Martin Luther Church (Staufen im Breisgau)

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Martin Luther Church of Staufen

The Protestant Martin Luther Church is in the town of Staufen im Breisgau . It was completed in 1899.

History of the Protestant parish

Today's Protestant parish of Staufen-Münstertal was founded in what was originally a purely Catholic area in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . From Gallenweiler , a pastor looked after the evangelicals living in the diaspora in fifteen predominantly rural communities from Obermünstertal to St. Ulrich , from Bremgarten to Heitersheim . In 1844 he was responsible for just 44 members in the Staufen branch community. Since 1866, the city left the community hall in the town hall for their services to the community, which now has 77 members.

In 1892 the congregation had grown to almost 200 members and sought to build its own chapel. The city made a building site available for this. In 1897, despite Catholic criticism from Freiburg, the mayor and citizens' committee gave the community a 740 square meter plot of land on Neumagen . The building, which had grown from a chapel to a little church, was erected there in a short time and was inaugurated on September 12, 1899.

In 1925 the parish in Staufen was elevated to an independent parish, which prompted the city to donate 700 square meters of land for a rectory. In this way, the first priest of his own came to the city in 1928.

In 2017, 1,756 residents of Staufen belonged to the evangelical community (with over 3,264 Catholics).

The Protestant church around 1903. On the right the old forester's house, behind it the first villas in the suburb

Church building

In the Münstertäler Straße, the continuation of the old Marktstraße behind the cast iron bridge in the direction of the Münstertal, a development of villas and official buildings, the so-called “millionaire's quarter”, arose at the beginning of the 20th century following the former Capuchin monastery. The first building on the river side was supposed to be the Protestant church. As early as 1896, a circular had solicited donations for the building within the Basel patrician family Burckhardt . It was assumed that a "church built in very modest conditions" would cost between 30,000 and 35,000 Swiss francs. Almost a third of this amount was already available. The collection brought in 6,000 Swiss francs. One reason for the commitment of the Burckhardt family was the fact that their progenitor immigrated from the Münstertal in the 14th century. It may also have contributed to the fact that the design for the building came from the church building inspector and later church building officer Rudolf Burckhardt .

As a result, the construction cost 32,000 marks. 20,000 marks were collected from donations, and a loan had to be taken out for the rest. The contemporaries praised the new church: “Plain and in spite of all simplicity a richly structured, Gothic building. With skill the maker of the plan was able to create something delicate despite the limited means and above all to avoid the stereotyped, which especially the churches built in the previous century and in the beginning of this century often seem so poor. "

During the Second World War, the church suffered damage: all the windows were smashed, the vestibule dented, the roof of the sacristy torn. The most important repair work was completed as early as 1949. When the church was finally restored in 1956, it was named Martin Luther Church.

architecture

View to the altar of the church

The church is built in neo-Gothic forms. The square tower on the west side is crowned by an octagonal roof pyramid. There is a small vestibule between the tower and the rectangular nave. Inside the building was closed at the top by a dark wooden ceiling. During the renovation in 1961, it was removed so that the vault-like ceiling can now be seen in the bright room, with large, open wooden belts that rest on consoles. On two of the inside there are galleries on wooden supports. The altar and pulpit by master carpenter Merz from Radolfzell also date from the time it was built, as do the baptismal font and the stalls. Most of the trades were assigned to craft businesses from Staufen and the surrounding area. A painted window on the north wall showed the coat of arms of the Burckhardt family. Like the choir windows, it came from the Helmle & Merzweiler workshop in Freiburg. A sacristy is built on the north side of the choir, which imitates a Gothic side chapel and helps to loosen up the building.

The choir of the church with the attached sacristy

organ

The organ of the Heinrich Voit organ building workshop in Durlach from 1903 was restored in 1964 and converted in 1977 using the old case . Today it has slide chests , a mechanical action, two manuals, a pedal and ten stops .

Bells

The manufacturer of the small d '' bell (around 1925) is unknown. The large a 'bell and the middle b' bell were cast in steel by the Gussstahlwerk Bochumer Verein AG in 1953.

Parish hall

Opposite the church was the forestry office, built in 1899, reminiscent of an Italian villa. A double villa had been built next to the church. The parish acquired one half in 1928 as a rectory. In 1955 she managed to buy the second half and convert the complex into a community hall. Because of the steadily growing traffic that had to struggle over the narrow cast iron bridge, the city of Staufen was forced to create a new crossing over the Neumagen in the early 1970s. In 1973 the evangelical parish refused to sacrifice its parish hall for it. In 1978 it was therefore considered to build this bridge directly in front of the portal of the church. Finally, an agreement was found in a joint effort. The parish hall had become too small for the grown congregation anyway. In exchange, they were able to acquire the old forestry office, renovate it and build a new community center on the site. The city tore down the old rectory and built the St. Anna Bridge, which has provided southern access to the city since 1984.

literature

  • Gerhard Horst Zempel: Staufen. In: Hans Merkle (Ed.): 400 Years of the Evangelical Church District Badenweiler-Müllheim 1556–1956 . Müllheim 1956, p. 120 ff.
  • Friedrich Wittig (Hrsg.): Texts and pictures on the history of the Evangelical Church in Staufen - Münstertal. In: Staufener Weihnachtsblatt 1987. Verlag A. Villinger, Staufen 1987 ( online )
  • Gerd Schwartz: How Luther got to Staufen after all. The history of the Evangelicals in Staufen since 1842 and how they built their church , Staufen 2017

Web links

Commons : Martin Luther Church Staufen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Citizens Brochure Staufen 2017/2019, p. 12. online
  2. ↑ Wittig, p. 5.
  3. ↑ a b Staufener Wochenblatt, September 14, 1899, p. 2 f. on-line
  4. ↑ Wittig, p. 1 f.
  5. ^ Daniel Parello: From Helmle to Geiges. A century of historicist glass painting in Freiburg . City archive, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-00-006521-0 , p. 273.
  6. ↑ Johannes Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , self-published in Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , p. 354.
  7. ^ Helmet, as above; the bell online
  8. ↑ Wittig, p. 28.

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 45.4 "  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 49.3"  E