Nagold church district

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Basic data
Regional Church : Evangelical Church in Württemberg
Prelature : Reutlingen
Structure: 34 parishes
Parishioners: approx. 33,700 (2005)

approx.29,400 (2019)

Address of the
Dean's Office :		 Hohe Str. 7/1
72202 Nagold
Dean : Ralf Albrecht
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Location of the church district Nagold within the Evang. Regional Church in Württemberg

The previous Evangelical Church District Nagold has merged with the previous Church District Calw to form the new Evangelical Church District Calw-Nagold since January 1, 2019 , and within it one of 44 church districts or church districts of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Its area is congruent with the dean's office Nagold.

geography

The Nagold church district is located in the west of the Württemberg regional church. Its area largely includes the northern Black Forest and the Heckengäu. The Nagold River flows through the eastern church district from south to north. The church district comprises the south of the Calw district , i.e. the cities and communities Altensteig (excluding the Hornberg district), Ebhausen , Egenhausen , Haiterbach , Nagold , Rohrdorf , Simmersfeld (excluding the Aichhalden district) and Wildberg as well as the communities of Eutingen im Gäu (Göttelfingen district only) , Grömbach , Horb am Neckar (only Talheim district), Pfalzgrafenweiler (only Bösingen district) and Wörnersberg of the Freudenstadt district .

Neighboring church districts

The church district of Nagold borders on the following church districts of the Württemberg regional church (starting clockwise in the north): Calw , Herrenberg , Sulz am Neckar and Freudenstadt . In the west it has a short border to the parish "Baden-Baden and Rastatt" of the Evangelical Church in Baden .

history

The Nagold dean's office goes back to the Wildberg dean's office (formerly known as the Spezialsuperintendentur), which was established in Württemberg shortly after the Reformation. The Wildberg deanery has been changed several times. In 1604, the Altensteig dean's office, which had been in existence since 1566 and had its seat in Walddorf, was incorporated. The Wildberg deanery initially belonged to the Bebenhausen Generalate, from 1810 to the Tübingen Generalate and from 1821 to the Reutlingen Generalate, from which today's Reutlingen Prelature emerged . In 1821 the Dean's office was relocated from Wildberg to Nagold. Today the church district roughly covers the area of ​​the old Württemberg Oberamt Nagold. Most parishes in the church district are shaped by Pietism.

Head of the church district

The church district is managed by the district synod , the church district committee (KBA) and the dean . The current dean is Ralf Albrecht, who is also one of the pastors at the town church in Nagold .

Deans of the parish of Nagold

  • 1796–1804 Karl Friedrich Ziller, dean in Wildberg
  • 1804–1813 Christlieb Martin Plieninger, Dean in Wildberg
  • 1813–1831 Christian Andreas Harpprecht, until 1821 Dean in Wildberg
  • 1832–1839 August Jakob Viktor Hauff
  • 1840–1844 Gottlieb Benjamin Friedrich Haas
  • 1844–1851 Karl Christoph Friedrich Stockmayer
  • 1851–1877 Johann Georg Freihofer (1806–1877)
  • 1878–1887 Gottlob Kemmler (1823–1907)
  • 1887–1895 Otto Emil Schott (1831–1901)
  • 1895–1909 Christian Friedrich von Römer (1854–1920)
  • 1909–1919 Adolf Pfleiderer
  • 1919–1934 Wilhelm Otto (1879–1939)
  • 1935–1940 Wilhelm Gümbel (1889–1978)
  • 1940–1959 Rudolf Brezger (1904–1999)
  • 1959–1965 Eberhard Weismann (* 1908)
  • 1965–1975 Helmut Betsch (* 1912)
  • 1975–1984 Eberhard Lempp (1920–1984)
  • 1985–1994 Adolf Götz (* 1931)
  • 1995–2006 Albrecht Becker (1941–2010)
  • 2007–2020 Ralf Albrecht (* 1964)

Parishes

In the church district of Nagold there are a total of 34 parishes, several of which have also merged to form a total of five parishes. The parishes predominantly comprise areas that belong to political parishes in the district of Calw . Otherwise this is specifically mentioned in the following overview.

Altensteig parish

The Altensteig parish includes the core town of Altensteig . Altensteig belonged to the parish of Altensteigdorf until 1570 , but had dependent chaplains at the medieval Romanesque chapels of St. Anna (missing), St. Leonhard (remains) and St. Nikolaus until the Reformation, whose chaplains and priests shared a spiritual life in the Altensteiger Marienbruderschaft led. The city of Altensteig finally became Protestant under the margraviate of Baden-Durlach in 1556, 500 years after it was first mentioned in a document. The chaplaincy became a diaconate. In 1570 the late Gothic changed Nikolauskapelle was raised to the parish church for the city. With the increase in the population (1570: 200, 1768: 1050), the Nikolauskirche became too small and also dilapidated. Due to a lack of space within the city wall, the new city ​​church was built outside from 1773 to 1775 according to plans by the church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez (execution: the Nagold master builder Georg Christoph Reich) with double galleries for more than 800 people and the old Nikolauskirche until 1869 canceled. Some objects from it were used. The middle position of the pulpit emphasizes the central importance of the proclamation of the word of God, the organ opposite the word proclamation emphasizes the spiritual character of the music. 2 × 12 gallery columns symbolize the addition of the new covenant to the old covenant (12 tribes of Israel). Above everything stands the risen Jesus Christ on the pulpit cover. The then new building in front of the city walls symbolizes the expected heavenly Jerusalem , a motif that Professor Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J., as part of his overall artistic concept for the church renovation in 1961, put on the top of the Old and New Testament pictorial themes on his altar mural.

