Evangelical Church in Schallbach

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Evangelical Church in Schallbach

The Evangelical Church of Schallbach consists of a late medieval bell tower and a nave from the 18th century. The church in Schallbach in southern Baden, with origins dating back to the 13th century, was originally dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Konrad. The organ case from 1753 is a listed building .

history

The oldest written evidence of a church in Schallbach goes back to 1275; the chapel was then a branch of Mappach ( plebanus in Madebach debet […] item de capella in Schallbach […] ). It was also mentioned in 1385 and 1493. From 1360 to 1370, the Schallbach branch belonged to Binzen .

The bell tower with the corner blocks typical of many Markgräfler churches comes from the late medieval period and is believed to have been around 1420 under Margrave Rudolf III. have been built. He also donated the baptismal font that contains his coat of arms.

The baroque nave was built in 1743 under Margrave Karl August . The year and the initials MK above the portal on the tower indicate this. A year later the choir stalls were completed and in 1753 the artist Hans Dentzer dedicated a self- carved crucifix to the church.

Since 1940 Schallbach belongs to the parish of Wittlingen-Schallbach. In 1975 an extensive interior renovation was carried out, the choir organ was moved to the west gallery and the altar and ambo were replaced. A sacristy was added on the south side and a boiler room on the north side.

description

Church building

View from the southeast

The Schallbacher church consists of the original bell tower from the 15th century and the attached baroque nave. On the long sides of the nave there are five high windows that are slightly rounded at the top. The high, acute-angled gable roof doubles the height of the nave structure. The choir consists of three sides of an octagon , its roof is hipped .

The late medieval bell tower with corner blocks rises on four floors and is closed by a gable roof parallel to the nave. The tower only has small hatches on the lower floors, while on the upper floor there is a round arched acoustic arcade on each side. A clock face of the tower clock is attached to each of the gable ends.

Interior and outfit

The interior of the nave is covered with a flat wooden ceiling. On the north and west sides, wooden pillars support galleries that date from the time it was built. On the south wall is the pulpit with a richly decorated sound cover .

On the inside of the south wall of the nave there is an epitaph by Carl Wilhelm Strupfer († May 27, 1762).

Bells and organs

After the previous bells, except for the a'-bell , had to be handed in during World War II , the Bochum Association cast three bells out of cast steel with the chimes c '' (Christ bell), e '' (Johannes bell) and f sharp '' ( Paul Bell). They were replaced by three bronze bells in 1983, so that the four-part chime is currently composed as follows:

No. Chime Casting year Caster
1 f sharp ′ 1983 Bell foundry Metz, Karlsruhe
2 a ′ 1889 Carl Rosenlächler, Constance
3 H' 1983 Bell foundry Metz, Karlsruhe
4th d ′ ′ 1983 Bell foundry Metz, Karlsruhe

The organ's case dates from 1753 and was given a new work by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker in 1891 , which is a listed building. When it was moved to the gallery in 1975, it was renovated by Peter Vier . The instrument works with a mechanical action , has a cone chests, a manual , a pedal and ten stops .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 288
  2. ↑ Wendelin Haid: Liber decimationis cleri constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275 . In: Freiburg Diocesan Archives, Vol. 1 (1865), p. 199
  3. ^ Rudolf Wackernagel : Urkundenbuch der Stadt Basel , 1890 ff, Volume 5, p. 17
  4. ↑ M. Burger: Registra subsidii caritativi in the diocese of Constance . In: Freiburg Diocesan Archives, Vol. 24 (1895), p. 215
  5. ^ Wendelin Haid: Liber marcarum in dioeccesi Constanciensi . In: Freiburg Diocesan Archives, Vol. 5 (1870), p. 87
  6. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 289

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 21.3 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 29"  E