Evangelical town church Lörrach

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West side of the town church

The Evangelical City Church in downtown Lörrach was built between 1814 and 1817 by Wilhelm Frommel (1759–1837) in the so-called Weinbrenner style . In the city church, services of the St. Matthew congregation take place.

history

The oldest part of the town church is the 42.5 meter high tower, which dates from 1517, as evidenced by the carved inscription on the southwest corner: “do man zalt after the birth of criste ihsus 1517”. For the then village of Lörrach, it served both as a bell and as a watchtower . Since older masonry can be seen inside the tower, it is assumed that the tower rests on the foundations of an older one. Since the tower is next to the medieval Lörrach castle, which is no longer preserved, it could also have served as a defense. A report from 1558 testifies to a rich equipment.

In 1736 the pulpit was attached to the east wall behind the altar. Even at that time, the church offered too little space, as can be seen from the visitation protocol from 1753. The medieval church was demolished in 1814 with the exception of the tower. Today's Protestant town church was completed in 1817 after three years of construction. It was built in typical Weinbrenner style by the master builder Wilhelm Frommel, who presented the plans for the new building as early as 1807. Since the architectural principles had to be brought into line with the barren reality, the building was partially rejected. The parish priest Höchstetter described it in 1882 as an “unsightly square building”.

In 1963, the town church was extensively renovated, the tower hall redesigned and a new altar and baptismal bowl installed. The artists Jürgen Brodwolf and Rudolf Scheurer participated in the redesign .

description

Location and exterior

The church is located in the southern edge of the Lörrach city center, east of the Lörrach castle courtyard , west of the city ​​library and north of the Dreiländermuseum, adjacent in the southern part of the Lörrach city center. Not far from the town church there are two stations on the Lörrach Sculpture Trail : the sculptures Sun Faces and Evolution by the Lörrach artist Rudolf Scheurer and the sculpture Existential Need by Konrad Winzer .

The structure consists of the original tower of the previous building and the new building of the nave. In the new building, the tower was raised and instead of the old gable roof was given a pyramid roof with a sweeping cornice , which together with a golden ball forms the helmet . It is unusual that the 42.5 meter high church tower is at a 45-degree angle to the nave in the west . During extensive renovations in 1963, the tower hall was redesigned; The altar and baptismal bowl were renewed. The font, crucifix and candlestick are from Rudolf Scheurer, the glass windows from Jürgen Brodwolf . The previous churches were consecrated to St. Peter until the Reformation in 1556 . This church patronage now leads the modern Church of St. Peter in Lörracher Nordstadt from 1964.

Furnishing

inner space

The bright inside, simple hall church has on all four sides a circumferential, whitewashed loft . The angular pulpit with a sound cover is located directly above the altar . The organ is located above on the gallery . It was taken over from the previous building of the church built in 1817 and is now a listed building . In 1882 the company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker from Ludwigsburg built a new mechanism into the old case, which included two manuals , a pedal and 22 stops . Another renovation in 1965 by the Wagner and Peter Vier companies expanded the organ to three manuals and a pedal with 40 registers .

There is a small baptistery in the tower . A memorial stone for Gustav Magnus Baron von Wallbrunn is set there.

Bells

In 1756 there were four bells hanging in the Evangelical City Church, three of which belonged to the church and a small one, the so-called Citizen Bell, was the property of the city. The three large bells come from the Weitenauer bell foundry in Basel; they were supplemented by another in 1784. In the First World War , all but the Bürgerglöcken had to be handed in. In 1922 the church received a new bell from the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe. Even in the Second World War , bells had to be handed in for military service; only the b'-bell remained. In 1949, the Bochum Association made three cast steel bells with the denominations d ′, f ′ and g ′.

literature

  • Otto Wittmann et al., Stadt Lörrach (ed.): Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture , Verlag Stadt Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 , pages 609-612.
  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 161–162.
  • Evangelical Church Community Lörrach (Ed.): 1517-1817-1967. Festschrift on the 450th anniversary of the church tower and the 150th anniversary of the Evangelical City Church , Lörrach 1967.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche, Lörrach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wittmann: Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture , p. 610
  2. ↑ a b Wittmann: Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture , p. 611
  3. ^ A b Wittmann: Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture , p. 612
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 162

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 35.7"  E