Parishes Altensteigdorf & Berneck

Altensteigdorf parish

The parish Altensteigdorf comprises the districts of Altensteigdorf , Lengenloch and Überberg (with Heselbronn and Zumweiler ) of the city of Altensteig. The Remigius Church is one of the oldest in the area. The late Romanesque tower with the tower choir probably dates from around 1200. There on the north wall there are still worth seeing frescoes : above the announcement, birth and adoration of Jesus, below his flagellation, carrying the cross and undressing before the crucifixion. The church is first mentioned in written records in 1275. In 1757 the spire was replaced and the tower was shortened from 33 meters to 26 meters. In 1903 the nave was extended to the south and provided with larger windows. The asymmetrical widening of the nave required a new roof and the neo-Gothic wider western front. The north gallery from 1714, the baroque font from 1697 and the crucifix under the triumphal arch have been preserved. Further renovations followed in 1966 and 1992. The glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler created the Easter sun in 1966 as a resurrection symbol in the east window of the choir to replace an ornament window from 1903. In this context, the late Gothic frescoes ( evangelist symbols ) on the east wall of the choir were hidden under plaster and thus secured.

In Lengenloch there is a branch church of older origin, which was almost completely renovated in 1751. A parish hall was inaugurated in Überberg in 2001. Uberberg was an independent parish until 1924, which was merged with the parish Altensteigdorf through the announcement of the upper church council on May 17, 1924.

Berneck parish

The parish of Berneck includes the district of the same name in the city of Altensteig. The Laurentiuskirche was elevated to a parish church between 1466 and 1471, expanded in 1490 to include the Gothic choir, and in 1508 it was first mentioned as the Marienkirche . The wall paintings in the choir room, the tomb of the politically important Landhofmeister Balthasar von giltlingen († 1563) and his wife Agnes von Gemmingen (Lord von giltlingen was local lord in Berneck and introduced the Reformation there in 1536), a Pietà made of linden wood (around 1420) and the late Gothic baptismal font and the sacrament house are cultural and historical features that characterize this church building. The single-aisled hall church with a coffered ceiling and a roof turret was rebuilt in 1661 after a fire. The choir with an irregular 3/8 end contains frescoes , the sacristy a late Gothic cross vault. The crucifix behind the altar was made around 1700. There are numerous tombstones and epitaphs. In 1753 the church was rebuilt and expanded (roof turrets , cross-church-like additions). - 1965 renovation with exposure of the frescoes and dismantling of the pulpit altar.

Parishes of Beihingen & Bösingen

Parish of Beihingen

The parish of Beihingen includes the district of the same name in the city of Haiterbach . It owns a church from the 13th century, which is evident from the church tower. Until after the Second World War it contained the vaulted tower choir with a choir arch opening to the west. The nave there was probably demolished in favor of a street plan and replaced in 1953/1954 by the addition of a new, east-facing nave (axially shifted slightly to the south) with adjoining choir and sacristy. The large mural behind the altar with the motif of Majestas Domini and the The accompanying trumpet angels of the Revelation comes from the Stuttgart artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler . The oldest witnesses of local history can be found in the early Gothic church tower: its bells are up to 700 years old. The two oldest were probably cast in Rottweil in the 14th century. The parish is looked after by the parish of the neighboring parish of Bösingen (parish of Pfalzgrafenweiler, district of Freudenstadt).

Parish of Bösingen

The parish of Bösingen includes the eponymous district of Pfalzgrafenweiler ( Freudenstadt district ). A previous church was consecrated to "Our Lady". The current neo-Gothic church , built in 1888 by the Stuttgart architect Theophil Frey , burned down completely on Christmas Eve 1945. The nave was renewed until 1950 according to the plans of the Stuttgart building councilor Johannes Fulda and the destroyed three-part glass painting (Good Shepherd) in the choir with the same theme was replaced by the artist E. Fulda-Müller, followed by the tower helmet renewal until 1957. The Bösingen parish also looks after the neighboring parish of Beihingen (city of Haiterbach).

