Evangelical Church (Flözlingen)

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Evangelical Church Flözlingen

Evangelical Church in Zimmer-Flözlingen.jpg

Denomination : Evangelical Lutheran
Consecration year : 1717
Pastor : Kristina Reichle
Parish : Flözlingen rooms
Address: Kirchweg 3
78658 rooms above Rottweil

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 57.8 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 51.9 ″  E The Protestant church in Flözlingen in the Rottweil district in southwest Baden-Württemberg is a Protestant parish church that was built in 1717 in the late Gothic style.

description

The Evangelical Church in Flözlingen is a single-nave church building in the late Gothic style . The squat bell tower with an attached, slender pyramid is adorned with an artistic tower cross with a tower cock. The tower is in the south and is followed by a choir niche. The vestibule at the north portal was added during the renovation in 1969.

The triumphal arch made of red sandstone, which leads from the nave into the choir, still comes from the old talk church and is therefore the oldest component of the building. The renaissance pulpit is remarkable, about which the writer Egon Rieble wrote: “There is no pulpit in the circle in which classical rigor - Renaissance clarity - is promised in such a convincing way as in Flözlingen.” The evangelists and Christ are on it Depicted with the title Salvator mundi . The risen Christ with a flag stands on the sound cover.

The magnificent choir window by the painter Gustav van Treeck from 1891 shows a large figure of Christ as well as the Luther rose , the Württemberg coat of arms and the German imperial coat of arms and a portrait of Emperor Wilhem I and bears the inscription "Donated in memory of the unification of Germany in 1891". In 2017 it was moved to the west side of the choir room and replaced by the resurrection window by the artist Tobias Kammerer.

The baroque Öder epitaph donated by the pastor at the time for the early death of his wife in 1699 shows the prophet Ezekiel with an angel.

The earlier carved stalls were replaced by simple ash benches during the renovation in 1964. The marble altar and baptismal font were also installed in 1964.

history

Even before the Reformation, Flözlingen had its own village church, which was dedicated to St. Jacob. This was demolished in 1716.

Under the master builder Heinerich Arnoldt from Rosenfeld, the new church was built in an exposed location. According to Pastor Krafft's records, there was a "great dispute" about the location. The foundation stone was laid on April 24, 1717. The construction was carried out quickly and accident-free, so that the first service could be celebrated on the 16th Sunday after Trinity. The construction was mostly carried out in-house (some citizens carried out "around 200 loads") and with the support of neighboring communities.

In 1858 the tower was extended to its present height. The choir window was donated in 1891 "in memory of the unification of Germany". After the Second World War, the church got a new bell.

In 1964 the church was renovated and modernized. During the renovation, among other things, the stalls, the altar and the font were replaced.

The organ of the organ builder Peter Vier from Oberweiher near Lahr was built into the choir in 1969 and replaced the old organ from 1818, whereby some wooden pipes were taken over.

Another renovation took place in 2016 and 2017 to mark the 300th anniversary of the church. The interior of the church was designed by the Rottweiler artist Tobias Kammerer . The four-organ was expanded and replaced by a modern electronic organ . As a result, the Kaiser-Christus-Fenster was completely visible again for the first time. Contrary to the requirements of monument protection law, it was moved from the south side to the west side of the choir room. The new resurrection window was installed in place of the Christ the Emperor window. The measure was justified with the concept of the Wegekirche , according to which only the resurrection is at the center of the church and should not be paid homage to the emperor there. On December 17, 2019, a settlement was reached before the Freiburg Administrative Court, according to which the window may remain on the west side, but the history and the reason for the relocation of the window picture must be explained with an explanatory board.

literature

  • Anton Kampitsch (= small): Flozoluestale. Home memories for young and old. Ed .: Municipality of Flözlingen. 1924.
  • Otto Benzing: Flözlinger Heimatbuch . For the 1200th anniversary celebration of the village of Flözlingen. Publishing house of the community of Zimmer ob Rottweil, Zimmer ob Rottweil 1979, ISBN 3-87450-005-5 .
  • Bernhard Rüth: The Öder epitaph in the Protestant church in Flözlingen. In: Rottweiler Geschichts- und Altertumsverein (Ed.): Rottweiler Heimatblätter. Vol. 57 (1996), No. 3.
  • Ders .: A foray through Flözlingen's church history . In: Rottweiler Geschichts- und Altertumsverein (Ed.): Rottweiler Heimatblätter . 79th year, no. 4 , 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Rüth: The Öder epitaph in the Protestant church in Flözlingen . 1991.
  2. ↑ Stefanie Siegmeier: Administrative court ends window dispute . In: Black Forest Messenger. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .