Luther Church (Fellbach)
The Luther Church is a Protestant church building in the Luther parish of Fellbach in the Protestant church district of Waiblingen and the historic landmark of the city of Fellbach .
history
The church goes back to a church building that was completed in 1518 as St. Gallus Church and was part of a fortified church, which was surrounded by a defensive wall and a moat. At the beginning of the 19th century the defensive walls were removed. The forty-meter-high tower as the oldest part and the choir of the church were built in 1519 and 1524, respectively, the nave in its current wide shape was rebuilt in 1779 by the master builder Johann Adam Groß the Younger as a transverse church for over a thousand worshipers and with one The nave and choir seating oriented towards the pulpit (at that time on the middle of the north wall), a choir gallery and multi-sided double gallery in the nave in the style of late baroque and classicism. In 1801/1802 the defensive wall and the towers were torn down. Senior building officer Heinrich Dolmetsch carried out a renovation in 1884 with neo-Gothic principles and wall decorations. During the construction of another Protestant church in Fellbach's north in 1927, a name had to be found for both churches, as the name Galluskirche had long been out of use. The newly built church was called Pauluskirche, the previous St. Gallus Church was named Lutherkirche. The architect Hans Seytter directed another interior renovation in 1935 . The Stuttgart architect and building historian Walther-Gerd Fleck was responsible for a complete exterior and interior renovation from 1969 to 1971.
Furnishing
pulpit
The baroque pulpit in the so-called auricle style was created in 1683 by Bernhard Kutterolf and Matthäus Reumann for the center of the north wall, which is why the originally octagonal pulpit was slightly reworked for the current location. A slender Corinthian column carries the basket divided by Tuscan columns over a bell-shaped ascending intermediate piece, with framed fields in between and a powerfully projecting cornice. Since it is inlaid in different types of wood and has ornaments on it, there were no pictorial representations. These are reserved for the also octagonal sound cover: on its seven visible sides, winged angel heads can be seen in the frieze and above each an arched gate crowned with a blown gable. What is meant are the gates of the heavenly Jerusalem guarded by angels. Above the heavenly city stands the risen Christ with the flag of the cross on a pedestal supported by curved and decorated ribs. On the underside of the sound cover, a dove is painted in a cross-shaped recess as a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Crucifixion group in the tower hall
The oldest post-Reformation sculptural work, the crucifixion group from 1611, has been given a new, protected place in the tower hall since 1972 after its original location in the cemetery. The group of sculptures is a typical evangelical representation. Her lies the verse of 1 Cor. 15, 22: “Just as they die in Adam, so they will all be made alive in Christ.” The trunk of the cross grows out of the body of Adam lying on the ground and thus makes the overcoming of the old covenant evident by the new. To the left of the reclining Adam, Eve stands up to her knees in the den of sin with an apple and a snake, thus illustrating the fall of man. Christ on the cross has moved a little out of the middle of the group. All three figures are connected by looking at each other. The good artistic quality of the work can be seen particularly clearly in the face of Christ. The establishment of the group was arranged by Pastor M. Georg Conrad Maickler on the 1605 newly laid out cemetery. On the base there are coats of arms and initials of the sovereign, Duke Johann Friedrich, Pastor Maickler, as well as the former mayors, two mayors and two caretakers of the saints, i.e. those who were responsible for the community.
epitaph
The epitaph with the middle field of a representation of the Ascension commemorates Pastor Georg Konrad Maickler (died 1647) and his family. In the landscape-format pedestal below, Maickler, his four wives and ten children, dressed in black, kneel in an arched hall and watch this happening. The whole composition means that Maickler and his house, as believing Christians, were allowed to witness God's salvation in the blessed consummation.
Seven Stations of the Cross
In 1842, Emanuel Wilhelm Auberlen, then resident in Augsburg, donated seven pictures of the Stations of the Cross in the composition and coloring of the Baroque to his home parish in Fellbach, which were created before or around 1700 in the Augsburg Academy and were partially painted over around 1720-1730. They are hung under the organ gallery in chronological order of the Passion story.
window
The Stuttgart artist Walter Kohler created glass paintings in 1936 that were destroyed by the war in 1944. As a replacement, his son Wolf-Dieter Kohler created the sacristy window with the motif of the judge of the world in 1955 and then in 1962 the two north-facing windows "The Great Banquet" and "The Wise and the Foolish Virgins".