Ebhausen parish

The parish Ebhausen comprises the core of the parish of the same name . Archaeological excavations in 1961/62 show that there were three previous stone buildings in front of the existing church building. Before the Reformation they were consecrated to St. Mary. Today's nave of the evangelical church Ebhausen was built from 1861 to 1863 east of the Romanesque tower of a tower castle from the 8th century. Epitaphs in the base of the tower and possibly the oldest church bell in Württemberg (from the 14th century) are evidence of earlier centuries. The tendencies in Protestant church building of the 19th century, which were then laid down in the Eisenach regulation of 1861, were already applied when planning the new building in Ebhausen. The hall church was built accordingly in the neo-Gothic style with a retracted choir and a three-sided gallery. In contrast to earlier Gothic churches with slender, high nave windows, which were spanned inside by the galleries, i.e. not divided, the rows of windows here were laid out on two floors. The radical interior redesign of the church in 1962 under the Stuttgart architect Werner Hermann Riethmüller and the artistic and creative direction of Professor Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J. removed the galleries (the west organ gallery was structurally detached from the side walls) and closed the windows on the ground floor. In 1962, between his non-representational colored glazing of the east window and the altar he designed as the rear wall of the choir, Yelin placed a filigree, permeable wall made of molded concrete with the corpus of the risen and blessing Christ in the center. Corresponding to this, the parapet of the same material on the west gallery received four evangelist symbols as an insert. The strong colors of the Yelin choir window enliven the transparent choir wall in front of it. The restrained glazing of the upper nave windows and the colored east gable rosette come from Erich Schwarz from Nagold. When the decision was made to reactivate the six bricked-up lower nave windows, the Stuttgart glass artist Adolf Valentin Saile created lead glass windows in 1986 with the Works of Mercy, the parable of the fourfold field and three baptismal and water stories. In 2019 the interior of the church was renovated and a new lighting concept was implemented in the chancel.

Parishes of Effringen & Schönbronn

Parish Effringen

The parish of Effringen includes the district of the same name in the city of Wildberg . The Evangelical Church of Our Lady in Effringen is one of the most beautiful village churches in Württemberg. This Marienkirche from 1379/1502 had a Romanesque predecessor. On the remaining tower from 1300, the Gothic choir was built from 1379 by the new patron saint Conrad Grückler from Bulach, as the previously authorized Stein am Rhein monastery was no longer financially able to do this. This choir became the patronage burial place of the Grückler and contains corresponding grave slabs. The rich parish priests of the Grückler family could be filled over several generations with clergymen. The sacristy and the furnishings of the choir with its niches, frescoes and choir stalls date from the end of the 15th century. The cycle of pictures on the left shows Maria, who gave the church its name, and the "four great virgins" Katharina, Dorothea, Barbara and Margaretha, on the right next to the choir arch St. George. The church was completed with the construction of the late Gothic three-aisled nave with stone pulpit from 1502. Its special design, especially of the central nave vault, consists of the sky hole framed by the evangelist symbols , the rich, original and realistic painting of plants and animals to depict a sky or paradise garden with pronounced Christian plant symbolism (around 1520) in all vaulted areas and in figurative architectural sculpture on vaulted consoles and keystones. As a result of the Reformation introduced in Württemberg in 1534, the Effringer "Kirchherr" and Neubulach pastor Gallus Grückler sold the Effringer patronage right to Duke Ulrich and became the first Protestant pastor here. The organ case comes from the Rococo. A glass painting from 1420, namely a crucifixion group, has been preserved and inserted in the east window of the south wall of the nave after the restoration in 1957. In 1964, the Stuttgart glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler designed the glass painting opposite in the north aisle and the non-representational colored glazing in the choir. In the old Romanesque font, the baptismal window contains several themes (from bottom to top): a family and congregation gathered for baptism, looking up to the modern version of the medieval depiction of the mercy seat for the Trinity and thus the three articles of the creed . The image fields above the central Holy Spirit motif of the dove show hopes at the end of the days: unusual are the two groups of people accepted in the Last Judgment (the damned are missing!) And in the middle of heavenly Jerusalem the Lamb of God, from whose heart a river of living water ( Rev 22:13  LUT ) goes out. The Marienkirche Effringen was renovated inside and out by architect Hermann Hornbacher in 1964. The neighboring parish of Schönbronn (also town of Wildberg) is looked after by the parish in Effringen.

Parish of Schönbronn

The parish of Schönbronn comprises the district of the same name in the city of Wildberg. The Protestant church in Schönbronn was expanded from a chapel to a simple hall church in 1776 . The parish is cared for by the neighboring parish of Effringen (also city of Wildberg).

Parish of Emmingen and Pfrondorf

The parish of Emmingen and Pfrondorf includes the districts of the same name in Nagold . The Oswaldkirche Emmingen was built in 1778 by adding the nave to a chapel from the 14th / 15th centuries, the basic structure of which still forms the present-day choir. Senior building officer Heinrich Dolmetsch renovated it in 1895 and arranged for the purchase and installation of the neo-Gothic pulpit opposite the three-sided gallery, which was previously installed in the Anglican (now Old Catholic ) church on Katharinenplatz in Stuttgart in 1868. During the renovation in 1929 by the Stuttgart architect Werner Klatte , an extension to the west of the nave, the addition of a sacristy and the color glazing of the choir windows were implemented. Rudolf Yelin the Elder J. provided two tracery windows (the middle one was closed to accommodate the choir organ) with glass paintings of the four evangelists and their symbols . The neighboring parish of Pfrondorf (also city of Nagold) is looked after by the parish of Emmingen.

The Nikolauskirche Pfrondorf was built in 1728 from a pilgrimage chapel from 1445, which forms the choir of the current church, where the organ is set up a little higher. The nave is not axially symmetrical to the choir, as it was widened to the north and provided with a covered gallery on the outside. The parish of Pfrondorf is looked after by the parish of the neighboring parish of Emmingen.

