Neanderkirche

The Protestant Neanderkirche in today's Erkrath district of Hochdahl is named after the hymn writer Joachim Neander. It stands in the immediate vicinity of the Neandertal, which is also named after him.
Due to the rapid development of the region's industry and above all through the construction of the railway line of the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company from 1837 to 1841 from Düsseldorf to Elberfeld, both educated and wealthy Protestant industrialists, who built villas here, as well as Protestant Prussian officials from the railway, post office and administration as well as numerous industrial workers came to the area. so that the need for their own church care arose. In 1899, for example, Adolf Boeddinghaus, a textile manufacturer from Elberfeld who had had his villa "Neanderhöhe" built by the Elberfeld architect Heinrich Plange at the Hochdal Feldhof, initiated a church building association, for which he was able to win ten dignitaries, a smelter director, station masters, postal administrators, landowners and the medical councillor Karl Sudhoff, and which grew to 53 members by the official founding day on 7 January 1900 and to over 90 members by the start of construction. After Boeddinghaus topped up the founding capital of about 8000 marks twice more to cover more than half of the construction costs of 45,000 marks, the church was built, appropriately equipped and consecrated after two years of construction on July 23, 1905 by the Erkrath pastor and superintendent Friedrich Wilhelm Bleier. The celebration began with the Neanderlied Lobe den Herren, sung by the children's choir. At the request of the building association, the church was named after Joachim Neander.

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