Zionskirche, Lutheran church in Soltau, Germany
Zionskirche is a red brick church building in Soltau featuring a western bell tower and pointed arch windows in the Gothic Revival style. The structure ends to the east with a polygonal shape decorated with ornamental brickwork patterns.
Construction took place in 1888, following planning that began in 1878 with a mission meeting in nearby Meßhausen. The congregation established itself as part of a Free Church movement connected to Hermannsburg-Hamburg roots.
The congregation took its name from Zion, the biblical hill of Jerusalem, when it was founded in Meßhausen on 3 June 1878. The present church, consecrated in 1888, has a west gallery whose white-painted balustrade has tall wooden panels; two memorial tablets for the fallen of both world wars hang beneath it. The simple pews leave a central aisle.
The church sits centrally in Soltau at An der Zionskirche 5 and is easy to reach on foot from the town center. It remains an active place of worship and community gatherings, so opening times vary with the event schedule.
The organ was built by Amadeus Junker in 2003 and features eight registers spread across manual and pedal keyboards. The split manual design provides musicians with extra flexibility for creating different sound combinations.
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