Parish of Grömbach-Wörnersberg

In 1390 Grömbach received its own chaplaincy; before that the parish was a branch of the parish in Haiterbach. The former mass priest Jakob Schönfeld from Günzburg came to "Grömbach im Durlachischen" in 1578. During his term of office, the parish of Grömbach could have converted to the Reformation (1599?). 1603 Grömbach was assigned to Württemberg and the Oberamt Altensteig. In 1727 Wörnersberg, Garrweiler and Schernbach are listed as branches of the Grömbach parish in the stock register. This was incorporated into the dean's office in Freudenstadt in 1807 and finally in 1920 into the dean's office in Nagold and thus, together with Wörnersberg and Garrweiler, initially as a general parish, then as the Evangelical parish of Grömbach-Wörnersberg since 2019 in the church district of Calw-Nagold - despite belonging to the district of Freudenstadt. The parish includes the community of Grömbach as well as the Garrweiler district of the city of Altensteig and the community of Wörnersberg .

A chapel dedicated to St. Georg in Grömbach, previously a branch of the parish in Haiterbach, received its own chaplaincy in 1390. The Protestant Georgskirche in Grömbach received its first bell in 1657, and another was cast in 1730. After the dilapidated church was demolished, today's larger church was built in 1783 in the "basic pattern of classical architecture" by church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez with a flat-roofed choir-less nave and 3/8 degree in the east, attached to an older tower to the south. The baptismal font, the altar table and the pulpit were originally arranged in the church axis, the sacristy is located on the outside on the east side with a staircase to the pulpit. The south and north legs of the three-sided gallery extend to the beginning of the choir closure. A first renovation was necessary in 1833, when the gallery and the chairs were given the white-gray color accent. Further renovations followed in 1884, 1932 and 1976. To commemorate those who died in the First World War from the parishes of the parish, colored lead glazing was donated to the windows of the chancel in 1919: In the north-east window a scene in which Jesus turns comfortingly to a soldier and his family, in the south-east window the sinking Peter and Jesus' call to faith. The design for these windows was probably made by the renowned Stuttgart artist Rudolf Yelin the Elder. Ä. come.

The church and altar consecration of the former pilgrimage church to Our Lady in Wörnersberg in 1487 is documented. Numerous renovations and structural changes are documented for 1687, the 19th and 20th centuries, most recently in 1980. A late Gothic altar shrine with wooden sculptures (Paul, Mary with the child, Saints Wendelin and Sebastian ) has been preserved from the 15th century presumably comes from a sculptor's workshop in Ulm. The two bells also date from the time the church was built.

Parish in Validlingen

The parish of Validlingen comprises the district of the same name in the city of Wildberg , without the settlements of Lerchenberg and Haselstaller Höfe, which were incorporated into the Calw parish by the notice of the Upper Church Council on June 24, 1970 and assigned to the parish in ceiling Pfronn, which then moved to the parish of Herrenberg in 1982 . As a former fortified church, the Michaelskirche in Validlingen is almost completely surrounded by a defensive wall up to 1.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters high - and up to the 19th century it was also surrounded by a floodable ditch. It was built between 1465 and 1467, with the sacristy with Romanesque elements being the oldest part. The choir originally had a reticulated vault. In front of the clear-glazed tracery windows there is the organ with 13 registers from 1815 by the organ builder Weinmar from Bondorf with a magnificent baroque prospect. The interior renovations and redesigns of 1958/59 with the removal of the upper gallery and changes to the remaining gallery and enlargement of the window openings in the nave made the church brighter and friendlier.

Parish of Haiterbach-Talheim

A total parish of Haiterbach-Talheim was formed with effect from November 11, 2001. At that time, the districts of Ober- and Untertalheim were separated from the parish of Haiterbach and merged to form the independent parish of Talheim. This was merged with the remaining parish of Haiterbach to form the new overall parish of Haiterbach-Talheim. In the meantime, both sub-parishes have been merged into one parish and currently (2020) form the parish of Haiterbach-Talheim. The parish includes the core city and the Altnuifra district of the city of Haiterbach and the districts of Ober- and Untertalheim (which are now only referred to as the Talheim district) of the city of Horb am Neckar (Freudenstadt district). The Protestant residents in the predominantly Catholic village of Talheim had initially belonged to the Schietingen branch parish and were assigned to the Haiterbach parish by an announcement by the Upper Church Council on July 6, 1954. Until 1934 the Protestant residents of Unterschwandorf had also belonged to the Haiterbach parish. By announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on March 7, 1934, they were assigned to the parish of Oberschwandorf.

The Laurentius Church in Haiterbach dates back to 1150. The Romanesque tower still preserved dates from this period , apart from the much later upper part. In the early Gothic period, a cross vault was added to the lower floor of the tower as the choir of the previous church. Today the room serves as a sacristy , at the same time as a parent-child room with a divine service broadcast. With its wooden figures of biblical figures, it is a special gem of the church. Wall paintings with depictions of Saints Catherine, Barbara and Margaretha as well as a baptismal font from that time are still preserved. There is no trace of the original nave (nave), its size and construction. Only so much is known that it joined the tower choir with its lengthways direction from west to east. The nave was destroyed in the town fire in 1554 and a year later the nave, which extends from the north to the new south choir, was rebuilt on the west side of the tower. The 5/8 choir with tall rectangular windows without Gothic tracery contains a low organ gallery with eight expressive apostle portraits in the parapet. The stalls in the nave, galleries and choir are aligned on four sides to the wooden pulpit on the right of the choir arch. The tendril mural with a quotation from the Bible on the choir arch characterizes the neo-Gothic interior design from 1857. The most famous pastor of Haiterbach was Christian Gottlob Pregizer (1795–1824), to whom the so-called Pregizer community , a Pietist group, refers.

