Evangelical rectory (Eppingen)

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Evangelical rectory

The Protestant rectory at Kaiserstraße 3 in Eppingen in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg was built in connection with the neighboring Evangelical City Church , completed in 1879, according to plans by the Karlsruhe architect Ludwig Diemer in the neo-Renaissance style. The building stands as a cultural monument under monument protection .

history

The Protestant community in Eppingen has been using the Church of Our Lady as a simultaneous church since 1707 together with the Catholics . In 1871 the Protestant community decided to build a new rectory. The plans became all the more urgent when the old Protestant as well as the old Catholic rectory were destroyed in a town fire in 1871. In 1873 the parish acquired building land in Roth , where after the Franco-Prussian War numerous representative, primarily public buildings such as the Higher Citizens' School or the district court building were built. 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 rectory was completed in 1873 according to plans by church building officer Ludwig Diemer . From 1876 to 1879, the construction of the neighboring Evangelical City Church followed, also according to plans by Diemer. The street leading past the rectory and church was initially called Rothstrasse and was renamed Kaiserstrasse a few days before the church was inaugurated in March 1879 .

Part of the parish garden was given up in 1963 in order to build a Protestant community center on it.

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, 2002, p. 150.

Web links

Commons : Kaiserstraße 3 (Eppingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ertz 1979, p. 13. Deviating from this and probably incorrectly, Fekete wrote in 2002 that the building was not completed until 1883.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 12.7 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 24.2"  E