The Evangelical City Church of Walldorf was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1858 and 1861 . As a building that can be seen from afar, it stands in the center of Walldorf , a town in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg .
In the middle of the last century, the Gothic found new attention in church construction. It corresponded to the religious feeling of the time. The conception for a neo-Gothic church in Walldorf developed from this cultural and religious zeitgeist . The neo-Gothic style is strict and carried out with uniform clarity. The architectural harmony has been preserved to this day despite various renovations.
The church is an east-facing three-aisled hall church with a raised choir .
This is the most extensive in terms of color and ornamentation. Typical of the Gothic architectural style is the rising room with the mighty, elongated columns that support an arched vault with cross-shaped ribs. The Gothic vault rests on 12 columns. The capitals are decorated with acanthus. The column capital forms the homogeneous transition from the bundle pillars to the cross ribs of the vault. The cross ribs strive towards a keystone that is painted with ornaments. The high wall surfaces are pierced by large, bright tracery windows that taper towards the top in a pointed arch typical of the Gothic. In the pointed arches, the windows were decorated with colored figurative motifs.
Only the central window in the chancel is a blind window with a painting. The painting depicting "Christ on the Cross" was made by the painter Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast when the church was founded. The high windows make the church a light-filled room. The pointed arch pattern of the windows has been continued as a design element on the altar, the baptismal font, the pulpit and the front sides of the pews.
The 58 m high church tower still defines the silhouette of the city together with the tower of the Catholic Church of St. Peter. The neo-Gothic building, visible from afar, is based on the Freiburg Minster. As in Freiburg, the multi-stepped buttresses continue upwards in pinnacles. Another typical Gothic building element is the ornamental gable and the eight open, ogival tower windows. For several years now, the top of the tower has been crowned by a finial, which was reconstructed according to the old model during the renovation of the tower in 2007–2008. In architectural elegance, the tower extends from a quadrangular floor plan to an octagon in the spire.
This organ was rebuilt again in 1950 by the company EFWalcker from Ludwigsburg and adapted to the neo-baroque style. She now had the following disposition:
In 1967 it had to give way to the current organ after 106 years in the town church. No pipe material was taken from the old organ in the new building. The whereabouts of the Braun organ is unknown.
Bells
The bells of the town church were cast in 2007 in the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe as a replacement for the cast steel bells from 1949. It consists of 4 bells.