In 2001, separate community rooms were set up in the bourgeois "Talheim Center".

Overall parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen-Vollmaringen

The entire parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen-Vollmaringen comprises the three districts of the same name in Nagold. With effect from November 1, 1995, the independent parish of Vollmaringen was formed within the overall parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen, which was formed earlier. As a result, the name of the entire parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen was changed with effect from January 26, 1996 to the entire parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen-Vollmaringen. Two pastors are active in this, one in Hochdorf and one in Schietingen. The latter also provides the parish of Vollmaringen with.

Parish of Hochdorf

The parish of Hochdorf comprises the district of the same name in the city of Nagold and the district of Göttelfingen in the parish of Eutingen im Gäu ( Freudenstadt district ), where only around 200 Protestant parishioners live (the others are predominantly Catholic). The Gothic Michaelskirche Hochdorf stands out with its elegant octagonal spire on a square tower. Renovations are known from the years 1881, 1935, 1955 and around 2010, whereby in 1955 the gallery (with organ) that reached into the choir was removed and a new organ was initially installed in the choir, although it was removed during the most recent renovation and thorough modernization. The three colored windows in the 3/8 closed choir were created in 1935 by the Bietigheim artist Adolf Hess (1893–1953): Faith, love and hope ( 1 Cor 13:13  LUT ) are green in the color triad (hope: Sermon on the Mount and discipleship - left), Red (love: passion and resurrection - center) and blue (loyalty and faith: birth and baptism of Jesus - right). The earlier choir center window (Inviting Christ) and an ornament window are still preserved from around 1900. There are no services in Göttelfingen. Until 1913, the Protestant residents of Eutingen also belonged to the Hochdorf parish. By announcement of the consistory of February 1, 1913, these were assigned to the parish of Horb in the parish of Sulz am Neckar. The Hochdorf train station and the guard posts no. 13 and 15, which politically belonged to the municipality of Eutingen, remained with the parish of Hochdorf.

Parish of Schietingen

The Schietingen parish (500) comprises the districts of Schietingen and Gündringen of the city of Nagold, with only about 150 parishioners living in Gündringen (the others are predominantly Roman Catholic). The Nikolauskirche Schietingen was built in 1575 as a hall church with a west tower and a straight room closure in the east and rebuilt in 1782. The east window is lead-glazed in delicate tones and is non-representational. The rectory in Schietingen also looks after the parish of Vollmaringen, which became independent with effect from November 1, 1995. Until 1954, Untertalheim also belonged to the Schietingen branch church. By the announcement of the upper church council on July 6, 1954 Untertalheim was assigned to the parish of Haiterbach; With Obertalheim, however, the independent parish of Talheim has existed since 2001.

Parish of Vollmaringen

The parish of Vollmaringen includes the district of Nagold of the same name. It was only formed as an independent parish with effect from November 1, 1995. The young parish now has its own Bonhoeffer parish center , which in 2007 became the focus and worship area of ​​the parish through the renovation of a grocery store. The Londorfer Chapel in the Vollmaringen district is essentially Romanesque. It lies between the parishes of Iselshausen , Mötzingen and Vollmaringen in the open countryside and is surrounded by a cemetery that is used by the Vollmaringer parish and was formerly the church of the abandoned village of Londorf. In the western part of the church building remains of the Romanesque masonry have been preserved. In the 15th century the chapel was extended to the east and provided with a polygonal east end. In the chapel there is a late Gothic wood carving and a stone crucifix from 1589. The parish is cared for by the parish in Schietingen.

Parish of Nagold

Since the merger on January 1, 2016, the parish of Nagold has included the core city with the city church area, the Remigius church area and the Iselshausen district of the city of Nagold . As an independent parish, the Remigius parish of Nagold was only formed with effect from January 1, 1982, when the two parishes (Stadtkirchengemeinde and parish of Nagold-Iselshausen) were to be restructured and a third parish to be established in the area of ​​the overall parish of Nagold. According to the age there are the following churches:

The Remigius Church is the oldest of the Nagold churches and stands on a former Roman estate . A first Alemannic church building already existed here around 680. The present church was built in 773 and is Romanesque with Gothic changes and extensions (e.g. the extended choir and the baptistery). Roman columns that were used to build the church can still be seen in the choir arch. Significant frescoes from 1320–1325 depicting the life of Jesus have been preserved inside . At the beginning of the 16th century, further frescoes were added in the area of ​​the baptistery. They show the saints Apollonia , Margareta and Ursula . In 1555 Nagold and with it the Remigius Church became Protestant. The frescoes were only rediscovered in 1880 and uncovered in 1920. After extensive renovation work, the Remigius Church was used again as a parish church in 1965. All the windows were designed by the Fürstenberg glass artist Emil Kiess : the choir windows as a "happy call and appeal to the community", in the nave, little tinted glasses for more light, and in the baptistery, the waves of water and the Holy Spirit are colorful. Today a modern lighting system lets the frescoes and the entire interior appear in atmospheric light.

