Johanneskirche (Seeburg)

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The Johanneskirche Seeburg (2007)

The Protestant Johanneskirche in the center of Seeburg , a district of the Bad Urach municipality in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg, was first mentioned in 770 and belongs to the Bad Urach and Seeburg parish . In its current expansion, it has around 250 seats. Like the organ , it is a listed building.

history

The Johanneskirche was first mentioned in a document dated June 11, 770 in the Lorsch Codex Laureshamensis in connection with a donation from Waldo to Abbot Gundeland von Lorsch . The origins of today's church go back to the 13th century. Large parts of the original church are still preserved today. These include the apse, a Romanesque north window in the choir room , the east wall of the choir and the tabernacle (the tabernacle) in the chancel arch. The nave was built in 1720 and the church was renovated in 1871, 1961 (by architect Friedrich Veit) and more recently.

Apse fresco depicting the Majestas Domini , surrounded by the evangelist symbols

Architecture, design

The Secco painting in the apse dates from around 1280. The frescoes in the choir also date from the 13th and 14th centuries . They represent Christ as the ruler of the world in the mandorla , surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists (angel, lion, bull, eagle). Another fresco depiction can be dated to the year 1370, it shows the story of John the Baptist . The scenes with John in the desert and Herod's feast have been preserved .

During the renovation in 1961, the organ gallery, which had completely obstructed the choir, was removed and the sculptor Susanne Müller-Diefenbach from Tübingen-Lustnau created a modern altar and baptismal font as well as the wall and vault painting by the Tübingen restorer Professor Hans-Dieter Ingenhoff ( 1927–1994) uncovered and restored. In 1961, the Stuttgart artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler designed the southern choir window with a non-representational glass painting.

The Johanneskirche forms the center of the Seeburg cemetery with some very old gravestones.

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1853 by the organ builder Johann Viktor Gruol the Younger. The instrument was restored in 1980; In the course of this, the Rückpositiv was added and a new gaming table was set up. The instrument has 12 registers on two manual works and pedal (cone chests for main work and pedal, slider chests for Rückpositiv). The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Covered 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Principal 4 '
4th Transverse flute 0 4 '
5. Dolce 4 '
6th mixture
II Rückpositiv C – f 3
7th Covered 8th'
8th. Reed flute 0 4 '
9. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  '
10. Principal 2 '
11. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  '
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub bass 0 16 ′

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Bad Urach-Seeburg
  2. ↑ Evangelical Churches and Christian Art in Württemberg 1957-1966 - A cross section ; Ed. Association for Christian Art in the Protestant Church of Württemberg - Adolf Gommel; Stuttgart 1966, fig. 8 and 9
  3. ↑ Information on the organ at organindex.de

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '16.9 "  N , 9 ° 23' 15.2"  E