Mountain Church (Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl)
The mountain church in Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl is visible from afar on a hill above the village. Written evidence of the construction of the church did not start until the end of the 13th century, so that the exact construction time can no longer be determined today. All we know is that the original building of the church was built on an existing cemetery. From the hill on which the Bergkirche resides today, one overlooks the Freiburg Bay and the ridges of the Black Forest . The church is particularly visible in the evening, as it is illuminated by several spotlights.
Wine is grown around the church plateau, on which the cemetery can also be found. Below the church are the ruins of the late Gothic gate building, which was once part of a church wall. The church square was a place of immunity and jurisdiction in the 14th century. In addition, it was a place of refuge for people and animals, since in the Middle Ages the church was usually the only solid building in the village.
So far there has been no reference to the original structure of the church, all that is known is that the former nave faced east. The present church is built to the north. Construction began in 1454, and Romanesque arcades on the tower are a remarkable testimony to the tradition of ancient architectural forms in the late Middle Ages . A small sacristy was added as the youngest component in 1927. In the interior of the church there is an almost life-size wooden crucifix , which is a work of high quality in the late Gothic style. The windows were renewed in 1963 by Peter Valentin Feuerstein , who u. a. also worked on the Ulm Minster and partly on the Freiburg and Breisach Minster .
The second Bahlinger Church, also known as the Lower Church , no longer exists today. The site at the corner of Hauptstrasse and Bachstrasse, which is now called Ochsenplatz, was auctioned in 1812 by the owner of what was then the Ochsen inn as part of the secularization process . In the middle of the 19th century the last parts of the church ruin disappeared with the tower stump. You can still see worn stones and tracery fragments that the ox farmers built into their property in the first half of the 19th century.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 28 " N , 7 ° 44 ′ 11" E