Evangelical Church (Baiertal)
The Protestant church in Baiertal , a district of Wiesloch in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg , was built from 1802 to 1804.
history
A church in Baiertal was first mentioned in a document in 1369 and was a branch of Dielheim . In the Worms Synod of 1496 the patronage of St. Gallus occupied. After the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate , church sovereignty was claimed by the Electoral Palatinate, although the church was in the German-Nordic part of the place. Elector Friedrich III. assigned the church to the reformed parish of Wiesloch. The church was restored in 1592, but again fell into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War . In 1697 the church was rebuilt with the participation of the Reformed, Lutheran and Catholic congregations. When the Palatinate church was divided in 1707, the church came to the Reformed community, but was then used as a simultaneous church for all three denominations from 1710 , with the Reformed community of Wiesloch, the Lutherans of Schatthausen and the Catholics of Dielheim being looked after.
The old church was on a hillside about 20 meters below the current building. In the late 18th century, the church was too small for any of the three denominations, and the unfavorable building site had damaged the building and the roof structure was rotten. The three denominations therefore decided to build a new building together. The construction work lay partly with the Worms monastery , with the Palatinate clerical administration in Heidelberg , with the Catholic parish of Dielheim and with the Baiertal community. After eight years of negotiations, the construction work for a new building was awarded in June 1802.
The foundation stone for today's building took place on June 22, 1802. The builder was Stefan Schwarz from Sickingen . The bricks of the church come from Zuzenhausen , the roof battens from Flehingen and the battens nails from Wiesloch. The Reformed and Catholic clergy consecrated the church in 1804, their Lutheran colleague only in 1806. The dispute over the interior furnishings and the shared use of the sacristy dragged on until 1808.
After the merger of the Reformed and Lutheran congregations to form the Protestant regional church in Baden in 1821, Baiertal received its own Protestant pastor in 1847. The Catholics had also been trying to get their own parish since the first half of the 19th century, but only received it much later, so that the church continued to be in use as a simultaneous church until the Catholic Gallus Church was built in 1912/13.
In 1854 the roof of the church was renovated, and in 1869 the interior was repainted. After the Catholics left in 1912, the church was renovated again, then again in 1957 and from 1983 to 1988.
The village's cemetery was located around the church until 1840, after which a new, today's Old Cemetery was built to the west of the old curtain wall around the churchyard , which was expanded in 1878 and was used for burials until the mountain cemetery was completed in 1988.
literature
- District association Baiertal (ed.): From buridal to Baiertal , Wiesloch 1988, pp. 179–189.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 4 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 19.2" E