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| | [[File:Bethlehem Lutheran Church B-1569.jpeg|thumb|Bethlehem Lutheran Church [SLSA B-1569]]] |
| | name = Bethlehem Lutheran Church
| | '''Bethelem Lutheran Church''' is an historic stone Lutheran church located at 170 Flinders St, Adelaide. It was built by the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Bethlehem after their first church in Waymouth Street became too small. |
| | image = Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Round Top, TX.jpg
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| | caption = Bethlehem Lutheran Church
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| | location = 412 S. White St.,<br />Round Top, TX
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| | coordinates = {{coord|30|03|46|N|96|41|58|W|display=inline,title}}
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| | locmapin = Texas#USA
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| | map_label = Bethlehem Lutheran Church
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| | map_caption = Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top, Texas
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| | built = {{Start date|1866}}
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| | customarchitect_title = Mason
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| | customarchitect = Carl Siegismund Bauer
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| | added = 10 August 1978<ref name=nris/>
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| | area = {{convert|3|acre}}
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| | refnum = 78002928
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| | designated_other1=RTHL
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| | designated_other1_date=1965<ref name=atlas/>
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| | designated_other1_name = Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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| '''Bethelem Lutheran Church''' is an historic stone [[Lutheran]] [[church (building)|church]] located at 412 South White Street in [[Round Top, Texas|Round Top]], [[Texas]]. | |
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| ==Construction== | | ==Construction== |
| The building was designed by Carl Siegismund Bauer, a [[German Texan]], who also served as the head [[masonry|mason]]. The church was built from May 6 to October 28, 1866. Bauer's sons and family as well as the local citizens contributed the labor to raise the church. The sandstone was quarried from Cummins Creek bounding the church site on the west. Eastern Red Cedar from the creek bottom were harvested and hand hewn into beams for the framing timber. The side walls are reinforced by iron tie rods across the interior added in 1873 and supported by 4 exterior stone [[buttresses]] on the south side.<ref name=nrhpdoc/> | | The building was designed by James Cumming, a local architect. The foundation stone was laid in July 1871 and was dedicated on 23 June 1872. It is built of Mitcham bluestone, presumably from the Temme quarry as the Temme family were congregants. The walls are with 66cm thick and the church has a 33 metre tower. The building contractors were Brown and Thompson and the building committee comprised of J. W. A. Sudholz, J.Weil, and G. Bieger. |
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| ==Pipe organ== | | ==Pipe organ== |
| A cedar pipe organ built by John Traugott Wantke, also a German Texan, was dedicated on January 13, 1867 the day the congregation was formally organized.<ref name=nrhpdoc/><ref name= blcwsh/> The organ made primarily from local cedar was restored in 1966 and 1995 and {{as of|2016|lc=on}} it remained in use.<ref name=hahn2016/><ref name=ohs/> The organ is one of the most historic in the state, the largest of six organs Wantke built, and one of three surviving {{as of|1987|lc=on}}.<ref name=ward1987/> The organ received certificate number 56 from the Organ Historical Society on May 24, 1987.<ref name=ohs/><ref name=ward1987/>
| | The original organ for the Flinders Street church was a modest J.W. Wolff instrument with single-manual, pedal board and six stops. This was replaced in 1888 by a 1878 built Backmann of Berlin instrument with single-manual, pedals and 6 stops with 350. This instrument had been brought to Adelaide by [[Immanuel Gotthold Reimann (1859-1932)|I.G Reimann]] for use at his [[Adelaide College of Music 1883-1898| Adelaide College of Music]] and after a year at the church was installed in the gallery and dedicated on 26 June 1889. Reimann was also the organist and choirmaster at Bethlehem from 1891-1931. |
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| ==History==
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| It is one of the earliest stone churches built in this section of Texas and has been used for services continuously since its construction in 1866.<ref name=nrhpdoc/><ref name=habs/> It is the oldest Lutheran church sanctuary in Texas.<ref name=blcws/> The first pastor was J. Adam Neuthard.<ref name=atlas/> It was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1965 and added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on August 10, 1978.<ref name=atlas/><ref name=nrhpdoc/> The church celebrated its sesquicentennial on October 23, 2016.
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| ==Photo gallery==
| | In 1904 the organ was relocated to the front left of the church; it was enlarged by J.E. Dodd with the addition of a second manual, with additional pipes by Fincham's of Melbourne. The |
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| | organ now had two manuals, pedals, 19 stops, 3 couplers and 936 pipes. It was further expanded in 1958, 1985, 1987, and 1998, before a complete refurbishment was undertaken in 2006, resulting in an instrument of 3 manuals (Positiv, Great and Swell), 55 stops and 2710 pipes. |
| | title = Photographs of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top, Texas from 1936, 1972, 2014, 2016 and 2017
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| | footer =Photography: Harry L. Starnes (1936); Roy Pledger, Roy (1972); Mustangsally (2014); Brant Kelly (2016); Renelibrary (2017).
