Laurentius Church (Haiterbach)

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The Laurentiuskirche is a Protestant church in Haiterbach in the Calw district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Evangelical Church Community of Haiterbach-Talheim in the Calw-Nagold church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg

Today's Protestant church in Haiterbach still bears the name it was consecrated in: Laurentiuskirche. Laurentius died a martyr's death in Rome in 258 AD with an impressive confession of his God and Lord Jesus Christ on his lips. The earliest mention of the church goes 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 wall painting with a quotation from the Bible on the choir arch characterizes the neo-Gothic interior design from 1857. The cemetery for the parent community and the branch community was laid out around the church.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community in Haiterbach-Talheim
  2. ^ Werther Schneider and Brigitte Schneider: Churches in and around Nagold ; ed. Ev. Nagold Church District, Tübingen 1993, page 50 ff

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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '26.8 "  N , 8 ° 38' 59.8"  E