Evangelical Church Häslach (Walddorfhäslach)
The Evangelical Church Häslach is a church building in Walddorfhäslach , Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg . It was built from March 1899 to September 1900 according to plans by Heinrich Dolmetsch in the Rhenish early Romanesque style and inaugurated in 1900.
Building history
An old Häslach chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1455. After this became too small and dilapidated over time, the planning of a new church began. In 1840 the parish began collecting funds for a new building. In August 1890 it was decided to commission Heinrich Dolmetsch with drafts for the planning. But it was not until December 1897, after the church building fund had grown to 62,000 marks, that one of the two plans presented by Dolmetsch was chosen, namely a variant with the church facing east to west with the tower facing east.
Construction work began in 1899 and the foundation stone was laid on June 4, 1899. First the roof of the nave was erected, then the wooden pyramid roof of the tower was completed, so that the topping-out ceremony could be celebrated in November 1899 . The bells were delivered in April 1900. After completion of the paintings on the walls and ceilings, the installation of the terrazzo and wooden floors and the rest of the work required, the church was consecrated on September 16, 1900 with a festive service .
While the cost estimate from October 1898 was 62,000 marks, the total cost of execution was 79,000 marks. The additional costs arose from the elaborate design of the church, including the inclusion of a transept gable instead of a hipped roof, the arrangement of stone pillars inside instead of wooden gallery supports, and the use of house stones instead of doped stones.
It was not until 1926/27 that the church was equipped with electric light. Renovations took place in 1965 and 1994. The last renovation of the church tower was carried out in 2005.
architecture
It is a two-aisled hall church with a choir , a sacristy extension and a 33.38 m high main tower with a 20.5 m high viewing platform that is not open to the public. The surrounding walls are made of white Dettenhauser sandstone with brick backing. The octagonal pyramid of the tower roof is covered with slate .
The south side of the church facing the street takes up the main portal, which is connoted as a transept portal due to the combination of round window and gable. Another portal leads into the tower and from there into the nave. To the east, the first floor of the tower, which houses a staircase, has an apse-like extension. The west-facing choir of the church is designed as a simple rectangular extension, to which the single-storey, zinc-roofed sacristy is attached on the south side. Heinrich Dolmetsch's signature can be found on the lintel of the sacristy .
The interior is a two-aisled complex, the side aisle of which is closed off by a straight ceiling and the main nave is "vaulted" with a ceiling blown into the roof structure. The arrangement of the principles is similar to that of the Johanniskirche in Göggingen and the Evangelical Church in Großdeinbach : The altar is under the choir arch , so that there is still a passage between it and the back wall, the pulpit is on one side of the altar, the baptismal font faces her. The organ is located on the gallery opposite the choir room .
Furnishing
The simple stone altar was erected as part of the renovation in 1965 and replaces the neo-Gothic stone altar with Christ's monogram and side metal railings from the time it was built.
The wooden ceiling from the time it was built was rediscovered, exposed and restored during the renovation in 1994.
In the tympanum field of the tower portal there was originally the frit painting (on weatherproof tiles with burned-in paint) of an angel with the slogan “Honor be God”. This work of art was a foundation of the Association for Christian Art in the Protestant Church of Württemberg. As part of the renovation work in 1965, it was replaced by a bas-relief depicting the Good Samaritan .
On the south side of the church, facing the street, there is a niche with a figure of Christ made of Savonnières limestone , created in the sculptor's studio of Karl Lindenberger and Friedrich Rühle, then still in Reutlingen , later in Stuttgart . The figure was erected on November 4, 1900. One hand of the Christ figure was lost for many decades, but has since been replaced. The gestures , however, do not correspond to those of the original hand. Since 1956, the memorial for the fallen of the two world wars has been located under the figure of Christ . A wooden plaque was erected in 1920 for the fallen of the First World War , which became obsolete with the 1956 memorial.
A special ornament of the church is the four meter high choir window "Ascension of Christ" based on a design by Karl Theodor Bauerle (Stuttgart) and from the Bavarian court glass painting Gustav van Treeck (Munich) from 1900. In the lower area are the eleven disciples of Christ (without Judas Iscariot and before Matthias was elected ), in the middle of the window Christ with his wounds on a cloud, above the heavenly Jerusalem . With the exception of this choir window, all lead glazing, some of which was decorated with ornamental painting, was removed during the renovation in 1965. At that time, a large part of the glazing could be saved through the personal efforts of a young resident before it was finally disposed of. The original Häslach church windows are still in his collection, now in a neighboring town. As part of the renovation work in 1994, the collector gave two smaller, restored original windows to the parish for reinstallation.
The original pulpit with its neo-Gothic carving and the sandstone column were removed and destroyed during the renovation in 1965. There was never a sound cover . The pulpit, which was newly built at the time, consists of a brick plinth with a simple wooden parapet.