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| |File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 VIEW OF SOUTHEAST ELEVATION. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-7.tif
| | ===Principal organists=== |
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| | Facade (1972)
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| | File:Bethlehem Lutheran Church front.jpg
| | * 1891 - 1931 Immanuel G Reimann |
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| | * 1932 - 1934 Hugh King |
| | Facade (2014)
| | * 1934 - 1948 Martin J Darsow |
| | * 1948 - 1997 James B Thiele |
| | * 1997 - David J Mibus |
| | * - 2019 Andrew Ampt |
| | * 2019 - 2021 Stephen van der Hoek |
| | * 2021 - Gina Dutschke |
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| |File:BethlehemLutheranChurch1 (1 of 1).jpg
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| | Facade (2017)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer December 10, 1936 FRONT AND WEST SIDE ELEVATION. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-1.tif
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| | Front and west elevation (1936)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer December 10, 1936 REAR AND EAST SIDE ELEVATION. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-2.tif
| | ==Photo gallery== |
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| | <gallery mode="nolines" widths="250" heights="250"> |
| | Rear and east elevation (1936)
| | File:Bethlehem Lutheran Church Congregation PRG-280-1-20-260.jpeg|Bethlehem Lutheran Church Congregation 1920 [SLSA PRG-280-1-20-260 |
| | | File:Bethlehem Lutheran Church B-31370.jpeg|Church Interior c 1905 with Pastor Koch [SLSA B-31370 |
| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 VIEW FROM WEST. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-8.tif
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| | Rear (1972)
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| | File:Back Bethlehem Lutheran Church.JPG
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| |Rear and east elevation (2016)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 GABLE FACING NORTHWEST. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-6.tif
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| | East elevation (1972)
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| | File:Bethlehem Lutheran Church.jpg
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| | East elevation with graveyard (2016)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 GABLE FACING SOUTHEAST. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-5.tif
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| |Front and east elevation (1972)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer December 10, 1936 FRONT ENTRANCE AND CHOIR LOFT. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-3.tif
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| | Front entrance and choir loft (1936)
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| | File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 INTERIOR TOWARD ENTRANCE. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-9.tif
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| | Front entrance and choir loft (1972)
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| |File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer December 10, 1936 REAR INTERIOR (SOUTH END). - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-4.tif
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| |Interior toward chancel (1936)
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| |File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Roy Pledger, Photographer July, 1972 INTERIOR TOWARD CHANCEL. - Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX HABS TEX,75-ROUNT,2-10.tif
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| |Interior toward chancel (1972)
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| ==See also==
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| {{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Christianity|Texas}}
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| *[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Texas]]
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| *[[List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (Eastland-Gray)#Fayette County|Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Fayette County]]
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| {{Reflist|refs= | | {{reflist}} |
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| <ref name=nris>{{NRISref|version=2013a|refnum=78002928|name=Bethlehem Lutheran Church|dateform=dmy}}</ref>
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| <ref name=atlas>{{cite web |url= http://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5149000396 |work= Texas Historic Site Atlas |title= Details for Bethlehem Lutheran Church Historic Marker |publisher=Texas Historical Commission|accessdate=4 Feb 2020 |at= Atlas No. 5149000396. Marker No. 396}}</ref>
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| <ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url=https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/NR/pdfs/78002928/78002928.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bethlehem Lutheran Church |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|last=Williams |first=Joe |last2=McCreary |first2= Binnie |date=10 Aug 1978 |accessdate=3 Feb 2020 }}</ref>
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| <ref name=habs>{{HABS |survey=TX-3124 |id=tx0462 |title=Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX |photos=10 |dwgs=8 |data=8}}.</ref>
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| <ref name=ohs>{{cite web |work= The OHS Pipe Organ Database |publisher= Organ Historical Society (OHS) |url= https://pipeorgandatabase.org/OrganDetails.php?OrganID=711 |title=Round Top, Texas. Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Johann Traugott Wandke (1867) |date=26 Jul 2016 |accessdate=4 Feb 2020}}</ref>
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| <ref name=blcws>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtis.com/reg/roundtop/bethchur.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091201110843/http://www.rtis.com/reg/roundtop/bethchur.htm |archivedate= 1 December 2009 |title= Bethlehem Lutheran Church |website=rtis.com}}</ref>
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| <ref name= blcwsh>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtis.com/reg/roundtop/beth3.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080908092602/http://www.rtis.com/reg/roundtop/beth3.htm |archivedate= 8 September 2008 |title= The History of Bethlehem Lutheran Church |website=rtis.com}}</ref>
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| <ref name=hahn2016>{{cite news|url=http://www.brenhambanner.com/news/handmade-organ-still-producing-beautiful-music/article_445ada8f-1155-59a1-9fc5-8d12948173de.html|title=Handmade organ still producing beautiful music |work= The Banner–Press |location=Brenham, Texas |url-access=subscription |last= Hahn |first= Arthur |date=2 Jul 2016}}</ref>
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| <ref name=ward1987>{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Charles |date= 17 May 1987 |title= Early-music lovers, take note of the festival at Round Top |work= Houston Chronicle |page=14}}</ref>
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| ==External links== | | ==External links== |
| {{Commons category-inline|Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Round Top, Texas)|{{PAGENAMEBASE}}}}
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| * {{cite web|url=https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/|title=Texas Historic Sites Atlas|publisher=[[Texas Historical Commission]]}}
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| [[Category:German-American culture in Texas]] | | [[Category:Lutheran churches]] |
| [[Category:Lutheran churches in Texas]] | | [[Category:Extant buildings]] |
