Evangelical Church (Riegel am Kaiserstuhl)
The Evangelical Church in Riegel is a neo-Gothic church built in 1898 in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl .
history
Until 1840, Riegel was a purely Catholic . The industrialization and in the town itself, the creation and development of the Riegeler brewery created the conditions for increased immigration, including evangelical Christians . The first Protestant Jakob Kaderlin founded the new mill on Teninger Strasse and later became the donor of the building site for the church.
On March 7, 1897, the 22 men eligible to vote approved the resolution to "build a prayer room". A church fund was established with 532 marks from a house collection. The Kaderlin and Lepp families guaranteed a loan. At the time, the construction site was outside the village. The new building was approved on December 29, 1897 by the Karlsruhe Council of Churches. From March 1st, 1898 (almost 200 Evangelicals in the village), the small church (approx. 100 places) was built and consecrated on October 20th, 1898. The construction time was just under eight months. Since in 1899 many of the Protestant citizens worked for the brewery, the railway, as craftsmen or servants, the brewery owners, the Meyer brothers, donated a large amount.
On December 10, 1900, the first clergyman began his ministry. Ten years later a second bell was donated. The community was founded in 1917 by a diaspora community to parish raised latch. The funds and debts raised through the new building were repaid 20 years (1918) after the start of construction. The harmonium was replaced in 1929 by an organ with one manual and seven stops .
Two of the three bells were melted down during World War I and replaced by new ones in 1922; the bells removed in World War II were later replaced by used bells from Bahlingen and Forchheim. The war damage was limited in spite of the heavy bombing in 1944.
In 1969 the church was supplemented with the new building of the parish hall.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic church building (construction costs approx. 14,500 RM) was built with red sandstone from the nearby quarry in Freiamt-Mußbach. This is visible on the outside, it is plastered on the inside. With the dimensions of 23.5 m high, 15 m long; 8.8 m wide, it offers 120 seats.
An almost identical church can be found in Ettenheim (1900). There are great similarities to the churches in Endingen and Herbolzheim (both 1907).
literature
- Andreas Hansen: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Riegel . In: Riegeler Almanach 8, 1998, pp. 19-27.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 7.2 ″ N , 7 ° 44 ′ 50.9 ″ E