Hindenburg Memorial Church Stetten
The Hindenburg Memorial Church is a Protestant church in Stetten am kalten Markt in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg .
history
Originally, Stetten was almost entirely Catholic, and the Reformation passed the place almost without a trace. The construction of the railway in the Danube valley brought a few evangelical Christians. With the construction of the Heuberg military training area in 1913, the community grew to around 150 people due to the new residents. For the time being, the services were held in the land registry of Stetten; After the room became too small, the community was assigned a classroom. The community in Kadelburg donated a wooden altar to those in Stetten, while Grand Duchess Luise donated an altar cover. The parish was looked after by a pastor who lived in Meßkirch . After the end of the First World War , the military training area was deserted and the congregation fell apart except for a small remainder. In 1918, worship was held every 14 days. Stetten was the diaspora parish from 1924 to 1930 , and a plain church hall was available for services. In 1933 a site administration was established and the military training area was put back into operation. The population grew steadily, and new Evangelical Christians also moved to the village.
The first planning and negotiations for the building site took place in 1933. The building site was donated to the parish in 1935 by the city of Stetten. The diaspora congregation of Stetten was raised to a full church congregation in 1934, which meant that the conditions for financing the church were given; the community was allowed to raise local church tax. At the same time, the diaspora parish was converted into a regular parish. The foundation stone was laid in 1937. The document box contained: the document, the appeal for the foundation from 1934, the printed sermon of Field Bishop Dohrmann on the occasion of the inauguration of the Hindenburg crypt in the Tannenberg memorial , various issues of the Evangelical Community Messenger , a block of postage stamps, all at the time in Coins of the German Reich in use, a diagram of the church to be built, the Lake Constance survey of July 10, 1937, a picture sheet about the conditions in Soviet Russia and the printed program of the laying of the foundation stone. The architect was Otto Bartning from Berlin. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 11, 1937, and the church was consecrated in mid-1938. A ceramic relief was placed in the entrance area depicting Paul von Hindenburg and a military scene. The relief was made by the majolica manufactory in Karlsruhe . The French military government in Stockach ordered the destruction of the ceramic relief in 1948. However, the evangelical community hired a bricklayer to pull up a wall in front of it. Two new bells, the Christ bell and the Gustaf-Adolf bell , were consecrated in 1953. The General-Zieten bell survived the Second World War undamaged.
A thorough renovation of the building took place in 1980. In 1999, on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the parish of Stetten, the pastor Ulrich Baier had the majolica relief exposed again. He commissioned the bricklayer's grandson, who walled up the relief in 1948. In 1999 the base was painted gray, the church blue. Since then it has been called "the blue church of Stetten" by the population.
Furnishing
- Gallery parapet with wood-carved panels by Karl Josef Fortwängler
- An organ with an electric action and a free-standing console was installed in 1940 by the organ building company M. Welte & Sons from Freiburg im Breisgau.
- The altar and the font were made by Friedrich Wetterer from Stetten
- Hand-forged brass angel as a song board by Werner Kump from Chemnitz
- Church stalls, windows and a large altar cross by the Sieber brothers' joinery in Stetten
Peal
The bells were cast in Sinn by the Rincker bell foundry in 1938 ; they were named Gustaf-Adolf-Glocke , Bismarck-Glocke and General-Zieten-Glocke . The Hindenburg bell and the Gustaf-Adolf bell were drafted for war purposes in 1942 . In 1953 the ringing was supplemented by a G'-bell and a B'-bell, also cast by Rincken.
literature
- Hans Karl Scherrer: The Protestant parish of Stetten on the cold market (Heuberg) with its Hindenburg memorial church , 1973, publisher Evangelischer Kirchengemeinderat Stetten.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description and photo
- ↑ Hans Karl Scherrer, The Evangelical Church Community of Stetten on the cold market (Heuberg) with its Hindenburg Memorial Church, 1973, publisher Evangelischer Kirchengemeinderat Stetten
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '27.6 " N , 9 ° 4' 42.4" E