Evangelical Church Treschklingen
The Evangelical Church in Treschklingen , a district of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1582 on the site of a medieval chapel.
history
Predecessor buildings and early church history
The medieval chapel in Treschklingen was originally a branch church of Bonfeld . The patronage right lay with the noblemen Frey von Treschklingen . In 1430 Martin Frey von Treschklingen sold the parish in Bonfeld with all patronage and tithe rights to the Wimpfen monastery .
After the Lords of Gemmingen had carried out the Reformation in Bonfeld from 1523 , the then Treschklingen landlord, the old believer Sebastian von Helmstatt , dissolved the parish association with Bonfeld. Instead, he asked the Wimpfener Stift, who received the tithe, to provide a pastor for Treschklingen free of charge. The Wimpfener Stift, however, denied a legal right to a pastor's position, whereupon Sebastian von Helmstatt withdrew his tithe for himself in 1528. In 1538 Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg (around 1500–1572) acquired the village of Treschklingen and settled the Wimpfen tithe claims. His son Reinhard von Gemmingen (1532–1598) had the dilapidated old chapel torn down and the present church building erected in its place.
The church from 1582
After the completion and consecration of the church building on October 28, 1582, another dispute broke out with the Wimpfen monastery about the construction costs that Reinhard von Gemmingen wanted the monastery to reimburse. Once again, the withholding of tithes served as leverage. In a settlement, which is essentially based on a contract already concluded in 1569 between the Bonfeld local lord Philipp von Gemmingen and the Wimpfen monastery, the Wimpfen monastery then transferred all rights and obligations to the parish of Bonfeld and the branches in Treschklingen and Fürfeld to the gentlemen from Gemmingen.
In 1626 Treschklingen became a subsidiary of Rappenau, before its own parish was established in Treschklingen in 1738 . The pastor in Treschklingen also had to take care of the neighboring Babstadt for a long time . After the Treschklingen line of the barons of Gemmingen in 1764 with Sigmund von Gemmingen (1724–1806) had become Catholic again, his son Sigmund Johann Nepomuk von Gemmingen (1777–1843) had the crypt chapel of the barons of Gemmingen built at the cemetery in 1839 .
In 1825 an additional gallery was built into the Protestant church to make room for the congregation, which was enlarged by the growth of the village. In 1841 the church came into the possession of the community. The church was renovated in 1882, and numerous ancient furnishings were lost.
On July 30, 1908, the church tower was badly damaged by lightning. Large amounts of water penetrated the structure through the open tower and subsequently caused further damage. In the summer and autumn of 1911, the church was renovated again, with a new spire and a new organ being built. The historical tombs previously embedded in the church floor were attached to the inner wall.
One or two bells each had to be delivered during the First and Second World Wars. A small bell from 1725 survived both wars. The church's three-part bell, which has been electrically controlled since 1970, was completed again in 1952/53 with the purchase of a used bell from 1932 and the purchase of a new bell.
In 1988 the outside of the church was renovated, which again received a new spire.
The parish in Treschklingen was not continuously occupied at all times, even in the 20th century. Pastors Gottlieb Heinrich Bender (1912–1926), Heinrich Billmann (1931–1949), Parish Vicar Kaufmann (1957–1969) and J. Makarinus-Heuss (1987–1995) worked longer on site. In between, the parish was mostly looked after by pastors from other parishes (Bad Rappenau, Ehrstädt , Obergimpern ). From 2001 to 2005 Konrad Schomerus was pastor in Treschklingen and Babstadt.
description
architecture
The church consists of an approximately 13 × 9 meter long nave with a polygonal choir and a front tower. On the south side of the tower a staircase leads under a wooden porch to the gallery .
The alliance coat of arms of Reinhard von Gemmingen and Helene von Massenbach, dated to the year of construction in 1582, is attached to the southern facade of the church. The same coats of arms are also located above the choir arch inside.
Grave slabs
Inside the church there are six historical tombstones of the following people:
- Reinhard von Gemmingen (1532–1598), builder of the church
- Helene von Massenbach (1534–1601), his wife
- Hans Wilhelm von Gemmingen (1573–1615), son of Reinhard
- Martha Zuckmantelin von Brumat († 1611), his wife
- Hans Reinhard von Gemmingen († 1625), three-year-old son of Reinhard von Gemmingen, the scholar (1576–1635)
- Barbara Fussenegger († 1681), pastor's wife
organ
The organ of the church was made by AM Schaefer in Creglingen in 1911 and replaced an older instrument from the second half of the 18th century. Schaefer had previously only had experience in building the harmonium , the organ for the Treschklingen church was his Opus 1 and established his far-reaching reputation as an organ builder. Regardless of the special importance of the instrument, the 35 organ pipes in the organ prospectus were withdrawn to procure tin during the First World War . They were replaced in 1922 by the Steinfurt organ builder Philipp Ziegler.
Bells
The oldest documented bell in Treschklingen is a bell weighing 11 pounds, which was traded in in 1709 when Johann Georg Rohr in Heilbronn had a bronze bell weighing more than four hundred pounds cast. In 1725, Rohr's son Johann Daniel Rohr procured the Baptism or Our Father Bell . It has the strike tone e '', a diameter of 60 cm and a weight of 120 kg. Its inscription reads IN GOD'S NAME GOS MICH JOHANN DANIEL ROHR 1725 IN HEILBRONN. TRESHING BLADES SOLI DEO GLORIA. The older tubular bell shattered in 1847 and was cast at Bachert in Dallau, but had to be delivered for armament purposes in 1917 during the First World War.
Thanks to a generous donation from America, the community was able to have two new bells cast at the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf in 1922 . The memorial bell, dedicated to the memory of the donor Georg Stier († 1914), had the strike note a 'and a weight of 360 kg. The peace bell had the strike tone c '' and a weight of 220 kg. Both bells from 1922 had to be returned in 1942 during World War II.
After the Second World War there was a desire to get a three-part bell back, but due to the financial situation it was not possible to re-cast two bells. The congregation therefore acquired a used bell from Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg from 1932, which had been in the Friedenskirche in Charlottenburg before the war . This evening, prayer and death goat has the strike note h ', a diameter of 75.5 cm and a weight of 237 kg. Its inscription says thank the Lord for he is kind. Psalm 106.1 1932 . The ringing was completed in 1953 by the casting of a new bell. This eleven o'clock bell , also cast by Schilling in Heidelberg, has the strike note d '', a diameter of 68 cm and a weight of 180 kg. Its inscription reads He is our peace .
Tower clock
The church's precision tower clock was manufactured by Walz and Hielscher in Pfullingen in 1970 . Before that, in the church tower, there was a tower clock made by Valentin Stoss in Ulm in 1837 , which in turn replaced an old clock that was last repaired in 1784.
literature
- Adolf von Oechelhäuser and Franz Xaver Kraus [eds.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8,1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 116.
- Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3
- 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. 64–71.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '30.4 " N , 9 ° 3' 23.7" E