Evangelical town church (Altensteig)
The Evangelical City Church in Altensteig , a town in the Calw district in Baden-Württemberg , was built from 1773 to 1775 according to plans by the church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez from Ludwigsburg. The execution was carried out by the foreman Georg Christoph Reich from Nagold. The church built on the eastern edge of the upper town has a high documentary value for the history of Altensteig. Its mighty structure and the tower shape the city skyline to the greatest extent. It is the center of the Evangelical Church Community Altensteig in the church district of Calw-Nagold of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
Building history
Altensteig belonged to the parish of Altensteigdorf until 1570 , but had dependent chaplains at the medieval Romanesque chapels of St. Anna (missing), St. Leonhard (remains) and St. Nikolaus until the Reformation, whose chaplains and priests shared a spiritual life in the Altensteiger Marienbruderschaft led. The city of Altensteig finally became Protestant under the margraviate of Baden-Durlach in 1556, 500 years after it was first mentioned in a document. The chaplaincy became a diaconate. In 1570 the late Gothic changed Nikolauskapelle was raised to the parish church for the city. With the increase in the population (1570: 200, 1768: 1050), the Nikolauskirche became too small and also dilapidated. Due to a lack of space within the city wall, the new city church was built outside from 1773 to 1775 according to plans by the church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez (execution: the Nagold master builder Georg Christoph Reich) with double galleries for more than 800 people and the old Nikolauskirche until 1869 canceled. Some objects from it were used.
Furnishing
The rectangular baroque hall building (external dimensions 29.4 × 16.9 meters) with three-eighth closure in the west and a 48-meter high church tower with a Welscher hood on the east side has a facade that is divided into frame fields by arched windows.
The interior with a two-story gallery , with a pulpit and altar on the east side, has an organ by Johannes Rohlf from 2002 in a case by Weinmar from the time it was built.
The middle position of the pulpit emphasizes the central importance of the proclamation of the word of God, the organ opposite the word proclamation emphasizes the spiritual character of the music. 2 × 12 gallery columns symbolize the addition of the new covenant to the old covenant (12 tribes of Israel). Above everything stands the risen Jesus Christ on the pulpit cover. The then new building in front of the city walls symbolizes the expected heavenly Jerusalem , a motif that Professor Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J., as part of his overall artistic concept for the church renovation in 1961, put on the top of the Old and New Testament pictorial themes on his altar wall painting (oil spatula technique).
literature
Friedrich Kühbauch, Fritz Oechslen, Hans Peter Jäger: From the history of Altensteig and its districts . Stuttgart 1987.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Altensteig
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation: Building research database see [1]
- ^ Sabine and Klaus-Peter Lüdke: The altar wall picture of Rudolf Yelin the Younger. An interpretation - see [2]
Web links
- For historical information see [3]
- Monument conservation value plan for the entire Altensteig complex see [4]
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 11.3 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 17.1" E