Altar area
In 1965, the Nellmersbacher sculptor Ingrid Seddig (1926–2008) designed a wooden lectern with the carved relief of the fishing trip of St. Peter and a few years later an altar cross in partly gold-plated cast bronze. The equal- armed Greek cross contains a middle field that symbolizes Christ with the alpha and omega (I am the first and the last). The evangelist symbols appear in the four arms of the cross : above the angel of Matthew, on the left the bull of Mark, on the right the lion of Luke and below the eagle of John.
organ
The organ is located above the altar . The organ case is a listed building and comes from an organ that was built in 1779 by the organ builder Johann Jakob Weinmar (Bondorff) and was the fourth organ of the Luther Church. The first instrument existed before 1658; In that year the second organ was demonstrably built, which in turn was replaced in 1740 by a new instrument made by the organ builders Johann Friedrich and Johann Adam Schmahl (Heilbronn). The Weinmar instrument from 1779 had 22 registers and cost 1,100 guilders and 1 bucket of wine . In 1911, the organ building company EFWalcker & Cie. (Ludwigsburg) a new instrument with 34 registers in the prospectus , and in 1969 a new organ with 37 registers was built in the historic case.
From 2015 to 2017 the organ building company Lenter (Sachsenheim) built a new organ in the historic case. The sound of the new work is based on instruments made by the organ builder Weinmar. For this purpose, the organ case was dismantled and restored in 2015; indications of the disposition of Weinmar's instrument from 1780 were discovered inside the case. The slider chests -instrument has 33 registers on three manual works and pedal , as well as two zimbelstern as an effect register with three and four bells. A special feature is the third manual, with registers of an early romantic character.
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- Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / III, II / P, III / P, III 4 ′ / P, Sub II / II
- Effect register: Zimbelstern in G (No. 32), Zimbelstern in C (No. 33)
Bells
Five bells hang in the tower of the Luther Church. This includes u. a. the medieval Maickler bell, which was cast by bell-makers from Lorraine in 1625. Two bells were cast in 2000; they replaced two steel bells.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Weight (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | 2000 | Bachert bell foundry | 4000 | as 0 | Mark 10:14: When Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them: Let the children come to me; don't stop them! Because people like them own the kingdom of God |
| 2 | Faith | 1996 | Metz | 2500 | c 1 | Hebrews 13: 8: Jesus Christ is yesterday and today and the same forever |
| 3 | Maicklerbell | 1625 | François Racle and François Chevillot | 1200 | it 1 | 1st line: For the sermon and prayer I say for the wedding I sing to the corpse I wake up to work End of work 2nd line: I announce the hour Schaid day and night Georg Conradus Macclerus Acclesiae Felbach Pastor PL 3rd line: Simone Tusnit Schultheis Hans Aldinger Hans Pfister Mayor Martin Brodbeck Michael Seibold Heiligenpfleger |
| 4th | hope | 2000 | Bachert bell foundry | 900 | f 1 | Theodor, Siegfried Job 1.21 died from Ph. Seibold and wife |
| Daffodil | 1519 | Pantlion Sidler | a 1 | osanna + hais + ich + bastion + aydler + zu + eßlingen + gos + me + im + 1519 + iar + amen + |
literature
- Basic information about the church on the website of stuttgart-tourist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ellen Pietrus: Heinrich Dolmetsch. The church restorations by the Württemberg builder ; Stuttgart 2008, page 232
- ^ Walther-Gerd Fleck: Luther Church Fellbach ; Self-published by the parish, Fellbach 1973
- ↑ On the history of the organ (s) on the website of the Kantorei
- ↑ Information on the organ project on the website of the Fellbach Cantorei; Information on disposition
- ↑ Kantorei Fellbach - Contact. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the bells on the municipality's website
- ↑ Information on the Maickler Bell
- ↑ See the information ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 31.6 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 34.4" E