Evangelical Church (Waldangelloch)
The Evangelical Church in Waldangelloch , a district of the large district town of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1861 by the architect Friedrich Theodor Fischer (1803-1867) instead of a previous building.
history
The original church in Waldangelloch was in the local cemetery. The oldest building documented there dates from 1518, was reformed in 1553 by the Lords of Angelach and enlarged by Heinrich Schickhardt around 1640 and provided with a new bell cage and tower spire. According to old pictures that have been preserved, it was a very small Gothic church, on the south side of which there was a square tower with a half-timbered structure. The church was originally built for a congregation of 20 to 30 families and was too small for the congregation in the 18th century, and it was structurally falling into disrepair.
In 1770 Pastor Hipp applied to the Duke of Württemberg for a new church to be built and named a number of 422 regular church visitors. The application was followed by a repair of the major damage, but a new building was not carried out, so that from 1790 the community regularly turned to Württemberg offices, and after the transition to Baden in 1806, to Baden offices. Sometimes chaotic conditions such as fights and tumults about the few seats, sometimes the damp and cold and therefore unhealthy climate of the church and the unworthy condition of the building were cited, but it took until 1846 for the Evangelical High Church Council to approve a new building.
Then another 13 years passed before a suitable building site was found. The space of the old church was too narrow for a larger new building. The parish council favored a building site opposite the rectory, but this was rejected by the district building authorities in 1853 because of its small size and its low location near the Angelbach. Finally, the building management decided to acquire the old Löwen inn and the neighboring Adam-Müller'sche-Haus with gardens, demolish the buildings and erect the church there. Further delays followed because the parish made further efforts to acquire the building site it favored and because the owners of the plots considered by the building authorities were demanding higher purchase prices than initially.
Built according to plans by Friedrich Theodor Fischer church was on 29 September 1861 consecrated . As a special feature, it has Tudor arches inside .
The old church in the cemetery was auctioned off for demolition in 1863. Initially there were plans to keep the choir of the old church as a cemetery chapel. To do this, the community should have done a real estate deal because of the space in front of the choir. However, no agreement was reached, so the old church was auctioned off again for demolition in 1864 and then demolished.
The old bells and the organ of the old church, which was acquired from the court chapel in Stuttgart in 1800, were transferred to the new building. The windows facing the street, the baptismal font and probably the pulpit plinth also come from the old church. A grave slab belonging to the von Angelach family from the old church was first moved into the cemetery wall and only moved into the new church in 1958. In 1962 a new organ was purchased.
Well-known pastors from Waldangelloch include Noah Friedrich Fischer (in office 1810–1822), father of the painter August Vischer , and Heinrich Nadler (in office 1895–1900), son of the lawyer and local poet Gottfried Nadler .
There is a fountain and a war memorial by the church. The nearby old parsonage from 1848 came after a new building in Gewann Finkenherd in 1972 into the possession of the city of Sinsheim, which converted it into the administration building of the social station.
Bells
When the church was built, the old bells from the previous building were taken over into the bell tower. It concerned the Marienglocke from 1533 from the foundry of Hans von Brussal in Speyer, which was probably not originally cast for Waldangelloch . It has the strike note b ', a diameter of 94 cm and a weight of 502 kg. Her inscription reads vnser leiben franen glock called me hans von brvssal sv spier gos mich Anno xxxiii . The second gocke was cast in 1819 as a casting around an older bell at Lucas Speck in Heidelberg, had a diameter of 60 cm and a weight of 120 kg, and had to be delivered for armament purposes during the First World War in 1917. In 1921, a bronze bell cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe with the strike tone c '' and a weight of 250 kg came as a replacement . This bell had to be returned in 1942 during the Second World War. In 1949 a 180 kg bronze bell with the striking note d '' was procured as a replacement. In 1957, three additional bronze bells were cast by Bachert in Kochendorf ( Bad Friedrichshall ). The Our Father Bell has the strike tone g ', a diameter of 104.8 cm and a weight of 630 kg. The prayer bell has the striking note a ', a diameter of 93 cm and a weight of 430 kg. The Christmas bell strikes c '', is 78.5 cm in diameter and weighs 225 kg. In 1967 three new bronze bells came from Bachert in Bad Friedrichshall, whereby the bell from 1949 was poured into the baptismal bell . The Big Bell strikes f ', is 119.3 cm in diameter and weighs 985 kg. The christening bell has the strike tone d '', a diameter of 67 cm and a weight of 180 kg. The eternity bell strikes f '', is 63 cm in diameter and weighs 140 kg.
The bell of the church today consists of the three bells from 1957 and the three bells from 1967. The old Mary's bell from 1533 is placed inside the church under the pulpit.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keller 1975, p. 81.
- ↑ a b Keller 1975, pp. 81–83.
- ↑ a b http://www.kirche-waldangelloch.de/
- ↑ Keller 1975, p. 87.
- ↑ a b Keller 1975, p. 89.
- ↑ Keller 1975, pp. 102-104.
- ↑ Keller 1975, p. 101.
- ↑ a b Jung 2009, pp. 77-79.
literature
- Karl Keller: From Waldangelloch's Past , Waldangelloch 1975, pp. 81-104.
- Norbert Jung: ihesvs maria + ano + m + cccc + xli - A contribution to the history of bells in the city of Sinsheim , Heilbronn 2009, pp. 77–79.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 35.5 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 17.7" E