Waldersbach Church
The Waldersbach Church ( French Eglise luthérienne ) is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in the municipality of Waldersbach in the Vosges Mountains . The church is inscribed on the register of cultural heritage in France.
history
The church was built under Pastor Jean Georges Stuber and consecrated in 1751.
description
The simple church is illuminated through arched windows and has a roof turret with bells.
The design of the interior as a transverse church is remarkable . This eminently Protestant concept is rarely found in France and Alsace . The pulpit is on the long side and is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped wooden gallery . A table altar forms the center of the church. Opposite the pulpit is a classical epitaph for the Waldersbach pastor, educator and enlightener Johann Friedrich Oberlin . There is a two-manual organ on the gallery .
Trivia
The German poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz stayed with the Waldersbach pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin in 1778. Georg Büchner later processed the episode literarily in his story Lenz , in which the place is not called Waldersbach, but Waldbach.
Not far from the church there is a museum that documents Oberlin's work.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eglise luthérienne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 53.6 ″ E