Evangelical Church (Steinsfurt)
The Evangelical Church in Steinsfurt , a district of the large district town of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was inaugurated in 1937 and replaced the Old Evangelical Church which was subsequently secularized .
history
Steinsfurt was reformed in the course of the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate in 1556. From the 17th century there was a Reformed, a Lutheran and a Catholic congregation. The historic church of the village came to the Catholic community in the course of the Palatinate church division in 1705, but was still used by Lutherans and Reformed people until the 1760s. The Lutherans built a church in 1767, the Reformed Church was built from 1769 the Reformed church building . After the merger of Lutherans and Reformed people to form the Protestant regional church in Baden, the Lutheran church was sold in 1823 and the reformed church was used by the united congregation. The church was dilapidated by the end of the 19th century. New construction plans were delayed considerably due to the First World War , so that the foundation stone for today's church was not laid until 1936, and it was occupied the following year.
Bells
When the church was completed, the three bells from the old Protestant church were taken over. The oldest of these bells was cast by Anselm Franz Speck in Heidelberg in 1767 and hung in the Lutheran church until 1823. It has the striking note of the '', a diameter of 59 cm and a weight of 135 kg. The other two bells with weights of 510 and 282 kg were cast in 1922 at the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe as a replacement for three bells delivered during the First World War. During the Second World War , the two Bachert bells from 1922 had to be delivered. In 1950, four new bells came from the Bochum Association as replacements . These steel bells have the chimes f ', a', b 'and c' 'and a diameter of 84 to 122.5 cm.
Individual evidence
literature
- Norbert Jung: ihesvs maria + ano + m + cccc + xli - A contribution to the history of bells in the city of Sinsheim , Heilbronn 2009, pp. 71–73.
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 14.8 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 29.2" E