Evangelical Church Ihringen

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Church from the south
Front of the church

The Evangelical Church Ihringen is the church service room of a parish in which the evangelical inhabitants of the Kaiserstuhl town of Ihringen with its districts Ihringen and Wasenweiler and the Tuniberg town of Merdingen are grouped together, around 3400 people. The community belongs to the Evangelical Church in Baden . The church was built from 1874 to 1877 in a neo-Romanesque style.

history

The first mention of Ihringen (Uringa) is also the first mention of a church here. At that time it was assigned to the Bishop of Constance . Later came the church rate , the economic right of use and the right to participate in the election of the pastor, to the monastery of St. Margarethen in Waldkirch , and finally in 1356 to the coming of the Teutonic Order in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1423 St. Martin of Tours is named as the patron saint of the church. The Ihringen local rule passed to the Margraviate of Baden-Hachberg in 1379 , and Ihringen has remained with Baden - despite all of the changing political figures in Baden - to this day. Because it belonged to the margraviate of Baden-Durlach at the time of the Reformation , it became evangelical with the margraviate according to the decision of margrave Charles II of Baden Durlach in 1556. The neighboring Wasenweiler, whose local rulers were the Teutonic Knights, remained Catholic. The Teutonic Order kept the church rate in Ihringen until it was sold to the Protestant church in 1684.

Former church in Ihringen

The age of the predecessor of the current church is unknown. According to a picture, the tower could have been built during the Romanesque period . In any case, the previous building in 1827 was damaged, “too cramped” and unsuitable for “stimulating feelings and devotion”. In 1872 an agreement was reached on a “draft of the district building inspection”. The old church was demolished. From 1874 until the consecration on April 22, 1877 was built. It was not until 1920 that the room was lit by "an 8-flame chandelier" and only in 1933 was it heated. The Second World War caused severe damage. All window panes, about 120 m², were destroyed. In 1968 the parish applied for its church, which was “in great need of renovation”, to be placed on the urgency list of the regional tax office. The approaching centenary led to the decision in 1975, which was implemented from 1976 to 1978. Considerable static weaknesses had to be eliminated. The left and right outer walls had to be secured with ten tie rods. The old, worn-out oak bell cage , which no longer had a hold in the anchoring and moved frighteningly with every ringing, was preserved, but the actual bell carrier was rebuilt from galvanized steel.

Look at the choir
View to the organ gallery

Buildings and equipment

The easted church stands on the place of its medieval predecessor. It is a hall church with seven nave bays, arched windows, a choir closed on three sides and a 61 m high west tower. On the outside, buttresses divide the nave walls between the windows . A round arch frieze runs under the roof. Inside, arched arcades on high octagonal pillars separate the three naves . Galleries on all four sides create additional space. A round-arched triumphal arch leads into the choir. The wall surfaces are white, the supporting architectural parts are reddish to ocher colored.

The body of the crucified Christ on the crucifix , made around 1500, the octagonal baptismal font adorned with putti heads and acanthus , and the organ with two manuals and 25 registers , built in 1878 by Karl Schäfer from Heilbronn, come from the previous church.

crucifix

During the most recent renovation, the windows were newly glazed with pictures by Valentin Peter Feuerstein , the windows on the left side of the nave with scenes from the Old , the windows on the right with scenes from the New Testament . Grapes and winegrowers remind us of the economic basis of Ihringen several times, for example in the parable of the workers in the vineyard ( Mt 20.1  EU ) on the right.

The altar, ambo and the handles on the entrance doors are also from the last renovation , all based on designs by Walter Schelenz .

literature

  • Evangelical Parish Ihringen (Ed.): 100 Years Ihringen Church: Festschrift on the occasion of the renovation and redesign 1976–1978. Ihringen 1978.
  • State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg and District Office Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. List of cultural monuments. I. The architectural and art monuments of the former Freiburg district. Freiburg im Breisgau 1974, p. 157.
  • Hans-Otto Mühleisen : Ihringen. In: Hermann Brommer, Bernd Mathias Kremer, Hans-Otto Mühleisen: Art at the Kaiserstuhl. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-284-3 , pp. 92–94.
  • Your singing . In: State Archives Administration Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg im Breisgau, urban district and district, official district description, Volume II, 1. Rombach-Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 1974, pp. 500–519.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Ihringen .
  2. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Ihringen 1978, pp. 27–28. An architect is not named.
  3. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Ihringen 1978, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Ihringen 1978, pp. 55–57.
  5. ^ Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg 1974, p. 157.
  6. ↑ Made for romantic music. Many top-class organists have played on the Schäfer organ in the Ihringen church. In: Badische Zeitung December 6, 2014; Evangelical Church Community Ihringen 1978, p. 35.

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 43.6 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 50.6"  E