Evangelical town church Weingarten
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The neo-Gothic Evangelical City Church at Abt-Hyller-Straße 17 in Weingarten (Württemberg) was inaugurated in 1883. It is the spiritual center of the Weingarten parish of the Evangelical State Church in Württemberg .
Prehistory and construction
At the time of the Reichsabbey Weingarten , Altdorf, later Weingarten, was a purely Catholic place. The first Protestant Christians came to the city in the 19th century. An orphanage for Catholic and Protestant children, which was set up in the former monastery, led to the establishment of the Evangelical Church Community of Weingarten in 1825. The Protestant Christians celebrated worship in a prayer room in the middle of the former monastery, even when it was later used as a barracks. The rooms there were too small and unsuitable in terms of layout, so that the call for a church of their own grew louder and louder.
In 1878 the decision to build a church was then made. With the help of many donations from Protestant Christians and a loan, the 100,000 marks that this building cost in the diaspora could be raised. A third came from the Gustav-Adolf-Verein alone , and the German Emperor Wilhelm I also donated 1,000 marks.
The Stuttgart senior building officer Prof. Christian Friedrich von Leins (1814–1892) was won over as the architect of the city church . In addition to many Protestant churches throughout Württemberg, he built famous buildings in his hometown such as the Villa Berg and the Königsbau on Schlossplatz. He immortalized himself with his initials on the ceiling of the entrance hall of the Weingarten town church.
The church was consecrated on August 5, 1883 with a pageant and a solemn service .
With the parsonage from 1890 and the Protestant school (today the city library) from 1894, a center of Protestant community life was created, which was initially on the outskirts, but has now moved to the center due to the city's steady growth. The Martin Luther parish hall with kindergarten has complemented the ensemble of the late 19th century since 1951; In 2017-2018 it was extensively rebuilt and renovated.
Conversions and renovations
In the years after the First World War, the church showed strong signs of aging. In 1920 a finial even fell from the tower and broke through the roof. In 1931 the church was renovated and greatly simplified both inside and out. The side turrets on the church tower and pinnacles on the nave were removed; all brick surfaces were plastered. Decorative wall paintings were whitewashed inside. The crumbling choir window was replaced by the window that is still visible today. Two paintings on the choir wall and a new, simple pulpit, which were added to the church in 1931, were lost during a further renovation in 1958.
The church was last extensively restored in 1980, shortly before its 100th birthday. The benches and lighting date from this period. Smaller renovation measures followed in 2014. A comprehensive exterior renovation is planned.
Architecture and equipment
Like many churches of its time, the church is in the neo-Gothic style . Today it is largely unadorned inside. The spatial impression is determined by the three-aisled wooden ceiling and the slender wooden columns in the nave.
The colorful choir window shows Christ as the risen one, in his hand the flag as a symbol of victory over death. The window is a foundation of the Wachter family and was made in 1931 by glass painter Gaiser based on a design by the Stuttgart painter Walter Kohler (1903–1945). Windows in many churches in Württemberg and in the Moritzkirche in Halle / Saale were made by Kohler, who died early in an air raid.
organ
In the 20th century, the organ from 1883 showed severe technical, structural and aural defects. According to a disposition draft by Paul Horn , a new organ was built by Orgelbau Friedrich Weigle in Echterdingen in 1981 (op. 1353). The two-manual instrument with pedal has 24 registers with a total of 1,400 pipes . It was laid out according to baroque work principles, but in such a way that works from the romantic and modern periods can also be played on it. The game and stop action are mechanical. The organ works without playing aids such as fixed or free combinations. It can be heard regularly in church services, in concerts and with organ music on market day on the first Wednesday of each month.
Disposition
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- Coupling (kicks): II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The bell in the tower consists of three bells:
- Steel bell h °, manufactured by the Bochumer Verein , installed in 1921
- Bronze bell d ', manufactured by Kurtz in Stuttgart, installed in 1958
- Steel bell f ', manufactured by the Bochumer Verein, installed in 1921
literature
- Gisela Langeheinicke: The Protestant parish Weingarten and its town church . In: Festschrift Evangelische Stadtkirche Weingarten 1883–1983 , Evangelische Kirchengemeinde, Weingarten 1983
- Christoph Heinrich Klein: The new Protestant church in Weingarten . In: Leaves of the Gustav Adolf Association for Evangelical Württemberg . 1883
- Paul Krauss: One hundred and five years of the Evangelical Church in Weingarten . Evangelical parish, Weingarten 1930 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ Weingarten (D - BW) The bells of the Protestant town church , YouTube video by Glockenfampf , June 10, 2014
Web links
- Evangelical church community Weingarten
- Videos of the Evangelical Church Community Weingarten on Youtube
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 31.9 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 21.2" E