The stone font from the original equipment was removed during the renovation in 1965 and replaced by a simple, cup-shaped stone with a slightly curved metal cover, the pommel in the shape of a fish. The flat niche, which emphasized the location of the original baptismal font as a dividing element to the left of the choir vault, was closed in 1965. A wooden cross has now been set up at this point.
In terms of the decoration (amphiboline and tempera ), the Häslach church did not differ significantly from other places of worship built by Heinrich Dolmetsch: the walls of the choir were painted ashlars, the top with a round arch frieze with borders - similar to the former The pulpit parapet appeared - and was closed at the bottom by a ribbon decorated with a carpet pattern. On the choir arch there were five quatrefoil medallions, of which the middle one had the cross symbol, the four on the sides symbolized faith, love, hope and patience. On the choir vault was the Lamb of God on the book of life with the seven seals , surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists . These paintings were carried out by the Stuttgart court decoration painter Eugen Wörnle. All paintings were removed in the 1965 renovation. In 1994, in the course of a renewed renovation of the church, an attempt was made to restore the interior something of its original character by adding an abstracting joint painting.
organ
The original organ was replaced in 1974 by an instrument made by the Albershausen organ builder Kurt Oesterle from Reichenbach an der Fils .
Bells
In April 1900 the three new bells were delivered by the Kurtz company in Stuttgart. The large As-bell weighed 458 kg, was 94 cm in diameter and carried the inscription “I lift my eyes to the mountains from which help comes. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. "
The middle C-bell weighed 224 kg, had a diameter of 75 cm and bore the inscription "Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same also in eternity".
The small Es-bell weighed 132.5 kg, had a diameter of 63 cm and bore the inscription “For those who are driven by the Spirit of God are God's children”.
In 1917 the large and small bells had to be delivered for armament purposes for the First World War, as did the pewter pipes from the organ prospectus . The bell in the middle remained as a chime bell. In 1923 the small bell and in 1925 the big bell were replaced by the Kurtz company. In 1940 the large and medium bells were delivered for armaments purposes for the Second World War.
Only the small Es bell ( baptismal bell ) from 1923 remained; with her 135 kg, a diameter of 63 cm and the inscription "He is our peace". It is the oldest remaining bell in the current ring.
In 1949 the large and medium bells were delivered by the Bachert bell foundry . The large bell (cross bell) weighs 308 kg, has a diameter of 82.5 cm and bears the inscription “Lord, you are worthy to take prize, honor and strength”. The middle bell (arbitration bell) weighs 229.5 kg, has a diameter of 73.7 cm and bears the inscription “I am the bread of life”.
Predecessor structure
In the description of the Oberamt Tübingen from 1867 it says: “The small, threatening to collapse church, actually just a chapel, stands in the west of the village, is closed half-square and decorated with some late-Gothic windows. The interior has old wooden galleries and a flat ceiling. On the west gable sits a wooden roof turret on which two bells, from 1801 and 1699, hang. The church has the building load of the community. "
The old church is said to have been built around 1455, the roof turret was probably added later or replaced an older predecessor. In 1841 the "Remise" for the fire engine was built onto the west gable . According to an official decree of May 20, 1878, due to the poor structural condition of the chapel, the bells had to be removed after it was feared that the building could collapse while the bell was rung. In March 1897 the late Gothic building was sold for demolition for 300 marks and demolished that same month.
literature
- Two country churches. In: Christliches Kunstblatt 42 (1900), no. 9, pp. 134-139
- Ellen Pietrus: The new church buildings by Heinrich Dolmetsch. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter - NF 40. 2001, pp. 159–162
- Evangelical parish Häslach: Festschrift for the 100th birthday of the Evangelical Church in Häslach
- The Tübingen district, Volume 2, published by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Administration, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN = 3-17-258321-X, pages 222-223
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landeskirchliches Archiv, A29, No. 4940-14 (parish report from 1887)
- ↑ Landeskirchliches Archiv, A29, No. 4940-18 (parish report from 1896)
- ↑ Pfarrarchiv Walddorfhäslach, "supplement to the 57th & distance bill of Kirchenbaufonds management per 1 April 1898/1902," Preliminary remarks
- ^ Parish archives Walddorfhäslach, parish council protocols (Häslach) 1877–1916, protocol of August 26, 1890
- ↑ Walddorfhäslach parish archive, parish council protocols (Häslach) 1877–1916, protocol from December 20, 1897
- ↑ Pfarrarchiv Walddorfhäslach, "supplement to the 57th & distance bill of Kirchenbaufonds management per 1 April 1898/1902" ( "Summary cost calculation for construction of the Ev. Church in Häßlach" of October 1898)
- ↑ Dopfersteine are artificial stones that were manufactured in the steam brickworks Dopfer in Aalen-Wasseralfingen from the blast furnace slag of the former Königliche-Württemberg ironworks until around 1925
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '48.7 " N , 9 ° 11' 37.1" E