The Jakobuskirche Iselshausen was built in 1757 instead of a previous church from 1395. It was completely renovated in 1987 and has a high roof turret for the bells in the west. The interior is decorated with paintings of the apostles from the period of construction on the gallery parapet. Another preaching point of the parish is the Steinbergtreff.

Johanneskirche - Stadtkirche : The first town church , built around 1360 as a chapel consecrated to the Virgin Mary within the city walls, expanded in 1401, provided with a tower and choir and probably soon afterwards elevated to parish church, had become too small and dilapidated in the 19th century. After the completion of the Johanneskirche, it was demolished in 1876/77, whereby the "old tower" on the corner of Marktstrasse and Turmstrasse was preserved and today serves as the landmark of the city of Nagold. The double lantern in his helmet is characteristic. As a new Protestant church was the Stuttgart Planning Director Theodore of Landauer the Johannes church designed and built until 1874 at state expense 1870th Architecturally, it is considered to be the successor to the Johanneskirche in Stuttgart on Feuersee by senior building officer Christian Friedrich von Leins and, compared to other neo-Gothic churches, shows its own architectural features that convey a generous feeling of space inside. The interior renovation from 1968 to 1970 unfortunately removed most of the fine neo-Gothic elements, so that only the exterior corresponds to the original plan. Shortly after the Second World War, the "cleanup" affected the color-glazed choir windows donated by King Karl of Württemberg in 1874. They were gradually replaced by more modern glass paintings by Adolf Valentin Saile : Faith, love and hope ( 1 Cor 13:13  LUT ) are designed as a triad of colors: 1952 choir window center (passion; red main tone = love of Christ until death), 1954 Choir window on the left (Christmas; blue = faithfulness to God and human belief) and in 1969 choir window on the right (resurrection, Pentecost; green = hope and discipleship). The tower of the three-aisled building is 60 meters high and towers monumentally into the sky, especially when viewed from below the entrance stairs. The architects Panzer & Oberdörfer from Tübingen took care of the interior renovation in 2006.

Parish of Ober- and Unterschwandorf

The parish of Ober- and Unterschwandorf includes the district of the same name (including Unterschwandorf) of the city of Haiterbach . The Severuskirche Oberschwandorf , built in 1725 on the site of a previous church, had to be completely renovated in 1763–1766 after massive weather damage and equipped with a multi-sided gallery for the larger population, which was initially intended for the organ in the east. The rectangular hall church with a 3/8 room closure has a larger roof turret with a bell room. During the renovation in 1974, the organ gallery behind the altar was removed and the east and south-east windows were fitted out with lead glazing on the themes of Passion / Easter and Pentecost / Acts by the Stuttgart glass artist Adolf Valentin Saile . In the past, the parish was looked after from Walddorf (town of Altensteig). Unterschwandorf still belonged to the parish of Haiterbach until 1934 and was assigned to the parish of Oberschwandorf by an announcement by the upper church council on March 7, 1934.

Parishes Rohrdorf and Mindersbach

The Rohrdorf parish includes the Rohrdorf parish of the same name . She has a share in the church of St. John the Baptist Rohrdorf from the 13th century, which, however, had belonged to the Catholic Order of St. John since 1309 ( Kommende Rohrdorf, from 1524 Order of Malta ). With the Reformation in Württemberg in 1534, a large part of the population in Rohrdorf became Protestant, albeit without a church. It was not until 1738, after long disputes, that the compromise solution followed, which is still valid today: the church was divided in 1740. The nave fell to the Evangelicals, the choir to the Catholics. Common is the use of the bells. The massive Rohrdorf church building with its graceful tower also offers a contrast inside between the impressively simply furnished Protestant half and the Catholic part, which offers a colorful variety of designs with its late Gothic windows, the numerous brightly painted figures of saints and the late Gothic Madonna.

The neighboring community of Mindersbach is also looked after by the Rohrdorf parish. It includes the eponymous district of Nagold . The small church in Mindersbach was built in 1777 in a classical style with a western roof turret. She is looked after by the parish of the neighboring parish of Rohrdorf.

Simmersfeld parish

The parish of Simmersfeld includes the districts of Beuren, Ettmannsweiler, Fünfbronn and the main town of Simmersfeld of the community of the same name . However, the districts of Aichhalden (with Oberweiler) belong to the parish of Zwerenberg ( Calw church district ).

The Protestant Johanneskirche Simmersfeld had a Romanesque St. Sebastian's church as its predecessor since the beginning of the 12th century , which was first mentioned in 1360. The Reformation was carried out in 1556 in the margraviate of Baden, to which Simmersfeld with the Altensteig office belonged at that time. In 1604 Simmersfeld came to Württemberg. After the Thirty Years' War until the 19th century, the structural condition deteriorated more and more despite repairs, so that St. Sebastian's Church had to be demolished in 1885. The large, neo-Romanesque St. John 's Church of today was planned by the Württemberg chief building officer Karl von Sauter with over 700 seats and inaugurated in September 1889. The entire glazing including the decorative rosette above the west portal and above all the choir window (motif: Christ, the good shepherd) was carried out by Wilhelm Jahn from Heilbronn.

