Evangelical town church (Weinheim)
The Evangelical City Church in Weinheim in the Rhine-Neckar district in northwest Baden-Württemberg was built between 1731 and 1736.
history
After the Catholics of Weinheim 1693, the old abbey church of the Carmelites had taken over, who had reformed in the walled Old Town (today's old town) is no longer God's house, even though they made a clear majority of the population of Weinheim. Their protests were unsuccessful, since since Elector Philipp Wilhelm took office in 1685, a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family ruled the Electoral Palatinate again . Their church services initially took place in a hall of the Rabenhauptschen Hof in Münzgasse, until Baroness Marie Dorothea von Gemmingen in 1704 the community had a barn in Judengasse bequeathed, which was converted into a provisional church.
In 1726 the community bought a piece of land near the market square. The foundation stone was laid in 1731 and five years later, on November 4, 1736, the first service took place in the new church. The building was erected under the supervision of Johann Jakob Rischer . In 1932 the congregation was named Evangelische Johannisgemeinde . The church was renovated inside in 1974, outside in 1986 and again inside in 1994.
description
The city church is in the center of the old town near the market square on the main street. It fits traufständig into the surrounding houses. On the gable roof an octagonal sitting skylights with welscher hood . There are four large arched windows on the street front and on the back. Two arched portals are arranged under the two outer windows on the main street. The keystones of the windows and portals are decorated with angel heads. The main entrance to the church has been on the southern long side since 1974.
The rectangular interior is enclosed on three sides by a gallery that was built in the middle of the 18th century. The wooden pulpit is just as old . The simple wooden altar was erected in 1994. The crucifix dates from the second half of the 18th century. The four colored windows on the east side were designed in 1884. The two inside show the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon .
organ
The organ was built in 1995 in the Matz & Luge workshop . The instrument has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . Some registers of the main work can be played as alternating loop registers in the pedal.
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- Coupling : II / I ( sliding coupler ), I / P, II / P
literature
- Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967.
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 3: The city of Mannheim and the communities of the district of Mannheim . Karlsruhe 1970.
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ of the city church (PDF; 305 kB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 46.1 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 22.1" E