Evangelical town church Ladenburg
The Evangelical City Church in Ladenburg in the Rhein-Neckar district in northwest Baden-Württemberg was built between 1876 and 1878 according to the plans of Hermann Behaghel .
history
The control of the city Ladenburg shared in a Kondominat since 1385 the bishops of Worms and the Palatinate . After Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in his domain in 1556 , an agreement was initially reached on the simultaneous use of the Ladenburg St. Gallus Church . But already on Good Friday 1565, Elector Friedrich III. the simultaneous relationship violently. From then on , Reformed or Lutheran services were celebrated in the church, with the exception of a short Catholic phase in the Thirty Years' War . In 1693, Bishop Ludwig Anton had the Gallus Church occupied. The protests of the Reformed remained unsuccessful and finally they waived St. Gallus in a settlement in 1708 and received the Mönchhof with its income to build their own church.
The new church was built between 1715 and 1720 according to a plan by Johann Jakob Rischer . It was a baroque hall building with a retracted onion dome . In 1874 the church had to be closed due to dilapidation and the following year it was torn down. In 1876 the foundation stone for the new church was laid and on August 27, 1878 the inauguration could be celebrated. In the 1950s a wooden ceiling was put in place. In 1998 this was reversed and the church was restored.
description
The city church stands on the southeastern edge of the old town on the old Mönchhof. It was built by Hermann Behaghel in the neo-Gothic style. On the ceiling is the original time since the restoration of 1998 bar truss sight. The ceiling fields are painted with floral ornaments. The choir has a painted tapestry under the windows. A wooden gallery runs around the interior from three sides. The organ was built by Walcker in 1959 and rebuilt by Gerhard Lenter in 2000 . The instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
The ringing of the town church consists of four bells . The smallest is from 1934. It was the only one that did not have to be delivered in World War II. The two younger ones were cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in 1951 . The fourth bell was also drawn in during the war, but could be saved and came back to Ladenburg in 1947. It was part of the first bell of the old Reformed Church and was cast in 1732. The sound of the four bells is coordinated with the ringing of the St. Gallus Church .
literature
- Ladenburg Lexicon . Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-6799-8 .
- Karl Hoffmann: Evangelical Church , in: Hansjörg Probst (Hrsg.): Ladenburg: from 1900 years of city history . Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-89-4 .
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 15.8 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 41.8" E