely the Congregational Church of Patchogue, where he also used the very contemporary neo-Romanesque style and a similar floor plan.
1903 Finally, the parsonage was built. Three years later, the church building was equipped with electric lights, a new floor and an organ were installed in the following years. 1914, the council had to change the name of court to recall the origins of the Zion German Reformed Church. The cemetery was enlarged and in the 1920s the cemetery office and the shed were purchased. It became necessary for the expansion of the cemetery to purchase more land, so several surrounding parcels were purchased. 1939 reached the estate its present size. Since then, the complex was little changed. Work on the basement led in 1956 to remove the original porte cochère and the addition of a chimney on the south side. The slate roof was replaced in the 1970s.
At the beginning of the 21st century the church was in financial difficulties. In April 2009, threatened their collapse. In 2008 they had requested from the Village administration to be able to demolish the house of the cemetery keeper and the community hall to divide the terrain and five plots for sale. The proceeds should be used to keep church and cemetery in operation. Local preservationists raised objection, as the house of the cemetery keeper " organically for the site " and that if need be installed, but should not be demolished.