Peter and Paul Church (Pfedelbach)
The Peter and Paul Church is a Protestant church building in Pfedelbach in Baden-Württemberg .
history
In the course of the Reformation in 1556, the Canons' Monastery of Öhringen was dissolved, and the property was available to the Counts of Hohenlohe for church purposes. Now a Protestant pastor could be employed in Pfedelbach. The Protestant Peter and Paul Church in Pfedelbach was built from 1588 to 1589 in place of an old Gothic chapel by the widow of countess Agathe von Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach . The history of the Protestant church is closely linked to Pfedelbach Castle , which was built from 1568 to 1572.
The pictures of the apostles and prophets on the gallery are probably works by the painter Joachim Georg Creutzfelder . In old church registers you can read: “In 1724 on the feast day of All Saints' Day, after suffering a painful illness, the high-born Countess Christina Juliana v. Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach, our gracious Count and Countess sister and was buried after the wish and request in the local church behind the altar on November 8th after a funeral zermon ... “. The last Protestant Count Ludwig Gottfried died childless in 1728. The Protestant Church received little support from the Catholic heir Count Ferdinand zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. In 1730 the church tower had to be stabilized with iron brackets. In 1749 the church was renovated; the foundations had shifted. In 1890 the church was about to collapse and was closed by order of the building police. The church was torn down except for the tower and the choir. The new building designed by the architect Frey from Stuttgart was to be built for 105,000 marks. Two lotteries were launched for financing. To this end, an aid committee was set up in Öhringen . a. published a cry for help for Pfedelbach. The state also approved contributions. In January 1894 the church could be consecrated again. In 1945 the church was badly damaged by artillery fire and was initially only temporarily repaired. In 1960 the interior was renovated. In 1963 a new bell cage was installed and the heavy steel bells were replaced by lighter bronze bells. In 1992 the new organ was inaugurated. The crypt of Countess Christina Juliana, whose epitaph is on the north side of the choir, was found again in 1999 during the renovation of the heating system behind the altar. In May 2008, the Peter and Paul Church was damaged by a storm with heavy hailstorms.
The evangelical pastors in Pfedelbach
Lorenz Keller, first Protestant court preacher and superintendent
Pastor Lorenz Keller, court preacher and superintendent (dean), worked in the Pfedelbach community for 20 years from 1565 to 1585. Because Pfedelbach was chosen as the residence, this contributed to the independence of the parish. Pastor Keller was also court preacher and in his capacity as dean he supervised Sindringen , the Ohrntal , Mainhardt and Unterheimbach as part of the lordly consistory . His task consisted in the supervision of teaching and worship, church and school servants and handling of church discipline. He was also responsible for school supervision. Its epitaph is on the gallery to the right of the organ.
Pastor Leonhard Käs
Superintendent Leonhard Käs had been pastor in Pfedelbach for 30 years (1634 to 1664). After his death he was buried under the pulpit. His epitaph shows a gloomy landscape of death. In it we see him himself with his wives and many deceased children. Death had a rich harvest then. Hunger and plague killed 380 people in Pfedelbach between 1634 and 1637, including two of the pastors. Germany recovered only slowly from the Thirty Years War , the population had shrunk by half. Pastor Leonhard Käs' epitaph is to the left of the organ on the gallery.
Provisional 1562 to 1567
- 1562 - 1563: M. Wolfgang Kühn
- 1563 - 1565: Sebastian Huber
- 1565 - 1567: Lorenz Keller
Court preachers and superintendents
- 1567 - 1585: Lorenz Keller from Niedernhall
- 1586 - 1616: Johan Roesler from Gemmrigheim
- 1616 - 1634: Hieronymus Schumeyer from Höchstädt
- 1634 - 1664: Leonhard Käs from Lindau
- 1664 - 1668: Michael Baumann from Crailsheim
- 1669 - 1676: Georg Laub from Augsburg
- 1677 - 1699: Johann Heinrich Holl from Wertheim
- 1699 - 1702: Friedrich Apin
- 1702 - 1713: Joachim Albrecht Wagner from Döttingen
- 1708 - 1718: Johann Georg Unkauf from Göppingen
- 1718 - 1725: Johann Balthasar Bernhold from Burgsalach
- 1721 - 1743: Johann Jakob Knapp from Langenbeutingen
- 1728 - 1763: Ludwig Gottfried von Olnhausen from Pfedelbach
- 1764 - 1781: Christof Friedrich Merkel from Erbstetten
In 1781 the superintendent disappeared; the following ministers were pastors with the title of senior pastor.
Pastor
- 1781 - 1800: Philipp Ernst Albert Hiller from Öhringen, deacon and preceptor in Pfedelbach since 1761
- 1801 - 1828: Johannes Mugler from Niedernhall
- 1830 - 1865: Georg Friedrich Mugler from Pfedelbach
- 1866 - 1872: Wilhelm Schiller from Biberach / Heilbronn
- 1872 - 1883: Robert Dietrich from Weikersheim
- 1884 - 1904: Christian Friedrich husband from Freetown / Africa
- 1905 - 1920: Adolf Schiller from Pfedelbach
The position was not filled between 1920 and 1922.
Pastor
- 1922 - 1928: Hermann Streitberger from Niederstetten
- 1929 - 1935: Dr. Otto Jäger from Heilbronn
- 1935 - 1942: Theodor Stern from Nsaba / Gold Coast
- 1943 - 1958: Johannes Kienemann from Rothau / Alsace
- 1958 - 1974: Heinz Müller from Stuttgart
- 1974 - 1991: Sven Jacobsen from Aufhausen
- 1991 - 2012: Wolfram Wild from Öhringen
- 2001 - 2018: Klaus Mödinger
- 2013 - 2017: Claudia Kook
- 2018 - today: Konrad Köhnlein
- 2019 - today: David Mayer
From 1617 to 1905 there was also a second pastor (deacon) and for a short time around 1700 there was even a third pastor and consistorial councilor in Pfedelbach.
Altar and ship
The gallery with the organ from 1992
Hohenloher coat of arms in the Peter and Paul Church
Epitaph of the pastor Leonhard Käs
Money - lottery of 1895
One of the four bronze bells
literature
- Gerhard Taddey (Red.): Pfedelbach 1037–1987. From past and present (= research from Württembergisch-Franken. Vol. 30). Published by the Pfedelbach community. Thorbecke et al. a., Sigmaringen u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-921429-30-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Pfedelbach ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Regina Koppenhöfer: Windows received Goethe glass . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . November 29, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed December 24, 2009]).
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 9 ° 30 ′ 19.9 ″ E