Evangelical Church Kandern

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Evangelical Church Kandern

The Evangelical Church in Kandern was rebuilt between 1825 and 1827. A predecessor of the church in Kandern in southern Baden has been documented as far back as the 9th century, making it one of the oldest churches in the Markgräflerland .

history

prehistory

In 1083, the Basel bishop Burkhart donated the churches in Lörrach , Hauingen and Kandern to the St. Alban monastery . In addition to this documentary evidence for the church in Kandern ("ecclesia de Candro"), there are other mentions from the year 1102 to 1196. The Romanesque entrance arch of today's cemetery chapel could even have come from an older church building. The fact that the church was consecrated to the patronage of Saint Clemens - often chosen by the Merovingian Franks - indicates that it is one of the oldest in the Markgräflerland.

The structure, which was in use until 1825, most likely dates from the 14th century. The choir church with tower had a nave covered by a gable roof . In addition to the main patron Clemens, St. Wolfgang and St. Catherine are mentioned in the Berainen around 1600.

In 1625 a gallery was added and an extension was added to the church in 1729, which later served as a church chapel.

The poor condition of the building is described in a report by the pastor in 1791 as follows: "The church is bad and small and in no way can help it except that it is rebuilt." Disagreements about the assumption of the construction costs for a new building led the negotiations just as long as the question of whether the old tower should be preserved. District architect Friedrich Weinbrenner drew up an initial plan . After the congregation decided on a completely new building, Christoph Arnold made the plans, who had also designed the Fridolinskirche in Stetten a few years earlier. The bells of the old church rang for the last time on April 29, 1825. They were provisionally placed in an emergency tower made of two fir trunks at the market fountain.

Today's church

The foundation stone for the new church was laid on June 29, 1825. After two years of construction, the building, led by the architect Paul Bayer, was inaugurated on August 26, 1827.

Extensive restoration work took place between 1975 and 1978. On this occasion the altar was also replaced by a more modern one.

description

Church building

Longhouse from the inside towards the altar

The Evangelical Church of Kandern is in the center of town, a little north of the market square.

A rectangular bell tower rises from the gable roof above the entrance facade of the rectangular nave . The longer side of the tower runs parallel to the entrance facade. It shows a clock face of the tower clock on each of the four sides and has rectangular, elongated acoustic arcades. The tower is closed by a pyramid roof, the tiles of which are decorated with diamond-shaped ornamentation. The top is a tower ball and a weather vane .

The nave has four rectangular windows and a side entrance on both long sides on the first floor, five windows each on the first and five semicircular closing windows on the second gallery.

Interior and outfit

The light and simple interior is dominated by the double lofts running on both sides , which are adorned with yellow capitals and supported by pale pink round columns. The new altar by the artist G. Mall replaced the old one by Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm in the 1970s . The pulpit attached to the rear wall above the altar comes from Wilhelm . Benedikt Heckel made the image of the Ascension above the pulpit.

Bells and organs

The four-part bell is composed as follows:

Surname Chime Casting year Caster
Death knell f ′ 1558 Bartlome Priesinger, Lindau
City bell b ′ 2011 Bachert, Karlsruhe
Peace bell as ′ 2011 Bachert, Karlsruhe
Baptismal bell c ′ ′ 2008 Bachert, Karlsruhe
organ

The organ of the previous building was built in 1728 by an unknown master. After several repairs, it was placed in the cemetery chapel in 1826 before it was auctioned off to the Tüllingen Otillienkirche in 1827 .

Today's organ comes from Franz Joseph Merklin from Oberhausen (Breisgau) and was built between 1825 and 1827. It is the only and latest instrument in Baden with a Rückpositiv, which is still played with the original action . With two manuals , a pedal and 22 sounding stops , the Kandern organ is the largest surviving work by Franz Joseph Merklin.

Epitaphs

Inside the church there are a total of 14 epitaphs.

To the left of the entrance in the direction of the altar, they remind of the following people on the west facade:

Pastor Georg Reiss († November 24, 1679), Studiosus and son of Georg Reiss, Johann Reiss († March 27, 1654), Wilhelm Roßkopf, Vogt († March 21, 1628), Otilia Roßkopf, b. Schimbe († December 19, 1620) and her husband Friedlin Roßkopf († December 27, 1620), presumably Bartholomäus Seufert, Vogt and court and field trumpeter in Württemberg for six years († January 10, 1747), Wilhelm Roßkopf, orphan judge († 30. August 1721) and his wife Barbara Roßkopf, b. Geismaierin († February 12, 1731), surgeon and staff holder Georg Sutor († 1727).

On the east side, from the altar to the entrance, are the following names:

Pastor Johann Georg Ziegler († June 5, 1729), Magdalena Scheyer, b. Koger († July 29, 1679), iniquity writer Mathias Sieferlin († September 25, 1656) and his wife Margarethe Sieferlin, b. Scheyer († January 18, 1658), Friedrich Kammüller, member of the court († March 12, 1681) and his wife Anna Kammüller, b. Stichin († February 6, 1681), Maria Jakobe Rothberg, b. Stürtzler († November 16, 1646) as well as Hans Diebold Roßkopf, Vogt († February 16, 1675) and pastor Martinus Mauritius († March 3, 1635).

Reception in art

Street with church in Kandern von Macke

The painter August Macke from Bonn regularly visited his sister Auguste in Kandern. Over 20 oil paintings, drawings, sketches and watercolors with subjects from the village were created here. Among the paintings, Macke also created two in 1911 that show the Evangelical Church. The picture of the church in Kandern represents them in an ensemble with the surrounding houses; this is privately owned. The more famous street with church in Kandern from the same year shows a lane with the church at its vanishing point. The oil painting is exhibited today in the Museum of New Art in Freiburg. In honor of Macke, a circular route named after him leads through the town center, which traces his work in the town in ten stations on information boards.

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Kandern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, p. 8
  2. ^ R. Wackernagel: Document book of the city of Basel , 1890 ff, Volume I, 10 to 49
  3. ↑ District Church Council Lörrach (ed.): Church and Home 1556–1956 , 1956, pp. 97 ff
  4. ↑ a b Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 138
  5. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, p. 16
  6. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, p. 31
  7. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, pp. 52–53
  8. ↑ Julius Wilhelm : The stucco worker Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm (1797-1843). A sketch of his activity. in: Freiburg Diocesan Archive Volume 35 (NF 8) , 1907, p. 262
  9. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 139
  10. ^ B. Sulzmann: Historische Orgeln in Baden , 1980, p. 216
  11. ↑ Information brochure of the city of Kandern: August Macke in Kandern (pdf; 364 kB)

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 39.6 ″  E