Kirchberg Church

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Kirchberg Church
Choir and pulpit
Gallery with organ

The Church Kirchberg is the Reformed Church of the Evangelical Reformed congregation Kirchberg and is in the Aargau municipality of Küttigen in Canton Aargau .

history

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1036 in connection with the transfer of ownership to the Beromünster Canons . At that time she was consecrated to the Virgin Mary . The name Kirchberg first appeared in 1245. From 1528, the church served the Reformed denomination, but the collature remained with the monastery in the Catholic Beromünster, which still had the right to elect the pastor. This unusual legal relationship only ended in 1853 with the takeover of the Kollatur by the Canton of Aargau.

Today's church was built around 1500 in place of its predecessor in late Gothic style. The church tower, which is characterized by the Romanesque , dates from the High Middle Ages and is therefore much older. The church underwent some changes in the 19th century. In 1851 a vestibule was added, in 1868 the church tower was raised and a pointed helmet was added. In 1929 the pointed helmet was replaced by the more original Käsbissen . The last exterior renovation so far took place in 1987, the last interior renovation in 2006.

Buildings and equipment

The nave and the retracted choir rest on a sturdy base and are united under a continuous gable roof . Your walls are plastered and have no structure. A neo-Gothic vestibule under a gable roof is attached to the west side and the church tower is attached to the south side. The tower roof has four clock gables and a pointed helmet. The windows are as pointed arches with tracery and jambs made of sandstone. On the south side of the choir there is a round fish bubble window, which is bricked up on the inside.

Inside, the nave and the slightly raised choir are separated from each other by a round arch. On the left side of the arch is the wooden, polygonal pulpit . A wooden barrel ceiling arches over the ship. A gallery with the organ rests on two profiled wooden posts on the rear wall . The choir is closed polygonally and tapers towards the rear. Here you can find glass windows by the Aargau artist Felix Hoffmann .

In the southeast corner of the churchyard there is a linden tree that was planted by Pastor Jakob Nüsperli von Aarau and under which he rests. Nüsperli served as pastor from 1781 to 1835 and founded the “large tree nursery in Leuenfeld near Aarau, which is known throughout Switzerland”.

literature

  • Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I: The districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948, p. 162-165 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zschokke, Ernst (1927): "Pastor Jakob Nüsperli auf Kirchberg", Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 1927
  2. ^ Heinrich Lutz: Complete description of the Swiss country , Aarau: Verlag Sauerländer (Ed.), 1827, p. 224, Google Books

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Kirchberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '38.4 "  N , 8 ° 3' 47.8"  E ; CH1903:  647 145  /  251281