Parish church Kollweiler
| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| place | Kollweiler, Germany |
| Building history | |
| completion | 1475 |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | September 29, 1710 |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| Construction type | Hall construction |
| Function and title | |
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Originally just a chapel until the beginning of the 18th century |
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| 49 ° 30 '56.2 " N , 7 ° 34' 41.9" E | |
The Kollweiler Parish Church is a Protestant church that was built in 1475. It is located in Kollweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The community wanted to build a chapel in their own village because it was too far from their parish church and as a refuge from evil people . Count Palatine Ludwig von Zweibrücken granted a collective patent for five years. The benefactors of the chapel were to participate in the great graces and indulgences with which the parish church in Reichenbach was endowed by popes and bishops. This was the beginning of the church in Kollweiler, which was completed in 1475. This small church on a hill was initially just a chapel and was built in the Gothic style . During the Thirty Years' War , the chapel was destroyed in 1634–1638, and it was rebuilt in 1679–1694.
In 1709 the chapel was extended to its present form with a nave. In a letter of invitation for the inauguration of the Kollweiler church to the Evangelical Lutheran pastors in the area for the inauguration of September 12, 1710, it says:
" Coming Michaelmas on September 29th, the newly separated Capell in Collweyler will be inaugurated and for the first time a solenner service will be held in it, in addition the Mr. Confratres with their church leaders and school clerks will hereby all be invited and there will be a special desire that all residents of the Protestant religion apart from all Parishes, especially the rulers and the young people, should be present at this inauguration, as the same day service should be held in a small church, but the parishioners in each parish should be announced publicly the Sunday before that they will be approaching Michaelmas day precisely at 8 o'clock Collweyler should arrive at the inauguration of this Capell. I will give the official sermon. Pastor Schmied should hold a baptismal act, if it can be otherwise, and therefore prepare for a short sermon. Pastor Waltz is to confirm the children and distribute the Holy Communion to these children with me, since he has to give a short sermon beforehand. Pastor Liernour, however, is supposed to perform the actum copulationis, even if he has given a short sermon beforehand: while the confrates are each in his part to arrange everything so that everything at this solenne actui as if desired and secundum ordinem et decenter goes on . But I remain Lauterecken on September 12, 1710, serving my reverend Mister Amptsbrüder and servant who pays my debt
- Oberheim P. et Insp. Mpp.
PS Messrs. Confratres have to confer with one another about the baptism, should there be no child to be baptized in the Reichenbach parish at the time, and one is to be baptized in another parish, it must be carried to Collweyler. Item: one has to look carefully, that primarily the heads of the churches with coats and the young people of the Beyderley family appear. "
The divine service in the two churches of Jettenbach and Kollweiler was held alternately as early as the 18th century. In an " Extractus Protocolli " of the Electoral Palatinate Evangelical Lutheran Consortium in Heidelberg , it says on June 21, 1781:
“ The Kollweiler community asks that the future pastor be instructed to hold the service there alternately every eight days after the old one. If the Successor had to be instructed for the reasons given and to maintain a good agreement between the two communities "
The church underwent a major renovation in 1894 to include an organ . For this purpose, the gallery , which is only two meters high, and thus the ceiling, was raised to four meters. In January 1895 the organ was built, which the Walcker company from Ludwigsburg supplies at a price of 1,836 marks. The costs for the construction project were raised through donations from the community members and the cultural contribution. The organ and gallery have since been reached via an outside staircase at today's church entrance.
In 1905 the parish repaired the building again at a cost of 3,200 marks and brought it back to a worthy condition. During the renovation in 1952 and the general renovation in 1972 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary, the church was fundamentally returned to its state of 1709. The irreparable organ was replaced by a harmonium . The last time the small church was renovated inside and outside was in autumn 2003 at a cost of 150,000 euros. The slope behind the church was provided with a retaining wall so that the water does not permanently penetrate the walls.
Bells
In the tower hang three bells with the striking tones D flat , F sharp and F sharp . The bells are made of copper , tin and bronze and weigh 188, 89 and 95 kg. A medieval bell of unknown origin bears the inscription:
- "AD 1475 O Rex Gloriae Christe veni cum pace"
A bell cast by Christoph Klein in Zweibrücken has the inscription:
- "1759 Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of hosts"
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Stauder: 21 churches in the district of Kaiserslautern . 1989, ISBN 3-87022-138-0