Michaelskirche (Graefenhausen)
The Protestant Michaelskirche in Graefenhausen , a district of Birkenfeld in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg , is a church whose origins lie in the high Middle Ages.
history
According to an inscription that no longer exists today, but which has been documented several times, a Ruprecht von Straubenhardt was the founder of the parish in Graefenhausen and builder of the church in 1108 . The church was the mother church for a relatively large parish that stretched southwest to Dobel . The stump of the tower of today's church is likely to be the only component that goes back to the medieval church. Some Roman motif stones are walled up in and around the church.
The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1607. In the wars of the 17th century, the church bells were stolen in 1682. In 1724 the church received its first organ. In 1743 the church was rebuilt again and the nave was widened by around 4.5 meters. However, the renovation was not carried out properly, so that extensive repairs were necessary in 1744 after the walls were not able to permanently support the roof structure. In 1778 the church received a new organ, the old organ was rebuilt by the organ builder Weimar and later moved to the Remigius Church in Mühlen am Neckar. In 1823 the church was fundamentally rebuilt again.
From 1972 to 1974 the last major renovation of the church took place. In doing so, u. a. old galleries reduced and shortened, old grave slabs recovered from the floor of the church and placed on the walls and old frescoes exposed in the choir .
Furnishing
Among the bells in the church today is the peace bell cast by Christian Ludwig Neubert in Ludwigsburg in 1767 , the remaining three bells were cast by Heinrich Kurtz in Stuttgart in 1949 and have replaced older bells that were delivered during the world wars.
The old peace bell has a weight of 650 kg, the strike tone G sharp and a diameter of 1060 millimeters. The bell is adorned with a frieze made of wickerwork , rocailles and round bars. On the flank, an inscription names the founder, the year of casting and the names of former Graefenhausen dignitaries. The Kurtz bells from 1949 have weights of 231, 326 and 1166 kg.
Today's late Gothic baptismal font of the church dates from around 1500. Its presumed octagonal predecessor served in the meantime as a flower pot and is supposed to return to the church after its rediscovery.
literature
- Emil Mayer: Our Michaelskirche . In the other: Dorfbuch Gräfenhausen Obernhausen , Neuenbürg o. J. (approx. 1984), pp. 141–158.
- Erika Baumann: 900 years of Michaelskirche Graefenhausen , in: Der Enzkreis. Historical and Current Issues , Volume 12, 2007.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Köhler: Historical bells in the Enzkreis . In: The Enzkreis. Yearbook 93/94 , pp. 73–91, here pp. 81/82.
- ↑ The flower pot turns out to be a centuries-old font . Badische Latest News, January 15, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020.
Web links
- graefenhausen-evangelisch.de
- Michaelskirche Graefenhausen at Stadtwiki Pforzheim-Enz
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 15.8 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 53.6" E