Evangelical town church (Eppingen)
The Evangelical City Church in Eppingen , a town in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg , is located at Kaiserstraße 10. It was built in the neo-Romanesque style from 1876 onwards according to designs by the Karlsruhe architect Ludwig Diemer and inaugurated in 1879. The church building, the organ by Heinrich Voit and the old Osanna bell from 1516 by Bernhart Lachaman are listed as historical monuments .
history
Eppingen has belonged to the Electoral Palatinate since the 15th century and was reformed with it in the 16th century . Due to the numerous changes of faith in the Electoral Palatinate, there were Reformed, Lutheran and Catholic Christians in Eppingen in the 18th century. Reformed and Catholics used the Liebfrauenkirche as a simultaneous church from 1707 . The Lutherans, who were represented in the village from 1750, celebrated their services in St. Peter's Chapel . The Catholics had received the comparatively small choir of the Liebfrauenkirche and expanded it to include a transept due to lack of space in 1806/07. After the Reformed and Lutherans merged to form the Protestant community in 1821, the nave part of the Church of Our Lady became too small for all Protestant believers, so that the Protestant side considered a new building. Initially there were plans to build a new church on the site of the old nave of the Liebfrauenkirche, but it was then decided to build a new one outside of the narrow town center.
In 1873, the Protestant parish acquired a plot of land in an elevated position above the old town in Roth , where numerous representative buildings such as the high school or the district court were built after the Franco-German War . At that time, this quarter formed a new city center, even if the city later expanded in other directions and the Kaiserstraße that crosses the quarter is now a rather insignificant side street. The Evangelical Rectory is also located in Kaiserstraße near the church .
Ludwig Diemer was commissioned with the planning for the church . The foundation stone was laid on October 22, 1876.
On November 30, 1876, the Protestant and Catholic congregations agreed to sell the previous Protestant parts of the old Simultankirche to the Catholics, whereby the largest and oldest bell of the old Simultankirche, which was cast by Bernhart Lachaman in Heilbronn in 1516 , took place in July 1878 was taken over into the new evangelical church. In August 1878, three more bells from the Bachert bell foundry in Dallau were added to the ringing . The foundation stone from 1435, which was newly walled up in the Protestant church, was also taken over from the old church.
On September 20, 1878, Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden visited the almost completed church. At the beginning of 1879 Heinrich Voit from Durlach delivered a two-manual organ with a pedal and 26 registers for the church, also in 1879 a tower clock was installed by Ungerer from Strasbourg.
On 19 March 1879, the former was Roth road at the request of the Protestant church, and on the occasion of the inauguration of the church and of the 82nd birthday of the emperor in imperial road renamed. The church was consecrated on March 23, 1879. On the occasion of the inauguration, the then dean Hermann Wirth (1827-1894) published a paper on the history of the Church in Eppingen. The Imperial Mint in Karlsruhe minted a commemorative coin on the occasion of the inauguration.
The first major repairs to the church were necessary in 1897, after the roof in particular had been damaged in a hailstorm. Roof repairs were frequent even in later years. In 1905 the church got a water connection, in 1908 a sewage connection.
During the First World War , the three Bachert bells had to be delivered for armament purposes in 1917. In 1921 three replacement bells were cast by Bachert in Karlsruhe.
In 1922 the church received electric light. In 1926 the interior of the church was redesigned, with red and moss green tones predominating. The ceiling was painted orange, the sacristy purple. In 1930 the enclosure wall facing Kaiserstraße was built.
The church survived the Second World War without damage, but in 1942 all bells except the old Osanna bell had to be returned. Replacement came again in 1950 from Bachert, now in Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf, in connection with an electrical bell system. In 1952 an electric foot heating was installed, which gave way to a new floor covering and warm air heating as early as 1965. In 1956, the church received its current, restrained color scheme and three colored windows by Will Sohl in the chancel, whereas the ox eyes previously located in the dome above the altar were walled up.
In 1963, a modern community center was built on part of the parish garden on Kaiserstrasse.
description
The floor plan shows the shape of a cross with an incorporated hexagon, as was widespread for sermon churches at the time of construction. The church was built from Mühlbach sandstone . The interior has a length of 40 meters and at its widest point a width of 24 meters. The room height is 12 meters. Thanks to two side galleries, the church offers space for approx. 1,200 believers, making it one of the largest Protestant church buildings in the area at the time of construction and even later. The tower is 43 meters high up to the cross.
In terms of relations, everything in the church is geared towards the oversized sermon area, while the chancel, the sacristy and the tower are undersized in comparison.
The colored windows by Will Sohl in the chancel show the resurrection of Christ in the middle, flanked by a Christmas and a Pentecost motif.
The most important piece from the church treasury is a gilded communion chalice from 1619. In 1966 the church also received a silver chalice from the property of the descendants of the parish priest Philipp Nikolaus Müller (1752-1828), which he had received in 1828 from the city of Eppingen and who came to the USA with his descendants.
The organ of the church was built in 1879 by Heinrich Voit in Durlach with 26 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The organ was used several times, u. a. von Walcker in his branch in Steinsfurt and von Steinmayer in Öttingen, expanded and rebuilt, and especially rearranged according to the baroque sound ideal. In 1980 the instrument was partially restored to its original romantic state. In the course of a renovation in 2010 by the organ builder Rensch (Laufen), three further registers were reconstructed. Some registers have not yet been restored to their original state.
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- annotation
- (n) = not yet returned
literature
- Michael Ertz (Ed.): Hundred Years of Evangelical City Church Eppingen 1879–1979 , Eppingen 1979.
- Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn , Konrad Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, p. 154.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the municipality's website
Web links
Dreifaltigkeitskirche Elsenz | Evangelical Church Elsenz | Evangelical town church (Eppingen) | Evangelical Church Mühlbach | Evangelical Church Richen | Sacred Heart Chapel | Johannes Nepomuk Chapel | St. Catherine's Chapel | Birth of Mary | Our Lady of Sorrows | Lady Chapel | St. Boniface | St. Nazarius | Our Lady | Valentine's Church | Pilgrimage Church Ottilienberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 23.9 ″ E