Evangelical Church of Grombach
The Evangelical Church in Grombach , a district of the large district town of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1787. The art treasures of the church include a bell from the 14th century and the remains of an Overmann organ from the 1830s.
history
After the Thirty Years' War , Grombach , which had been reformed since the Reformation , was almost depopulated. The former Catholic local government moved mostly to Catholic families, so the Lutheran family in the 18th century only a minority in the village accounted for. The old church of St. Margaretha , which was renovated around the middle of the 18th century , was used as a simultaneous church until the small Protestant church was built for the numerically small Lutherans from 1785 to 1787 by the Grombacher mayor and builder Franz-Joseph Remlinger . The church has essentially been preserved in its original form to this day. The last major renovations took place between 1975 and 1984.
The Protestants in Grombach were initially looked after most of the time from Ehrstädt , which included the Protestant church in Grombach as a branch. In the second half of the 19th century there was also a separate pastor's office in Grombach, before the church was looked after from Ehrstädt again from 1909. The patronage right always had the gentlemen von Venningen until they renounced it in 1969, when the church had already been looked after from Kirchardt for one year . The church has been looked after by the evangelical pastor in Obergimpern since 2005 .
Bells
In 1787, two used bells from Wimpfen im Tal were bought for the towerless church, which only has a roof turret. There are partially contradicting information about the further development of the bell, which results from the fact that different weights of the same bells were stated in different reporting forms, that the year of the second-hand bell purchase 1787 was erroneously designated as the year of casting or that one of the bells has an unreliable origin Michelfeld is called, which makes it difficult to identify the bells that were delivered in the two world wars. In any case, the smaller of the bells had to be delivered during the First World War, whereupon the community initially contented itself with the remaining bell. In 1929, a bronze bell with a diameter of 61 cm and a weight of 150 kg was cast in the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf, which added the bell to two-part again. The bell from 1929 had to be handed in for armaments purposes in 1942 during World War II. In 1956 a replacement bell was procured from Bachert in Kochendorf. Since then, the bell of the Protestant church has consisted of the old bell from the 14th century, without any inscriptions, with the strike tone a '' and a diameter of 52 cm and the Great Bell from 1956 with the strike tone f sharp '', a diameter of 57.5 cm and a weight of 117 kg. Its inscription reads PRAISE THE LORD .
literature
- Friedegern Müller: The Protestant parish of Grombach and its place of worship , in: City of Bad Rappenau (Hrsg.): Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw. A home book. Contributions to the past and present of Grombach, the westernmost district of Bad Rappenau . Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 338–357.
- Norbert Jung: Immaculata - A contribution to the history of bells in Bad Rappenau , in connection with the Bad Rappenau town archive, ed. by Norbert Jung, Heilbronn 2010, pp. 31–37.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 40.1 ″ E