The St. Anna Chapel in Beuren with some Gothic elements dates from the pre-Reformation period, it was first mentioned in 1527 and renovated in 1676 and in the 20th century. In 1820 the tower was renewed. After 150 years of uncertainty about communal or ecclesiastical jurisdiction and ownership, the chapel became the property of the Simmersfeld parish in 1978.

Complete parish of Spielberg-Egenhausen

The entire parish of Spielberg-Egenhausen was formed on January 1, 2014 from the independent parishes of Spielberg and Egenhausen.

Parish of Spielberg

The Spielberg parish includes the district of the same name in the city of Altensteig . The Johanneskirche is an old church with Romanesque and Gothic elements. It was separated from the mother church in Haiterbach in 1490 with the consent of the Württemberg feudal lord, Duke Eberhard. In 1491 the vicar general of the responsible diocese of Constance raised the Spielberg chapel to the parish church for the village. The independent parish of Spielberg was thus created. The Romanesque church tower was later given a half-timbered bell house. The choir arch between the square nave and the cross-vaulted tower choir, which was walled up around 1960, was exposed again thirty years later.

Egenhausen parish

The parish of Egenhausen includes the political community of the same name . It has a church of St. John with a fortified Romanesque choir tower. However, the current building dates mainly from 1745. The parish has been cared for by the parish in Spielberg since 1556, where the parish is also located in the new overall parish of Spielberg-Egenhausen.

Parish Sulz am Eck

The parish of Sulz am Eck includes the district of the same name in the city of Wildberg . The Protestant Michaelskirche in Sulz am Eck is surrounded by a massive wall and is located on a small hill above the Agenbach. It was first mentioned in 1449, a previous building as early as 1311, whose choir tower from the middle of the 12th century with its choir vault (today sacristy) became the choir side tower when the nave was rebuilt in 1489. The choir tower sacristy contains remarkable Romanesque and late Gothic stone carvings. Since the expansion in 1750, the nave has had a coffered ceiling painted with floral ornaments, a high-footed pulpit with a Romanesque baptismal font in front of it and a Baroque organ front. 2005 was built in annex.

Walddorf parish

The parish of Walddorf includes the district of the same name (including the hamlet of Monhardt) of the city of Altensteig . The Johannes church with a tower from 1593 was in 1840 in Kameralamtsstil built. It is a large rectangular hall church with two rows of windows and has 500 seats. When the choir and chancel were rebuilt from 1955 to 1957, a lead glass window (motifs from the history of salvation: Adam - birth of Christ - ruler of the world) was installed. The design comes from Professor Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J. , who also designed the principles as part of his overall artistic concept . The southern stained glass window (Entombment, Lamentation, Resurrection of Jesus) by the artist Käte Schaller-Härlin from 1920 originally had its place in the choir and, together with the Fallen Memorial Book (foundation of the civil community) in the barred niche, formed a reminder and memorial. Unfortunately, the work of art was improperly divided and built into an extra-wide frame profile. The baroque crucifix on the wall towards the choir still comes from the old church. The organ from 1842 by Franz Anton Engelfried from Mühringen has been renovated several times, most recently in 1979 and 2011 by the organ builder Scharfe from Ebersbach an der Fils. It has 17 registers.

Verbundkirchengemeinde Wart-Rotfelden-Ebershardt-Wenden

The parishes of Wart and Rotfelden have formed the Evangelical General Church Parish of Wart-Rotfelden since 2015, which, however , was converted into the Evangelical Association Parish of Wart-Rotfelden-Ebershardt-Wenden in 2019 with Ebershardt and Wenden .

Parish of Wart

The Protestant parish of Wart includes the district of the same name in the city of Altensteig . The church in Wart still contains Gothic elements and was structurally changed in 1768. As part of the renovation in 1912/13 and the external extension of the gallery staircase under architect Theodor Dolmetsch , the Stuttgart artist Rudolf Yelin the Elder designed the middle choir window with an Art Nouveau medallion (Jesus' encounter with the disciples from Emmaus) and the Stuttgart painter Adolf Reile designed the three frescoes -Medallions above the choir arch (Peter, Jesus blessing, Paul). The Wart pastor also looks after the neighboring parish of Ebershardt, which belongs to the civil parish of Ebhausen .

Parish of Rotfelden

The parish of Rotfelden (900) includes the eponymous district of the municipality of Ebhausen . The Protestant St. George's Church was built during the Thirty Years' War in 1626 by the builder Friedrich Vischlin from the Duke of Württemberg according to the Querkirchen concept with pews facing the pulpit on the north wall. Before that, there was the oldest parish church on the so-called Kirchweg or Totenweg, which was first mentioned as the ecclesia (baptismal and burial church) for Rotfelden and Wenden in the Liber decimationis in 1275. The existing Romanesque font should come from this church. In contrast to this old parish church, today's St. George's Church never belonged to the Stein / Rhein monastery. Your "St. Jergen ”patronage is first mentioned in 1423. It was elevated to a parish church under the Margraves of Baden after the Steinish monastery church was destroyed in the village fire in 1559. In 1887 the church was renovated due to moisture damage. Wall paintings from the time the church was built were discovered, but they were whitewashed. The baroque crucifxus, which used to be next to the pulpit on the north wall, has adorned the altar in the eastern choir since the interior of the church was modernized in the 1970s, and since then the stalls facing the new pulpit have been oriented towards this. In this context, the eastern (middle) choir window was provided with an artistic glass design. The Rotfelden rectory also looks after the neighboring parish of Wenden (also the parish of Ebhausen).

