Evangelical Church in Feuerbach
The Evangelical Church of Feuerbach is a Protestant parish church in the district of the same name in Kandern in southern Baden . The first church in Feuerbach dates back to the 13th century. Today's church was rebuilt in the 1840s and given the name Johanniter Church in the 1960s . The oldest inventory is the listed organ from 1757.
history
prehistory
The first geographic mention of the church in Feuerbach was in the tithe book Liber Decimationis and goes back to the year 1297: "... in bonis sitis in villa dicta Furbach et eius banno ... cum iure patronatus ecclesiae ibidem". It is said to have stood in the area of today's cemetery. A clergyman is mentioned as early as 1275: "Denaus in Fiurbach". Further details about the appearance and size are not known.
In 1450 a new church building, which replaced the old structure, is reported. Hilarius Merz is named as the first pastor of Feuerbach to be received in writing for the year 1557.
From the 18th to the 19th century there are reports of the poor state of preservation. After the interior of the church had to be provided with additional supports in 1719, it was closed in 1842 due to dilapidation. According to reports, the bell even had to be picked up from the tower to prevent it from collapsing. In 1850 the structure was finally demolished.
This predecessor of today's church received an organ from the workshop of Johannes Baptist Hättich from Badenweiler in 1799, which was repaired in 1821.
Today's church
The first plans to rebuild the church go back to 1843. After about two years of construction, the church was consecrated on September 5, 1847. After extensive renovations in 1965, the church was consecrated on October 31st under the name Johannes-Kirche.
Persistent problems with the heating system meant that the church had to be extensively renovated between 1998 and 1999. The old slab ceiling from the 1960s was removed so that the church interior gained around 70 centimeters in height. A special plaster was applied to the ceiling for better acoustics. In the course of this work, the organ gallery received a new glass-metal balustrade.
In October 2000 the last pastor left the independent parishes of Feuerbach and Riedlingen as a result of austerity measures. This ended a 700-year history of the pastor of Feuerbach. Since then, the church has been looked after by pastors from Tannenkirch , Riedlingen or Wittlingen .
description
Church building
The Feuerbach Church is a single-nave rectangular building with a three- story bell tower attached to the north . The longitudinal walls of the nave have six high, arched windows. The top floor of the bell tower has two round arched sound arcades on each of the four sides and a clock face for the tower clock . The tower shaft is closed on four sides by triangular gable surfaces to which an octagonal pyramid roof is attached. Tower ball and cross crown the roof. To the left of the entrance portal, a Johanniterkreuz indicates the name of the church and the previous building.
The sacristy is located on the south wall of the nave .
Interior and outfit
The bright interior of the Feuerbach church was fundamentally redesigned in 1965. The altar created by Jürgen Brodwolf , which integrates an old boundary stone from 1740 with the Johanniterkreuz , also dates from this time . This is to remind of the affiliation of the church in the 13th and 14th centuries to the Johanniter (Maltese) order in Heitersheim .
Behind the altar rises an arched choir wall in warm red. She wears the baroque "Feuerbacher Christ" with a golden halo. The crucifix was found set in plaster during the church renovation in 1965. A restorer discovered that valuable baroque carvings made of limewood were hidden under the plaster coating. The creation of the cross is set to be around 1775.
On both sides of the choir wall there is a round arched choir window on the upper half. The blue windows symbolize falling water. The long sides of the nave have high arched windows with colorless glass elements. Only the middle windows in the lower area put the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . Among the colored portraits one recognizes the Luther rose and the Aesculapian staff - the two family coats of arms. The glass paintings from the 1930s were added in 1998/99.
Bells
The three-part bell is composed as follows:
| No. | Chime | Casting year | Caster | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | b ′ | 1846 | Koch brothers, Freiburg |
In 1846 the Koch brothers cast me in Freiburg. For God and the community of Feuerbach. |
| 2 | of'' | 1954 | Kurtz, Stuttgart |
Be faithful to death, so I will give you the crown of life. Our fallen and missing from the world wars 1914–1918 and 1939–1945, in memory! Feuerbach 1952, HW.- |
| 3 | it'' | 1954 | Kurtz, Stuttgart | Glory to God on high and peace on earth |
organ
The listed organ was installed by Joseph Merklin in the Feuerbach Church in 1846 . It was originally built by Johann Hug from Freiburg in 1757 for the women's monastery on the Graben in Freiburg, after the abolition of the monastery in 1787 it was sold to Wolfenweiler and later transferred to Feuerbach. Over the centuries the instrument has been restored, overhauled and expanded several times.
An organ expert from the High Church Authority ruled in 1909 that the Feuerbach organ was completely unusable. In his report he even described the instrument as "the worst in the whole diocese". In 1917, due to the First World War , the prospectus was removed and 47 pipes removed and delivered. Nevertheless, many original pipes have been preserved, including those with pre-engraved parallel labia. The historically preserved substance includes the case, wind chests and action as well as the organ stops. Today the baroque organ in the Silbermann style is considered a valuable and significant work of organ building.
The organ, originally with eight registers, has a sliding drawer , a mechanical action , a manual and a pedal . In 1966 it was expanded to ten registers.
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literature
- Evangelical Church Community Feuerbach (Ed.), Ilse Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , 2005.
- Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 143–144.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 143
- ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe : Johanniterarchive (Feuerbach), cf. A. Krieger: Topographical Dictionary of the Grand Duchy of Baden , 2nd edition, 1st volume, 1904, Sp. 582
- ↑ H. Voecke (ed.), W. Fauler: Die Chronik des Kreises Müllheim , 1968, p. 120
- ^ W. Haid: Liber decimationis cleri Constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275 in: FDA 1, 1865, p. 210
- ↑ FX Kraus: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume V, 1901, p. 108
- ↑ Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , p. 22
- ^ B. Sulzmann: Historische Orgeln in Baden , 1980, p. 62
- ↑ Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , p. 12
- ↑ Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , p. 9
- ↑ Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , p. 19
- ↑ Wißner: Die Feuerbacher Johanniterkirche , p. 10
- ↑ Bernd Sulzmann: Historische Orgeln in Baden , 1980, p. 62
- ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 144
Evangelical Churches: Feuerbach | Wood | Kandern | Riedlingen | Sitzenkirch | Tannenkirch | Wollbach
Roman Catholic Church: Kandern
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '9.2 " N , 7 ° 38' 22.2" E