Evangelical Church in Nüstenbach
The village church Nüstenbach is a Protestant church in today's Mosbach district of Nüstenbach from 1759.
history
The residents of Nüstenbach were originally cared for in church from Neckarelz , where they were buried in front of the Nüstenbach cemetery in 1596. Later the eponymous Nüstenbach was the parish border, so that the residents to the right of the stream in Neckarelz, the residents to the left of the stream in Mosbach Abbey were parish. After the Reformation, residents could choose which church to visit. On weekdays, services were held by the Neckarelzer deacon in the large living room of the widow Zülhardt. In order to spare the residents of Nüstenbach the several kilometers long way to the church of the neighboring Neckarelz, the village church was built in 1759 by the residents themselves. In 1767 the community bought a church clock from the Mosbach clockmaker Alt. When the Reformed and Lutheran Church merged to form the Evangelical State Church in 1821, the Lutheran Church in Mosbach was closed. The altar of this church was donated to the Nüstenbach community. The church was renovated for the first time in 1834. In 1880 another renovation followed, the damage to be repaired, as in 1834, was mainly due to the penetration of moisture on the side of the building facing the local road. In 1959 another renovation followed, in which the current sandstone altar was also procured. In 1960 the village church was extended to the southeast by a sacristy . In 1990 the church received its current baptismal font through a foundation from Fritz Fehr.
The last renovation took place in 2006. Due to the financial situation of the Baden regional church , no funds could initially be made available for the urgently needed renovation. The Protestant High Church Council tied its promise to support the renovation on one condition: The Mosbach parish had to pay its own share from the village itself. The village community managed to organize sufficient donations through sponsorship and on Sunday, October 8th, 2006, the renovated village church of Nüstenbach was inaugurated again.
description
architecture
The village church in Nüstenbach is a single-nave hall building with a polygonal choir. There are two high arched windows in the nave, an arched window with stained glass serves as an altarpiece in the front wall of the choir, and an oval window in the left choir wall. The pulpit is placed on the right wall of the choir.
Furnishing
The choir window behind the altar shows the triumphant Christ above a symbol of the transience of man in time ( hourglass in the hand of the meatless reaper ) and space ( sun , moon , Saturn , stars). Saying: Death is conquered by the resurrection. The window was created in 1928 by Karl Finck from Karlsruhe.
organ
The organ of the church was acquired after a petition from 1848 to the government of the Lower Rhine District near Voit in Durlach and is one of the few organs of the 19th century in North Baden that has been preserved almost in its original condition. The organ was renovated in 1952 by Kemper & Sohn and has been serviced by the Rensch organ building company since 1973. The organ has 7 registers and a manual.
Bells
The church already had two bells before the First World War, of which the smaller one had to be delivered in 1917 during the First World War for armament purposes. In 1954, the Bachert bell foundry had a second bell cast again.
media
The SWR filmed the half-hour documentary With Heart and Soul - The Rescue of a Village Church about the Nüstenbach village church and its renovation as part of the series Landesschau along the way. It was first broadcast on December 16, 2006.
literature
- Berthold Hergenröder: The Nüstenbacher Dorfkirche - A gem in the Elz estuary , in: Mosbacher Jahreshefte 14, Mosbach 2004, pp. 80-100.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '24 " N , 9 ° 7' 35.1" E