Ebershardt parish

The parish Ebershardt includes the eponymous district of the municipality Ebhausen . As a result of the Reformation, a Protestant parish was established in 1568 together with the town of Wart. Even before the Reformation, there was a chapel in Ebershardt, which was dedicated to St. Aegidius . In 1654 it is described as dilapidated. At the beginning of the 18th century it was in good condition again, a tower clock is also mentioned, but it "doesn't use much". In 1743 a new, simple Protestant church with a turret was built in Ebershardt . The parish of Ebershardt is looked after by the neighboring parish of Wart (City of Altensteig).

Wenden parish

The parish of Wenden includes the district of the same name in the community of Ebhausen. There is a small Protestant church with a rectangular floor plan and a small bell tower in the village . Originally it was a chapel. Their patronage of St. Katharinen is mentioned in 1552. The chapel is first mentioned in 1511. A wooden support beam inside bears the year 1517, probably the year the church was built. Wenden is a branch of Rotfelden and, like this place, belonged to the Stein am Rhein monastery until the Reformation. The parish is looked after by the parish of the neighboring parish of Rotfelden.

Wildberg parish

Evang. City Church Wildberg

The parish Wildberg includes the core town of Wildberg . The Protestant Martinskirche was built in 1467. Before that, Wildberg and its branch church belonged to Sulz am Eck under the patronage of Reuthin Monastery , which became independent in 1392. Its building was destroyed in the great city fire in 1464. The new building in 1467 was designed as a three-aisled basilica, with the choir in particular coming from Aberlin Jörg , the builder of the collegiate, Leonhards and Spitalkirche in Stuttgart and other churches in the state. The church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez redesigned the nave in 1772/73 into a single-aisled hall without rows of columns with a three-sided gallery and built an organ gallery into the choir. There, in the vaulted choir behind the expressive altar crucifix, the organ with rococo prospectus was fundamentally renewed and restored in 1979. The war damage from 1945 was repaired in 1955 by Oberbaurat Ostermeier. The last interior renovation in 2015 was headed by architect Rolf Kugel. The base of the nave side tower contains a side choir chapel with an old baptismal font and several epitaphs . Since 1934, through the colored lead glass window in six biblical images (Jesus crucified, deceased and risen) by the Stuttgart artist Walter Kohler, it has also been used to commemorate the fallen. Three modern stained glass windows were created by the Stuttgart painter and sculptor Willy Wiedmann in a rare so-called policon painting : 1976 the Jerusalem window in the south wall of the choir (above: Heavenly Jerusalem as a goal of promise and hope, including the parable of the Good Samaritan in ten small, abstract image areas) and in 1979 in the north wall of the ship two more, the window of St. Martin and the window of Jesus' anointing (by the sinner Lk 7.36-50  LUT or through Maria Joh 12.1-8  LUT ). All three windows deal with the commandment to love one's neighbor ( Joh 13,34  NIV I give you a new commandment ).

literature

  • The Evangelical Württemberg. Its church offices and clergy from the Reformation to the present. Collected and edited by Christian Sigel, pastor in Gebersheim, 1910
  • The state of Baden-Württemberg. Volume V: Karlsruhe District. Official description by districts and communities (in eight volumes). Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Directorate. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2

Sources and further information

  1. ↑ Number of parishioners at the time of the merger with the Calw church district see [1]
  2. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Calw-Nagold
  3. ^ Website of the Altensteig parish
  4. ^ Website of the Altensteigdorf parish
  5. ^ Website of the parish of Berneck
  6. ^ Website of the parish of Beihingen
  7. ^ Website of the parish of Bösingen
  8. ^ Website of the Ebhausen parish
  9. ^ Website of the parish of Effringen
  10. ^ Website of the parish of Schönbronn
  11. ^ Website of the parish of Emmingen and Pfrondorf
  12. ^ Website of the parish of Grömbach-Wörnersberg
  13. ^ Website of the parish in VALLINGING
  14. ^ Website of the parish of Haiterbach-Talheim
  15. ↑ Internet presence of the Pregizer Community of the Burgstall parish
  16. ↑ Website of the entire parish of Hochdorf-Schietingen-Vollmaringen
  17. ^ Werther Schneider and Brigitte Schneider: Churches in and around Nagold ; ed. Ev. Nagold Church District, Tübingen 1993, page 57
  18. ^ Website of the parish of Nagold
  19. ^ Website of the parish of Ober- and Unterschwandorf
  20. ^ Website of the Rohrdorf parish
  21. ^ Website of the parish Mindersbach
  22. ^ Website of the parish Simmersfeld
  23. ^ Website of the entire parish of Spielberg-Egenhausen
  24. ^ Website of the parish Sulz am Eck
  25. ^ Website of the Walddorf parish
  26. ↑ Website of the group parish Wart-Rotfelden-Ebershardt-Wenden
  27. ^ Website of the parish of Wildberg

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