Evangelical Lutheran Church (Eschelbronn)

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church is shown on a map from 1794.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Baden-Württemberg parish of Eschelbronn was located on the town square from 1575 to 1807 and served the parish as a place of worship until it was demolished and the later Evangelical Church of Eschelbronn was built. According to stories and bone finds, there was also a local burial site next to the church.

history

The church was built in 1575 by the Lords von Seckendorff and von Bauz after the population of Eschelbronn was baptized Lutheran in 1526 by the local lord Joachim von Seckendorf. The first recorded pastor of the community was Johannes Meyer from Beilstein , who had completed his theology studies at the University of Tübingen in the year the church was built and held the office in Eschelbronn until at least 1598. In 1613, the theologian Georg Liebler , who was also studying at the University of Tübingen, moved from Neckarbischofsheim to Eschelbronn as parish priest one year after the consecration of St. Salvator's Church . However, he fled from the Catholic League to Neckarbischofsheim in the Thirty Years' War , whereupon the congregation followed until the takeover of Johann Gottlieb Widmann (* April 24, 1640, † June 23, 1720 in Göttelfingen), who in 1667 from the local rule of Eltz as pastor Eschelbronn was called, did not have a parish. Like his two predecessors, Widmann had previously studied at the University of Tübingen and lived in Eschelbronn for eight years.

Memorial plaque to Antonius Jocobus Henckel on the subsequently built Evangelical Church

On February 28, 1692, the later founder of the first Lutheran church in Germantown, Antonius Jacobus Henckel, took over the parish and worked there until 1695. His successor was Josua Harrsch in 1696 , who was appointed vicar by the local rule of Fels and who served as parish priest for twelve years. He is considered to be the pioneer of the following wave of emigration .

Heinrich Wilhelm Bätgenius was later documented as a pastor, who died in 1747 at the age of 71, after which Christian Friedrich Glock was appointed pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church by the local lord Franz Erwin von Schönborn.

In 1750, new bells financed from "Collecten" and "Almosen" were installed in the church and documented by Glock. He was pastor of the parish until his death in 1774. His son Carl Wilhelm Glock († 1822 in Waldkatzenbach ) served as his successor from 1774.

In 1800, on February 26th, 78 citizens took the ailing condition of the church building as an opportunity to petition Baroness Henriette von Venningen with a request for a new building. The dilapidation was confirmed on April 16, 1801 by the building inspector Köster. In 1803, the Dilsberg office ordered the closure due to the dilapidated condition. In the same year, Glock moved to Eberbach , probably due to the disputes about a new building with von Venningen . His son-in-law Gottlieb Karl Theophil Frank took over the office on November 19th. The demolition ordinance was complied with in 1805 and the service was moved to the Eschelbronn town hall . In 1807 the church was demolished.

Bells

The two bells that have been hanging in the church since 1750 were cast on September 9th by the founder Johann Paulus Strobel from Speyer .

The bronze bells had the following inscriptions:

BW Eschelbronn 317
1750 + foundry: Johann Paulus Strobel, Speyer
SUMTIBUS PARTIM AUDITORII ESCHELBR: LUTH: PARTIM ELECEMOHIN / Jerg Hofrichter, Casper Winterbauer.
Almsman. ... until the end of the rule only ... word.
Pour me JP STROBEL VON SPEYER 1750.
BW Eschelbronn 318
1750 + foundry: Johann Paulus Strobel, Speyer
SUM COMORIS PASTORE EVANGEL. MCF GLOCK PRÄTORE, JM Maurer, Judicibus, C. Wetzel, J. Hahn, And. Hailmann, Ludimag. S. Schambach 1750. ....
THIS BELL BELONGS TO ESCHELBRONNER EV: LUTH. COMMON ALL ALONE.
GOOD TO ME JP STROBEL FROM SPEYER.

