Evangelical Church Eimeldingen

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Eimeldinger Church

The Evangelical Church Eimeldingen is a hall church in the southern Baden town of Eimeldingen , whose origins can be traced back to the 8th century. The church, which was badly damaged as a result of the Second World War , could not be fully restored until the 1980s.

history

prehistory

Excavation results from 1982 suggest that a church in Eimeldingen must have existed as a hall church with a retracted choir as early as the 8th or 9th century . The church, formerly consecrated to Saint Martin , was first mentioned in a document on the occasion of a dispute between the Stein am Rhein monastery and three nobles who were granted their rights by Bishop Otto II of Constance .

Extensions and remodeling

The three-story tower was probably built in the late 14th century. The late Gothic choir, which consists of a 5/8 octagon, probably dates from around 1450. The keystones of the cross vault in the choir show a flower and the coat of arms of the Hachbergisch-Baden region, which Margrave Rudolf IV carried until 1457.

The westward extension of the nave and an elevation are assumed to date back to the 16th century . In 1604 a gallery was built and the pulpit and stalls were renewed. The Canon Monastery of St. Peter in Basel was obliged to build the Eimeldinger Church at all times. The community turned to the monastery because there is supposed to have been an aesthetic disproportion between the nave and the choir. Structural changes were probably not made.

In the 18th century the church was enlarged again. In 1700 the gallery was enlarged, in 1736 the north wall was pushed out by half of the previous width of the nave. Multiple requests to the Basel Canons' Monastery at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries to also widen the choir were rejected and remained unfulfilled. In 1818 the obligation to build was transferred to the political community.

The church received neo-Gothic windows in the nave in 1851/52. In the course of this redesign, the two entrances were replaced by a two-part main portal and another entrance was created in the south wall of the tower. The old wooden ceiling was replaced by one made of plaster and the pulpit was accessed through a wall opening in the triumphal arch .

Destruction and rebuilding

During the Second World War, the church was hit by a grenade in June 1940, which destroyed the choir, nave roof and ceiling and the interior furnishings. The assessment of the damage by Julius Wilhelm uncovered a wall tabernacle and a burial niche under the plaster. The restoration work lasted until the end of 1943 and was partially destroyed by another bullet hit shortly before the end of the war in 1945.

The repairs could not begin until 1949; for reasons of cost, the work was limited to the most necessary. With the consecration of the bell on June 5, 1951, the choir could be returned to its intended purpose. The rest of the church could not be restored until the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The choir vault, which had been destroyed by then, was also reconstructed according to templates and a neo-Gothic altar and choir stalls were installed in the choir.

The church was damaged in a fire in November 2013. The gallery collapsed and the organ was destroyed.

description

Church building

A three-storey bell tower is attached to the rectangular nave . The tower has arched acoustic arcades on each side on the upper floor. Both structures are covered by a saddle roof that runs parallel to one another . On the gable ends of the tower it has a clock face from the tower clock . At the ends of the roof ridge the roof has two smaller crosses.

Interior and outfit

The interior of the church is covered with a light wooden faceted ceiling. The nave and choir are separated by a triumphal arch . The organ is set up on the L-shaped gallery in the baroque style. The altar , choir stalls and pulpit with sound cover are neo-Gothic.

Bells and organs

Bell tower

The three-part bell is composed as follows:

No. Chime Casting year Caster
1 c ′ ′ 1795 unknown
2 G' 1951 Bochum Association
3 b ′ 1951 Bochum Association

The organ by EF Walcker from 1949 replaced the one destroyed in the war. The instrument worked with a slide box, mechanical action, had a manual , a pedal and five stops . The organ by Peter Vier , which was destroyed in 2013, had two manuals and 13 sounding registers.

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Eimeldingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ K. Hodapp: Building history of the Protestant church Eimeldingen . In: St. Martin-Kirche-Eimeldingen , Festschrift, 1984, p. 5/6
  2. ↑ H. OECHSLER: The Church cartridge in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . In: FDA 35 (NF 8), 1907, p. 231
  3. ^ A. Lehmann: The development of the patronage relationships in Archidiakonat Breisgau . In: FDA 44 (NF17), 1916, pp. 84/85
  4. ^ K. Hodapp: Building history of the Protestant church Eimeldingen . In: St. Martin-Kirche-Eimeldingen , Festschrift, 1984, pp. 8/9
  5. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 92
  6. ↑ a b Fire in the church destroys the gallery and organ , in: Badische Zeitung of November 26, 2013
  7. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 93

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 45.1 ″  E