Evangelical Church (Eschelbach)

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Evangelical Church in Eschelbach

The Evangelical Church in Eschelbach , a district of the large district town of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , is surrounded by a defensive wall from 1791 and was given its present shape by enlarging the nave in 1898. After recent renovations, the interior of the church is very simple and does not contain any historical items.

location

The church is in the center of the valley on a branch of the northern thoroughfare. To the west-northwest of it there is a nearby cemetery.

Bells and organ

In addition to the newer bells, there is also a large bell from 1484 in the bell tower.

Up until the First World War , the church had a three-bell ring made of bronze bells from the years 1418, 1484 and 1786.

The bell from 1418 originally came from the Sinsheim town church and did not come to Eschelbach until 1812. It weighs 125 kg and bears the inscription o rex glorie xpe veni nobis cim pace and ni m cc cc xviii . The bell had already burst during the First World War, so that it was handed in for armaments purposes. However, it survived the First World War unmelted and later found its way into the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, where it was mistakenly called the Eschel bronner bell for a long time .

The bell from 1484 was cast by Peter zur Glocken in Speyer, it has the strike note as' and a diameter of 91 cm. Their inscription reads osana + heis + ich + peter + zvr + glocken + zv + spier + gos + me + anno + dom + m + cccc + lxxxiiii . The bell has various decorative elements, including shamrocks to separate words. As symbols it shows a knight with a cross shield and palm tree, the Mother of God with a crown on the inverted crescent moon and the baby Jesus with the globe.

The bell from 1786 was cast by Anselm Franz Speck in Heidelberg for the church in Eschelbach. In the same year the bell cage of the church was renewed and a bell was procured for the Eschelbach town hall . The church bell from 1786, like the town hall bell from the same year of casting and the bell from 1418, were delivered during the First World War in 1917.

To replace the two church bells delivered during World War I, two used bronze bells were procured in 1922. The larger of the two, the Neuenheimer Glocke , originally came from Heidelberg-Neuenheim and was cast in 1901. It had the strike note f ', a diameter of 112 cm and a weight of 735 kg. The smaller used bell , the Wössinger bell originally came from Walzbachtal-Wössingen, was cast at the Bachert bell foundry in Dallau in 1897, had a c '' sound, a diameter of 74 cm and a weight of 222 kg. Their inscription read PEACE. I STAND ON A LARGE TOWER, FROM LOVING GOD I ASK FOR PEACE AND JOY TO BE MY BELL. Both bells had to be returned in 1942 during the Second World War .

To replace the bells delivered in World War II, Bachert cast two new bells in Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf in 1950. The larger one has the strike note f ', a diameter of 116 cm and the inscription WE LIVE OR DIE SO WE ARE THE LORD EV. CHURCH ESCHELBACH / BADEN . The smaller bell has the strike tone c '', a diameter of 78 cm and the inscription O LAND LAND LAND HÖRE DES HERRN WORT EV. CHURCH ESCHELBACH / BADEN .

On the gallery of the church there is a neo-baroque organ from the organ building company Weigle with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal from 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Bischoff and Tilmann Breuer: German Bell Atlas. To bathe. Munich and Berlin 1985, p. 557 (with incorrect indication of 1400 of the year of casting).
  2. ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler des Großherzogtums Baden, Volume VIII, Kreis Heidelberg, 1st Department, Tübingen 1909, p. 20 (with incorrect information 1414 of the year of casting).
  3. ↑ Jung 2009, p. 18.
  4. ↑ a b Jung 2009, p. 20.
  5. ^ Bernhard Bischoff and Tilmann Breuer: German Bell Atlas. To bathe. Munich and Berlin 1985, p. 557.
  6. ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler des Großherzogtums Baden, Volume VIII, Kreis Heidelberg, 1st Department, Tübingen 1909, p. 20 (with incorrect indication of the year of casting in 1789).
  7. ↑ Jung 2009, pp. 118/19.
  8. ↑ Jung 2009, p. 19.
  9. ↑ Orgelführer Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, self-published Rhein-Neckar-Kreis 2,001th

literature

  • Norbert Jung: ihesvs maria + ano + m + cccc + xli - A contribution to the history of bells in the city of Sinsheim , Heilbronn 2009, pp. 18–20.

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '4.2 "  N , 8 ° 46" 58.8 "  E