The BW Eschelbronn 317 bell got a crack in 1775. It was then re-cast by the caster Anselm Franz Speck from Heidelberg and installed after a delivery delay due to a bottleneck in production. The new bell contained the following inscription:

BW Eschelbronn 316
1775 + foundry: Anselm Franz Speck, Heidelberg
THIS BELL IS THE ASHELB: EV. LUTH. COMMON ALL ALONE. CW GLOCK, PFR. ALLHIE, JC BRAUN, SCHULTHEISS, Ch. Scholl, J. Ad. Hahn, JA Hailmann, C. Sch ... Ger: Verw., J. Joh. Schambach, schoolmaster, Ch. Wetzel, J. Ph. Haug church leader. Pour me on Franz. Speck in Heidelberg 1775.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Mayer-Namnik and Joachim Friedel: My friend the tree ....? in Howwl No. 12, Heimatblatt des Schreinerdorf Eschelbronn, 1996, page 29 ff.
  2. ↑ Source according to the Evangelical Church Community (ed.), 200 Years of the Evangelical Church Eschelbronn , 2011, p. 22 ff .: Max-Adolf Cramer, Baden-Württembergisches Pfarrerbuch. Volume 1 (Kraichgau-Odenwald) / Part 1: The communities, Karlsruhe 1979, page 186
  3. ↑ Source according to Evangelische Kirchengemeinde (ed.), 200 years of evangelical church Eschelbronn , 2011, p. 22 ff .: Peter Beisel, Templum Salvartoris in Neckarbischofsheim The oldest Protestant town church in Kraichgau, in: Röcker, Bernd (ed.), Reformation and Humanism in Kraichgau, Eppingen 2003, page 87f.
  4. ↑ Source according to the Evangelical Church Community (ed.), 200 Years of the Evangelical Church Eschelbronn , 2011, p. 22 ff .: Cramer, Baden-Württembergisches Pfarrerbuch, p. 923
  5. ↑ Marius Golgath and Norbert Jung: Our faith is victory , A contribution to the history of bells in the city of Sinsheim, page 10 ff., ISBN 978-3-934096-19-6 , Heilbronn 2009
  6. ^ Source according to the Evangelical Church Community (ed.), 200 Years of the Evangelical Church in Eschelbronn , 2011, page 16 .: Sambel, Eschelbronn - Volume 1, page 38
  7. ↑ Evangelical Church Community (ed.), 200 Years of the Evangelical Church Eschelbronn , 2011, p. 27 .: Letter from the Electoral Office Neckargemünd 1803 (Evangelical Parish Archives Eschelbronn)
  8. ↑ Source according to the Evangelical Church Community (ed.), 200 Years of the Evangelical Church Eschelbronn , 2011, p. 16 .: Letter from the Electoral Office Neckargemünd 1803 (Evangelical Parish Archives Eschelbronn)
  9. ↑ a b Source according to Marius Golgath and Norbert Jung, Our faith is victory , A contribution to the bell history of the city of Sinsheim, page 10 ff., ISBN 978-3-934096-19-6 , Heilbronn 2009: Document by Pastor Carl Wilhelm Glock dated June 7, 1775

Remarks

  1. ↑ illegible
  2. ↑ illegible
  3. ↑ Christian Friedrich Glock († May 7, 1774) from Hessigheim , from 1745 adjutant of Pastor Bätgen in Eschelbronn
  4. ↑ Johann Michael Maurer (* around 1704, † September 5, 1794), former mayor of Eschelbronn
  5. ↑ Simon Schambach († November 17, 1754), Lutheran teacher and organist from Hasselbach . Active in Eschelbronn from 1717, son of Friedrich Schambach, who had been a schoolmaster since 1698
  6. ↑ illegible
  7. ^ Johann Conrad Braun, 1774–1789 Mayor of Eschelbronn
  8. ^ Johann Martin Schambach, schoolmaster and sacristan of the church, and son of Simon Schambach

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '11.6 "  N , 8 ° 52' 1.9"  E