Trinity Church (Ohlsbach)

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Ohlsbach, Holy Trinity Church

The Trinity Church is located in Hauptstrasse 45 of Ohlsbach , a community in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The foundation stone for the church was made in 1879, it was completed in 1881. As a Catholic parish church was the name of the "Holy of Holies 1896 Trinity " ordained . The parish church was extensively renovated in the 1970s. Together with the Bruder-Klausen-Haus, which was completed in 1979, the church forms the parish center of the parish. The parish of Ohlsbach is an independent parish .

description

The hall church is designed in the architectural style of a neo-Romanesque basilica without a transept . The roof tower grows out of the slate-covered gable roof . Its lower floors emerge as a risalit from the gable . The bell tower has a pointed pyramid roof over an aerial floor. Below is the bell chamber . It contains a ring of four church bells that hang in two compartments on two floors in an old wooden belfry that was renovated in 2007 .

Bell jar Chime 0Weight0 diameter material Caster Pouring year
1 e '+ 2 1050 kg 1250 mm Special bronze Junker 1950
2 f sharp '+ 9 780 kg 1104 mm Special bronze Junker 1950
3 g sharp '+ 2 600 kg 995 mm Special bronze Junker 1950
4th h '+ 1 300 kg 808 mm bronze Grüninger 1904

All four bells are integrated into the clock . The small bells strike the quarter-hour, the big bell strikes the hour.

The portal is under the tower behind an archway with five arcades . The interior of the nave contains a coffered ceiling , the apse is spanned by a barrel vault that ends with a cap. The semicircle and both sides of the apse originally had mosaics ; they were painted over during the last renovation. The paintings The Good Samaritan by Josef Heinenmann (1825–1901), who created it between 1880 and 1889, and The Crucifixion once hung in the church . They are no longer there.

organ

In 1902 an organ from the organ building workshop Wilhelm Schwarz & Sohn was purchased for the church . After it was no longer playable, it was replaced in 1975 by one by Claudius Winterhalter . The instrument has 25 registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal , and has the following disposition :

I main work C–
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Wooden flute 08th'
Gamba 08th'
Prefix 04 ′
Wooden truss 04 ′
Octavin 02 ′
Larigot 01 13
Mixture IV 01'
Trumpet 08th'
II Swell C–
Dumped 08th'
Salicional 08th'
Dolce 08th'
Principal 04 ′
Gemshorn 04 ′
Fifth 02 23
octave 02 ′
third 01 35
Sifflet 01'
Vox humana 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Tenor octave 04 ′
Bassoon bass 16 ′

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Ohlsbach)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 40.2 ″  E